Explore · The library
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.
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Video · Starting Up
How to Use PostHog: Step-by-Step Guide for Product Analytics & Session Replay
PostHog
In 2 answers
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Video · About 30 minutes · Starting Up
How to Get Users and Grow
Gustaf Alstromer
In 2 answers
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Video · ~15 min · Starting Up
How to CRUSH Facebook Ads with a Small Budget in 2026
Ben Heath
In 2 answers
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Video · Starting Up
How I use AI to save 10+ hours per week
Ali Abdaal
In 2 answers
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Video · about 1 hour · Starting Up
Mastering onboarding | Lauryn Isford (Head of Growth at Airtable)
Lenny Rachitsky and Lauryn Isford
In 2 answers
- YC's David Lieb walks through cohort retention: watching each week's new users and asking how many actually come back. For a... Y Combinator Startup School Video · ~20 min · Starting Up How To Improve Cohort Retention David Lieb In 2 answers
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Video · about 22 minutes · Starting Up
Consumer Startup Metrics | Startup School
Tom Blomfield
In 2 answers
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Video · About 5 minutes · Starting Up
Contribution Margin explained
Philip de Vroe (The Finance Storyteller)
In 2 answers
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Video · About 6 minutes · Starting Up
How to calculate burn rate, runway, and growth rate
Tim Brady
In 2 answers
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Video · Short explainer video, a few minutes · Starting Up
Cash Flow vs. Profit: What's the Difference?
HBS Online
In 2 answers
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Video · webinar-length walkthrough · Starting Up
Mastering Financial Models for Your Startup with Logan Burchett
Logan Burchett (Co-founder, Forecastr)
In 2 answers
- YC is openly skeptical of a remote co-founder (they discount the plan if a linchpin is distant), which makes this the most... Y Combinator Video · 35 min · Starting Up Best Practices for Managing a Remote Team Y Combinator In 2 answers
- Segment's founder walks through failures and near-misses so you can feel the contrast between not having fit and having it.... Y Combinator (Startup Library) Video · ~45 min · Starting Up How to Start a Startup: Finding Product-Market Fit Peter Reinhardt (Segment) In 2 answers
- Caldwell has watched thousands of YC companies pivot, and he lays out what a good pivot looks like versus flailing. His key... Y Combinator Startup Library (Dalton Caldwell) Video · ~15 min · Starting Up All about pivoting Dalton Caldwell In 2 answers
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Video · ~35 min · Starting Up
Growth for Startups
Gustaf Alstromer
In 2 answers
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Video · 50 min · Starting Up
Stanley Tang (DoorDash): Scaling the Unscalable
Stanley Tang
In 2 answers
- A short clip of Paul Graham explaining the idea in his own words, useful if you want the core of the essay before committing to... Startup Archive Video · 5 min · Starting Up Paul Graham explains what it means to do things that don't scale Paul Graham In 2 answers
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Video · ~20 min · Starting Up
Solving the Chicken or Egg Problem
James Currier
In 2 answers
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Video · ~45 min · Starting Up
Building Product, Talking to Users, and Growing (How to Start a Startup, Lecture 4)
Adora Cheung
In 2 answers
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Video · 5 min · Starting Up
Debt Metaphor
Ward Cunningham
In 2 answers
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Video · 15 min video · Starting Up
Build a Simple App from a Google Sheet with Glide
Glide
In 2 answers
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Video · Starting Up
Andrej Karpathy: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
Andrej Karpathy
In 2 answers
- Taggar covers the full arc: why a co-founder matters, when to bring one on, where to look, and how to keep the relationship... Y Combinator Startup Library Video · Starting Up How To Find A Co-Founder Harj Taggar In 2 answers
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Video · 50 min · Starting Up
How to Start a Startup, Lecture 2: Team and Execution
Sam Altman
In 2 answers
The hubs
Starting Up
Find an idea, validate it, build, and land your first customers.
GTM
Go-to-market, from breaking in to how the best teams do it.
D2C
Building a direct-to-consumer brand, India-first.
Wealth
Paying yourself, ESOPs, secondaries, and de-risking founder wealth.
How Founders Use AI
How founders actually put AI to work, mapped topic by topic.
Glossary
Plain-language definitions of the startup and VC terms you'll hit.
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