I wish to dedicate the following resources to all the entrepreneurs and start-up freaks.
I have spent a lot of time in trying to find the right tool/resource/platform for a task.
Please take full advantage of this resource pool and make a difference. I would be glad if this helps you. Please share it across and let people benefit from this information.
Available anywhere:
I have spent a lot of time in trying to find the right tool/resource/platform for a task.
Please take full advantage of this resource pool and make a difference. I would be glad if this helps you. Please share it across and let people benefit from this information.
Available anywhere:
- Find co-founders - http://founderdating.com/, http://venture-lab.org, CoFoundersLab.com, http://foundershookup.com/
- For business models - http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/, http://bmdesigner.com/ or http://canvanizer.com/
- LaunchRock or http://www.kickofflabs.com/ - for launch pages testing the user need or marketing campaigns
- TeamnSnippets.com - for team progress updates
- Domainr - domain name search
- For surveys and pre-order forms, Wufoo and Google Forms can easily be embedded within your site with minimal coding.
- 99 Designs is great to get “good enough” graphic design and web design work for very cheap using a contest format. Themeforest has great designs
- Embed a slideshow on your site with Slideshare or embed a video/tour using GoAnimate, Youtube or Vimeo
- Post on your facebook, LinkedIn and twitter, use Google AdWords, Facebook ads and natural search to drive people to your Minimally Viable web site
- AngelList for funding
- YouNoodle - connect to the entrepreneurial grid
Next steps to help develop your venture (incubators, accelerators, etc.)
- Startup Chile ($40k in non-dilutive funding, 1 year in Chile)
- Lists of incubators/accelerators by country and state
- Bento Accelerator encourages startups and projects from Prof Eeasley's course to apply for the Spring 2014 cluster.
- Bento is designed to bring the best and brightest concepts from emerging markets to the major capital centers, locating
- firms in NY, San Francisco, Tokyo and London for 4-6 months. Leverage the unique value of this MOOC by presenting your product and firm in the major financial centers. See www.bentoaccelerator.jp for details.
Available at Stanford:
Lists of Tools from Others
- HBS Startup Tribe Tools List – from Tom Eisenmann at HBS
- Software / Web
- http://Dropbox.com (most popular answer, others suggested Box.net and Google Drive as an alternative)
- Box.net (better if you are collaborating with teams and external collaborators than DropBox)
- Oogwave.com (Team content sharing and collaboration)
- Clipular.com (fastest web screen capture/clipping tool)
- http://Clipboard.com (web-based alternative to Evernote)
- Google Chrome
- Google Docs
- Mindmaps (Freemind or Mindmanager)
- Wunderlist (very simple and easy-to-use task management tool)
- Xobni
- Pugmarks.me (news and people intelligence for your context)
- Expensify
- Mint
- Pandaform - Database to manage all forms a business needs
- Flow
- Basecamp - web-based project management and collaboration tool.
- KeyRocket - (keyboard shortcut trainer)
- Helpjuice.com (knowledge base)
- Remember The Milk - the to-do list that's everywhere you are: from your phone, to the web, to your Google apps
- Akomplish - It is about a better productivity, encouraging creativity
- point - (Presentation design)
- PPTloom - (PowerPoints design)
- SyncPad - real-time whiteboard/documents sharing
- Review19 - Collaborate & Track Decisions
- SAP StreamWork
- http://everhour.com (simple time tracking tool)
- RescueTime http://rescuetime.com/
- Sanebox http://www.sanebox.com/
- Time Doctor http://timedoctor.com/
- Get Pocket http://getpocket.com/
- Google Calendar http://calendar.google.com/
- Doodle http://doodle.com/
- TheBrain http://www.thebrain.com/
- Bookkeeperzoo
- Hexigo - http://www.Hexigo.com - Hexigo is the only collaboration platform that drives teams to reach a formal outcome.
- teamspotted.com - team up with awesome people - ( added by company marketer )
- Simple Sales Tracking - http://www.simplesalestracking
- Expense Sheet Tracker - Expense Claim Report & Budgeting Software
- ReferralElite- http://www.referralelite.com/ (For attracting the right professionals your company needs)
- Real World
- Whiteboards
- Smartphone
- Notebook
- Skinny Pen
- GoToMeeting or equivalent
- IP Phone (with voice mail forwarding)
- Post-its
- Large LCD Monitor (for meetings and collaborating)
- Large empty wall
- Tape
- Large table
- (physical cards to help structure projects & discuss)
- Project Management
- Redmine
- Trello
- Basecamp
- BI
- Ducksboard
- Geckoboard
- Chartbeat
- Tableau
- Hootsuite
- LivePlan
- CRM
- ClinchPad
- vSugar CRM (Open Source)
- Teambox
- Zoho
- Yesware Email for Salespeople.
- Pipelinedeals
- Contact Form
- Dropifi
- Webengage
- Snapenag
If you got tired or exhausted after looking at this huge list, take a break and relax. This is just the beginning. Next blog posts will cover more resources with clear explanations on business models.
You will also be updated with information on innovation management tools.
People, if you have any ideas or perspectives on tools helpful for entrepreneurs , feel free to comment or ask a question. I will try to answer it.
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