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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.
- Puts the channel decision in Indian terms: banks, NBFCs, industry associations and the large system integrators as routes to... Kae Capital Article · 14 min read · GTM Go-to-Market Strategy for Indian Startups: Distribution Channels That Actually Work Kae Capital
- The useful argument here is about sequence: start partners on commission where you still fulfil the order, and only move to... PartnerStack Article · 10 min read · GTM The Path to SaaS Channel Readiness: Reseller Partners Laurella Jose
- A live Indian example of tiering done as a published rulebook rather than a negotiation: an entry revenue threshold, then... Zoho Article · 6 min read · GTM Zoho Partner Tiers and Partner Value Scoring Zoho
- Explains what a ramp actually costs you behind the scenes: misbilling, deferred revenue errors and ARR that stops meaning what... Ordway Labs Article · 10 min read · GTM Ramp Deal in SaaS: Definition, Billing and Revenue Recognition Guide Ordway Labs
- Written for the buyer, which is exactly why a seller should read it. These eight asks (price caps, rollover, overage true ups,... Tropic Article · 14 min read · GTM SaaS and AI Contract Negotiation: Every Term Worth Asking For (Beyond Price) Elissa Walters
- The shape of an Indian government or PSU software contract, which nothing in the global SaaS canon prepares you for: EMD of one... TenderDekho Article · 25 min read · GTM Software Tenders in India 2025: The Complete Guide Arjun Reddy
- The case for the cadence itself. Poyar's point that pricing can now be stale within six months, and his recommendation to run... Growth Unhinged Newsletter · 12 min read · GTM Pricing used to last 18 months. Now it's down to 6. Kyle Poyar
- A worked competitor teardown of two Indian companies, which is the single most useful artefact a pricing review can produce.... SBI Growth Article · 12 min read · GTM Tearing Down the Pricing of Zoho and Freshworks SBI Growth
- Pricing discipline lives or dies in sales ops, and this is where it sits in an Indian SaaS org: who owns the guardrails, when... SeedToScale (Accel India) Article · 14 min read · GTM Sales Ops: Improving the Efficiency of your Sales Engine Rachit Parekh
- The margin defence most companies are actually reaching for. Poyar's number is the one to remember: roughly 70 to 80 percent of... Growth Unhinged Newsletter · 14 min read · GTM Why everyone's switching to AI credits Kyle Poyar
- Gives you the current benchmarks to set expectations with your board (roughly 45 to 53 percent depending on how much of the... Jeff Brokaw Article · 12 min read · GTM AI Gross Margins: Why the 90% SaaS Benchmark Is Gone Jeff Brokaw
- One metric you can start tracking this month: AI product revenue divided by inference cost. It moves before your gross margin... The SaaS CFO Article · 8 min read · GTM How to Calculate the Inference Efficiency Ratio Ben Murray
- Names the version of this problem that is specific to Indian companies: revenue in rupees, inference billed in dollars, and a... Inc42 Article · 8 min read · GTM India's AI Inference Problem Team Inc42
- The company's own timeline, so you can see the compounding rather than take it on trust: 4,000 dollars in month one, 25,000 a... VWO Blog Article · About 10 min read · GTM Evolution of VWO over the last 10 years VWO Blog
- The endpoint, with hard numbers: roughly 50 million dollars in annualised revenue, 6,000 clients across 90 countries, and never... TechCrunch Article · About 4 min read · GTM Everstone acquires bootstrapped Indian startup Wingify for $200M Manish Singh
- The founder's own dated timeline, useful for checking how long the community actually ran before the first line of product code... Rocketlane Blog Article · About 8 min read · GTM Rocketlane: How it began, and where we are headed Srikrishnan Ganesan
- The contemporaneous record, written while the claim was still true, with Scott Farquhar saying it in his own words rather than... TechCrunch Article · About 3 min read · GTM Atlassian's 2011 Revenues Were $102 Million With No Sales People Erick Schonfeld
- Jay Simons on the five decisions that made the model work, including product advocates instead of reps and refusing to... First Round Review Article · About 15 min read · GTM Unpacking 5 of Atlassian's Most Unconventional Company-Building Moves First Round Review
- Where the counterintuitive north star is explained: payment success rate rather than merchant count, plus 30 to 40 minute... Inc42 Article · About 12 min read · GTM The Product Practices That Turned Razorpay Into A Payments Juggernaut Deepsekhar Choudhury
- The numbers spine behind the story, including exact take rates, multi product attach at 65 percent of customers, and the risk... Contrary Research Report · Long report · GTM Razorpay Business Breakdown & Founding Story Contrary Research
- The rupee denominated revenue ladder plus the saying no story: refusing to enter buy now pay later against investor pressure... Forbes India Article · About 8 min read · GTM Razor-sharp checkout: How Razorpay grew close to eight times in four years Rajiv Singh
- The clearest stage by stage map, especially the pricing decision to gate file limits so the free tier kept the multiplayer... First Round Review Article · About 15 min read · GTM The 5 Phases of Figma's Community-Led Growth: From Stealth to Enterprise First Round Review
- A first person account of why standard B2B demand generation failed at Figma and what community led growth actually cost to... Claire's Notebook Article · About 12 min read · GTM 10 things I learned from 10 years at Figma Claire Butler
- The six evaluation dimensions and the too many firsts rule, which turns a vague hiring instinct into something you can actually... MKT1 Newsletter Newsletter · About 15 min read · GTM How to hire your first marketer Emily Kramer and Kathleen Estreich
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