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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.
- The auction runs on Meta's estimate of who will buy, and that estimate is only as good as the purchase data you send back. This... Meta for Developers Article · D2C Conversions API Meta for Developers In 2 answers
- The longest running, most revised book in this category, useful for a founder who wants the full mental model of Meta... Entrepreneur Press Book · D2C Ultimate Guide to Facebook Advertising (4th edition) Perry Marshall, Bob Regnerus, Thomas Meloche In 2 answers
- Meta's own page on how tax is applied to your ad spend, the starting point for an Indian founder before assuming their invoiced... Meta Business Help Centre Article · D2C Taxes on Meta ads placement Meta Business Help Centre In 2 answers
- This is the source of truth Meta itself maintains, so when third-party tutorials disagree this is the page that settles it. Meta for Developers Article · D2C Conversions API: Get Started Meta for Developers In 2 answers
- This is Meta's own definition of the learning phase and the roughly 50 optimization events a week benchmark our short answer is... Meta Business Help Center Article · D2C About the Learning Phase Meta In 2 answers
- Meta's own pricing and budgeting primer spells out the actual platform minimums, so you know the floor before you decide your... Meta for Business Article · D2C Facebook and Instagram Ads: Budgets, Costs & Schedules Meta In 2 answers
- Razorpay processes payments for thousands of Indian D2C brands, and this piece gives category wise CAC benchmarks in rupees,... Razorpay Learn Article · D2C Customer Acquisition Cost: A D2C Guide to Profitability Razorpay Learn In 2 answers
- A trade-press explainer of Meta's Andromeda delivery system, the actual AI engine behind why broad and Advantage+ now... Marketing Brew Newsletter · D2C How Meta's AI Push Is Changing Ad Creation Marketing Brew In 2 answers
- Real spend data across 80,000 ads, not survey guesses, and it proves the exact point that 'what's good' depends on category. Billo Report · D2C What Is a Good ROAS for Ecommerce? Benchmarks for Facebook, TikTok & More Billo In 2 answers
- A March 2026 account of how shopping inside ChatGPT changed: the launch of in-chat checkout in 2025, OpenAI's step back from... Talon.One Article · D2C ChatGPT Shopping and Instant Checkout: Exploring the Future of Commerce Isabelle Watson In 2 answers
- WhatsApp's own tour of the Business app: profile, greeting, away messages, quick replies, labels, catalog and catalog links,... business.whatsapp.com Article · 8 min · D2C WhatsApp Business App features WhatsApp In 2 answers
- WhatsApp's own instructions for wa.me links, including links that open a chat with a pre-filled message. faq.whatsapp.com Article · 2 min · D2C How to use click to chat WhatsApp In 2 answers
- WhatsApp's consumer terms, which prohibit bulk messaging and auto-messaging from regular accounts; which is why 'bulk sender'... whatsapp.com Article · 15 min · D2C WhatsApp Terms of Service WhatsApp In 2 answers
- Meta's help centre hub for the paid business subscription: what it includes, eligibility, ID and name rules, verification... facebook.com Article · 5 min · D2C Meta Verified for businesses Meta In 2 answers
- Instead of theorising about PLG versus sales-led, it lays out what 30 real companies actually did, segment by segment. It is... Lenny's Newsletter Newsletter · ~15 min read · GTM GTM motions of 30 B2B SaaS companies Lenny Rachitsky In 2 answers
- Draws the line between RevOps and SalesOps in terms of scope, metrics and tactics, which is the distinction people applying for... Clari Article · ~10 min read · GTM Revenue Operations vs. Sales Operations: A Complete Guide Clari In 2 answers
- Zenoti and MindTickle founders on validating at home before expanding, and on finding a handful of customers willing to build... SeedToScale (Accel India) Article · ~12 min read · GTM Entering a New Market as a SaaS Business and Finding First Customers Ajay Sethi In 2 answers
- Almost everything written about cold call openers is opinion. This is 90,380 recorded calls scored by whether a meeting got... Gong Labs Article · short read · GTM Proven cold call opening lines that work Chris Orlob In 2 answers
- Shows the actual arithmetic of list building, cutting 66,000 companies down to 5,700 real targets, then tiering them by how... Growth Unhinged Newsletter · long read · GTM An outbound playbook for 2025 Fivos Aresti In 2 answers
- The clearest definition yet of the role that is quietly reshaping outbound teams, with how Intercom, Canva, Notion and Ramp... Clay Article · long read · GTM GTM Engineering: What It Is, How It Works, and How to Hire Mishti Sharma and Varun Anand In 2 answers
- Shows how average contract value really grows as a company scales from seed to IPO, and makes the case that most of the gain... Growth Unhinged Newsletter · short read · GTM How to have 'the talk' with your customers Kyle Poyar In 2 answers
- The bounding method for a first price (cost to serve as the floor, cost of a heavy power user as the ceiling) plus the advice... Andreessen Horowitz Essay · long read · GTM The Price Is Right: And for Early-Stage SaaS Companies, It Needs to Be Steven Sinofsky In 2 answers
- Maps tiers to how adoption actually spreads (casual user, professional, team, organisation) rather than to a feature matrix,... Andreessen Horowitz Article · long read · GTM Bottom Up Pricing & Packaging: Let the User Journey Be Your Guide Jennifer Li and Martin Casado In 2 answers
- Starts from the fact that Indian B2B search volumes are many times smaller than US equivalents, which breaks the imported US... upGrowth Article · long read · GTM B2B SaaS SEO Playbook India 2026: From Rs 10Cr to Rs 100Cr ARR Amol Ghemud In 2 answers
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