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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 · ~10 min · Starting Up
Instant Form Ads Vs Landing Pages... Which Is Better?
Konstantin
- This is Meta's own documentation for the click-to-WhatsApp ad, the exact entry point a lot of Indian founders lean on because... Meta for Developers Tool · Reference doc · Starting Up Ads that Click to WhatsApp: Marketing API Documentation Meta
- This is the cleanest answer to the exact question of how to divide cold and warm budgets when you are just starting. It gives... Demand Curve Article · ~10 min read · Starting Up Prospecting and Retargeting Campaigns Demand Curve
- Before you obsess over the exact split, it helps to see why prospecting and retargeting exist at all and where each one sits in... Demand Curve Essay · ~8 min read · Starting Up Why social ads break the traditional funnel (Growth Newsletter #303) Demand Curve
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Video · About 40 to 50 minutes · Starting Up
Facebook Ads FULL Tutorial & Course for Beginners
Ben Heath
- This is the practical, step-by-step way to actually get tracking live before you spend a rupee: deploying the Meta Pixel and... Analytics Mania Tool · About 30 to 40 minutes to work through · Starting Up How to Install Meta Pixel with Google Tag Manager Julius Fedorovicius
- This is the rare piece that actually answers the question you asked, is the creator deal really cheaper, instead of quoting a... Sagum Article · about 12 minute read · Starting Up Influencer Marketing vs Digital Ads: The Real Cost Analysis Sagum
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Video · short YouTube tutorial · Starting Up
How to Track Influencer Marketing Sales and Conversions Using Google Analytics
YouTube creator (channel shown on the video page)
- Most influencer content is agency sales copy, so we picked an Indian D2C conversation where the guests run an influencer... Stellaris Venture Partners Podcast · podcast episode · Starting Up D2C Dialogues #2: Influencer marketing as a performance channel Stellaris Venture Partners (with Apaksh Gupta, One Impression, and Sarvesh Shashi, Sarva)
- This is a plain, practical breakdown of the three reasons Meta accounts actually get banned (policy violations, security flags,... Dancing Chicken Media Article · About a 10 minute read · Starting Up How to Prevent Meta Ad Account Bans Dancing Chicken Media
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Video · Short walkthrough video · Starting Up
How To NEVER Get A Disabled Facebook Ad Account In 2025
YouTube
- If you are going to structure your account safely from day one, start from Meta's own instructions rather than a third party's... Meta Business Help Center Tool · Reference help article · Starting Up Create a Business Portfolio in Meta Business Suite Meta
- Most advice treats camera fear as a mindset problem, but the discomfort is often physical, and this piece meets you there. It... Descript Video · Starting Up How to overcome your fear of being on camera Brenton Zola
- Before you force yourself in front of a camera you dread, it is worth asking whether you truly need to be there, and this piece... ZoomSphere Article · Starting Up Faceless Content: How to Build a Personal Brand (Without Showing Your Face) Amanda Ryan
- If the stumbling and losing your place is what makes filming feel awful, a teleprompter removes most of it, and this one is the... Teleprompter.com Tool · Starting Up Teleprompter.com Teleprompter.com
- This is the rare piece that treats the exact judgment call in the question instead of just cheerleading for personal branding.... Cultmethod Essay · ~12 min read · Starting Up Personal Brand vs. Business Brand (and the Secret Third Option): When to Choose Each Jon Persson
- This one names the failure mode the question is really worried about: an audience that follows you, not your product, and never... SUCCESS Article · ~8 min read · Starting Up The Personal Brand Trap Most Founders Never See Coming SUCCESS staff
- Most advice tells you to build in public without showing you what a non salesy post actually looks like, and this piece fixes... ravah.app Article · ~15 min read · Starting Up 27 Build in Public Post Ideas for Founders (With Examples) Usama
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Video · ~10 min · Starting Up
How to Sell Without Being Salesy
Marie Forleo
- This is a plain, numbered checklist of the exact errors most founders repeat in their first weeks of posting: pitching the... DotSimple Article · Starting Up The 9 Most Common Content Mistakes on LinkedIn That Founders Should Avoid DotSimple
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Video · Starting Up
How to grow on LinkedIn with this 3 step system
Justin Welsh
- Founders guess at what worked because LinkedIn's own numbers are thin and vanish quickly. AuthoredUp keeps a history of your... AuthoredUp Tool · Starting Up AuthoredUp: LinkedIn post analytics and formatting for creators AuthoredUp
- Before you worry about sounding different online, this teaches you to sound clear, and clarity is where a real voice starts.... Harper Collins / Google Books Book · 336 pages · Starting Up On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction William Zinsser
- Instead of one more listicle of voice tips, this is working writers walking through how their own voice actually formed, mess... Apple Podcasts Podcast · Ongoing series, roughly hour-long episodes · Starting Up How I Write (podcast) David Perell
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.
How Founders Use AI
How founders actually put AI to work, mapped topic by topic.
Glossary
Plain-language definitions of the startup and VC terms you'll hit.
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