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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.
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Video · ~35 min · Starting Up
How to Pitch Your Startup
Kevin Hale
In 4 answers
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Video · ~5 min · Starting Up
Clay Christensen: The Jobs to be Done Theory (the milkshake example)
Clayton Christensen (HubSpot Marketing)
In 4 answers
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Video · About 25 minutes · Starting Up
Building Product
Michael Seibel
In 4 answers
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Video · 6 min watch · Starting Up
How To Cold Email Investors
Michael Seibel
In 4 answers
- Tom Blomfield's practical framework for pricing when you sell to businesses, including why to charge from the start and how to... Y Combinator Startup Library Video · Starting Up How to Price for B2B (Tom Blomfield, Y Combinator) Tom Blomfield In 4 answers
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Video · 30 min watch · GTM
Building a $5.6B company with a Product-led Flywheel with Postman's CEO Abhinav Asthana
Abhinav Asthana
In 4 answers
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Video · 2 hr watch · GTM
Building a world-class sales org | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)
Lenny Rachitsky and Jason Lemkin
In 4 answers
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Video · 25 min · GTM
Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu on the Long Game, Transnational Localism, and the Future of AI
Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman with Sridhar Vembu
In 4 answers
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Video · ~15 min · Starting Up
Companies That Grow Without Ads (Delta-4 Theory)
Kunal Shah (Founder, CRED)
In 3 answers
- A concise video lecture that walks through the key concepts and mechanics of running a fundraising process, from a YC partner... Y Combinator Startup Library Video · 40 min · Starting Up Fundraising Fundamentals (Startup School) Geoff Ralston In 3 answers
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Video · ~30 min · Starting Up
Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution
Uri Levine
In 3 answers
- Gross ranked hundreds of startups (his own and others') across five factors, and timing came out on top, ahead of team, idea,... TED Video · ~7 min · Starting Up The single biggest reason why start-ups succeed Bill Gross In 3 answers
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Video · ~30 min · Starting Up
Enterprise Sales | Startup School
Pete Koomen
In 3 answers
- Reading about the switch interview is one thing, watching one run live is another. Bob Moesta and Chris Spiek interview an... Business of Software Video · Starting Up Uncovering the Jobs to Be Done (with a live switch interview) Bob Moesta and Chris Spiek In 3 answers
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Video · Talk, roughly 30 minutes · Starting Up
David Rusenko: How To Find Product Market Fit
David Rusenko (Weebly co-founder)
In 3 answers
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Video · ~4 min · Starting Up
The Original Dropbox Demo Video (MVP)
Drew Houston
In 3 answers
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Video · 48 min · Starting Up
How to Build Products Users Love
Kevin Hale
In 3 answers
- YC partner Harj Taggar walks through where co-founders actually come from, when to bring one on, and how to run the search... Y Combinator Startup Library (Harj Taggar) Video · 20 min · Starting Up How to Find the Right Co-Founder Harj Taggar In 3 answers
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Video · 44 min · Starting Up
Refactoring UI (CSS Day 2019 talk)
Steve Schoger
In 3 answers
- A two minute explanation of one of the most practical rules for founders: users spend nearly all their time on other apps, so... Nielsen Norman Group Video · 2 min · Starting Up Jakob's Law of Internet User Experience (video) Jakob Nielsen In 3 answers
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Video · 18 minutes · Starting Up
Design for Startups (Part 1)
Garry Tan
In 3 answers
- Johnson shows that most breakthroughs are slow hunches that sit half-formed for years and combine with other fragments, which... TED (Steven Johnson) Video · 18 min · Starting Up Where good ideas come from Steven Johnson In 3 answers
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Video · 12 min · Starting Up
How VCs Evaluate Startup Timing, featuring Pete Flint at NFX
Pete Flint, NFX
In 3 answers
- Migicovsky built Pebble on hundreds of these conversations, and this lecture is the specific playbook: how to find your first... Y Combinator Library Video · ~50 min · Starting Up How to Start a Startup: Talking to Users Eric Migicovsky In 3 answers
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.
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