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The resources go-to-market people actually use.

Every article, video, podcast and book behind 352 answered go-to-market questions, from breaking in to running the team, in one place, each with a note on why it is here.

What founders use most, ranked by how many answers lean on it.

  1. Twenty four minutes on what building an audience from India actually looked like: started in 2018 knowing nothing about... The Neon Show Podcast · 24 min listen Podcasting to Investing: breakdown of our journey Nansi Mishra and Siddhartha Ahluwalia
  2. Jason Lemkin ran the experiment rather than predicting it: ten SDRs and AEs replaced by 20 agents and 1.2 humans. Worth it for... Lenny's Podcast Podcast · 90 min listen We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents, here's what happened Lenny Rachitsky
  3. Two things you will not hear elsewhere: get pricing right before ten million dollars of revenue because after that even minor... Prime Venture Partners Podcast Podcast · 45 min listen Ashu Garg, General Partner Foundation Capital on Enterprise Software Mega Trends, GTM Strategy and Pricing as an Evolving Process Shripati Acharya
  4. Kiran Darisi (Atomicwork) and Sreedhar Peddineni (GTMBuddy), both out of the Freshworks lineage, on why per seat pricing stops... The Neon Show Podcast · 80 min listen If Big AI Goes Everywhere, What's Left for B2B SaaS? 25 Years, 4 Startups, 3 Eras of SaaS Siddhartha Ahluwalia
  5. The second S-curve is the part most retellings skip. Once existing WhatsApp resellers ran out, the pitch changed to starting a... The Neon Show Podcast · About 60 min Vidit Aatrey, Founder & CEO, Meesho Vidit Aatrey
  6. The definitive first customers account: guest posts with publication specific beta invite codes, 4,000 dollars in month one,... The SaaS Podcast Podcast · About 49 min From Guest Blogging to $8M ARR with SaaS Content Marketing Paras Chopra
  7. The richest India origin account of moving from founder led selling to a sales organisation, with the actual price ladder, the... The SaaS Podcast Podcast · About 54 min 7 Steps to SaaS Go-to-Market Fit After Product-Market Fit Khadim Batti
  8. Batti on category creation and building a global go to market flywheel from Bengaluru while targeting US buyers from the very... Indian Silicon Valley with Jivraj Singh Sachar Podcast · 49 min E115 - Mastering Global GTM w/Whatfix's Khadim Batti Khadim Batti
  9. The research that came before the product is quantified here: 80 plus customer interviews, more than 200 hours of recorded... The Founder Thesis Podcast Podcast · Long-form interview The Architect of Onboarding: Srikrishnan Ganesan and the Rise of Rocketlane Srikrishnan Ganesan
  10. The honest sequel: why the inbound playbook that worked at launch had to be abandoned for outbound and in person selling once... SaaS Scaling Secrets Podcast · About 42 min Ditching Traditional SaaS Playbooks with Sri Ganesan, CEO of Rocketlane Srikrishnan Ganesan
  11. Where the motion came from: the Ola number masking call, 350 inbound SMBs at 10 to 15 a month, the rupee pricing experiments,... The Neon Show Podcast · 59 min Exotel, SaaS startup serving clients like Ola, Swiggy, Zerodha Shivakumar Ganesan
  12. The useful half is where Simons says the model breaks and enterprise advocates became necessary, which stops this being read as... Inside Intercom Podcast · About 30 min How Atlassian built a $20 billion company with a unique sales model Jay Simons
  13. This is the segment selection episode: the rabbits and elephants analogy, fewer than 1,000 merchants at Series A, and why 20... Prime Venture Partners Podcast Podcast · Podcast episode with full transcript Razorpay's Journey From a Small Startup to a Big Brand with Co-Founder and CEO Harshil Mathur Harshil Mathur
  14. A slide by slide walk through the actual 2014 deck, which had no founder slide and won on problem clarity, useful if you are... SeedToScale by Accel Podcast · Podcast episode Breaking Down Razorpay's Original Pitch With Harshil Mathur Harshil Mathur
  15. Figma's first go to market hire walks the whole arc from stealth to monetisation, including how the bottom up motion eventually... Lenny's Podcast Podcast · About 1 hr An inside look at Figma's unique GTM motion | Claire Butler (first GTM hire) Claire Butler
  16. Kramer talking through when to hire, why to start with a generalist, and why product marketer and growth marketer are genuinely... Lenny's Podcast Podcast · About 1 hr How to build a powerful marketing machine | Emily Kramer (Asana, Carta, MKT1) Emily Kramer
  17. An anti-pattern list is more useful than another list of tactics, and this one includes the 18 month model refresh and the... Lenny's Podcast Podcast · About 1 hr 10 growth tactics that never work | Elena Verna (Amplitude, Miro, Dropbox, SurveyMonkey) Elena Verna
  18. Krish names all four pricing mistakes rather than the tidy version, and this is where pricing is your strongest lead filter... The SaaS Podcast Podcast · Podcast episode SaaS Subscription Billing Lessons from Chargebee's Journey Krish Subramanian
  19. The contrarian half: he argues public pricing pages are overrated and worth experimenting against, which is worth hearing... SaaStr Podcast · Podcast episode SaaStr Podcast #203: Krish Subramanian, Founder & CEO @ Chargebee on Why Every Startup Should Bootstrap At Some Stage Krish Subramanian
  20. Where the profitability argument and the people buy from people line come from, along with his honest read on why Indian SaaS... The Neon Show Podcast · 93 min B2B SaaS Founders Turned VCs Discuss Indian Software Startups | Manav Garg Manav Garg
  21. The concrete deal sizes behind the theory, and the clearest illustration of domain fluency as a moat: he could speak commodity... The Founder Thesis Podcast Podcast · Long-form interview From Coffee Trader to $250M VC: Manav Garg, Together Fund Manav Garg
  22. Two ideas you can use immediately: category names come before company names, and reading acquisition news as the purchase of a... Lochhead on Marketing Podcast · Short episode 025 Category Creation & Category Design: A New Lens On Business Christopher Lochhead
  23. Podcast · Long-form interview Christopher Lochhead, Friend to the Different, Category Design, Author & Pirate, Arrr Christopher Lochhead
  24. The updated segment sizes plus the caveat that matters most for planning: consumption growth is not income growth, so a rising... Ideas of India, Mercatus Center Podcast · Podcast episode with transcript Sajith Pai Unpacks the 2024 Indus Valley Annual Report and the Changing Indian Consumer Sajith Pai

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Questions for where you are

The same question means something different in your first week and your fifth year, so each is written for one of four levels.

