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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.

  1. Your short answer says to read the earnings calls and annual reports of public companies near your space for real numbers, and... U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Tool · Starting Up SEC EDGAR Full-Text Search SEC
  2. A ready structure for capturing notes across your 20 conversations so patterns actually surface instead of blurring together.... Notion Template · reusable templates · Starting Up Customer Discovery Interview Templates Notion
  3. A large nonprofit network of women and nonbinary investors and founders that runs Female Founder Office Hours, giving you real... All Raise Tool · Community / program · Starting Up All Raise (Female Founder Office Hours) All Raise
  4. YC's curated shelf of talks and essays filtered to women founders, spanning fundraising, self doubt, and building. It is a... Y Combinator Course · Curated collection · Starting Up YC Startup Library: Women Founders Y Combinator
  5. A ready structure for running the customer conversations that prove or disprove your fit, built on The Mom Test rules. Since... Mari Luukkainen (Gumroad) Template · Notion template · Starting Up The Mom Test Customer Interview (Notion template) Mari Luukkainen
  6. When a buyer says yes, you want a clean, standard agreement ready so the pilot becomes signed proof fast. This free,... Common Paper Template · 2 page template · Starting Up Design Partner Agreement (Free Template) Common Paper
  7. A subscription publication that reports one deep story a day on Indian startups, tech, and consumer companies. When a trend is... The Ken Tool · Starting Up The Ken The Ken
  8. The developer forum where a lot of new tools and shifts get discussed before they reach the mainstream tech press. Reading it... Y Combinator Tool · Starting Up Hacker News Y Combinator
  9. Course · ~6.5 hours · Starting Up Making Friends with Machine Learning (full course) Cassie Kozyrkov
  10. The account aggregator framework lets a person share verified financial data with consent, and Sahamati is the ecosystem hub... Sahamati Tool · Starting Up Sahamati (Account Aggregator ecosystem) Sahamati
  11. A crowdsourced list of over a hundred directories and communities where you can list or relaunch a product, useful as a... Indie Hackers Template · Starting Up Relaunch like a pro: 100+ places to launch, relaunch, and list your product Indie Hackers community
  12. This compact guide gives you rules for writing plain, persuasive prose that you can apply the same afternoon: sentence length,... Julian Shapiro Course · Starting Up Writing Well Julian Shapiro
  13. This is a practical swipe file for the one line that decides whether anyone reads your launch post at all, built around... Copyhackers Template · Starting Up 65 Headline Formulas Copyhackers
  14. Buffer's live public hub, real revenue, real decisions, real posts, is a working example of what a company sounds like when it... Buffer Tool · Starting Up Buffer Open Buffer
  15. This gives you the actual email skeletons, teaser, launch day, update, follow-up, that map directly onto the five-beat sequence... HubSpot Blog Template · 10 min read · Starting Up How to Create a Product Launch Email [Outlines + Templates] HubSpot
  16. Ship is a landing page and waitlist tool built specifically for the pre-launch teaser stage of a campaign like the one in the... Product Hunt Tool · Starting Up Ship by Product Hunt: A toolkit for makers to ship awesome products Product Hunt
  17. Justin Jackson built this course specifically for technical founders who are good at shipping but go quiet on marketing right... justinjackson.ca Course · self-paced course · Starting Up Marketing for Developers Justin Jackson
  18. When you need the actual words for the same-day recap email, this gives you five ready structures for different types of calls,... HubSpot Template · 8 min read · Starting Up 5 Recap Email Templates to Use After Connect, Discovery, and Demo Calls HubSpot
  19. UPI Autopay lets you set up a recurring mandate on a customer's account so a subscription or installment debits automatically... Razorpay Tool · Starting Up UPI Autopay | Razorpay Razorpay
  20. A free, plain-language contract template built specifically for running a paid pilot, with the scope, fee, and success criteria... Common Paper Template · Starting Up Pilot Agreement Common Paper
  21. When a spreadsheet finally starts to strain, this is the most common next step: unlimited contacts, deal tracking, and email... HubSpot Tool · Starting Up Free CRM for Small Business HubSpot
  22. A free grab-bag of the actual artifacts (email templates, qualification checklists, call scripts) you need to run consistent... Close Template · 9 email templates, 3 checklists, 2 scripts, 5 books · Starting Up The Startup Sales Resource Bundle Close / Steli Efti
  23. A plug-and-play spreadsheet for calculating win rate, average deal size, and churn from your own numbers. Use it to actually... HubSpot Tool · spreadsheet tool · Starting Up Sales Metrics Calculator HubSpot
  24. A US buyer deciding whether to trust an unfamiliar Indian vendor reads your contract as closely as your product. YC's free,... Y Combinator Template · Starting Up YC Standard Sales Agreement Template Y Combinator

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