1. General Resources

Entrepreneurship Book Lists 

Entrepreneurship Videos

  • Techstars U Videos - Videos about startups and entrepreneurship
  • Cornell eClips - 17,000 video clips on business, leadership and entrepreneurship
  • Mixergy - Interviews and business tips

Angel/SuperAngel Investors

Crowdfunding

  • Kickstarter - crowdfunding
  • SeedUps - crowdfunding for tech start-ups
  • Indiegogo – crowdfunding
  • Rock The Post – crowdfunding
  • RocketHub – crowdfunding, partner with A&E
  • Appbackr – crowdfunding for mobile apps
  • Tindle – crowdfunding for makers to sell their hardware
  • FundRazr - crowdfunding
  • Crowdfunder - crowdfunding with minimum investment of $1,000
  • Quirky - shared social inventor community
  • Fundable - online funding platform for small businesses
  • CircleUp - connecting investors with Consumer Brands 
  • SoMoLend - Social Local Lending: crowdfunding from your community
  • CrowdSupply - Retail oriented crowdfunding
  • FundersClub - venture and angel investing news

Incubator/Accelerator List

Corporate Innovation Programs

Must Read Blogs

2. Project Management

2.1 Strategies & Methods

Business Model Canvas

The Canvas is not the only way of approaching the business plan, but it is the simplest and the most used.

GrowthHacking

What is Growth Hacking? According to Wikipedia, "Growth hacking is a marketing technique developed by technology startups which uses creativity, analytical thinking, and social metrics to sell products and gain exposure."

Startups Data

  • Mattermark – quantifying company growth for startup investors
  • Compass - Turn data into actionable insights

2.2 Project Management Tools

Find a Co-Founder

Most entrepreneurs prefer to dive in with a co founder, it's a great adventure to share, and it splits costs and risks. The thing is, 50/50 is not always the best choice. 

  • The Co-founder Mythology - Mark Suster about cofounding
  • FounderDating - premiere site for founders/co-founders
  • CoFoundersLab - find a co-founder in any city
  • Lunch with Entrepreneurs
  • YouNoodle - founder matching
  • CodeArmy – CTO’s for Non-Tech Founders
  • FoundersNation – founders in Israel, London & NY
  • AngelList – Angel List jobs board
  • Startup Weekend - Launch a Startup and meet a co-founder
  • Founder Strengths – Gallup Strengths Center
  • Meetup - go to a Meetup!
  • How to hire developers - mike greenfield

Recruiting Tools

  • JobVite – recruiting software, applicant tracking
  • Zoho Recruit – applicant tracking
  • Resumator - applicant tracking and social recruiting
  • ActiveInterview - Video interviewing
  • JobPage - applicant tracking and social recruiting
  • Zartis – social recruiting
  • HiringThing -online recruiting
  • Workable – recruitment and applicant tracking
  • OneRecruit - free applicant tracking
  • MasterBranch – show off your skills
  • VidCruiter – video interview software
  • LinkedIn – the uber connector
  • Indeed - Job posting
  • Monster - Job posting

Outsourcing & Freelance Websites

  • Amazon Mechanical Turk - set up any task and get answers
  • Elance - find/hire freelancers
  • SkillsHive – become a/hire freelancer online
  • Odesk - hire low-cost international engineering talent
  • Freelancer - outsourcing for small business
  • GroupTalent – developers and designers on demand

Collaboration Tools & Apps

  • Dropbox – free store, sync, and, share files online.
    • Tresorit – secure dropbox alternative
  • Box – online file sharing
  • Hipchat – private group chat & IM for business and teams
  • Yammer - private social network for companies
  • Google Apps – Email, Chat, Docs
  • LibreOffice – free wordprocessor, spreadsheet, drawing, presentation, pdf maker and database office suite
  • Skype- free voice and video communication tool
  • Mural.ly - Visual collaboration for creative people
  • Fuzebox – web/mobile online conferencing
  • UberConference - online conference with visual icons
  • Google Hangouts – Googles app like Skype
  • Evernote - remember everything
  • Campfire – team collaboration
  • RealTimeBoard - online whiteboard & collaboration tool
  • Wikispaces – wikis for everyone
  • Slideshare – share Powerpoints and docs with customers
  • Join.me – free screen sharing
  • Ning – Create your own social network
  • Doodle – online group scheduling
  • Freeconferencecall.com – Free conference calls – awesome!
  • Speek – easy to setup conference calls, file sharing
  • Syncpad – real time mobile collaborative whiteboard
  • Piktochart – make infographics


3. Marketing Resources

3.1 General Marketing Resources and Tools for Startups

A great marketing strategy begins with understanding what customers you want to attract and how to reach them. 

