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.
- This is the classic mental model for exactly your question: how customer count trades off against deal size. Janz maps five... The Angel VC Essay · ~12 min read · Starting Up Five ways to build a $100 million business Christoph Janz In 9 answers
- The whole worry in your question, that slicing smaller leaves too few buyers, is exactly what Moore's target customer... HarperBusiness (Collins Business Essentials) Book · Approx. 256 pages · Starting Up Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition Geoffrey A. Moore In 9 answers
- This is a ready-to-fill IP assignment and confidentiality agreement hosted on the government's own Startup India portal, so it... Startup India (startupindia.gov.in) Template · 6-page fillable template · Starting Up Confidentiality and Intellectual Property Assignment Agreement Template (India) Startup India (Invest India) In 9 answers
- The only honest way to answer "is SEO working" is to look at real search data, and Google Search Console is the free,... Google Tool · Free web tool · Starting Up Google Search Console Google In 9 answers
- This is a working Indian seed VC (Blume backed Unacademy, Purplle, Slice) writing down what it actually looks for, slide by... Blume Ventures Article · 20 min read · Starting Up High Pitched Assessments: the exhaustive list of what makes a good pitch deck Blume Ventures In 9 answers
- The India-specific piece that tells you where the split actually gets signed. It separates the founders' agreement (equity,... Treelife Article · 10 min read · Starting Up Founder Vesting in a Shareholders' Agreement: What Startup Founders Must Know Treelife In 9 answers
- The single clearest explanation of the two documents Indian founders confuse: the founders' agreement (equity, vesting, roles,... EquityList Article · 15 min read · Starting Up Founders' Agreement: Definition, Key Clauses, and Template for Indian Startups EquityList In 9 answers
- The global playbooks assume a US-style buying process; this one is written for the Indian enterprise reality, where the sale... Blume Ventures Article · 25 min read · Starting Up The Rough Guide to Building an Enterprise SaaS Dhandha in India Blume Ventures (with Aakrit Vaish, Haptik) In 9 answers
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Video · ~50 min · Starting Up
Peter Thiel: Competition Is for Losers
Peter Thiel
In 9 answers
- Once you have a list of people to reach cold, this shows you how to write emails they actually answer. Seven concrete... Y Combinator Startup Library Video · ~33 min · Starting Up How to Convert Customers With Cold Emails Aaron Epstein In 9 answers
- FSSAI's own order setting the food licence tiers in force from 1 April 2026: Registration up to Rs 1.5 crore turnover, State... fssai.gov.in Article · 4-page order · Starting Up FSSAI order: revised turnover thresholds for registration and licences (13 March 2026) Food Safety and Standards Authority of India In 9 answers
- The government's own summary of PMEGP, the credit-linked subsidy for new micro enterprises run by KVIC: the subsidy is 15% of... myscheme.gov.in Article · Scheme page · Starting Up Prime Minister's Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) Ministry of MSME, on myScheme In 9 answers
- Tally's own price page for TallyPrime, the accounting software most Indian CAs already use. Silver for one PC is Rs 750 a... tallysolutions.com Tool · Pricing page · Starting Up Buy TallyPrime: plans and prices Tally Solutions In 9 answers
- A real company showing its ICP before and after, including the messy middle where they were guessing. The point that narrow... Product for Engineers (PostHog) Newsletter · ~12 min read · GTM Defining our ICP is the most important thing we ever did Andy Vandervell In 9 answers
- Poyar replaces the sales funnel with a five stage new user journey (discover, start, activate, convert, scale) and attaches... Growth Unhinged Newsletter · 10 min read · GTM Your guide to PLG benchmarks Kyle Poyar In 9 answers
- A short, specific list of what to instrument on a self-serve funnel, including time to activation and time to convert, which... Amplitude Article · 12 min read · GTM Top 10 Metrics to Measure Freemium and Free Trial Performance Carmen DeCouto In 9 answers
- The most complete breakdown of what goes into a health score: which four to six categories to weight, how to segment scores by... Gainsight Article · 12 min read · GTM Customer Health Score Explained: Metrics, Models and Tools Gainsight In 9 answers
- The clearest arithmetic anywhere on rep economics: the rule of 10 for quota against base, four months to productivity, draws... Craft Ventures Essay · 12 min read · GTM Simple Math to Set Up a Sales Team David Sacks In 9 answers
- The clearest single document on what a revenue data model should look like end to end, from lead through renewal and expansion.... Winning by Design Report · 46 page PDF · GTM The Bowtie Standard Winning by Design In 9 answers
- The best plain English description of what a sales ops function is for, written by someone who rebuilt one from scratch. Useful... First Round Review Article · 18 min read · GTM The Company-Changing Magic of Sales Operations Done Right Don Otvos In 9 answers
- The five part narrative structure (name the shift, name winners and losers, show the promised land, position capabilities as... Mission.org Essay · 11 min read · GTM The Greatest Sales Deck I've Ever Seen Andy Raskin In 9 answers
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Podcast · 1 hr 15 min · GTM
The power of strategic narrative | Andy Raskin
Lenny Rachitsky
In 9 answers
- A working glossary of the words on your cap table, from the company that stores most of them, so the jargon stops getting in... Carta Article · Wealth Equity 101 for founders and employees Carta In 9 answers
- Twenty founders describe the pivotal moments on their path to fit, and a recurring theme is why the right founder for the right... First Round Review Article · ~25 min read · Starting Up The Only Way to Win: Advice for Founders From Founders First Round Review In 8 answers
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