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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 government's single portal for applying online to credit-linked schemes, including Mudra business loans and the startup... jansamarth.in Tool · Government portal · D2C Jan Samarth: Business loan for startups Government of India
- Screaming Frog's licence page: the crawler is free up to 500 URLs, and a licence (shown at €245 a year per user) removes the... screamingfrog.co.uk Tool · D2C Screaming Frog SEO Spider pricing Screaming Frog
- Ahrefs tracked 1M random URLs to see how many reached Google's top 10 within a year: only 1.74% did, and the average #1 page is... ahrefs.com Article · 10 min read · D2C How Long Does It Take to Rank in Google? (Ahrefs study) Ahrefs
- A practical list of the SEO mistakes that cost sites traffic and how to fix each, updated August 2026. ahrefs.com Article · 15 min read · D2C 15 Common SEO Mistakes (And How to Fix Them) Ahrefs
- Google's own guidance on hiring an SEO: the questions to ask, and the warning that no one can guarantee a #1 ranking on Google. developers.google.com Article · D2C Do you need an SEO? (Google Search Central) Google
- A structured curriculum for engineers who have never thought about sales, covering channels, segmentation, quota, comp and... Andreessen Horowitz Video · 16 short videos · GTM All Things Sales! 16 Mini-Lessons for Startup Founders Peter Levine
- Casado's argument that the modern B2B winners combine bottom-up adoption with a sales layer is the clearest framing of why... Andreessen Horowitz Essay · ~15 min read · GTM Growth, Sales, and a New Era of B2B Martin Casado
- Shows what changes at each level rather than just listing titles, which is what you need if you are trying to work out whether... Product Marketing Alliance Article · ~12 min read · GTM The product marketing career path: From Associate to VP Product Marketing Alliance
- Splits the ecosystem into India-first companies serving the domestic market and global-first companies exporting, which is... Bessemer Venture Partners Report · Long report · GTM The Rise of SaaS in India 2023 Bessemer Venture Partners
- Tracks the Indian companies crossing $100M ARR and what changed in their motion to get there, which is the population you are... Bessemer Venture Partners Report · Long report · GTM The Rise of Cloud AI in India 2024 Bessemer Venture Partners
- Features the former Director of RevOps at Freshworks making the point that in recurring revenue you cannot draw a border... Chargebee Article · ~8 min read · GTM Revenue Operations: 3 Nuggets Of Wisdom From RevOps Leaders Sumyukthaa Sankar
- Zoho's answer to the being-from-India question is local teams, local offices and local pricing rather than louder marketing,... diginomica Article · ~10 min read · GTM Zoho talks up 'transnational localism' as key to success Chris Middleton
- Vembu on why India is Zoho's fastest growing market and could become its largest, which is the strongest available... Forbes India Article · ~12 min read · GTM Sridhar Vembu is preparing Zoho for the rise of India Harichandan Arakali
- A four stage maturity model, from payment processing through billing automation and subscription management to full RevOps,... Chargebee Article · ~10 min read · GTM The Revenue Operations Evolutionary Framework for SaaS Chargebee
- The single best forty minutes for a founder who has never sold anything. Bosmeny walks through the whole arc from the first... Y Combinator Video · conference talk · GTM How to Sell by Tyler Bosmeny Tyler Bosmeny
- The plainest definition of attract, engage, delight from the company that coined the term and built a public company on it.... HubSpot Article · short read · GTM What Is Inbound Marketing? HubSpot
- Answers the two packaging questions that actually come up: when to bundle a new feature into a tier and when to sell it as an... Growth Unhinged Newsletter · 6 min read · GTM Your guide to SaaS packaging 201 Kyle Poyar
- A first-hand account of moving from product-led growth to enterprise sales and the pricing changes that made the revenue work,... Prime Venture Partners Podcast Podcast · podcast episode · GTM Why Private Equity Paid $8.4 BILLION for Smartsheet Prime Venture Partners with Praerit Garg
- The reference account of India's biggest product-led company: a Chrome extension that reached 20 million developers with no... Forbes India Article · long read · GTM Emerging Indian SaaS Leaders: Postman's Abhinav Asthana, Ankit Sobti and Abhijit Kane Harichandan Arakali
- Uses the same frequency and importance graph as the pricing piece to work out which product behaviours to build growth around,... SeedToScale by Accel Article · long read · GTM Product-led Growth for SaaS Companies Dr. Ajay Sethi
- Tracks adoption of usage-based pricing from 45 percent to 63 percent of SaaS companies and, more usefully, flags data mediation... Chargebee Article · 6 min read · GTM Usage-based Pricing: Growth and Adoption in a Changing Landscape Arijit Bose
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Video · Conference talk · GTM
"Big Bets that Paid Off" with Freshworks Founder & CEO Girish Mathrubootham | SaaStr Annual
Girish Mathrubootham
- Vembu walks through the actual mechanics: the pivot after the dot com crash, ManageEngine turning profitable on Google ads, and... Mixergy Podcast · Full episode · GTM "The Smartest Unknown Indian Entrepreneur" Talks About How He Built Zoho Into A Bootstrapped Powerhouse, with Sridhar Vembu Andrew Warner with Sridhar Vembu
- The best single profile of how Zoho funded itself, split into WebNMS, ManageEngine and Zoho.com, and built a talent pipeline... Forbes India Article · Long read · GTM The Bootstrapped Buddhist: How Sridhar Vembu built Zoho Harichandan Arakali
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
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