Knowledge Resources

Advice & Mentoring
  • StackExchange – The right answers, from experts.
  • Quora – Opinions, answers, advice from relevant people.
  • Clarity.fm – A marketplace connecting entrepreneurs with top advisors & industry experts to conduct market research, get strategic business advice, or learn a specialized skill to help them grow their business.

Books

Online Courses & MOOC
  • Coursera – Take courses from the world’s top universities.
  • Udemy – Take online courses to learn new skills.
  • Udacity – Take courses from universities and companies like Google.

Podcasts

Newsletters
  • Mattermark Daily – Curated entrepreneurship & investment newsletter compiled daily.
  • Founder Weekly – Weekly newsletter for entrepreneurs featuring best content and resources.
  • HN Digest – Regular emails with the top the Hacker News stories.
  • Email1k – A free 30-day course to double your email list from top startup marketers.



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Co-Founders
  • Foundrs – Co-founder equity calculator.
  • Startup Commons – Co-founder agreement template and other useful stuff.
  • Meetup – Go to meetups in your city and meet potential partners, customers etc.

Fundraising
  • Angel List – Top angel investing platform and startup network.
  • Captable.io – Model your dilution.
  • CapRally – Find contact details of any VC.
  • CrunchBase – Most comprehensive database of the startup ecosystem.

Crowdfunding
  • Tilt Open – Self-hosted crowdfunding and pre-orders.
  • Kickstarter – The world’s largest funding platform for creative projects.
  • IndieGoGo – Global crowdfunding for creative and technology projects.

Pitch Deck
  • Sequoia Grove – Advice and documentation from the world’s leading VC.
  • Pitch Envy – Browse pitch decks from famous companies.
  • SlideShare – Host your pitch-deck.

Product Demo Videos
  • GoAnimate – Make professional animated videos.
  • Animoto – Create music videos for selected images and pictures on the web.
  • PowToon – Create free animated video explainers.

Launching Soon Page
  • SquareSpace – Build a beautiful website, accept payments.
  • Unbounce – Create and A/B test your landing page.
  • LaunchRock – Viral ‘coming soon’ page.

Communication
  • Skype – Low-cost international calling rates and plans.
  • Grasshopper – Run your business using your cell phone.

Cloud Storage
  • Google Drive – Powerful option when used with Google docs.
  • Dropbox – Keeps your files safe, synced, and easy to share.
  • Amazon Cloud Drive – Unlimited cloud storage to backup files from any device.

Finance & Accounting
  • Wave Accounting – Free invoices, credit card payments, accounting & payroll.
  • Xero – Online small business accounting software.
  • QuickBooks – Simple small business accounting software.
  • Tradeshift – Web-based business network and free invoicing platform.

Recruitment
  • BranchOut – Utilizes your Facebook network to find your inside connections.
  • InternMatch – Hire top talent from every university across the country.

Payments
  • Stripe – Web and mobile payments, built for developers.
  • Braintree Payments – Like Stripe, but with more country options.
  • Square – Process credit cards in the real world.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
  • Pipedrive – Helps you focus on the right deals, great for small teams.
  • Nimble – Best features of high-end CRM systems combined with the power of social media.
  • Salesforce – CRM and cloud computing leader.

Dashboards
  • Geckoboard – Real-time dashboard,  instant access to your most important metrics.
  • Ducksboard – Hundreds of integrations, easy-to-use, and well-documented.
  • Leftronic – All your key metrics in one place.

Offline
  • IdeaPaint – Single-coat, roller-applied whiteboard paint to turn your wall into whiteboard.
  • Whiteboard / Corkboard – Good for brainstorming and kanban.
  • Post-it – Can be helpful, especially if you use kanban.



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Personal Productivity
  • Coach.me – Accountability, tracking and coaching for any goal.
  • Sleep Cycle – Tracks your sleep patterns and wakes you up during light sleep.
  • Evernote –  Easy note taking and archiving.
  • Wunderlist – To-do, reminders and errands.
  • Examine.com – Independent, unbiased source on nutrition.

Team Collaboration & Productivity
  • Slack – All your communication together in one place.
  • iDoneThis – Simple team performance management.

Project Management
  • Asana – Keeps your team organized, connected, and focused on results.
  • Trello – Digital kanban board for project management.



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Infographics
  • Piktochart – Create easy infographics, reports and presentations.
  • Infogr.am – Create infographics & online charts.
  • Visually – High quality on-demand visual content.

Surveys & Market Research
  • Google Consumer Surveys – Market research that’s fast and accurate.
  • TypeForm – Create beautiful, next-generation online forms and surveys.
  • Survey Monkey – Create polls and survey questionnaires.
  • PickFu – Cheap and instant market feedback polls with A/B testing.

Get Beta Users
  • Betali.st – Show your startup to an audience of 28,744 early adopters.
  • Earlibird – Start a campaign to reach a global community of early adopters.
  • Product Hunt – Discover the latest mobile apps, websites and technology products.
  • r/Startups – Share your startup.

Public Relations & Press
  • pr.co – Publish & track (social) media-friendly online press releases in minutes.
  • Help a Reporter Out – Reverse pitch journalists, get free publicity.

Marketing Automation
  • Hubspot –  Inbound marketing to attract visitors, convert leads, and close customers.
  • Marketo –  Marketing automation to help marketers engage customers and prospects.

Email Marketing
  • Amazon SES + Sendy App – Send newsletters, 100x cheaper.
  • Mailchimp – Newsletters and email marketing widgets.
  • Sendgrid  – Send transactional emails triggered by web apps.
  • Vero - Behavioural and transactional email marketing.
  • Autosend.io –  Send trigger-based emails, SMS, and push notifications to your users.
  • SparkPost – Developer-friendly transactional email service.

A/B Testing
  • Optimizely – One optimization platform for websites and mobile apps.
  • Apptimize – Mobile A/B testing for iOS and Android.
  • Taplytics – Mobile A/B testing, optimization and marketing automation.

Analytics

Live Chat, Support & Feedback
  • Intercom – Customer communication made simple.
  • Olark – Live chat widget.
  • Qualaroo – Customer insights.
  • Helpscout – Web-based help desk designed for a great customer experience.

Social Media Marketing

SEO
  • Moz - SEO software, tools and resources for better marketing.
  • QuickSprout – Complete website analysis.

Retargeting
  • Perfect Audience – Facebook, Twitter, Web and Mobile retargeting.
  • AdRoll – Retargeting and performance marketing.
  • Retargeter – Full-service display advertising solution, retargeting and audience targeting.

Miscellaneous
  • SumoMe – Tools & widgets to grow your website’s traffic
  • BuzzSumo – Analyze what content performs best for any topic or competitor.
  • Zapier – Connect web apps you use to move your data and automate tasks.
  • SpyFu - Download your competitor’s most profitable keywords and ads.