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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. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. Explains why the deck that impresses a VC actively repels a buyer: different positioning, different proof, different ask. If... aprildunford.com Article · short read · GTM Why Your Investor Pitch Is Ruining Your Sales Pitch April Dunford
  10. 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
  11. The bounding method for a first price (cost to serve as the floor, cost of a heavy power user as the ceiling) plus the advice... Andreessen Horowitz Essay · long read · GTM The Price Is Right: And for Early-Stage SaaS Companies, It Needs to Be Steven Sinofsky
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. Vembu explains the segment choice in his own words: go to the customers who find the premium products unaffordable, then grow... Thought Economics Article · Long read · GTM Sridhar Vembu: How He Bootstrapped Zoho to $1 Billion Without Investors Vikas Shah
  17. Asthana says plainly that Postman built customer success instead of a sales team early on. That one staffing choice explains... OpenView Article · Short read · GTM Postman on Designing for the End User and Product-led Success Abhinav Asthana
  18. The founder saying it in his own words: no ads, no sales team with targets, not much marketing, and about 1,000 people while... Nithin Kamath (Substack) Essay · Long read · GTM Inside the making of Zerodha Nithin Kamath
  19. A quick companion to the podcast, with the origin of the inbound insight and the counterintuitive calls laid out in five... HubSpot INBOUND Article · Short read · GTM Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah: How They Built HubSpot HubSpot (Guy Raz interview recap)
  20. Seven concrete lessons with the numbers attached, including the 15 minute time to value and net retention above 140 percent.... aakashg.com Article · Long read · GTM Datadog: The Archetypal Example for SaaS Product-Led Growth Aakash Gupta
  21. The clearest thresholds anyone has published for this decision, plus the warning that matters: the pipeline your new sales team... elenaverna.com Newsletter · Long read · GTM Why, When, and How to add Sales to your Product-Led Growth motion Elena Verna
  22. Over 100 pages of it are worksheets, templates and real example documents rather than prose, which is why go to market leaders... Stripe Press Book · Full book · GTM Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building Claire Hughes Johnson
  23. Has the number that makes the point: over 80 percent of Rocketlane's 600 plus enterprise customers are in the US. Also carries... Forbes India Article · Long read · GTM SaaS startup Rocketlane is going global Siddhant Konduskar
  24. A ground level account of what Indian founders actually run into when they set up in the US, down to the go to market starter... SaaSBoomi (Medium) Article · Long read · GTM Onward to building a strong US-India SaaS corridor: The Rise of #IndiaSaaS Avinash Raghava

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