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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.
- A short India-authored primer on the five metrics that matter early, plus a clean explanation of leading versus lagging... SaaSBoomi Article · 6 min read · GTM SaaS Metrics SaaSBoomi
- A former SaaS CEO showing exactly which metrics belong on which slide, in trailing nine quarter format. This is the closest... Kellblog Article · 14 min read · GTM The First Three Slides of a SaaS Board Deck, with Company Key Metrics Dave Kellogg
- Short, and it does the thing most Rule of 40 explainers skip: it checks the rule against actual public SaaS company histories... tomtunguz.com Article · 4 min read · GTM The Data Behind the Rule of 40% Tomasz Tunguz
- Names precisely which classic metrics stop working when revenue is consumption based and inference costs eat gross margin, then... Growth Unhinged Newsletter · 14 min read · GTM Rethinking SaaS metrics for AI Kyle Poyar
- Pavilion's data comes from operators rather than investors, and the headline numbers on the page (median growth, NRR... Pavilion Report · gated report, key stats on page · GTM 2025 B2B SaaS Benchmarks: CAC, NRR & Growth Rate Metrics Pavilion
- Deliberately picks nine metrics instead of forty and argues for a focused set, which is the right instinct for a small team.... Factors.ai Article · 10 min read · GTM 9 SaaS Marketing Metrics You Should Be Tracking Ranga Kaliyur
- A nine step territory design framework that ends where it should, with tying territories to quota and compensation. The step... Everstage Article · 16 min read · GTM What Is a Sales Territory Plan? A 9-Step Framework for RevOps and Sales Leaders Adithya Krishnaswamy
- Ten hard rules from a Lightspeed India partner on selling into the US from India, including the happy ears trap and the above... SaaSBoomi Article · 9 min read · GTM The do's and don'ts of cross-border GTM Dev Khare
- Good specifically on data silos and on the difference between marketing analytics, product analytics and attribution, which is... Factors.ai Article · 18 min read · GTM The Ultimate Guide to Marketing Analytics for SaaS Companies Ninad Pathak
- A four stage model for analyst relations from inbound only to a dedicated team, written for founders rather than AR... a16z Article · 14 min read · GTM Why You Should Engage With Analysts, and How to Do It Right Michael King and Stacy D'Amico
- Cohen names the exact trap a broke founder falls into: running the same tactics as a million other companies and being... A Smart Bear Essay · 15 min read · GTM If you build it, they won't come, unless… Jason Cohen
- It lays out five stages from pre revenue to scaling and tells you what the founder's job is in each one, which is the clearest... Euclid Insights Article · 10 min read · GTM The Truth About Founder-Led Sales Euclid Ventures
- Pai splits PMF into product to problem fit and then motion to market fit, and that second half is exactly what founders mean... sajithpai.com Essay · 40 min read · GTM PMF Playbook: Chapter I, Understanding PMF Sajith Pai
- This is the piece that explains why your CRM looks empty while your product is spreading: developers evaluate in Discord,... Common Room Article · 12 min read · GTM Selling to developers: how to bring devs to the buying table Eric Wendt
- Built from interviews with the founders of Heroku, LaunchDarkly, Netlify, CircleCI, Fastly and Tailscale, so it is the... Heavybit Article · 16 min read · GTM How to Launch a Dev-First Startup: First Principles Andrew Park
- Balfour ran growth at HubSpot and later founded Reforge, and this is still the cleanest statement of why a growth team needs... brianbalfour.com Essay · 10 min read · GTM Growth vs Marketing vs Product Brian Balfour
- Morgan's whole subject is the exact fear that keeps agency founders generalist: that narrowing will shrink the pipeline. He... Philip Morgan Consulting Book · Book, about 130 pages · GTM The Positioning Manual for Technical Firms Philip Morgan
- One page, one fill in the blank sentence: I am a DISCIPLINE who helps TARGET MARKET with EXPENSIVE PROBLEM, unlike competitors... jonathanstark.com Article · 6 min read · GTM Crystalizing Your Specialization Jonathan Stark
- The clearest account of the choice at the heart of Indian marketplace GTM: matchmaking versus full stack. It shows what Urban... Tigerfeathers Article · 30 min read · GTM A Spotlight on Urban Company Paavan Gami
- It gives you a four part test (autonomy, reasoning, tool use, memory) to tell a real agent from a renamed feature, which is the... Mutiny Article · 20 min read · GTM The best AI agents for B2B sales in 2026: What's real vs. hype Matt Ratchford
- Vembu built a global software company from Tenkasi with no outside funding, and this interview is him explaining the structural... Dataquest India Article · 12 min read · GTM Zoho's Unconventional Path: Building a Global Tech Giant from India's Heartland Aanchal Ghatak
- You cannot take a motion apart without numbers to compare against, and this has them: 9 percent average free to paid, freemium... ProductLed Report · 15 min read · GTM Product-Led Growth Benchmarks: Key SaaS Findings and Trends Laura Kluz
- Written by someone who went from Java developer to AppDynamics to Solutions Architect at AWS with no prior sales experience, so... Sales Engineers of New York Article · 8 min read · GTM Transitioning from a Software Engineer to a Sales Engineer Akshat Srivastava
- A career switcher's biggest problem is not knowing what the ladder even looks like, and this lays out the whole thing from SDR... Break Into Tech Sales Article · 14 min read · GTM Tech Sales Career Path Explained: SDR, AE, and Beyond Cole Feldman
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.
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