Customer Development

“How Big is the Market?” Tools

“How To Contact Customers?” Tools

  • LinkedIn Alumni – awesome way to contact school alumni
  • Data.Com – find business connections
  • Rapportive – find contacts inside of Gmail
  • Hoovers – phone and email contacts for sale
  • Harrisinfo - sales leads for sale
  • InfoUSA – email lists for sale
  • ThomasNet – find any company
  • How to start advertising on Facebook - OkDork great advices

Market Research Tools

  • Clipular – Camera for the web/great research clippings
  • Business Research LaunchPad - start here
  • WaybackMachine – archive of web pages from 1996 to today
  • archive.org - digital library of old books, recordings, etc.

Market Research Firms

Statistics

Open Company Data/Stats/API

  • FindtheCompany: BestBalanceSheets – compare company balance sheets
  • FindtheCompany: BestIncomeStatements – compare company income statements
  • FindtheCompany: BestIPOs – compare company IPOs
  • FindtheData – general data
  • LendingClub - stats on funding and loans
  • Prosper – Prosper funding data/API
  • BBYOpen – Best Buy open product data/API
  • EbayOdata – Ebay open data/API
  • Yelp Academic Dataset – access 250 closest businesses for 30 universities for students
  • Reuters/Thompson – API
  • Yahoo – data for students/academics
  • Uber – car cost of ownership

Public Relations (PR) For Tech Companies

  • Beginners Guide to PR

  • Should Startups Announce their Funding – Marc Suster
  • Should Startups target Tech Blogs? – Marc Suster
  • 7 steps to get press coverage - Leo Widrich
  • How to get media coverage - Leo Widrich

  • Tech Reporters Contact Info - Conrad Egusa’s gift to us all

On-Line Advertising Platforms 

3.2 Content Marketing Resources

In order to acquire customer without spending money, content marketing is the best way of attracting visitors to your website. 

Content Marketing Blogs

Content Marketing Tools

Website Best Practice

3.3 Email Marketing

Email marketing is the media to use in inbound marketing. Building an email list is the first step to optimize your content and maximize your sales. 

Email Marketing Information and Insights

Email Marketing Blogs

Email Testing

  • Litmus - email previews and email analytics
  • MailTester – awesome tool to validate email addresses

Email Marketing/Blasting

  • MailChimp - free basic email blast software
  • Sendy – blast 100x cheaper via Amazon SES
  • Tout – email blast and mgmt software
  • Constant Contact – email, event promotion, social campaigns
  • Campaigner - email marketing suite
  • Exact Target – social media and email marketing
  • Mad Mimi – email blast software
  • GroupVine – email marketing, community engagement, surveys
  • Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)  - pretty cool
  • Campaign Monitor – basic email software
  • Emma – basic email marketing (strong point: design) 
  • Aweber - Basic email marketing (strong point : analytics)

Transactional Email

  • Postmark - email blast and mgmt software for web apps
  • Mailgun – mail server API’s for developers
  • Postcron – schedule posts on Twitter or Facebook
  • Mailjet – bulk and marketing email
  • SmtpProvider – bulk email
  • JangoMail - marketing and transactional email
  • Silverpop - transactional email
  • SendGrid - email blast software
  • PostageApp – API for transactional emails

3.4 Social Media Marketing

Social media marketing tools

Social monitoring

Gamification

  • Bunchball – gamification for user engagement and loyalty
  • Hoopla – motivate employees, increase sales productivity
  • Badgeville – gamification platform
  • Gigya – social plugins, gamification

Loyalty Programs

  • Kobie - Marketing Agency 
  • RewardStream - loyalty, customer referral
  • 500Friends - customer loyalty program for ecommerce
  • NextBee - customer referral and loyalty programs
  • BigDoor - gamified loyalty and reward programs
  • UrbanAirship - push marketing for mobile

