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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. How to start, pause and switch Gemini Live conversations, and where the language setting for voice and captions lives. support.google.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Talk naturally with Gemini Live Google
  2. Which languages the Gemini phone app supports and how to switch to yours. support.google.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Gemini mobile app availability Google
  3. How to translate a Word, PDF, PowerPoint or Excel file in Google Translate, with the size and page limits. support.google.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Translate documents & websites Google
  4. YouTube's guide to automatic dubbing, the language pairs it supports, and how to review dubs before they are published. support.google.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Use automatic dubbing YouTube
  5. ElevenLabs' guide to dubbing a video into 90+ languages, with speaker detection and voice similarity settings. elevenlabs.io Guide · How Founders Use AI Dubbing Overview ElevenLabs
  6. Reports that Krutrim's Kruti assistant was pulled from the app stores, the web and the Ola app. inc42.com Article · How Founders Use AI Ola Krutrim's 'Kruti' AI Chatbot Goes Offline Inc42
  7. What the National Language Translation Mission offers: voice-first translation services, apps and data for Indian languages. bhashini.gov.in Article · How Founders Use AI About BHASHINI Digital India Bhashini Division
  8. The government's note on Sarvam's selection under the IndiaAI Mission and what its models cover. static.pib.gov.in Article · How Founders Use AI Sarvam AI: Powering a Made-in-India AI Revolution Press Information Bureau, Government of India
  9. ElevenLabs' model list with the languages each covers, including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and eight more Indian languages. elevenlabs.io Guide · How Founders Use AI Models ElevenLabs
  10. The OECD's record of the Voice of India findings as a risk to welfare and health services. oecd.ai Article · How Founders Use AI Global AI Speech Recognition Models Fail Indian Languages, Impacting Critical Services OECD AI Incidents Monitor
  11. A real case of auto-translation reversing the meaning of a Kannada message, and the complaint that followed. inc42.com Article · How Founders Use AI Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah Calls Out Meta For 'Faulty' Kannada Translation Inc42
  12. Sajith Pai's India1/India2/India3 framework and the Indus Valley report are the sharpest public analysis of who in India... sajithpai.com Article · essays + annual report · Starting Up Sajith Pai on the Indus Valley Report & the Indian market (India1/2/3) Sajith Pai (Blume Ventures)
  13. A real Indian maker story: Bengaluru's Karthik Sridharan scaled Flexiple to seven figures on no-code. Proof that a... Makerpad (Zapier) Article · ~12 min read · Starting Up How a Former Salesman Co-Founded a Seven-Figure Business on Bubble Karthik Sridharan (Flexiple) via Makerpad
  14. India's largest volunteer-driven product community (Bengaluru-founded, 25k+ members) with a practitioner blog on strategy,... theproductfolks.com Article · ~10 min read + community · Starting Up The Product Folks, India's Product Community The Product Folks
  15. Shows exactly how top startups turned early cold/warm outreach into paying customers, with real message-level detail. Grounds... Lenny's Newsletter Article · ~15 min read · Starting Up How to win your first 10 customers via direct outreach Lenny Rachitsky
  16. When you are entering an industry you have never worked in, the real risk is being fooled by a surface understanding and... Scott H. Young Book · ~304 pages · Starting Up Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career Scott H. Young
  17. When you start with no credibility in a market, customer interviews are how you borrow the insiders' knowledge, and doing them... Lean Startup Circle (Medium) Article · ~10 min read · Starting Up 16 Tips for Great Customer Development Interviews in B2B Etienne Garbugli
  18. This short piece names the exact bias that trips up experts: once you know something deeply, you literally cannot imagine not... Harvard Business Review Essay · ~10 min read · Starting Up The Curse of Knowledge Chip Heath and Dan Heath
  19. A concrete method for confirming the pain is real before you fall for your own fix, framed as the painkiller versus vitamin... Foundr Article · ~15 min read · Starting Up Painkillers vs. Vitamins: How to Find Customer Pain Points That Drive Sales Amy Rigby
  20. Waitlists and fake door landing pages are prone to false positives, and this essay names exactly how: broad, outcome-selling... Future Foundry Essay · ~10 min read · Starting Up Why everyone gets fake door tests wrong Jacob Dutton
  21. This piece takes the exact worry you have, that Indians love a free product but won't pay, and pulls it apart with founders who... Elevation Capital Article · ~8 min read · Starting Up Monetization Strategies That Work: Insights from Consumer Tech Founders Team Elevation
  22. Most validation advice tells you to keep talking to users but never tells you when you are done. This piece gives you five... Proof Engine Essay · ~10 min read · Starting Up Build an MVP or Validate First? How to Decide Proof Engine
  23. The honest counter to the comforting story that big competitors prove your market. Boulanger argues competition is at best a... Antoine Boulanger Article · ~10 min read · Starting Up Competition is not market validation Antoine Boulanger
  24. If your product does not fit an existing category, you cannot borrow someone else's market number, so this piece hands you a... Play Bigger Article · ~12 min read · Starting Up What is Category Design in Marketing, and Why is it an Important Strategy? Play Bigger

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