Today there is a great amount of advice for those engaged in technological startups. But it would be more useful to have resources, services and everything which helps to create, sell and develop. This is the essence of our supplemented and adapted selection – no advice, tools only.
Contents
Common
- Startup Stash: List of useful tools (40 categories) for a startup;
- VC Cafe Startup Resources: More than 200 resources which have been collected for several years;
- Startups.co: Everything most necessary for a startup launch;
- Hygger: Task & time tracking for startups and businesses of any size;
- Bootswatch: Free Bootstrap mock-ups;
- Slimvoice: Minimalistic service for invoices;
- Domainr: Quick search for domain purchase;
- Rapportive: LinkedIn-profiles of your colleagues in your Gmail-box.
Motivation
- Requests for Startups: Daily newsletter of ideas which are interesting for investors;
- Startup Quote: Founders’ and investors’ quotes;
- Shopify: quote of the day service;
- Foundation: Kevin Rose interviews successful entrepreneurs;
- Pitchenvy: Selection of chosen startup presentations;
- Signal Tower: Longreads with designers and entrepreneurs;
- Startups.co.uk: British resource for startups;
- Startup Digest: Selection of startup events in your town;
- GV Library: Library of one of the most unusual fonds;
- StartupTalks: Video library for startups;
- Startup Vitamins: Goods for increasing motivation;
- Closed Club: Digest of closed startups life stories;
- #StartupMovies: Movies, series, and podcasts for entrepreneurs;
Realization
- InVision: Platform for prototyping and teamwork;
- Codeship: Everything necessary for Continuous delivery;
- Segment: Integration of the services working with your clients’ data;
- Batch: Platform for revision of your mobile app;
- Commando: Online manager for your servers;
- DigitalOcean: Simple hosting-solution for developers;
- Intercom: In-app- or email-interaction with clients;
Business
- Knowlium: Business-planning;
- Visible: Work with startup metrics;
- Startup Documents: Work with documents;
- The Startup Admin: Outsourcing of staff;
- Clerky: Solving of jural tasks;
- Pressfarm: Search for journalists according to the theme of your startup;
- Startup Growth Calculator: Calculation of necessary investments;
- Startup Metrics Dashboard: Work with startup metrics;
- Startup Equity Calculator: Calculation of options for new employees;
- BP Simulator: Business-processes modeling.
Education
- Treehouse: Study of HTML, CSS and mobile development;
- Startup Institute: Paid educational program;
- The Lean Startup: Popular approach to work with a startup;
- StartupClass.co: Y Combinator startup-school;
- Startup Sales Bootcamp: Educational program on selling;
- MIT OpenCourseware: Massachusetts Institute of Technologies free lectures;
- Skillshare Entrepreneurship Classes: Online lectures on entrepreneurship;
- How to Build a Startup: Steve Blank’s educational program;
- Startup Engineering (Stanford): Stanford course on engineer components of startups;
- First Site Guide: A website which will teach you how to start, run and grow your business.
Communities
- #Startup: Community on Slack platform;
- Startups List: List of the most prominent startups;
- Inspired Startups: Online community of entrepreneurs;
- Digital NYC: NYC startup community;
- Startup Blink: One more map of startups and development institutions;
- Represent LA: Detailed map of LA;
- Mapped In Israel: Detailed map of ecosystem in Israel;
- Start-Up Chile: 6-week educational program.
Blogs
- AVC: Fred Wilson’s blog;
- First Round Review: Expert opinions and reviews;
- Trend Watching: Consumer trends and insights;
- Startup Nation: The most necessary for business;
- Both Sides of the Table: Mark Suster’s blog;
- Above The Crowd: Bill Gurley’s notes;
- Feld Thoughts: Brad Feld’s blog;
- StartupCFO: Marc Macleod about funding and growing;
- David G. Cohen: David Cohen’s blog;
- Entrepreneur On Fire: Podcasts with many popular entrepreneurs.
Accelerator
- 500 Startups;
- Y Combinator;
- Techstars;
- AngelPad;
- DreamIt Ventures;
- Seedcamp;
- Muckerlab;
- Brandery;
- Betaspring;
- Tech Wildcatters.
Humor
- Startup Secret Santa: Startup Santa;
- OfficeFetish: Review of the offices belonging to IT companies;
- Startup Network: Startup success prediction.
Various
- Trello: Free tool for visual organization of information;
- Asana: Organization of teamwork without mail;
- Startups Anonymous: Anonymous Q&A for startups;
- Unsplash: Free high-res photos;
- Work In Startups: Vacancies for startups;
- 7 Cups of Tea: Discussions of your project;
- StartUp: Podcast of a beginner-entrepreneurs.