On-line Q&A Communities

Customer Support/Feedback

  • Tender - support, knowledgebase tool for your site
  • GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers
  • Triibe – incentive-based customer service
  • Zendesk – web help software
  • Clickdesk – Help desk, live chat, social toolbar
  • Zopim – real time customer support/live chat
  • HelpScout – simple setup, easy integration, help desk software
  • Desk – from Salesforce, easy and simple; email/social/chat/phone
  • SnapEngage - live chat integrates with your apps
  • Freshdesk – completely unique never seen before web help software
  • Olark - live customer chat and customer loyalty
  • LiveChat – live customer chat, archives of conversations
  • Assistly - Support customers by Web, email, chat, and social networks
  • Vision Helpdesk - Support for multiple companies from one place
  • OneDesk – ideation to delivery and support issues, tickets, tasks
  • HappyFox – collate, categorize and respond to all requests
  • CustomerSure –  online customer service, feedback into retention
  • HelpSpot – Helpdesk software
  • Webengage – website survey, feedback and notification tool
  • SupportBee – help customers via email, robust ticketing

Surveys

Testimonials/Social Reviews

  • Testimonial Monkey -  integrate customer feedback into your site
  • PostKudos - collect customer testimonials
  • Yotpo - social reviews for eCommerce
  • Kayako - Help desk
  • UserVoice - turn customer feedback into action
  • Kampyle – turn customer feedback into sales and relationships

3.5 Search Engine Optimisation

It's not as complicated as it seems to be. And it will only be profitable in the end, whatever happens. 

SEO Strategy and Informations

  • Simple SEO strategy - 5 steps to understand before doing anything
  • 5 SEO Strategies Every Company needs to master - Infographic by Act-On
  • Anatomy of the perfectly optimized page - Infographic by Backlinko
  • How to calculate the ROI of your SEO campaign - by Quicksprout

SEO Blogs

  • Backlinko - Simple and clear way of viewing SEO 
  • Search Engine Land - Digital Marketing Optimization Center
  • SEOmoz - Inbound Marketing blog
  • SEO Book - blog about SEO
  • Matt Cutts - Good insights about SEO
  • Point Blank SEO - Link Building Oriented

SEO Tools

Search Engine Optimization tools

SEO and Analytics Tutorials

4. Product Resources

Product Launch Tools Landing Pages

  • Great Landing Page Tutorial – ConversionXL
  • LaunchRock - Create a viral “coming soon” landing page
  • LaunchSoon – create a coming soon landing page
  • Prefinery- Beta and Launch Mgmt software
  • LaunchEffect – WordPress Landing pages for viral launches
  • Ooomf – iPhone app store build/push/launch
  • Unbounce - create, publish & test promotion specific landing pages
  • Instapage - create a free landing page
  • KickoffLabs -product landing pages
  • LaunchGator – create a viral landing page
  • Atmio - mobile landing pages
  • Lander - create a landing page in minutes
  • Ion - create landing pages that convert
  • Clickthroo – landing pages with split-test, segment, personalization

Product Demo Videos

Screencasting Software

  • Screenflow- screen recording and editing
  • Snagit - screen capture
  • Camtasia - screen recording and video editing
  • Jing - screenshots and screencasts
  • Screen-o-Matic – cloud recording
  • SnapzProX – mac screen capture software
  • ScreenFlow – mac screen capture and effects

Credit Cards/Billing/Subscription Management/E-Store

  • Credit Cards/Payments/Bitcoin
  • Billing/Invoicing
    • Aria - online billing platform
    • Vindicia - on demand billing and fraud management
    • CheddarGetter - online recurring billing
    • Chargify - Recurring billing without the headaches
    • Recurly - Subscription billing
    • Billfaster - cloud invoicing and accounting
    • Inv24 - online invoicing and accounting software
    • HealPay - Collections made easy
  • Subscription Services
    • Cloudware City - online app store for subscription services
    • Spreedly - sell subscriptions on your site. signup, upgrade, trial pricing
    • Zuora - online subscription management
  • Online Store Creation
    • Bizwebs - create an online store
    • Estoreify - create your own online store in just 5 minutes
    • Shopify - create an online store
    • EStoreApp - a webstore in 5 minutes
    • Volusion – shopping cart software
    • EKMPowershop - create an online store using templates
  • Gumroad - sell your digital products directly to your audience
  • Postmaster - Integrate package shipping, tracking  and notification into your app

