Explore · The library
Every resource founders actually use, in one library.
The essays, videos, podcasts, books and tools behind every answer across eChai's hubs, from starting up to go-to-market, D2C, founder money and AI, each with a note on why it is here.
What founders use most, ranked by how many answers lean on it.
- A rare India-specific look at non-dilutive funding for D2C brands - working capital and revenue-based debt matched to inventory... recurclub.com Article · D2C How D2C SMEs in India Are Using Debt Financing to Scale Sustainably Recur Club In 5 answers
- Explains exactly why moving every early buyer onto a WhatsApp broadcast list matters for repeat orders in India, given the... Aasaan Article · D2C Grow Your D2C Brand on WhatsApp, Instagram & Facebook Aasaan In 5 answers
- A top-tier VC's field guide to PR written for founders with zero media experience, it treats journalist relationships as a long... bvp.com Article · D2C PR Fundamentals for Early-Stage Founders Bessemer Venture Partners In 5 answers
- Specifically frames Legal Metrology as an e-commerce/D2C compliance issue, including the online-listing disclosure requirement... Cashweta Article · D2C Navigating the Legal Metrology Act for E-commerce in India (2025) Cashweta In 5 answers
- Zooms out to the profitability-over-growth shift defining Indian D2C, the mindset you need to evaluate whether a hot channel... Forbes India Article · D2C India's D2C Journey: After Rapid Scale-Up, Why It's Now All About Discipline Forbes India In 5 answers
- A current, India-specific comparison of the main aggregator options a new D2C brand is actually choosing between, rather than a... Shipmozo Blog Article · D2C Top 5 Shipping Aggregators for D2C Brands in India (2026) Shipmozo In 5 answers
- A data-backed India newsletter deep-dive arguing that gross margin is the single strongest predictor of which D2C brands reach... thecpglab.substack.com Article · D2C I Studied 35 Indian D2C Brands. Here's What Actually Decides If They Win. The CPG Lab In 5 answers
- The most systematic treatment of recurring revenue as an engineered system rather than a set of departments, with 250+... Winning by Design Book · 556 pages · GTM Revenue Architecture Jacco van der Kooij In 5 answers
- Concrete on the mechanics nobody outside India writes about: INR pricing, UPI AutoPay recurring success rates versus... productgrowth.in Article · ~12 min read · GTM SaaS Pricing in India: The Rupee vs Dollar Dilemma productgrowth.in In 5 answers
- The mistake is not the hire, it is stepping out of sales afterwards, which Lemkin reckons about two thirds of founders do and... SaaStr Article · short read · GTM The #1 Mistake I See Founders Make When They Hire Their First VP of Sales Jason Lemkin In 5 answers
- Freshworks' early marketing approach documented properly: what they measured, what they spent on, and the argument that below... SeedToScale by Accel Article · long read · GTM SaaS Playbook: Marketing Rachit Parekh In 5 answers
- The clearest breakdown of the three PQL types (hand-raiser, usage-based, needs-help) and the playbook each one deserves, which... OpenView Article · 15 min read · GTM Your Guide to Product Qualified Leads (PQLs) Kyle Poyar In 5 answers
- Kazanjy is blunt that almost every bottom-up company eventually adds sales, so the only questions are when and how. He covers... Lenny's Newsletter Article · 25 min read · GTM The Transition: Layering sales onto a bottom-up self-serve product Pete Kazanjy In 5 answers
- Twenty onboarding flows torn apart by product category, so you can find the two or three closest to yours instead of copying... Appcues Article · 20 min read · GTM SaaS Onboarding Examples: Lessons from 20+ Top Products Sara Detrik In 5 answers
- Seven hybrid pricing patterns with named companies (GitHub, Shopify, Intercom, Zapier), plus Poyar's point that the enemy is... Growth Unhinged Newsletter · 12 min read · GTM The state of usage-based pricing in SaaS Kyle Poyar In 5 answers
- Makes the point most first timers miss: channel accelerates growth that already exists, it does not create it, and you should... GTMnow Article · 10 min read · GTM How to Get Started With Channel Partnerships for SaaS Businesses Shubham Sood In 5 answers
- A small company showing its own numbers: their partner manager took the program from under 4% to 10% of revenue in a year on... Close Article · 14 min read · GTM Building a B2B SaaS Partner Program: Our 8-Step Process Amy Copadis In 5 answers
- AWS explaining its own co-sell machinery: business planning in Partner Central, partner matching, multi partner deals that... AWS Partner Network Blog Article · 9 min read · GTM Unlocking Synergies: Maximizing Co-Sell Opportunities with AWS Priya Bains In 5 answers
- Published margin bands from an Indian origin company: 10 to 15% referral, 20 to 30% solution provider with deal registration... DQ Channels Article · 9 min read · GTM Freshworks partner program: insights into the evolving channel ecosystem Bharti Trehan In 5 answers
- The cleanest definition of expansion MRR with the formula and the benchmark that matters: top companies get up to 40 percent of... Chargebee Article · 7 min read · GTM Expansion MRR: Definition, Formula, and Impact on SaaS Growth Chargebee In 5 answers
- Walks through building the cohort table itself, and separates acquisition cohorts from behavioural cohorts, which is the... Chargebee Article · 12 min read · GTM How to Conduct Churn Rate Cohort Analysis to Improve Retention Shaoli Paul In 5 answers
- Nine chapters covering the QBR structure, the common mistakes (generic content, dwelling on the negative) and how to keep... Gainsight Article · 9 chapters · GTM The Essential Guide to Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) Gainsight In 5 answers
- Shows what a productised CS play looks like when written down for a whole team: a named motion, tied to a product stage, with... The GitLab Handbook Article · reference · GTM Customer Success Playbooks The GitLab Handbook In 5 answers
- Roughly 47,000 quota carrying reps across 246 companies, with average attainment at 42.7 percent. The number to put in front of... QuotaPath, using RepVue's Cloud Sales Index Report · 8 min read · GTM 57% of SaaS Sales Reps Missed Quota in Q2 2025. Here's What That Means QuotaPath, using RepVue's Cloud Sales Index In 5 answers
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