Startup Village 2025 HQ

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This guide should have everything you need to know to get the most out of your time at the Startup Village.

Doing the hard thing.

The only thing that matters is that you all are the ones doing the hard thing. You are building real sh*t, real products, tinkering with your craft, and learning topics outside your comfort zone.

The purpose of the Startup Village is to help you find other people who are just like you. Finding a tribe that values building as much as you do can be invaluable, and that is why we’re here.

So, during these 10 days, make the effort to get to know your fellow residents, and you’ll find co-founders, collaborators, teammates, and customers, and hopefully make some friends along the way.

Don’t network and try to collect contacts. Instead, paper-hand your nervousness. Get to know people. Share ideas that inspire you. Contribute thoughtfully when others share an interesting idea. Ship something together.

Calendar

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Subscribe to the calendar here to stay in the loop about all upcoming activities.

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All comms & announcements will be made on our WhatsApp Group. Please ensure you’re in there!

Updates

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Follow X here for updates and DM @paarugsethi for any questions/queries.

Venue

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Novotel Ahmedabad Co-working Office

Get to know your peers!

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Get to know your peers — you will co-live and co-work with these folks, having a lot of fun together, and may even become colleagues, cofounders, and lifelong friends later. (Some of the cartoon images here hopefully don’t resemble the real person.)

Irfan Asif

https://x.com/IrffanAsiff

Prapti Sharma

https://x.com/praptichilling

Raj Pratap Vidyarthi

https://x.com/greyhound_raj

Prakhar Sharma

https://x.com/Prakhar158

Harshit Rai Verma

https://x.com/@HarshittRV

Pratik Kale

https://x.com/@pratikkale26

GurshabadPal Singh

https://x.com/@Gurshabad90

Boopable

https://x.com/@avgweb3enjoyer

Reuben Rapose

https://x.com/reubence_

Arpita Ganatra

https://x.com/@ArpitaGanatra

Muaz Anees Ahmad

https://x.com/maazuxi

Fuad Tausif

https://x.com/fuad_tausif

Harsh Sachaniya

https://x.com/@hrs_2220

Karan Parsnani

https://x.com/@LilFatFrank

Subhajit chaudhury

https://x.com/@Subhdotsol

Priyansh Patel

https://x.com/priyansh_ptl18

Pritesh Panda

https://x.com/0xh3rk

Nitish Sharma

https://x.com/@nitishxyz

Soham Shah

https://x.com/@sohamshah__

Shiyas Mohammed

https://x.com/@0xshiyasmohd

Agenda

Day	Agenda	Co-working Calendar	Fun (Slightly Mandatory)
Sun, 2	Opening Day 11am: Programming - Get the most out of the Startup village by Paarug - Room Sorting ceremony by Paarug - Co-working and Lunch Transfers, check-in & dinner at the Hotel	- Pizza Lunch (2pm) - Coworking Evening
Mon, 3	Co-working at the Hotel or Office.	5pm: TIL (Today I Learned)	9pm: Pickleball and Padel
Tues, 4	Co-working at the Hotel or Office.	Talks 5pm: Umbra 5:30pm: Asgard 6:30pm: GreenkWh 7pm: How to write and post bangers (Paarug)
Wed, 5	x402 Mini Hackathon Day 1 at Coworking 11am: Kick off All day office hours & jam session with Paarug and Pratik	11am: Tech Quiz 12pm: Hackathon Kickoff
Thurs, 6	x402 Mini Hackathon Day 2 at Coworking 11am: Kick off All day office hours & jam session with Paarug and Pratik	Talks 2pm: Building MetEngine 4pm: Wormhole and Cross-chain Apps 6pm: India Community Call (livestream) 7pm: Send Arcade and Games on Solana
Fri, 7	Product Roast Day 11am: Kick off 11:30 to 2pm: Demos 2pm: Pizza Lunch (better ones this time) 3pm to Evening: Demos Continued 5pm: Thinking about Design (Aarushe and Yash Bhardwaj Dinner		9pm: Turf Cricket
Sat, 8	Superdevs Day 11am: Programming - Opportunities on Solana (Aditya) - Keynote (Kirat) - Open Terminal for Superdevs - Superdevs Graduation Ceremony Group Dinner with Attendees, Members and Superdevs
Sun, 9	Solana (with Earn) 1pm: Kick Off - Start Earning your Crypto (Pratik) - Getting started with Solana Dev (Dhruv) - State of Solana in India (Paarug) [more to-be-added]
Mon, 10	Co-working at the Hotel or Office.
Tues, 11	Demo Day
Wed, 12	Goodbyes and Checkout by 11am.

[please rest assured that more fun will be programmed in this schedule. DM @paarugsethi if you have ideas]

Facilities

During the 10 days of the Startup Village, folks will have access to:

Double Occupancy rooms in Novotel Ahmedabad, along with all other hotel amenities. Rooms will be allotted on Day 1 during the kickoff session.
Breakfast at the hotel and Lunch at the co-working office
Talks, mentoring, and product sessions to up-skill and learn together.
A bunch of other Ahmedabad food excursions, games, and activities, to bond with your buddies.

How will your day look like?

Calendar here — please subscribe to it on your Google Calendar so that you are up to date with what’s happening.
Group updates, discussions (morning) & Tech talks are mandatory to attend.
Fun excursions spread out during the 10 days will be optional, but ideal to attend.
Attendees are free to self-organise tech workshops, breakout sessions, game nights, etc.

Community Rules

We have a few rules that we ask you to follow while you're here:

Substances: No smoking or consumption of illegal substances. No drinking and no consumption of alcohol is allowed. Gujarat is a dry state by law, and drinking is a punishable offence.
Language: Do not use harmful language of any kind (no racial slurs, gender-specific insults, etc.).
Share: If you’re ordering food, be sure to ask your roommates or anyone you’re working around if they’d like to get something too.
Noise: No loud music or excessive noise between 10 pm and 10 am.
Jackass rule: Don’t be a jackass. Be kind and respectful to others, and all shall be fine.

Frequently asked questions

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