Product Pricing 101 for Entrepreneurs

5. Website Resources

Website Domain Names

  • Picking a domain name – Jason Calacanis
  • Knowem – domain and trademark search tool
  • Domainr – domain name search
  • GoDaddy - domain names, web hosting
  • NameCheap - cheap domain names
  • Hostgator - cheap domain names, web hosting

Create Websites Automagically

  • Edicy - Create a website
  • Webs - Create a free website
  • Strikingly – build mobile-optimized websites
  • Squarespace - build an exceptional website
  • Wix - free website builder
  • Moonfruit – free website/mobile builder
  • Pagelines - build a website with WordPress
  • Zozolo – start a website within Facebook
  • Plinqs -simple web page creation
  • GoogleSites - simple web host provider
  • Weebly – get a website up quickly with no tools
  • Yola - get a website up quickly with no tools
  • How Much Does a Website Cost? - folyo

Blogging Platforms

  • WordPress- king of blogging platforms…doubles as startup website
  • Tumblr – another blogging platform
  • Medium - design blogging platform
  • Svbtle - simple blogging platform
  • Sett -  blogging platform focussed on engagement
  • Ghost - blogging platform
  • Squarespace - blogging platform
  • Silvrback - blogging platform
  • Roon- blogging platform
  • Postagon- blogging platform
  • Jux - blogging platform

Comment Platforms

  • Disqus – comments Platform
  • Livefrye – alternate to Disqus
  • Vicomi - comments with visuals 

Wireframing Tools

  • Read this UX tutorial first - Alan Wells
  • Great list of rapid prototyping tools here - dan harrelson
  • POP – Prototyping on paper for the iPhone
  • Keynotopia – use PowerPoint/Keynote to create web/mobile apps – Cool!
  • Lean Design - design using HTML5-editor and automatically convert it to XHTML/CSS
  • Saas – CSS Extension Language
  • Balsamiq– rapid wireframing tool. software mockups in minutes
    • Napkee - export Balsamiq Mockups to HTML/CSS/JS and Adobe Flex 3 at a click of a button
  • FluidU/I - mobile prototypes for IOS
  • Briefs – mac prototyping tool for iOS
  • Flinto-  web prototyping tool for iOS and Android from your screen designs
  • Invision – web prototyping & collaboration tools for web & mobile app design
  • Proto.io - web prototyping tool for iOS and Android
  • Solidify – web prototyping clickable mobile prototypes
  • Axure – mac/pc wireframe software & mockup tool
  • Protoshare - web prototyping tools for web & mobile wireframing
  • Justinmind – mac/pc mobile and web highly interactive prototypes
  • AppCooker – iOS mockup, wireframe or prototype
  • Draw.io – draw diagrams online
  • Moqups - HTML5 App used to create wireframes, mockups or UI concepts
  • MxGraph – client side JavaScript diagramming library
  • Pencil- Firefox add-on to do GUI prototyping and simple sketching
  • Lumzy – quick mockup creation and prototyping
  • CSS Hat – Turn Photoshop layers into CSS3
  • Mockflow – online/offline, extensible wireframing tool w/design library
  • OmniGraffle – it’s been around before the web even existed
  • Wirify – turn any webpage into a wireframe
  • LucidChart – Cloud-based drawing tool
  • LucidPress – Cloud-based create and print digital documents
  • Cacoo – free online drawing tool
  • HotGloo – Online Wireframing Tool
  • Mocksup – Share your web site mockups
  • Mockingbird - Mock it up and share web site wireframes
  • Creately – online diagraming and collaboration
  • Gliffy – Online Diagraming
  • Keynotopia - wireframing + high fidelity (pixel perfect) prototyping tool
  • Free Wireframe templates for iPhone, iPad and Web
  • Wireframing Tutorial
  • Gumroad - sell your digital products directly to your audience

Web Drawing Libraries

  • Paperjs - vector graphics scripting framework runs on HTML5 Canvas
  • Raphael – vector graphics JavaScript library – best for older browsers
  • Processingjs - vector graphics scripting framework runs on HTML5 Canvas

