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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.
- The single clearest explanation of the two documents Indian founders confuse: the founders' agreement (equity, vesting, roles,... EquityList Article · 15 min read · Starting Up Founders' Agreement: Definition, Key Clauses, and Template for Indian Startups EquityList In 8 answers
- A one page template that forces you to write down the problem, the customer, and why you are placed to solve it, all on a... leanfoundry.com Template · one page · Starting Up Lean Canvas Ash Maurya In 8 answers
- A hands-on companion to The Mom Test with more structure on who to talk to and how to run the process. Alvarez is strong on... Cindy Alvarez Book · ~240 pages · Starting Up Lean Customer Development Cindy Alvarez In 8 answers
- A founder-friendly crash course on planning and running discovery interviews, with tactics from researchers at Zoom, Zapier,... First Round Review Article · 20 min read · Starting Up A UX Research Crash Course for Founders Jane Davis In 8 answers
- Consumer PMF advice does not map cleanly onto B2B, where deals are few, considered, and slow, which describes many Indian... Lenny's Newsletter Article · ~3,000 words · Starting Up A guide for finding product-market fit in B2B Lenny Rachitsky In 8 answers
- If you would rather hear the Pattern Breakers thinking as a conversation, this episode covers it with concrete stories and... Lenny's Podcast (lennysnewsletter.com) Podcast · ~90 min · Starting Up Pattern Breakers: How to find a great startup idea Lenny Rachitsky with Mike Maples Jr. In 8 answers
- Hall's book gives you the research discipline behind good interviewing: how to avoid leading a witness, how to write a... A Book Apart / Erika Hall Book · ~120 pages · Starting Up Just Enough Research Erika Hall In 8 answers
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Podcast · ~85 min · GTM
Building a world-class sales org
Jason Lemkin
In 8 answers
- This is where the SDR and AE split came from, and the summary gives you the whole model without the book. The rule that no AE... Predictable Revenue Article · ~15 min read · GTM 15-Minute Summary of Predictable Revenue Aaron Ross In 8 answers
- Built from a masterclass with Mohit Garg, former CRO at MindTickle, and written for cross-border companies selling from India,... SeedToScale by Accel Article · long read · GTM SaaS Playbook: Sales Rachit Parekh In 8 answers
- The benchmark dataset for marketplace and co-sell: multi cloud sellers at 29% of revenue through marketplaces versus 3% for... Tackle Report · 25 min read · GTM The 2025 State of Cloud GTM Report Tackle In 8 answers
- The Gainsight CEO on why CS should own an NDR number rather than just a churn number, including the idea of giving every CSM... Gainsight Article · 8 min read · GTM 8 Things I Learned from Dave Kellogg About Net Dollar Retention Nick Mehta In 8 answers
- Ten specific, named mistakes rather than principles, including hiring a VP of Sales too early and letting a bad rep linger past... SaaStr Podcast · 30 min listen · GTM SaaStr Podcast #379: The Top 10 Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring Their First Sales Team Jason Lemkin In 8 answers
- The clearest arithmetic anywhere on rep economics: the rule of 10 for quota against base, four months to productivity, draws... Craft Ventures Essay · 12 min read · GTM Simple Math to Set Up a Sales Team David Sacks In 8 answers
- How to give Gemini an ongoing task on a schedule, such as watching prices or pulling cited research into a file, which is the... support.google.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Manage your tasks & workflows in Gemini Apps Google In 8 answers
- The fastest path from a spreadsheet to a polished mobile or internal app, used by 100k+ companies. When your data lives in... glideapps.com Tool · platform · Starting Up Glide, Apps From Spreadsheets Glide In 7 answers
- David Skok's For Entrepreneurs work is the foundational, near-universally cited source on SaaS unit economics and modeling.... forentrepreneurs.com Article · long-form reference · Starting Up SaaS Metrics 2.0, Detailed Definitions David Skok In 7 answers
- A focused a16z piece on the single ratio that most captures a business's efficiency and drives its valuation. Great for... a16z.com Article · article · Starting Up Why Do Investors Care So Much About LTV:CAC? Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) In 7 answers
- The definitive book on how VC deals really work, written by two Foundry Group VCs. It demystifies the term sheet term-by-term... Wiley Book · book (~300 pages) · Starting Up Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson In 7 answers
- The largest and most credible free co-founder matching platform in the world, with vetted founders and 100,000+ matches made.... ycombinator.com Tool · Free platform, ongoing · Starting Up Y Combinator Co-Founder Matching Y Combinator In 7 answers
- CB Insights read hundreds of real startup postmortems and found that poor product-market fit (around 43 percent) is the single... CB Insights Article · ~15 min read · Starting Up The Top 12 Reasons Startups Fail CB Insights In 7 answers
- Seibel's whole point is that a market only counts once real customers are grabbing the product as fast as you can make it and... Michael Seibel (Y Combinator) Essay · ~4 min read · Starting Up The Real Product Market Fit Michael Seibel In 7 answers
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Video · ~10 min · Starting Up
How to get your first ten customers
Michael Seibel
In 7 answers
- An Indian founder who actually built and scaled a SaaS business at home talks bluntly about pricing, instead of a generic... The Neon Show Podcast · Starting Up 7 Myths About Selling B2B SaaS In India (ft. Unicommerce founder Kapil Makhija) Siddhartha Ahluwalia (host), Kapil Makhija (guest) In 7 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
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