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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. What a paraphrase is, and the rule that information taken from a source still needs that source named. owl.purdue.edu Article · How Founders Use AI Paraphrasing Purdue Online Writing Lab
  2. The free reader for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android: view, comment, highlight, fill forms and sign without a subscription; text... adobe.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Adobe Acrobat Reader Adobe
  3. A free, fast, small reader for Windows that also opens EPUB, MOBI and comic files. sumatrapdfreader.org Tool · How Founders Use AI Sumatra PDF Sumatra PDF (open source)
  4. Apple's steps for the Reduce File Size Quartz filter, the options for optimising images, and the warning that quality may drop. support.apple.com Article · How Founders Use AI Reduce the size of a PDF in Preview on Mac Apple Support
  5. Adobe's free online compressor. Your file is handled on Adobe's servers and deleted unless you sign in to save it. adobe.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Compress PDFs for free Adobe
  6. Grammarly's checker, which compares text against billions of web pages. grammarly.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Plagiarism Checker Grammarly
  7. A checker built to find copies of a web page's text elsewhere on the internet, with a paid Premium tier. copyscape.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Copyscape Copyscape
  8. Search academic papers and theses for an exact phrase in quotation marks to find where it was published. scholar.google.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Google Scholar Google
  9. India's rules for theses and research papers: similarity up to 10% is Level 0 with no penalty, and penalties rise at 10-40%,... ugc.gov.in Article · How Founders Use AI UGC (Promotion of Academic Integrity and Prevention of Plagiarism in Higher Educational Institutions) Regulations, 2018 University Grants Commission
  10. An Indian plagiarism checker used by universities and publishers, with options for individuals. drillbitglobal.com Tool · How Founders Use AI DrillBit DrillBit
  11. Apple's steps for scanning a document into a note, with automatic capture when the page edges are detected. support.apple.com Article · How Founders Use AI Scan text and documents in Notes using the iPhone camera Apple Support
  12. Google's steps for scanning receipts, letters and statements in the Drive app and saving them as searchable PDFs. support.google.com Article · How Founders Use AI Scan documents with Google Drive (Android) Google Drive Help
  13. Adobe's free scanner app: perspective correction, glare and shadow removal, and OCR for editable, searchable PDFs. adobe.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Adobe Scan Adobe
  14. The 29 June 2020 order under section 69A of the IT Act blocking 59 apps; Cam Scanner is number 14 on the list. pib.gov.in Article · How Founders Use AI Government bans 59 mobile apps Ministry of Electronics and IT (PIB)
  15. The government's document wallet for fetching, storing and sharing documents issued directly by departments. digilocker.gov.in Tool · How Founders Use AI DigiLocker Government of India
  16. A resume builder whose first resume is free forever, with unlimited downloads and no hidden fees. flowcv.com Tool · How Founders Use AI FlowCV FlowCV
  17. A free, open-source builder with no ads or paywall, PDF and Word downloads, and a readability check that reads your resume the... rxresu.me Tool · How Founders Use AI Reactive Resume Reactive Resume
  18. An AI resume writer and editor with keyword targeting: free to start, Pro at $29 a month, or a Lifetime plan at $149 once. rezi.ai Tool · How Founders Use AI Rezi pricing Rezi
  19. AI writer and 40-plus templates, paid once: $48 for a year or $18 for three months, with a 14-day money-back guarantee. kickresume.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Kickresume pricing Kickresume
  20. Free CV templates many engineering and research students use, edited in the browser. overleaf.com Template · How Founders Use AI LaTeX templates for CVs and resumes Overleaf
  21. The plain rules of a good resume, action verbs and all, which no tool replaces. careerservices.fas.harvard.edu Guide · How Founders Use AI Harvard College guide to creating a strong resume Harvard Office of Career Services
  22. Google's course on using Gemini, Gemini Notebook and Career Dreamer to plan a search, tailor applications and practise... grow.google Course · How Founders Use AI Accelerate Your Job Search with AI Google
  23. Where to enrol in the course for free; a four-course beginner series of about 8 hours at your own pace. coursera.org Course · How Founders Use AI Accelerate Your Job Search with AI (Coursera) Google Career Certificates
  24. India's job platform for freshers, part-time, work-from-home and jobs for women, listing more than 50 lakh openings from 7... apna.co Tool · How Founders Use AI Apna Apna

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