Website Usability Testing/Heatmaps/Mouse Tracking

  • Usertesting – $39 live users testing your site – cheap
  • ProdThink - test a feature before you code it
  • YouEye – usability testing with webcam eye tracking
  • Validately – Test a feature before you write code
  • LuckyOrange – affordable usability testing, heat maps, polls, visitor map
  • Experimently – heat maps, A/B testing experiments
  • SessionCam – session replay, heat maps, conversion funnels
  • FiveSecondTest – fine-tune landing pages
  • TryMyUI- watch videos of users using your site
  • FeedbackArmy - $20 website usability testing
  • WhatUsersDo - UK live usability testing
  • Clicktale – watch live clicks and browsing, optimize usability
  • Usabilla – Micro usability tests
  • OptimalWorkshop – tool suite for remote user research
  • Clickheat – heat map of a website (where do users click)
  • Mouseflow – attention heatmaps, mouse tracking and video playback
  • Clixpy – tracks users clicks and browsing
  • Openhallway – lets you remotely record user test scenarios
  • InspectLet – Usability testing/Heat Maps and screen capture
  • UsabilityTools – discover user needs, increase conversion rates
  • Criticue.com – web designers get free feedback about their designs
  • LookTracker – eye tracking maps

Website/Browser Testing

  • Sauce Labs - cross-browser testing in the cloud
  • Browerstack - test websites across all browser w/debugging tools
  • CrossBrowserTesting - pick an OS, pick a browser, pick a website
  • Testling - cross browser testing
  • Browershots - free  browser testing makes screenshots in different os’s and browsers
  • 99Tests - Crowdsourced software testing
  • BetaList – get beta testers online

Website Performance Testing

  • NewRelic - manage and tune website performance for Rails
  • WebPageTest - website speed test from multiple locations around the world
  • Google Pagespeed – performance recommendations
  • PingDom – uptime and user monitoring
  • SpeedCurve – front-end performance benchmarking
  • Monitive – site uptime monitoring

Website Designers

  • 99 Designs - marketplace for crowdsourced graphic design
  • IconFinder - great way to find free graphic icons on the web
  • FindIcons – 400,000+ icons on the web
  • xScope - measure, align and inspect on-screen graphics and layouts
  • Scoutzle - curated community for the best mobile designers

Website Design Tools

Digital Asset Management

  • MediaValet – for agencies, creatives, enterprise
  • Celum – digital and video asset mgmt.
  • Canto Cumulus – digital asset mgmt
  • ThirdLight - digital asset mgmt
  • Bynder – digital asset mgmt and image bank
  • WebDam – cloud digital asset mgmt
  • FileCamp – SaaS media asset mgmt
  • Cloudinary – cloud based image mgmt

6. Mobile Resources

SEO for Mobile Apps

  • MobileDevHQ – app store optimization made simple
  • SearchManSEO – mobile SEO for IOS apps
  • AppCodes – iOS app store optimization
  • AppStoreRankings – mobile SEO and keyword optimization
  • IOS SEO Tutorials – excellent primer

Mobile App Store Customer Analytics / Ad Platform

  • Google Analytics - for Mobile
  • AppAnnie – Apple/Google/Amazon app store analytics
  • Appfigures – mobile analytics and sales data
  • HeapAnalytics - captures user action Clicks, taps, swipes, form submissions, page views and lets you measure it
  • Mopapp – mobile analytics, sales data, rankings
  • Distimo - Apple/Google/Amazon app store analytics
  • Xylogics – search engine for Apple/Google/Amazon app store
  • Apptrace – app store intelligence
  • AskingPoint – mobile analytics with polling
  • Flurry - mobile app analytics and traffic acquisition
  • TestFlight – IOS analytics in beta testing on the fly
  • Apsalar - mobile apps analytics & ads
  • Count.ly - multiplatform mobile analytics
  • KeenIO - analytics as an API
  • Capptain - mobile analytics + push
  • TapStream - Marketing analytics for apps

Mobile App Location / Ad Platform / Misc

  • Placed – location based analytics for mobile apps & websites
  • Burstly – mobile app monetization tools
  • Yozio – campaign tracking & viral optimization for mobile apps
  • Tapjoy - mobile app turnkey ad platform
  • Appbackr - market, sell and distribute your apps
  • Chartboost – make money with mobile games
  • Playtomic - game analytics for all platforms
  • Google AdMob – monitize and promote your mobile games
  • Vungle – integrate video ads into your apps

