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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. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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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