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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 single best plain-English overview for a D2C founder, it ties together registration, place of supply, invoicing, returns... ClearTax Article · D2C GST on Online Sellers of Amazon, Flipkart and Other Ecommerce ClearTax In 5 answers
- The most decision-grade, operator-built playbook we found, SKU-level data and city-by-city war stories across... DSG Consumer Partners Report · D2C Quick Commerce Playbook 2025: What's Driving Growth for Top D2C Brands DSG Consumer Partners x GobbleCube In 5 answers
- Zooms out to the profitability-over-growth shift defining Indian D2C, the mindset you need to evaluate whether a hot channel... Forbes India Article · D2C India's D2C Journey: After Rapid Scale-Up, Why It's Now All About Discipline Forbes India In 5 answers
- The most systematic treatment of recurring revenue as an engineered system rather than a set of departments, with 250+... Winning by Design Book · 556 pages · GTM Revenue Architecture Jacco van der Kooij In 5 answers
- The mistake is not the hire, it is stepping out of sales afterwards, which Lemkin reckons about two thirds of founders do and... SaaStr Article · short read · GTM The #1 Mistake I See Founders Make When They Hire Their First VP of Sales Jason Lemkin In 5 answers
- Freshworks' early marketing approach documented properly: what they measured, what they spent on, and the argument that below... SeedToScale by Accel Article · long read · GTM SaaS Playbook: Marketing Rachit Parekh In 5 answers
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Podcast · 90 min · GTM
2X SaaS Founder: How To Sell Global Tech Products From India | Sharath Narayana
Siddhartha Ahluwalia with Sharath Keshava Narayana
In 5 answers
- The clearest breakdown of the three PQL types (hand-raiser, usage-based, needs-help) and the playbook each one deserves, which... OpenView Article · 15 min read · GTM Your Guide to Product Qualified Leads (PQLs) Kyle Poyar In 5 answers
- Kazanjy is blunt that almost every bottom-up company eventually adds sales, so the only questions are when and how. He covers... Lenny's Newsletter Article · 25 min read · GTM The Transition: Layering sales onto a bottom-up self-serve product Pete Kazanjy In 5 answers
- Twenty onboarding flows torn apart by product category, so you can find the two or three closest to yours instead of copying... Appcues Article · 20 min read · GTM SaaS Onboarding Examples: Lessons from 20+ Top Products Sara Detrik In 5 answers
- Makes the point most first timers miss: channel accelerates growth that already exists, it does not create it, and you should... GTMnow Article · 10 min read · GTM How to Get Started With Channel Partnerships for SaaS Businesses Shubham Sood In 5 answers
- A small company showing its own numbers: their partner manager took the program from under 4% to 10% of revenue in a year on... Close Article · 14 min read · GTM Building a B2B SaaS Partner Program: Our 8-Step Process Amy Copadis In 5 answers
- The actual eligibility bar for co-selling with AWS, in AWS's own words: marketplace listing, ACE eligibility, 5 launched and 15... Amazon Web Services Tool · 10 min read · GTM AWS ISV Accelerate Program Amazon Web Services In 5 answers
- AWS explaining its own co-sell machinery: business planning in Partner Central, partner matching, multi partner deals that... AWS Partner Network Blog Article · 9 min read · GTM Unlocking Synergies: Maximizing Co-Sell Opportunities with AWS Priya Bains In 5 answers
- Published margin bands from an Indian origin company: 10 to 15% referral, 20 to 30% solution provider with deal registration... DQ Channels Article · 9 min read · GTM Freshworks partner program: insights into the evolving channel ecosystem Bharti Trehan In 5 answers
- The cleanest definition of expansion MRR with the formula and the benchmark that matters: top companies get up to 40 percent of... Chargebee Article · 7 min read · GTM Expansion MRR: Definition, Formula, and Impact on SaaS Growth Chargebee In 5 answers
- Nine chapters covering the QBR structure, the common mistakes (generic content, dwelling on the negative) and how to keep... Gainsight Article · 9 chapters · GTM The Essential Guide to Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) Gainsight In 5 answers
- Shows what a productised CS play looks like when written down for a whole team: a named motion, tied to a product stage, with... The GitLab Handbook Article · reference · GTM Customer Success Playbooks The GitLab Handbook In 5 answers
- Roughly 47,000 quota carrying reps across 246 companies, with average attainment at 42.7 percent. The number to put in front of... QuotaPath, using RepVue's Cloud Sales Index Report · 8 min read · GTM 57% of SaaS Sales Reps Missed Quota in Q2 2025. Here's What That Means QuotaPath, using RepVue's Cloud Sales Index In 5 answers
- The practical method for combining top down targets with bottom up rep feedback, and the attainment bell curve to aim for: 60... Everstage Article · 13 min read · GTM Sales Quota Planning: How to Align Targets and Drive Results Arvinda Bharathi In 5 answers
- Defines accuracy against the day one forecast rather than the revised one, which is the single change that makes the metric... Forrester Article · 7 min read · GTM The Definitive Way to Measure and Grade Sales Forecast Accuracy Dana Therrien In 5 answers
- The founders describe coining inbound marketing as an old game versus new game framing, then choosing SMB over enterprise to... Crucible Moments Podcast · 40 min · GTM HubSpot: An Underdog Helps Invent Modern Marketing, and Then Takes on Goliath Sequoia Capital with Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah In 5 answers
- Carries the stat that matters for brand budget arguments: 92 percent of B2B buyers pick a vendor from the list they had on day... Think with Google Article · 8 min read · GTM How India's SaaS brands can create, scale and supercharge global growth Think with Google APAC In 5 answers
- The government-backed way to hold gold that pays interest and skips storage, if you want a small gold allocation without the... ClearTax Article · Wealth Sovereign Gold Bonds ClearTax In 5 answers
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