Mobile Usability Testing/Heatmaps/Build Tools

  • HeatData – heatmaps for Mobile website
  • Heatma.ps - Heatmaps for IOS apps
  • Clutch.io - A/B testing for Mobile Apps
  • Taplytics – A/B testing on IOS without app store updates
  • TestFlight - IOS beta testing on the fly
  • Elusivestars - mobile app testing for developers
  • Testin - cross platform automated app testing solutions
  • Pusher - hosted API for realtime mobile/web apps
  • Corona - mobile development platform
  • PerfectoMobile - mobile app testing
  • MobiReady - testing tool evaluates website mobile-readiness
  • Compuware - test your website for “mobile ready”
  • Rigor - test/monitor performance of mobile apps/websites
  • W3C Mobile OK - test your website for mobile
  • Google Page Speed - test your mobile speed
  • AppMockUpTools – iPhone App Mockups
  • Bugclipper - plug n play bug reporting library  capture screen shots, highlight issues & record screen activity

Phone/SMS Cloud Apps

  • Twilio - add mobile and sms to your app
  • Tropo - Cloud API for adding voice and sms to your app
  • Callfire - add voice and sms to your app
  • Voxeo - voice recognition and IVR to your app
  • Jajah -telephony api
  • PlumVoice- IVR Systems

7. Analytics

Analytics Informations

Analytics Blogs

  • KISSmetrics - About Analytics, Marteking and Testing
  • Analytics Talk - Digital Analytics for business
  • CrazyEgg - The analytics section

Web/Social Customer Analytics Tools

  • Google Analytics – web analytics and optimizer from the borg
  • Kissmetrics– actionable analytics
  • Amazon Analytics - cross–platform mobile analytics reporting service for your app or game
  • HeapAnalytics - captures user action Clicks, taps, swipes, form submissions, page views and lets you measure it
  • GetClicky – real-time web analytics
  • Swix – analytics for social media and online
  • Leadlander – marketing automation analytics
  • Segment.io – analytics API
  • Wordtracker – find the best keywords and links
  • SerpicoSEO – monitor your competition, backlinks & rankings
  • Chart.io - easy analytics for business data
  • Mixpanel– real-time event tracking
  • DigMyData – analytics dashboard for sales, email, social and ad marketing
  • Crazyegg– visualize analytics
  • MozAnalytics – measure all your inbound marketing
  • Mint – site analytics
  • Visistat – web analytics measure marketing campaigns
  • Webtrends – analytics and segments
  • Chartbeat – website analytics for doers
  • Kontagent – user analytics for the social and mobile web
  • Forsee – web, mobile, social, contact center analytics
  • Woopra – real time customer and visitor analytics
  • Comscore – ad agency/enterprise analytics
  • StatsMix – track and display internal & web metrics
  • Keylines – amazing email visualization tool (Palantir for the rest of us)
  • Ducksboard – very cool way to measure any online metrics
  • Cyfe – monitor social media, analytics, marketing, sales, support
  • Mention – media and social monitoring
  • Geckoboard – widget-driven business dashboard
  • Grappster – dashboard for your cloud apps
  • Leftronic – dashboard for real-time analytics
  • Ubiq -data into dashboards
  • PirateMetrics – track acquisition, activation, retention, referral, and revenue
  • Recon.io – Twitter brand monitoring
  • WhosTalkin - Social Media Search tool
  • Diffbot – identify and extract from any web page (stealth search engine!)

Text Analysis Tools

  • Textalyzer - online text analysis tool
  • etcML – open source text analysis tool via machine learning algorithms
  • GATE – general architecture for text engineering
  • NLTK – natural Language Toolkit build Python programs- interface to over 50 corpora and lexical resources
  • Scikit-Learn – machine learning in Python

Online Marketing Suites (CRM Softwares and apps)

  • HubSpot - online marketing and web analytics system
  • Eloqua – marketing automation
  • Pardot – marketing automation for multi-touch sales
  • Silverpop – end to end marketing automation
  • HipCricket – mobile marketing platform
  • Performable – personable web analytics/lifecycle marketing
  • Custora – customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value
  • Zoho – free/cheap web customer relationship mgmt software
  • Highrise – small business CRM
  • Pipedrive – sales pipeline management
  • Zferral – affiliate and referral marketing on the web
  • Genoo – marketing automation software
  • Act-on - marketing automation suite
  • HootSuite – social media dashboard
  • Wishpond – social media marketing
  • Intercom – CRM and web messaging tool for web apps
  • Salestrakr – low cost CRM
  • OntraPort – small business CRM, email management, list segmentation, marketing automation, billing, easy website building
  • InviteBox – referral program platform
  • Crowdtap - Influencer Marketing platform

