Understand the job
What go-to-market actually is, the seats in a GTM team, and how people build a career in it.
What founders use for understand the job, ranked by how many answers lean on it.
- Casado's argument that the modern B2B winners combine bottom-up adoption with a sales layer is the clearest framing of why... Andreessen Horowitz Essay · ~15 min read Growth, Sales, and a New Era of B2B Martin Casado
- The most complete plain-language description of what a PMM owns, and it is explicit that positioning and messaging is the... Product Marketing Alliance Article · ~20 min read What is Product Marketing? The 2026 Guide Product Marketing Alliance
- Shows what changes at each level rather than just listing titles, which is what you need if you are trying to work out whether... Product Marketing Alliance Article · ~12 min read The product marketing career path: From Associate to VP Product Marketing Alliance
- The SuperOps founder frames GTM around one question, is your category established or new, which is exactly the fork in the road... Prime Venture Partners Podcast Podcast · ~50 min SaaS Deep Dives: PMF, GTM and Maverick Marketing with Arvind Parthiban Arvind Parthiban
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Podcast · ~60 min
GTM Blueprint for Emerging Markets, Sachin Bhatia Exotel, Founder's Deep Dive E23
Sachin Bhatia
- Sorts SaaS businesses into serve-me, guide-me, show-me and enlighten-me based on product and buying complexity, using... SeedToScale (Accel India) Article · ~12 min read Decoding Buyer Matrix and Buyer Journey for your SaaS business Ankit Agarwal
- The story of an Indian company arriving at a very specific ICP, founder-developers at zero-to-one startups facing a build... SeedToScale (Accel India) Article · ~10 min read How Chargebee Made its First Million Shekhar Kirani
- Girish Mathrubootham built a Nasdaq-listed company from Chennai, and the lesson about betting on people rather than pedigree is... The Works (Freshworks) Article · ~10 min read 7 lessons from building an India-based global SaaS business Vishnu Prasad
- Five GTM bets from an Indian founder who reached $600M+ ARR, including spending $45k early to find which inbound channel would... SaaStr Article · ~10 min read Building A Global SaaS Empire: 5 Bets That Paid Off with Freshworks Founder CEO Girish Mathrubootham Girish Mathrubootham
- Lays out everything that has to change at once, product, pricing, GTM and culture, and warns about the premature pivot that has... productgrowth.in Article · ~15 min read Indian SaaS Moving Upmarket: The SMB to Enterprise Playbook productgrowth.in
- Concrete on the mechanics nobody outside India writes about: INR pricing, UPI AutoPay recurring success rates versus... productgrowth.in Article · ~12 min read SaaS Pricing in India: The Rupee vs Dollar Dilemma productgrowth.in
- Features the former Director of RevOps at Freshworks making the point that in recurring revenue you cannot draw a border... Chargebee Article · ~8 min read Revenue Operations: 3 Nuggets Of Wisdom From RevOps Leaders Sumyukthaa Sankar
- Practical on the first US sales hire, hiring for adaptability rather than a quota record at a big brand, and on testing... Efficient Capital Labs Article · ~10 min read Unlocking the US Market: A Guide for Indian SaaS Founders Efficient Capital Labs
- A four stage maturity model, from payment processing through billing automation and subscription management to full RevOps,... Chargebee Article · ~10 min read The Revenue Operations Evolutionary Framework for SaaS Chargebee
- The clearest definition yet of the role that is quietly reshaping outbound teams, with how Intercom, Canva, Notion and Ramp... Clay Article · long read GTM Engineering: What It Is, How It Works, and How to Hire Mishti Sharma and Varun Anand
- The reference explanation of all eight letters from the people who own the methodology, free to read. Use it as a deal... MEDDICC Article · long read MEDDIC / MEDDPICC Sales Methodology and Process MEDDICC
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Podcast · 90 min listen
2X SaaS Founder: How To Sell Global Tech Products From India
Siddhartha Ahluwalia with Sharath Keshava Narayana
- 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 SaaS Playbook: Sales Rachit Parekh
- Freshworks' early marketing approach documented properly: what they measured, what they spent on, and the argument that below... SeedToScale by Accel Article · long read SaaS Playbook: Marketing Rachit Parekh
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Podcast · Full episode
7 Myths About Selling B2B SaaS In India ft Unicommerce Founder Kapil Makhija
Siddhartha Ahluwalia with Kapil Makhija
- Concrete plays with named examples: Zapier's 70,000 programmatic pages, Airtable's template library, Figma's free editor. This... Lenny's Newsletter Article · 20 min read Product-Led Marketing: How to get traffic and users for your product at a near-$0 CAC Kyle Poyar
- The book that gave most teams their shared vocabulary for this, and the PDF edition is cheap enough to be a rounding error.... ProductLed Book · Book, around 250 pages Product-Led Growth: How to Build a Product That Sells Itself (2nd Edition) Wes Bush
- The clearest short explanation of why market category is one of five interdependent positioning pieces, with a real... aprildunford.com Article · 12 min read A Quickstart Guide to Positioning April Dunford
- What changes in your story when a developer loved product has to be sold to a CIO who has never heard of you. Directly relevant... Heavybit Video · 35 min Moving into the Enterprise: Fireside with Postman's Founder and CEO Adam Gross with Abhinav Asthana
The questions
What GTM actually is 16
The job behind the acronym: how a product finds, wins and keeps customers, and who does what.
What does 'go to market' actually mean? People say GTM constantly and I still cannot define it.
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I am a founder and I have never sold anything in my life. Where do I actually start?
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How do I tell whether our GTM is genuinely working or we just got lucky with a few deals?
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What is the real difference between product-led, sales-led and everything in between, and which one are we?
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When do I stop selling myself and hire the first person, and what kind of person should that be?
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GTM roles and career paths 16
SDR, AE, AM, growth, product marketing, RevOps, sales leadership: what each one really does and how people move between them.
SDR, AE, AM, growth, PMM, RevOps: what do these people actually do all day?
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I want to start a GTM career in India but I have zero sales experience. What is the realistic first job?
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I have been an SDR for about 18 months. How do I actually make the jump to AE?
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I am the first GTM hire at a startup. What is my job really, and how do I not get fired in 12 months?
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How do I decide which GTM roles to hire, and in what order?
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All 16 questions in GTM roles and career paths →
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