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A Marvel superhero, a team activity, and the Hyderabad open house

Shivashankar Venkatapuram on the eChai Open House in Hyderabad, where the group split into teams and built something together.

Shivashankar Venkatapuram Full Stack Developer | Java | Spring Boot | React | Microservices 25 Aug 2026

🚀 Had a great time at eChai Ventures Open House – Hyderabad!

It was a great opportunity to meet founders, entrepreneurs, builders, and like-minded people from the startup ecosystem.

One of the fun parts of the meetup was the team activity. The entire group was divided into teams, and each team was given a Marvel superhero. There were 7 of us in our team, and we were Team Batman! 🦇

It was a simple but fun activity that helped us break the ice, interact with people we had just met, and work together as a team.

Beyond the activity, I really enjoyed the conversations and hearing different startup journeys, ideas, challenges, and experiences.

A few takeaways from the meetup:

💡 Good ideas become better when you discuss them with the right people.
🤝 Networking is about building genuine relationships.
🚀 Hyderabad has a growing and exciting startup ecosystem.
📚 Every conversation gives you something new to learn.

Glad to be part of this meetup and looking forward to more such events, conversations, and collaborations.

🦇 Team Batman!

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