Attended an event after a looooong looong while.
And it was the Bangalore SaaS meetup by eChai Ventures and Draper Startup House
Learned some good deal of things from
Sai Krishna
around thinking about MVPs and what it took him to build Superblog ai. and also from
Amit Chavan
.
The highlights from my notes say:
- B2C is hard. Sigh.
- Build stuff for yourself, solve your own problem.
- Do primary research by looking over trends.
- Consumer behavior change revolves around three axes: Energy, time, and money.
- Your first set of customers will come from your Alpha and beta users.
- Your organic channels could be from either of these:
- SEO
- Build in public
- Word of mouth
- Good PMs follow revenue/business.
- Sales is getting the cheque in hand.
- SEO in the future might take a different form, could evolve into chat engine optimization.
And got connected to a few interesting folks as well.
Looking forward to more such.
And it was the Bangalore SaaS meetup by eChai Ventures and Draper Startup House
Learned some good deal of things from
Sai Krishna
Amit Chavan
The highlights from my notes say:
- B2C is hard. Sigh.
- Build stuff for yourself, solve your own problem.
- Do primary research by looking over trends.
- Consumer behavior change revolves around three axes: Energy, time, and money.
- Your first set of customers will come from your Alpha and beta users.
- Your organic channels could be from either of these:
- SEO
- Build in public
- Word of mouth
- Good PMs follow revenue/business.
- Sales is getting the cheque in hand.
- SEO in the future might take a different form, could evolve into chat engine optimization.
And got connected to a few interesting folks as well.
Looking forward to more such.
The eChai Effect - In Their Words
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Harsha Bhurani
Founder, HummingBird Consulting Group
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Founder, Bignano Ventures
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