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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.
- Pulls the survey data into six concrete workflows (account research, outreach, content, conversation intelligence, CRM... Mutiny Report · 20 min read · GTM How are B2B sales teams using AI in 2026? Matt Ratchford
- Decides the question on the right axes (product complexity, buyer count, time to value) rather than on ACV alone, and makes the... Supademo Article · 12 min read · GTM Free Trial vs Demo vs Freemium: The SaaS Decision Framework Narayani Iyear
- One of the few pieces that gets specific about the Indian market: rupee tiers, why Indian buyers prefer a generous free tier... evandsouza.com Article · 18 min read · GTM SaaS Pricing Strategies for Indian Startups: A Comprehensive Framework Evan D'Souza
- The half of the cash flow problem that is specific to selling in India: the MSMED Act 45 day ceiling, GST on late payment... Treelife Article · 20 min read · GTM Net 30/60/90 Payment Terms in India: The Complete Guide Treelife
- A short, clear statement of the four reasons annual wins for a small company: cash today, forecastable revenue, materially... Maxio Article · 8 min read · GTM 4 Major Advantages Of Annual vs. Monthly Subscription Billing Barrow Hamilton
- Connects the billing decision to the number that actually matters, which is how long you survive. Gives you three ratios to... Lighter Capital Article · 14 min read · GTM SaaS Cash Flow Analysis Explained Lighter Capital
- The implementation half. Poyar's framing that moving from subscriptions to usage is as big a shift as moving from on-prem to... Growth Unhinged Newsletter · 15 min read · GTM Usage-based pricing 2.0 Kyle Poyar
- The most sympathetic answer to this question: raise on new customers, leave the early believers alone while you are growing... SaaStr Article · 6 min read · GTM Dear SaaStr: How Do You Change the Price of Your SaaS Product Without Upsetting Existing Customers? Jason Lemkin
- Worked examples rather than theory, across hundreds of tracked price changes: who repackaged well (Ahrefs, Loom, Pipedrive),... Growth Unhinged Newsletter · 12 min read · GTM The good, bad and ugly of SaaS pricing changes Rob Litterst and John Kotowski
- A primary source rather than commentary: how India's largest software company actually told customers about a 15 percent rise.... Zoho Article · 5 min read · GTM Zoho Price Change Notice Zoho
- The most complete treatment of the price book itself: discount bands by tier from registered through elite, deal registration... Monetizely Article · 16 min read · GTM Channel Pricing Strategies: How to Set Prices for Resellers and Partners Without Destroying Margins Monetizely
- Written by people who have built channel programmes for decades, and it asks the questions nobody thinks of first: who collects... Chanimal Article · 12 min read · GTM How to Determine Your Reseller Margins, for SaaS, VARs, Retail Chanimal
- Puts the channel decision in Indian terms: banks, NBFCs, industry associations and the large system integrators as routes to... Kae Capital Article · 14 min read · GTM Go-to-Market Strategy for Indian Startups: Distribution Channels That Actually Work Kae Capital
- The useful argument here is about sequence: start partners on commission where you still fulfil the order, and only move to... PartnerStack Article · 10 min read · GTM The Path to SaaS Channel Readiness: Reseller Partners Laurella Jose
- A live Indian example of tiering done as a published rulebook rather than a negotiation: an entry revenue threshold, then... Zoho Article · 6 min read · GTM Zoho Partner Tiers and Partner Value Scoring Zoho
- Explains what a ramp actually costs you behind the scenes: misbilling, deferred revenue errors and ARR that stops meaning what... Ordway Labs Article · 10 min read · GTM Ramp Deal in SaaS: Definition, Billing and Revenue Recognition Guide Ordway Labs
- Written for the buyer, which is exactly why a seller should read it. These eight asks (price caps, rollover, overage true ups,... Tropic Article · 14 min read · GTM SaaS and AI Contract Negotiation: Every Term Worth Asking For (Beyond Price) Elissa Walters
- The case for the cadence itself. Poyar's point that pricing can now be stale within six months, and his recommendation to run... Growth Unhinged Newsletter · 12 min read · GTM Pricing used to last 18 months. Now it's down to 6. Kyle Poyar
- A worked competitor teardown of two Indian companies, which is the single most useful artefact a pricing review can produce.... SBI Growth Article · 12 min read · GTM Tearing Down the Pricing of Zoho and Freshworks SBI Growth
- Pricing discipline lives or dies in sales ops, and this is where it sits in an Indian SaaS org: who owns the guardrails, when... SeedToScale (Accel India) Article · 14 min read · GTM Sales Ops: Improving the Efficiency of your Sales Engine Rachit Parekh
- One metric you can start tracking this month: AI product revenue divided by inference cost. It moves before your gross margin... The SaaS CFO Article · 8 min read · GTM How to Calculate the Inference Efficiency Ratio Ben Murray
- Names the version of this problem that is specific to Indian companies: revenue in rupees, inference billed in dollars, and a... Inc42 Article · 8 min read · GTM India's AI Inference Problem Team Inc42
- The company's own timeline, so you can see the compounding rather than take it on trust: 4,000 dollars in month one, 25,000 a... VWO Blog Article · About 10 min read · GTM Evolution of VWO over the last 10 years VWO Blog
- The endpoint, with hard numbers: roughly 50 million dollars in annualised revenue, 6,000 clients across 90 countries, and never... TechCrunch Article · About 4 min read · GTM Everstone acquires bootstrapped Indian startup Wingify for $200M Manish Singh
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