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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.
- The launch report on Indus: typed or spoken questions with text and audio answers, and the limits it shipped with. techcrunch.com Article · How Founders Use AI India's Sarvam launches Indus AI chat app as competition heats up TechCrunch In 2 answers
- A hands-on first look at Indus answering spoken Hindi, Malayalam and Gujarati questions in the same language. businesstoday.in Article · How Founders Use AI Indus by Sarvam: A first look at India's homegrown AI chat app built for local languages Business Today In 2 answers
- A study of real health messages in five Indian languages and Nepali, finding models handle romanized text up to 24 points worse... arxiv.org Article · How Founders Use AI Script Gap: Evaluating LLM Triage on Indian Languages in Native vs Romanized Scripts in a Real World Setting arXiv (research paper) In 2 answers
- A 2026 benchmark showing models follow instructions less well as messages mix more English into Indian languages written in... arxiv.org Article · How Founders Use AI Indi-RomCoM: Code-Mixed Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs on Romanized Indic-English Instructions arXiv (research paper) In 2 answers
- Reports AI4Bharat and Josh Talks' Voice of India test of speech recognition across 15 languages and many dialects, with error... thehindubusinessline.com Article · How Founders Use AI OpenAI, Meta speech models struggle with Indian languages The Hindu BusinessLine In 2 answers
- A free, author-written summary of the positioning framework for founders who want the core idea before buying the book, perfect... aprildunford.com Article · ~8 min read · Starting Up My Positioning Book 'Obviously Awesome' Launches Today April Dunford
- A genuinely India-tailored guide with INR pricing, DPDPA 2023 compliance, Razorpay/Cashfree/Setu wiring, and a decision tree... productgrowth.in Article · ~20 min read · Starting Up Bubble for Indian Founders, 2026 Guide Product Growth (India)
- Directly answers the scoping question non-technical founders wrestle with, build in-house vs. outsource, backed by patterns... YC Startup Library Article · ~10 min read · Starting Up Does Your Tech Startup Really Need a Technical Co-Founder? (Yes) Y Combinator
- India-specific advice written by an Indian technical founder, addressing the real competition for engineering talent in the... Inc42 Article · ~10 min read · Starting Up How Can Indian Startups Hire The Right Technical Talent Parminder Singh (Hansel.io)
- The canonical PM-community reference on choosing what to build next, from the most-read product newsletter. A pragmatic... Lenny's Newsletter Article · ~15 min read · Starting Up Prioritizing Lenny Rachitsky
- A rare, concrete breakdown of the operating rhythm high-velocity product teams use to ship and iterate consistently. Useful... Reforge Article · ~18 min read · Starting Up Rethinking Your Operating Cadence Fareed Mosavat & Casey Winters
- The best-known framework for structuring a message as a story where the customer is the hero, practical templates you can apply... Amazon / HarperCollins Leadership Book · Book (~240 pages) · Starting Up Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen Donald Miller
- Watching a pro rewrite real, messy landing pages teaches copywriting faster than any theory, free, concrete, before-and-after... Marketing Examples Article · 10 min read · Starting Up Landing page rewrites with a pro copywriter Harry Dry & Annie Maguire
- The official companion site for Traction, summarizing the Bullseye framework for founders who want the method without reading... Traction (companion resource) Article · ~10 min read · Starting Up How to plan and test distribution channels (Bullseye method) DuckDuckGo / Gabriel Weinberg
- The most influential framework for why growth feels effortless for some companies and impossible for others; essential reading... brianbalfour.com Article · Multi-part essay series · Starting Up Four Fits for $100M+ Growth Brian Balfour
- The practitioner's manual for running a high-tempo growth process, testing acquisition, activation, retention and referral,... Currency / Penguin Random House Book · Book (~320 pages) · Starting Up Hacking Growth Sean Ellis & Morgan Brown
- A grounded look at how Indian D2C brands handle acquisition, rising CACs, social commerce and repeat purchase, with real... Inc42 Article · ~15 min read (playbook intro) · Starting Up Inside India's D2C Rush (Inc42+ Playbook) Inc42 Team
- The definitive India-focused profile of Zoho's decades-long bootstrapping journey, told through Sridhar Vembu's decisions.... yourstory.com Article · long-form article · Starting Up The Turning Point: How Sridhar Vembu-led Zoho Bootstrapped to a Global SaaS Giant YourStory
- Crowd-sourced, battle-tested tactics from Lenny's operator community specifically for the solo-founder procrastination problem,... lennysnewsletter.com Article · medium · Starting Up Community Wisdom: Beating the Solo-Founder Procrastination Trap Lenny Rachitsky
- A practical, founder-written primer on the money side of going full-time, how to think about your own finances so a lean... Hampton (joinhampton.com) Article · ~2,500 words · Starting Up Personal Finance for Startup Founders Dylan Eastwood & Ankur Nagpal
- A government-published, startup-specific walkthrough of how public procurement works, tenders, GeM, exemptions, and the process... startupindia.gov.in Article · guide (PDF, ~1 MB) · Starting Up Startup Guide to Public Procurement (Official PDF) Startup India / Invest India
- Torres lays out a clean ladder for testing willingness to pay without waiting to finish the product: ask about past spending,... Product Talk Essay · ~10 min read · Starting Up Ask Teresa: How Can You Test a Customer's Willingness to Pay? Teresa Torres
- Before you write a line of code, you can test whether a marketplace has a pulse by matching the first buyers and sellers... Learning Loop Article · ~10 min read · Starting Up Concierge MVP: run your marketplace by hand before you build it Learning Loop
- This is the cleanest statement of why a big waitlist number can fool you: it only ever goes up, and joining costs a person... whoisnnamdi.com Article · ~8 min read · Starting Up Waitlists are a Vanity Metric Nnamdi Iregbulem
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