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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 · 40 min · GTM
SaaSBoomi Fireside chat with Ritesh Arora, co-founder and CEO of BrowserStack
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Video · 50 min · GTM
B2B SaaS Positioning with Anthony Pierri
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- Cohen names the exact trap a broke founder falls into: running the same tactics as a million other companies and being... A Smart Bear Essay · 15 min read · GTM If you build it, they won't come, unless… Jason Cohen
- It lays out five stages from pre revenue to scaling and tells you what the founder's job is in each one, which is the clearest... Euclid Insights Article · 10 min read · GTM The Truth About Founder-Led Sales Euclid Ventures
- Pai splits PMF into product to problem fit and then motion to market fit, and that second half is exactly what founders mean... sajithpai.com Essay · 40 min read · GTM PMF Playbook: Chapter I, Understanding PMF Sajith Pai
- This is the piece that explains why your CRM looks empty while your product is spreading: developers evaluate in Discord,... Common Room Article · 12 min read · GTM Selling to developers: how to bring devs to the buying table Eric Wendt
- Built from interviews with the founders of Heroku, LaunchDarkly, Netlify, CircleCI, Fastly and Tailscale, so it is the... Heavybit Article · 16 min read · GTM How to Launch a Dev-First Startup: First Principles Andrew Park
- Balfour ran growth at HubSpot and later founded Reforge, and this is still the cleanest statement of why a growth team needs... brianbalfour.com Essay · 10 min read · GTM Growth vs Marketing vs Product Brian Balfour
- This is the actual five step recipe for turning open ended consulting into one fixed offer you can sell repeatedly: research... jonathanstark.com Template · 10 min read · GTM Productized Service Creation Process Jonathan Stark
- Morgan's whole subject is the exact fear that keeps agency founders generalist: that narrowing will shrink the pipeline. He... Philip Morgan Consulting Book · Book, about 130 pages · GTM The Positioning Manual for Technical Firms Philip Morgan
- One page, one fill in the blank sentence: I am a DISCIPLINE who helps TARGET MARKET with EXPENSIVE PROBLEM, unlike competitors... jonathanstark.com Article · 6 min read · GTM Crystalizing Your Specialization Jonathan Stark
- The clearest account of the choice at the heart of Indian marketplace GTM: matchmaking versus full stack. It shows what Urban... Tigerfeathers Article · 30 min read · GTM A Spotlight on Urban Company Paavan Gami
- It gives you a four part test (autonomy, reasoning, tool use, memory) to tell a real agent from a renamed feature, which is the... Mutiny Article · 20 min read · GTM The best AI agents for B2B sales in 2026: What's real vs. hype Matt Ratchford
- Vembu built a global software company from Tenkasi with no outside funding, and this interview is him explaining the structural... Dataquest India Article · 12 min read · GTM Zoho's Unconventional Path: Building a Global Tech Giant from India's Heartland Aanchal Ghatak
- You cannot take a motion apart without numbers to compare against, and this has them: 9 percent average free to paid, freemium... ProductLed Report · 15 min read · GTM Product-Led Growth Benchmarks: Key SaaS Findings and Trends Laura Kluz
- Gross ran Heroku's self serve business and later led Duo and Vimeo, so this is someone describing the machine from the inside... Heavybit Video · 40 min watch · GTM Building Self-Serve Go-to-Market with Adam Gross Adam Gross
- Written by someone who went from Java developer to AppDynamics to Solutions Architect at AWS with no prior sales experience, so... Sales Engineers of New York Article · 8 min read · GTM Transitioning from a Software Engineer to a Sales Engineer Akshat Srivastava
- A career switcher's biggest problem is not knowing what the ladder even looks like, and this lays out the whole thing from SDR... Break Into Tech Sales Article · 14 min read · GTM Tech Sales Career Path Explained: SDR, AE, and Beyond Cole Feldman
- Six of the ten roles most in demand at AI companies are technical (sales engineer, forward deployed engineer, solutions... Betts Recruiting Article · 8 min read · GTM Top 10 GTM Roles in AI for 2026 The Betts Team
- It reduces the whole decision to one honest axis, training versus autonomy, and then argues plainly for training first. That is... Break Into Tech Sales Article · 9 min read · GTM The Difference Between Sales At A Startup Vs. A Large Corporation Cole Feldman
- Included deliberately as the other side of the argument: immediate responsibility, promotion by results rather than tenure, and... Betts Recruiting Article · 6 min read · GTM Pros of Working in Startup Tech Sales The Betts Team
- It says the quiet part out loud: at seed to Series A quotas are often loosely set and moved around, at growth stage they are... The Seller Report Article · 12 min read · GTM Sales Quota Expectations by Role and Company Stage Rome Thorndike
- This is the diligence checklist itself, grouped into territory health, product market fit, financial health, leadership and... The Virtual CRO Article · 12 min read · GTM How to evaluate a sales job before you accept an offer Casey Murray
- Shorter and blunter than a full diligence list, and it focuses on the comp plan itself: how pay is actually calculated and what... QuotaPath Article · 8 min read · GTM What you need to know about a company before accepting a sales job QuotaPath
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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Glossary
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