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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 annual dataset on the hundred best private cloud companies, including growth rates, multiples, and how long it now takes to... Bessemer Venture Partners Report · 30 min read · GTM The Cloud 100 Benchmarks Report 2025 Byron Deeter, Elliott Robinson, Sameer Dholakia and the Bessemer Atlas team In 2 answers
- The magic number was invented at Scale, so this is the primary source, including the Omniture story behind the name and how the... Scale Venture Partners Article · 8 min read · GTM SaaS Metrics: A History of the Magic Number Dale Chang In 2 answers
- Separates gross sales efficiency, net sales efficiency and magic number, which most people use interchangeably and should not.... Scale Venture Partners Article · 10 min read · GTM SaaS Metrics: A Primer on SaaS Sales Efficiency Dale Chang In 2 answers
- Call transcript data showing that competitors surfacing early raise your win odds while competitors surfacing late lower them.... Gong Labs Article · 7 min read · GTM How to win competitive sales deals Chris Orlob In 2 answers
- For each metric it names the underlying behaviours you can actually coach, which is what turns a dashboard into a management... Gong Labs Article · 12 min read · GTM The 7 sales analytics metrics that enhance team performance Jonathan Costet In 2 answers
- Lays out Upekkha's Value SaaS argument that SaaS built from India is structurally capital efficient, which changes what a... Inc42 Article · 10 min read · GTM Why Indian Startup Ecosystem Needs More Catalysts Like Upekkha Than Typical Incubators And Accelerators? Team Inc42 In 2 answers
- Survey data from over eight hundred private companies, with an efficient growth matrix that plots CAC payback against NRR so... Growth Unhinged Report · 20 min read · GTM What's Really Going on in Software: The 2025 SaaS Benchmarks Report Kyle Poyar In 2 answers
- Splits competitors into the hordes, the giants and the ghosts and gives a different move for each. The giants section is the... The Marketing Meetup Article · 15 min read · GTM Positioning Jujitsu: How to Win Against Powerful Competitors April Dunford In 2 answers
- Arora on building from Mumbai for 135 countries without ever raising primary capital, which is the credibility argument in its... Inc42 Article · 12 min read · GTM Build Local, Think Global: The Vision of BrowserStack's Ritesh Arora Inc42 BrandLabs In 2 answers
- Actual job posting data instead of opinion: GTM posts down 15 percent, SDR posts down 21 percent, support down 37 percent,... Growth Unhinged Newsletter · 10 min read · GTM Who's actually hiring in GTM right now? AI companies are doubling SDR hiring Kyle Poyar In 2 answers
- It gives you a four part test (autonomy, reasoning, tool use, memory) to tell a real agent from a renamed feature, which is the... Mutiny Article · 20 min read · GTM The best AI agents for B2B sales in 2026: What's real vs. hype Matt Ratchford In 2 answers
- This is the bit most positioning writing skips: how weak positioning shows up as sales pain, including the 40 percent of B2B... Lenny's Newsletter Newsletter · 12 min read · GTM Summary: April Dunford on product positioning, segmentation, and optimizing your sales process Gaurav Chandrashekar In 2 answers
- Names the roles precisely (end user, champion, economic buyer, influencer, veto power, procurement) so you stop calling... Disciplined Entrepreneurship (MIT) Article · 10 min read · GTM The Decision-Making Unit: The Who-is-Who of Your B2B Sales Process Martin Giese and Matthias Hilpert In 2 answers
- A concrete menu of the events that put an account into a buying window, from job changes to fiscal cycles, which is exactly... UserGems Article · 10 min read · GTM 18 buying triggers for identifying B2B buying cycles UserGems In 2 answers
- IndiaMART started serving overseas buyers, lost that market after 2001, and rebuilt around Indian SME buyers posting... Inc42 Article · 12 min read · GTM Inc42 UpNext: How Looking Inward Changed Everything For IndiaMART Aditya Kondalamahanty In 2 answers
- Accel India's three tests for a segment (uniformity, enough size, reachability at a sane acquisition cost) are the cleanest way... SeedToScale Insights (Accel India) Article · 12 min read · GTM Defining Your Market: Choose the right peak before you start climbing the mountain Accel India In 2 answers
- Three real startup homepages taken apart, showing the whole chain from positioning statement to messaging to the actual... MKT1 Newsletter Newsletter · 20 min read · GTM Positioning & messaging teardown, with Anthony Pierri Emily Kramer and Anthony Pierri In 2 answers
- Walks an Indian SaaS team from positioning through story, style guide and proof, with Keka and Chargebee as worked examples... Inc42 Article · 10 min read · GTM Indian SaaS Startups' Guide To Brand Marketing Komal Ahuja In 2 answers
- The operational half of taking on an incumbent: timing outreach to renewal windows, mining review sites for the buyer's own... MarketBetter Article · 22 min read · GTM How to Run a Competitive Displacement Campaign: The Complete Playbook for Winning Deals From Incumbent Vendors MarketBetter Team In 2 answers
- A founder writing up her own repositioning in detail, including naming Intercom and Customer.io directly and landing on a... Userlist Article · 16 min read · GTM How We Used April Dunford's 10-Step Method to Overhaul Positioning at Userlist Jane Portman In 2 answers
- The clearest Indian example of a company outgrowing its own product name and building an umbrella brand over Freshservice,... Forbes India Article · 7 min read · GTM Freshdesk rebrands as Freshworks to reflect bigger business management software ambition Harichandan Arakali In 2 answers
- The number that makes the case in one line: winning deals carry around eight email contacts against three in losing deals. Read... Gong Article · 9 min read · GTM Building an army of champions: why it's essential to closing more deals Devin Reed In 2 answers
- The counterweight to every AI SDR pitch deck, with the failure modes named and numbered: sender reputation collapse,... Digital Applied Article · 18 min read · GTM The Case Against AI SDRs: Contrarian Analysis 2026 Digital Applied In 2 answers
- The good news for a small company, quantified: brand size correlates strongly with Google AI Overviews (0.65) but weakly with... Ahrefs Article · 8 min read · GTM Google Seems More Biased Towards Big Brands Than ChatGPT and Perplexity Patrick Stox In 2 answers
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Building a direct-to-consumer brand, India-first.
Wealth
Paying yourself, ESOPs, secondaries, and de-risking founder wealth.
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