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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.
- Lays out exactly what breaks in sales, marketing, onboarding and cost structure when you move segment in either direction,... Kalungi Article · 12 min read · GTM Should You Go Upmarket or Downmarket? What Actually Changes in Your GTM When You Do Cris S. Cubero
- Kellogg's framing, that the ICP begins as a founder hypothesis and should end as a regression on renewal, expansion and win... Kellblog Essay · 9 min read · GTM Your ICP Starts as an Aspiration and Becomes a Regression Dave Kellogg
- The build guide: weighted dimensions, negative signals that subtract points, and score bands that decide routing. It is the... Understory Article · 15 min read · GTM ICP Scoring Rubric Examples for B2B SaaS Teams Naufal Nugroho
- Indian founders comparing notes on launching in Southeast Asia, where technical maturity and buyer behaviour differ country by... SaaSBoomi Article · 12 min read · GTM Southeast Asia Expansion Playbook for Founders Looking to Launch a New Geo SaaSBoomi
- Explains why the category word next to your name does more work than the name itself: call yourself email and you inherit... aprildunford.com Article · 8 min read · GTM Don't let Customers Decide What Your Product Is April Dunford
- A practical checklist for the mechanical parts of naming: trademark and domain screening, pronounceability, cultural checks... Stripe Article · 14 min read · GTM How to Pick a Name For Your Startup: An In-Depth guide Stripe
- Gives you the four-part structure for positioning against an alternative (what they use now, what is wrong with it, your... Growth Unhinged Newsletter · 12 min read · GTM How to differentiate your product Anthony Pierri
- The actual method: which five dimensions to score, the open questions that get useful answers, and why you test section by... Wynter Article · 13 min read · GTM What is Message Testing in Marketing and How To Do It Peep Laja
- Zoho bundling dozens of apps into one subscription, priced at Rs 1,000 per employee per month in India, is the opposite bet to... CIOL Article · 5 min read · GTM Zoho unveils bundled business app suite Zoho One CIOL Writers
- Concrete about what changes for the Gulf beyond translation: Arabic and right to left support, dialect differences between... Zoho Blog Article · 10 min read · GTM Localization Strategies for SaaS Products in the Middle East Market Mary Nyambura
- A reminder that your India message may need to change language before it changes argument, with Jio and Zomato as examples and... Medianews4u Article · 8 min read · GTM The Rise of Vernacular Marketing: Connecting with Bharat Beyond English Yasin Hamidani
- Built on 2.5 million recorded sales conversations, this is the evidence that most no-decision losses are fear of getting it... jolteffect.com Book · 240 pages · GTM The JOLT Effect: How High Performers Overcome Customer Indecision Matthew Dixon and Ted McKenna
- The free summary that separates status quo bias from indecision and gives you the four moves for the second one, including... Challenger Article · 9 min read · GTM How to Overcome Customer Indecision Using the JOLT Effect Approach Challenger
- A short, practical take on changing the business case you lead with (close more deals becomes reduce operating cost) without... Dawn Capital Article · 9 min read · GTM How B2B SaaS startups can reposition now to win Henry Mason
- Gmail is the judge, so read the judge's own rules rather than a blog's summary of them. This is where the 0.3 percent spam rate... Google Workspace Admin Help Article · 20 min read · GTM Email sender guidelines Google Workspace Admin Help
- The readable version of the report above, with the 55 percent phone, 30 percent LinkedIn, 15 percent email activity ratio... Cognism Article · 14 min read · GTM 5 Steps to a Winning Outbound Strategy in 2026 Sam Gocher
- 231,818 cold emails scored for quality and then matched to reply rates, broken out by seniority and department. It is the best... Lavender Report · 20 min read · GTM The Cold Email Benchmark Report Will Allred
- A concrete pattern for what goes in touch two or three when you have already made your first point: show the gap between their... joshbraun.com Article · 6 min read · GTM Before & After Cold Emails Josh Braun
- Built on over a million executive sales cycles, and it answers the timing question specifically: win rates drop about 6 percent... Gong Article · 12 min read · GTM When (and how) to multi-thread when selling to executives Dan Morgese
- The number that makes the case in one line: winning deals carry around eight email contacts against three in losing deals. Read... Gong Article · 9 min read · GTM Building an army of champions: why it's essential to closing more deals Devin Reed
- Shows the specific places AI earns its keep in outbound (closed-lost re-engagement, champion job-change tracking,... Growth Unhinged Newsletter · 15 min read · GTM The best AI-native GTM plays you're not running Kyle Poyar and Brendan Short
- The counterweight to every AI SDR pitch deck, with the failure modes named and numbered: sender reputation collapse,... Digital Applied Article · 18 min read · GTM The Case Against AI SDRs: Contrarian Analysis 2026 Digital Applied
- The clearest short statement of what changed: from ABM owned by marketing to account-based everything driven by shared signals,... Pocus Article · 12 min read · GTM The new account-based playbook with Kyle Poyar (Growth Unhinged) Kyle Poyar
- The build order, stage by stage: TAM and stakeholder mapping, account research, CRM cleanup and enrichment, then signal... Growth Unhinged Newsletter · 20 min read · GTM How to build a modern ABM engine Dan Rosenthal
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.
How Founders Use AI
How founders actually put AI to work, mapped topic by topic.
Glossary
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