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The resources go-to-market people actually use.
Every article, video, podcast and book behind 359 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.
- The market you are pricing into, in numbers from 240 companies, so your pricing debate stops being two people's opinions about... Growth Unhinged Report · About 12 min read The state of B2B monetization in 2025 Kyle Poyar
- The 8 percent median and the full distribution across 200 B2B products, which tells you fast whether your filter is too loose... Growth Unhinged Report · About 10 min read A new look at free-to-paid conversion Kyle Poyar
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Video · Talk
The Sales Acceleration Formula | Mark Roberge | Talks at Google
Mark Roberge
- This is where the numbers live: the rep churn targets, the 25 percent attrition buffer he plans for, and why he will not let a... SaaStr Article · About 20 min read Sales AMA with Mark Roberge: Your Burning Questions Answered (Video + Transcript) Mark Roberge
- Six named failure modes including his Sustainable Moat Test, plus the promotion trap that catches almost every first time sales... SaaStr Article · About 12 min read The Most Common SaaS Sales Potholes and How to Avoid Them with Mark Roberge (Podcast #498 and Video) Mark Roberge
- The source text for the hiring, training and demand generation formulas, worth owning if you are the person who has to build a... Wiley Book · Book The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100 Million Mark Roberge
- 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
- 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
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Video · Interview
India SaaS Story - Manav Garg (CE) & Founder, Eka) | Fundraising | Hiring | Going from 0 - 1
Manav Garg
- The densest short read on the model: the 76 percent category king number, the Magic Triangle, and the full seven step category... The Marketing Journal Article · About 12 min read "Play Bigger: The How and Why of Category Design" - An Interview with Christopher Lochhead Christopher Lochhead
- 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
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Video · Short explainer
Christopher Lochhead on What It Means to Be a Category King
Christopher Lochhead
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Podcast · Long-form interview
Christopher Lochhead, Friend to the Different, Category Design, Author & Pirate, Arrr
Christopher Lochhead
- The canonical essay, and the one that actually spells out different discovery and monetisation playbooks per segment rather... sajithpai.com Essay · About 28 min read The Indus Valley Playbook Sajith Pai
- 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
- How the report is actually assembled and what the 2024 edition covers, which is the usable route in given the report's own home... Sajith Pai's Newsletter Newsletter · About 10 min read Indus Valley Report Reminiscences, Strategy, Tokyo Trains, and Birkin Bags Sajith Pai
- It contains the single cleanest proof of the no US sales team claim: the first paying customer was Atwell College in Australia,... Mixergy Podcast · Interview with full transcript The surprising place to find your business idea Girish Mathrubootham
- The dated timeline you need to check the story against: founded 13 October 2010, first customer June 2011, 100 customers in 103... Freshworks Article · About 6 min read A golden birthday: Turning 13 on the 13th Sanjay Gupta
- Written just after the Nasdaq listing, it states the arrangement plainly: based in Chennai with half of sales origination there... Forbes India Article · About 12 min read Startup to Scaleup: How Girish Mathrubhootham built the Saas-y Freshworks Harichandan Arakali
- The founder's own account, including the detail that reframes the whole story: Postman was announced in a Stack Overflow... Postman Blog Article · About 10 min read How we built Postman, the product and the company Abhinav Asthana
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Video · Interview
From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman's journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO)
Abhinav Asthana
- The scale the free adoption eventually bought: 17 million developers, 500,000 organisations, and 98 percent of the Fortune 500,... TechCrunch Article · About 4 min read API platform Postman valued at $5.6 billion in $225 million fundraise Manish Singh
- The cleanest narrative of how the word of mouth actually ignited: John Resig's tweet, 10,000 beta users in three weeks, then... buildd Article · 6 min read How two IITB grads scaled BrowserStack to $4B valuation & $200M revenue! buildd
- The unglamorous version, including two failed ventures first and over 50 investors saying no, which is the context that makes... FactorDaily Outliers Podcast · Podcast episode How Ritesh Arora learned from failures to bootstrap, then turn BrowserStack into a $60m rocket ship Ritesh Arora
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Hire and ramp your first rep
Stop being the only person who can sell it, without setting fire to a year of runway.
Fix a pipeline that stalled
Deals are sitting, the number is slipping, and nobody can say exactly why. Diagnose it in order.
Take an Indian product to the world
Sell to the US or the Gulf from Bengaluru or Chennai, and be trusted doing it.
Price and package it
Pick a first price, then change it later without losing the customers you have.
Launch a self-serve motion
Let people buy without talking to anyone, and make the product do the selling.
Stop churn and grow accounts
The revenue you don't have to win twice is the cheapest revenue you will ever get.
Break into a GTM career
Work out which seat you want, then get good enough at the craft to be hired into it.
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
Pete Kazanjy
Jason Lemkin
Kyle Poyar
Emily Kramer
Sunil Neurgaonkar
Prasanna Krishnamoorthy
Sajith Pai
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