Conversion Rate Optimization Tools

Conversion Rate Optimization Blogs

8. Technical Resources

8.1 Technical Web Resources

Web Application Frameworks

  • Bento - everything you need to know about web development
  • Treehouse - Learn CSS, Web design, to code html and iPhone apps
  • Really Helpful Guide to technology choices - Danny Boice
  • Web Application Frameworks - start here
  • Comparison of Web Application Frameworks – continue here
  • Visual Basic, PHP, Rails, Node.js next? - Andrew Chen
  • PHP
  • Python
    • WSGI tutorials (Web Server Gateway Interface)
    • Django - high-level Python framework
    • Fabric - django deployment tool
    • Numpy - package for scientific computing with Python
    • Twisted – easy to implement custom network applications, event-driven networking engine written in Python
    • Tornado – Python web framework and asynchronous networking library
    • Web2py - Pythonweb framework
    • Bobo – light-weight framework to create WSGI web applications for python
    • Bottle - lightweight WSGI micro web-framework for Python
    • CherryPy – minimalist Python web framework
    • Flask - microframework for Python based on Werkzeug, Jinja 2
    • Pyramid -microframework for Python
    • itty-bitty - itty-bitty Python web framework
    • web.py - web framework for Python
    • WheezyWeb - lightweight, high performance, high concurrency WSGI web framework
  • Ruby
    • Ruby on Rails – open source framework for Ruby
      • Capistrano - Rails deployment tool
      • NewRelic - manage and tune website performance for Rails
      • Cuba – web micro-framework for Ruby
      • Rack – Ruby Webserver interface
      • EventMachine - simple event-processing library for Ruby programs
      • Ruby on Rails Tutorial - Michael Hartly
      • Ruby on Rails Guides - great tutorials
      • RailsCasts – Ruby on Rails Screencasts
      • Why’s (Poignant) Gude to Ruby – intro to Ruby with chunky bacon
      • Tech*if*er0*urs - blog on roadmap for learning rails
    • Sinatra - Ruby web microframework
      • Padrino - web micro-framework for Ruby
  • JavaScript
    • Node.js -  event-driven I/O server-side JavaScript environment based on V8
      • Beginners Guide to Node.js - Brandon Cannaday
      • Express.js - web development for Node.js
      • Angularjs - an open-source JavaScript framework,  assists with running single-page applications
      • Backbone.js -  RESTful JSON interface and is based on MVP
      • Flatiron – framework for web apps with Javascript and Node.js
      • Hapi – server frameworks for Node.js for web apps & services
      • Koa – middleware for Node.js using generators
      • Partial.js – web application framework for node.js
      • Socketstream - node.js web framework for real-time single page apps
    • JSON - lightweight data-interchange format, subset of Javascript
    • SproutCore - open-source JavaScript framework
    • jQuery - cross-browser JavaScript library
    • Cappuccino - JS development framework
    • JSFiddle - preselect/add JavaScript frameworks and test your code
    • Handlebars – build semantic templates
    • Baseline for front end developers - good summary
  • The Go Programming Language
  • Parse - cloud-based app development framework
  • Drupal – open source content management platform
  • Firebug - edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page
  • Fiddler - Debug web traffic from any Windows-based PC, Mac or Linux system, and mobile devices
  • Joomla – another open source content management system

Cloud Services and Tools

NoSQL Databases

Development Tools

  • VirtualBox – x86 Virtualization
  • Perl Object Environment - Perl framework for reactive systems, cooperative multitasking, and network applications
  • Codeacademy Labs - program in Ruby, Python, and JavaScript online without downloading a code editor or IDE
  • Koding - cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform
  • CircleCi – Continuous integration and deployment tool for web apps
  • yUML – sketch uml diagrams.
  • WebSequenceDiagrams -sketch sequence diagrams. automatic links to generated images
  • Rietveld - asynchronous code reviews on changesets
  • Fluid – turn webapps into Mac OS X apps
  • TextMate – code and markup editor
  • Coda - one-window web development app for the Mac
  • Coderunner - Edit/run code in any programming language with a click
  • SourceLair - cloud coding platform C, Python, Ruby and API
  • WebBiscuits – framework for web apps for smartphones and tablets
  • Best free programming books
  • CodeAcademy - learn to code
  • Webkit – build your own browser

