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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.
- Names the roles precisely (end user, champion, economic buyer, influencer, veto power, procurement) so you stop calling... Disciplined Entrepreneurship (MIT) Article · 10 min read · GTM The Decision-Making Unit: The Who-is-Who of Your B2B Sales Process Martin Giese and Matthias Hilpert In 2 answers
- A concrete menu of the events that put an account into a buying window, from job changes to fiscal cycles, which is exactly... UserGems Article · 10 min read · GTM 18 buying triggers for identifying B2B buying cycles UserGems In 2 answers
- The interviewing craft, not the theory: how to open so people feel safe being blunt, how to use five whys past the polite... Klue Article · 14 min read · GTM How to Conduct Win-Loss Interviews: Step-By-Step Guide Klue In 2 answers
- Accel India's three tests for a segment (uniformity, enough size, reachability at a sane acquisition cost) are the cleanest way... SeedToScale Insights (Accel India) Article · 12 min read · GTM Defining Your Market: Choose the right peak before you start climbing the mountain Accel India In 2 answers
- Three real startup homepages taken apart, showing the whole chain from positioning statement to messaging to the actual... MKT1 Newsletter Newsletter · 20 min read · GTM Positioning & messaging teardown, with Anthony Pierri Emily Kramer and Anthony Pierri In 2 answers
- Walks an Indian SaaS team from positioning through story, style guide and proof, with Keka and Chargebee as worked examples... Inc42 Article · 10 min read · GTM Indian SaaS Startups' Guide To Brand Marketing Komal Ahuja In 2 answers
- The operational half of taking on an incumbent: timing outreach to renewal windows, mining review sites for the buyer's own... MarketBetter Article · 22 min read · GTM How to Run a Competitive Displacement Campaign: The Complete Playbook for Winning Deals From Incumbent Vendors MarketBetter Team In 2 answers
- A founder writing up her own repositioning in detail, including naming Intercom and Customer.io directly and landing on a... Userlist Article · 16 min read · GTM How We Used April Dunford's 10-Step Method to Overhaul Positioning at Userlist Jane Portman In 2 answers
- The clearest Indian example of a company outgrowing its own product name and building an umbrella brand over Freshservice,... Forbes India Article · 7 min read · GTM Freshdesk rebrands as Freshworks to reflect bigger business management software ambition Harichandan Arakali In 2 answers
- The clearest single page on the boring setup nobody explains to a first-time sender: why you buy secondary domains, what SPF,... Unify Article · 15 min read · GTM Cold Email in 2026: Domains, Deliverability, Replies Austin Hughes In 2 answers
- The mechanical walkthrough: search filters, what Sales Navigator adds over the free version, how to read a profile before you... HubSpot Article · 18 min read · GTM LinkedIn for Social Selling: How to Research, Prospect, & Sell on Platform Justina Thompson In 2 answers
- Settles the LinkedIn versus email versus phone argument with one team's real logs: 451,895 calls, 149,376 emails, 39,679 booked... Cognism Report · 30 min read · GTM State of Outbound 2026 Cognism In 2 answers
- Shopify's performance marketing lead on channel order (Google search first, LinkedIn reserved for tight B2B targeting because... Lenny's Newsletter Podcast · 75 min listen · GTM The ultimate guide to performance marketing Timothy Davis with Lenny Rachitsky In 2 answers
- Names the six channels B2B companies actually grow on and shows how top companies weight them, which is the frame you need when... Lenny's Newsletter Newsletter · 20 min read · GTM Scaling your B2B growth engine Lenny Rachitsky In 2 answers
- Isford's team found Airtable's aha moment and lifted activation about 20 percent by rebuilding onboarding around it, so this is... Lenny's Podcast Podcast · 64 min · GTM Mastering onboarding | Lauryn Isford (Head of Growth at Airtable) Lauryn Isford with Lenny Rachitsky In 2 answers
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Video · 40 min · GTM
From Outbound to Channel Partnerships: Your Burning Sales Questions Answered by Jason Lemkin
Jason Lemkin
In 2 answers
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Podcast · 26 min · GTM
S6E1 - Product Led Growth ft. Ruchin Kulkarni, Co-founder of Toplyne.io
Ruchin Kulkarni
In 2 answers
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Video · 16 min · GTM
The Ultimate Guide to Cold Email Deliverability in 2025
Instantly
In 2 answers
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Podcast · 45 min · GTM
Getting SaaS pricing right (1/2) - Varun Shoor, Kayako | BTS E14 | SaaSBoomi Podcast
Varun Shoor
In 2 answers
- How ELSS gives you an 80C tax deduction while keeping the money in equity, with the shortest lock in of the 80C options. ClearTax Article · Wealth ELSS tax-saving funds ClearTax In 2 answers
- Hard data: even technical YC founders let AI write 95% of the code. techcrunch.com Article · How Founders Use AI A quarter of YC's cohort have codebases that are almost entirely AI-generated TechCrunch In 2 answers
- India's sharpest business publication on the homegrown vibe-coding wave. the-ken.com Article · How Founders Use AI How SoftBank-backed Emergent is scripting a vibe-coding playbook The Ken In 2 answers
- Lovable's CEO explains exactly who the tool is built for. lennysnewsletter.com Podcast · How Founders Use AI Building Lovable: $10M ARR in 60 days | Anton Osika Lenny's Podcast In 2 answers
- Replit's CEO on the all-in-one build, host, and learn platform. lennysnewsletter.com Podcast · How Founders Use AI Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad Lenny's Podcast In 2 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.
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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