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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. Video · Starting Up Cash Basis vs. Accrual Basis Accounting Explained: Which Is Right for Your Business? YouTube
  2. Video · Starting Up How Indian Startup Founders Save Crores in Taxes! YouTube
  3. The cleanest India pivot story told by the founder himself: Meesho began as Fashnear, a hyperlocal fashion app, and became a... Y Combinator Video · 35 min · Starting Up On Starting and Scaling Indian Shopping Site Meesho Vidit Aatrey (Meesho co-founder and CEO)
  4. A Sequoia partner says the quiet part out loud: the reaction to the miss matters more than the miss itself. Hilaly's move is to... SaaStr Video · 25 min (video + transcript) · Starting Up How to Manage Up and Have a Happy Board, Even When You Miss a Quarter Aaref Hilaly (Sequoia Capital)
  5. Video · ~35 min watch · Starting Up How to Kickstart and Scale a Marketplace Business (talk) Lenny Rachitsky
  6. Video · ~50 min watch · Starting Up The Ultimate Guide to Two-Sided Marketplaces with Jeff Jordan Jeff Jordan and Harry Stebbings
  7. A tight 17 minute talk that distills The Mom Test into the one habit that matters most: stop presenting your idea, because... The Conference by Media Evolution Video · 17 min · Starting Up Rob Fitzpatrick: (not) presenting your idea Rob Fitzpatrick
  8. Video · ~45 min · Starting Up The Mom Test (author talk) Rob Fitzpatrick
  9. YC partners who have watched thousands of founders unpack what the essay looks like in practice, with real examples from... Y Combinator Video · 26 min · Starting Up YC's Group Partners Discuss Doing Things That Don't Scale Y Combinator Group Partners
  10. Video · ~90 min · Starting Up Product Thinking Workshop ft. Kunal Shah and Shreyas Doshi Kunal Shah and Shreyas Doshi
  11. Savoia, a former Google innovation lead, makes the case that most ideas fail because they are the wrong 'it', not because they... Stanford eCorner ETL (Alberto Savoia) Video · 50 min · Starting Up Build the Right It (Pretotyping) Alberto Savoia
  12. Video · ~50 min · Starting Up Kunal Shah and Shailendra Singh on Business Models and Moats Kunal Shah
  13. When building is easier than ever and code is the least defensible thing you own, this breaks down what actually protects a... Y Combinator (Lightcone) Video · ~40 min · Starting Up The 7 Most Powerful Moats for AI Startups Y Combinator
  14. Video · ~30 min · Starting Up How to Go From MVP to Scaling Startup with Bubble (Bubblecon 2024) Bubble
  15. Video · 20 min · Starting Up How To Get The Most Out Of Vibe Coding Tom Blomfield
  16. Video · 30 min · Starting Up Complete Vibe Coding Tutorial: Build a Full Stack App in 30 Minutes Matt Palmer
  17. Video · 40 min · Starting Up Building a Docusign clone with Lovable (live vibe coding) YouTube
  18. Video · 10 min video · Starting Up Build an App from a Google Sheet with Glide! Glide
  19. Video · ~45 min · Starting Up Fast Database: cheat code for your Bubble app performance (interview with Petter Amlie) Zeroqode and Petter Amlie
  20. Video · ~15 min · Starting Up Pagination for Repeating Groups (Bubble tutorial) YouTube
  21. Video · ~20 min · Starting Up Recursive workflows in Bubble (how to loop through a list) YouTube
  22. A short, plain explanation of when to reach for a backend workflow instead of doing work on the page. If the term still feels... Planet No Code Video · ~10 min · Starting Up Why use backend workflows for your Bubble app Planet No Code
  23. Video · Starting Up What is a Webhook? Webhooks for Beginners YouTube
  24. Video · ~5 min · Starting Up API Explained in 5 Minutes (for beginners) YouTube

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