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.
- Explains what a ramp actually costs you behind the scenes: misbilling, deferred revenue errors and ARR that stops meaning what... Ordway Labs Article · 10 min read · GTM Ramp Deal in SaaS: Definition, Billing and Revenue Recognition Guide Ordway Labs
- Written for the buyer, which is exactly why a seller should read it. These eight asks (price caps, rollover, overage true ups,... Tropic Article · 14 min read · GTM SaaS and AI Contract Negotiation: Every Term Worth Asking For (Beyond Price) Elissa Walters
- The case for the cadence itself. Poyar's point that pricing can now be stale within six months, and his recommendation to run... Growth Unhinged Newsletter · 12 min read · GTM Pricing used to last 18 months. Now it's down to 6. Kyle Poyar
- Two things you will not hear elsewhere: get pricing right before ten million dollars of revenue because after that even minor... Prime Venture Partners Podcast Podcast · 45 min listen · GTM Ashu Garg, General Partner Foundation Capital on Enterprise Software Mega Trends, GTM Strategy and Pricing as an Evolving Process Shripati Acharya
- A worked competitor teardown of two Indian companies, which is the single most useful artefact a pricing review can produce.... SBI Growth Article · 12 min read · GTM Tearing Down the Pricing of Zoho and Freshworks SBI Growth
- Pricing discipline lives or dies in sales ops, and this is where it sits in an Indian SaaS org: who owns the guardrails, when... SeedToScale (Accel India) Article · 14 min read · GTM Sales Ops: Improving the Efficiency of your Sales Engine Rachit Parekh
- One metric you can start tracking this month: AI product revenue divided by inference cost. It moves before your gross margin... The SaaS CFO Article · 8 min read · GTM How to Calculate the Inference Efficiency Ratio Ben Murray
- Names the version of this problem that is specific to Indian companies: revenue in rupees, inference billed in dollars, and a... Inc42 Article · 8 min read · GTM India's AI Inference Problem Team Inc42
- Kiran Darisi (Atomicwork) and Sreedhar Peddineni (GTMBuddy), both out of the Freshworks lineage, on why per seat pricing stops... The Neon Show Podcast · 80 min listen · GTM If Big AI Goes Everywhere, What's Left for B2B SaaS? 25 Years, 4 Startups, 3 Eras of SaaS Siddhartha Ahluwalia
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Video · Interview · GTM
Vidit Aatrey on Building Meesho, India's Top Reselling Platform, with Adora Cheung
Vidit Aatrey
- The second S-curve is the part most retellings skip. Once existing WhatsApp resellers ran out, the pitch changed to starting a... The Neon Show Podcast · About 60 min · GTM Vidit Aatrey, Founder & CEO, Meesho Vidit Aatrey
- The definitive first customers account: guest posts with publication specific beta invite codes, 4,000 dollars in month one,... The SaaS Podcast Podcast · About 49 min · GTM From Guest Blogging to $8M ARR with SaaS Content Marketing Paras Chopra
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Video · About 70 min · GTM
Paras Chopra: How To Build A Successful Startup In India | Sold Wingify For $200 Million
Paras Chopra
- The company's own timeline, so you can see the compounding rather than take it on trust: 4,000 dollars in month one, 25,000 a... VWO Blog Article · About 10 min read · GTM Evolution of VWO over the last 10 years VWO Blog
- The endpoint, with hard numbers: roughly 50 million dollars in annualised revenue, 6,000 clients across 90 countries, and never... TechCrunch Article · About 4 min read · GTM Everstone acquires bootstrapped Indian startup Wingify for $200M Manish Singh
- The richest India origin account of moving from founder led selling to a sales organisation, with the actual price ladder, the... The SaaS Podcast Podcast · About 54 min · GTM 7 Steps to SaaS Go-to-Market Fit After Product-Market Fit Khadim Batti
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Video · About 1 hr 9 min · GTM
How they built a $600M SaaS Company? Ft. Khadim Batti & Vara Kumar Namburu - Co-founders, Whatfix
Khadim Batti
- Batti on category creation and building a global go to market flywheel from Bengaluru while targeting US buyers from the very... Indian Silicon Valley with Jivraj Singh Sachar Podcast · 49 min · GTM E115 - Mastering Global GTM w/Whatfix's Khadim Batti Khadim Batti
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Video · 47 min · GTM
Acquisition By Freshworks and Building SaaS in Chennai with Srikrishnan Ganesan, Founder, Rocketlane
Srikrishnan Ganesan
- The research that came before the product is quantified here: 80 plus customer interviews, more than 200 hours of recorded... The Founder Thesis Podcast Podcast · Long-form interview · GTM The Architect of Onboarding: Srikrishnan Ganesan and the Rise of Rocketlane Srikrishnan Ganesan
- The honest sequel: why the inbound playbook that worked at launch had to be abandoned for outbound and in person selling once... SaaS Scaling Secrets Podcast · About 42 min · GTM Ditching Traditional SaaS Playbooks with Sri Ganesan, CEO of Rocketlane Srikrishnan Ganesan
- The founder's own dated timeline, useful for checking how long the community actually ran before the first line of product code... Rocketlane Blog Article · About 8 min read · GTM Rocketlane: How it began, and where we are headed Srikrishnan Ganesan
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Video · About 1 hr · GTM
8 Years Without Funding to $100M Raise & Now A Category Leader | Shivku Ganesan,Exotel
Shivakumar Ganesan
- Where the motion came from: the Ola number masking call, 350 inbound SMBs at 10 to 15 a month, the rupee pricing experiments,... The Neon Show Podcast · 59 min · GTM Exotel, SaaS startup serving clients like Ola, Swiggy, Zerodha Shivakumar Ganesan
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