1 Breaking into GTM Just starting You are trying to land your first GTM role, or you are a founder selling for the first time. Start with what the job actually is. 84 2 Doing the work 2 to 5 years in You run the motion day to day. The questions here are about making it repeatable instead of lucky. 86 3 Leading a GTM team Running the engine You hire, ramp, and own the number. The questions here are about building an engine that works without you in every deal. 88 4 How the best do it The high bar Teardowns of how specific companies actually did it, and the judgment calls great operators make that nobody writes down. 94

Playbooks

A goal, and the route through it a step at a time.

Get your first ten customers No brand, no referrals, no budget. Work out who to talk to, what to say, and how to close. 4 steps Hire and ramp your first rep Stop being the only person who can sell it, without setting fire to a year of runway. 4 steps Fix a pipeline that stalled Deals are sitting, the number is slipping, and nobody can say exactly why. Diagnose it in order. 4 steps Take an Indian product to the world Sell to the US or the Gulf from Bengaluru or Chennai, and be trusted doing it. 5 steps Price and package it Pick a first price, then change it later without losing the customers you have. 4 steps Launch a self-serve motion Let people buy without talking to anyone, and make the product do the selling. 4 steps Stop churn and grow accounts The revenue you don't have to win twice is the cheapest revenue you will ever get. 3 steps Break into a GTM career Work out which seat you want, then get good enough at the craft to be hired into it. 4 steps

The people behind the resources

91 GTM leaders and practitioners, with what each one is known for and where they publish. Some of them have spoken at eChai gatherings.

April Dunford Toronto
The person most B2B teams learn positioning from, and the author of Obviously Awesome and Sales Pitch She turns positioning from a vague branding exercise into a repeatable exercise: list your true competitive alternatives, isolate the features only you have, work out the value those unlock, and name the market segment that cares most. Her Sales Pitch work is the rare material that connects that positioning to the actual words a rep says on a call. PositioningICPSales processCategory design
Pete Kazanjy Atrium · San Francisco
Author of Founding Sales, the handbook that popularised founder led sales Founding Sales is the most concrete text available on the exact stretch most founders get wrong: your first 10 customers, your first rep, and the handoff between the two. He is unusually specific about call structure, discovery questions, and what a founder should measure before hiring anyone into sales. Sales processOutboundGTM hiringEnterprise sales
Jason Lemkin SaaStr · San Francisco
Founder of SaaStr, the largest body of public writing on scaling B2B SaaS revenue He answers the operational questions almost nobody publishes numbers for: when to hire your first VP of Sales, what a rep should actually close, how long ramp really takes, and why most VP hires fail in the first 90 days. Read him for benchmarks and hiring sequencing rather than for strategy. GTM hiringEnterprise salesSales processPricing
Kyle Poyar Growth Unhinged · Boston
Writes Growth Unhinged, the working reference on product led growth, pricing and packaging He publishes the actual benchmarks and teardowns behind PLG rather than the theory: free to paid conversion rates by category, what usage based pricing does to net revenue retention, and how specific companies structured their packaging. His pricing work is the strongest public material on changing a price without breaking your funnel. PLGPricingInbound & contentRetention & expansion
Emily Kramer MKT1 · San Francisco
Writes MKT1, the reference on how an early B2B startup should actually build marketing She writes the thing almost nobody else does: what the first marketing hire should actually do in what order, how to scope the role, and how to tell a growth marketer from a product marketer when you have budget for exactly one. Her templates and org charts are directly usable rather than illustrative. PositioningInbound & contentGTM hiringICP
Sunil Neurgaonkar Adopt AI · Bengaluru
Host of SaaS Sessions, India's longest running SaaS podcast, and a working field and community marketer He is one of the few India based GTM people publishing at the practitioner altitude rather than the CEO altitude: what a first growth hire actually does in month one, how field marketing and events convert in Indian SaaS, and what a lean team runs instead of a paid budget. The podcast archive doubles as a decade long record of how Indian SaaS GTM changed. CommunityInbound & contentICPPartnerships
Prasanna Krishnamoorthy Upekkha · Bengaluru
Managing Partner at Upekkha and one of the clearest voices on capital efficient SaaS GTM from India He works with dozens of early Indian SaaS founders at the same time, so his public material is grounded in patterns rather than one company's story: how to pick a wedge ICP, what a founder should personally close before hiring, and where India based teams typically stall selling into the US. His framing of efficiency as a GTM choice, not a constraint, is the useful contrarian bit. ICPPositioningPricingSales process
Sajith Pai Blume Ventures · Bengaluru
Author of the Indus Valley Report and the India1, India2, India3 market segmentation most India GTM plans now borrow from If you are sizing an Indian market, he is the source that stops you from multiplying 1.4 billion by a conversion rate. India1, India2, India3 forces an honest answer on who can actually pay you, and the Indus Valley Report gives you the underlying numbers to argue with. ICPPositioningCategory designPricing
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