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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.
- This is a straight judgment call from Jason Lemkin, who has seen thousands of SaaS pricing pages, on when hiding your price is... SaaStr Essay · 5 min read · Starting Up Dear SaaStr: Why Do So Many B2B Vendors Not Show Prices for Enterprise Plans? Jason Lemkin
- Once you decide to put a price on the page, this is the practical playbook for structuring it so it actually converts. Kyle... OpenView Article · 8 min read · Starting Up Seven Tips to Optimize Your SaaS Pricing Page Kyle Poyar
- This walks through eleven kinds of social proof and, crucially, spells out what you can still show when you have no reviews... MailerLite Article · ~15 min read · Starting Up How to use social proof in landing pages to boost conversion (11 examples) Duncan Elder
- Before traction exists there is a vacuum where evidence should be, and this essay makes the case that a genuine founder... The VC Corner Essay · ~12 min read · Starting Up The Founder's Guide to Startup Storytelling Ruben Dominguez
- Paste your landing page URL and it shows you exactly how the link renders when someone drops it into WhatsApp, Slack, LinkedIn,... OpenGraph.to Tool · Starting Up OpenGraph.to: Free Open Graph Checker and Preview Tool OpenGraph.to
- Most SEO advice assumes you have a live product and months of runway, so it is useless the week before launch. This piece is... Waitlister Article · Starting Up Landing Page SEO: The Complete Guide for Pre-Launch and Waitlist Pages Waitlister
- This is the comparison that actually names the thing you are worried about: with Webflow you can export your site's code and... Zapier Article · About a 15 minute read · Starting Up Framer vs. Webflow: Which is best? Zapier
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Video · Short YouTube comparison · Starting Up
Which Platform Wins? Framer vs Webflow Full Comparison
YouTube
- This one is honest about the hard part: reaching customers in a regional language is not the same as running your English copy... Localazy Article · ~12 min read · Starting Up Localization for the Indian market: reach users from the most populated country on Earth Agnee Ghosh
- If your landing page is on WordPress, Weglot is the most common way to add a language toggle without touching engineering. This... Weglot Tool · ~10 min read · Starting Up How to add a WordPress language switcher (no code) Weglot
- This comes straight from Razorpay, so it is the gateway itself telling you the exact pages it checks before it will activate... Razorpay Article · ~10 min read · Starting Up Payment Gateway Compliance: What Your Website Needs Before You Can Accept Payments Razorpay
- Most naming advice stops at brainstorming, this one is a plain five step sequence for actually checking whether a name is free:... Carry Article · ~10 min read · Starting Up How to Choose a Business Name: A 5-Step Availability Check Jaiya (Carry)
- This is the official government register, so if you are building in India this is where you confirm a name is not already... IP India Tool · varies · Starting Up IP India Trademark Public Search Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (CGPDTM)
- This is a genuinely one-page template you can fill in the same afternoon, in Word, PowerPoint, Google Slides, or PDF, so no... Smartsheet Template · One page, fill in the same day · Starting Up One-Page Brand Guidelines Template (Free) Smartsheet
- This is the piece that put the phrase minimum viable brand into circulation, and it argues the opposite of both extremes: you... Harvard Business Review Article · Short read, roughly 5 minutes · Starting Up Start-Ups Need a Minimum Viable Brand Denise Lee Yohn
- This is the honest counter to the assumption that brand is a consumer, website thing that B2B founders can skip. Salinas argues... IE Insights (IE University) Essay · ~10 min read · Starting Up The Strength of a B2B Is in Its Brand Gabriela Salinas
- If your growth is demos and sales, your brand lives on the deck, not a landing page, and this piece is a concrete teardown of... Dock Article · ~20 min read · Starting Up The 24 Best B2B Sales Deck Examples We Could Find The Dock Team
- The email signature is the brand touchpoint a B2B founder hits dozens of times a day and almost always neglects, which is odd... HubSpot Template · ~5 min to set up · Starting Up Free Email Signature Generator HubSpot
- This is the honest gut-check for the exact problem: a brand that reads as English-first, metro-first, Valley-first while the... afaqs! Article · Starting Up Why brands in India must fall in love with the vernacular Shivaji Dasgupta
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Video · Starting Up
Designing for the Next Billion (Droidcon NYC 2016)
Raveesh Bhalla
- Looking like a generic SaaS is not neutral, it makes you forgettable, and this essay names why that happens and how to climb... Northbound Brand Essay · Starting Up How to Differentiate Your Brand in a Sea of Sameness Samantha Temple Neukom
- This is a short, concrete audit list rather than agency sales copy, and it names the exact amateur signals founders can check... Logoipsum Article · Starting Up 5 Branding Mistakes Startups Make Logoipsum
- Most branding advice is one designer's taste, this is the opposite: a short, research-backed walkthrough from Nielsen Norman... Nielsen Norman Group Video · About 3 minutes · Starting Up Trustworthiness in Web Design: 4 Credibility Factors (Video) Aurora Harley
- A missing or stretched favicon is one of the smallest details that quietly makes a new startup look unfinished, and this tool... RealFaviconGenerator Tool · Starting Up RealFaviconGenerator RealFaviconGenerator
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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