Open-source software hosting

  • Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs
  • Sourceforge - Free. For open-source projects
  • JavaForge - free open source project hosting site
  • Bitbucket - free cloud hosting for Git or Mecurial projects
  • Sourcetree – free mac client for Git, Mercurial and SVN
  • Mercurial - free, distributed source code control management system

Kanban and Scrum Tools

  • Kanban versus Scrum - description
  • Kanban Tools
    • Kanban Tool – online, web-based, Kanban tool
    • KanbanFlow – free Kanban tool
    • Swift-Kanban - enterprise Kanban
    • Kanbanery - Simple online team or personal kanban board
    • LeanKit Kanban - Great for visualizing work of product development
    • Kanban Pad - “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool
    • CodeBeamer – Kanban and Scrum tool Application Lifecycle Management
  • Scrum Tools
  • Basecamp- web-based project management and collaboration tool
  • Pivotal Tracker - Agile project management tool real time collaboration
  • Ansible – configuration mgmt, app deployment, continuos delivery
  • Trello - team collaboration around “boards”
  • Sprintly – agile collaborate>prioritize>create git integration
  • Podio – collaborative project management
  • Flow – collaborative task and project management
  • Interstate – open project management
  • Apollo – integrated project and contact management
  • Rally – agile product management
  • Blossom – lean product management
  • Trajectory – agile product mgmt, write and discuss user stories, bugs, and to-dos
  • Clarizen - cloud project mgmt tool
  • Webplanner - online collaborative project management application.
  • ChiliProject - web based project management
  • Exepron – cloud based project management
  • Kiln - Version control and code review
  • Asana - shared task list for your team
  • Producteev – web/mobile task mgmt
  • ProcedureRock - create, procedures, instructions, guides, online help
  • Managewith.us - Collaborative Task Manager
  • ProcessPlan - task mgmt via email
  • Redbooth -combines social networking and project management
  • ProjectManager – project planner, time/expense tracking
  • TeamCity - continuous integration/unit testing, code quality analysis, pre-tested commits, report on build problems
  • Milestone Planner - planner for deadline/outcome driven environments
  • 5pm - Online project management tool
  • TimeBill – Replicon task management tool
  • AgileZen - project management visually see and interact with your work
  • GoPlan - collaborative project management
  • Unfuddle -hosted project management solution for software teams
  • Taskpoint - online project mgmt and collaboration
  • Centroy - online project mgmt
  • Do[Box] - project mgmt, save, resuse and share project models
  • Projify - simplified project management
  • Mavenlink - manage project communications, documents, schedules, budgets, payments
  • NeuLexa – enterprise project mgmt
  • ProcedureRock – operations and procedures mgmt
  • Userlike - live chat software for websites
  • Industrial Logic - Agile eLearning
  • PMToolkit – project management templates
  • Kanbanchi – dashboard/collaboration tool for Google Apps

Bug/Issue Tracking

  • Bugherd - simple issue tracking for web developers
  • Lighthouse - Issue Tracking Tool
  • Sifter - hosted bug and issue tracking
  • Toggle - time tracking tool
  • Jira - Bug, Issue and classic Project tracking tool
  • Fogbugz -bug tracking, project mgmt, customer support
  • Bontq - hosted bug tracking and project management needs
  • WakaTime - Automatic time tracking for your text editor
  • Intervals - time tracking and task management
  • Preceden - simple way to make timelines for presentations

Web Server Stress Testing

  • Google Page Speed - test your web page speed
  • Httperf- HP Web Server Performance tool
  • Siege - http load testing and benchmarking utility
  • Jmeter - java-based server load testing
  • Tourbus - ruby website load testing tool

Localization

  • Applingua – iOS, OSX and Android app localization
  • Onesky – apps and websites translated
  • ICanLocalize – website and app translation and localization
  • SmoothLocalize -automatic iOS app localization

Misc Office Help

  • Amazon Workspaces - desktop computing service in the cloud
  • SharedDesks – Coworking and Office Space
  • PivotDesk – host or look for a coworking space
  • Coworking WIki
  • Google Apps – cloud mail server, calendar, docs, etc.
  • Grasshopper – virtual phone system
  • Hoiio - business communications apps
  • Ringio – cloud phone system
  • ActivePBX – cloud unified phone system
  • RingCentral – cloud based phone system
  • Freedom Voice and FreedomIQ - $3.95 800 #’s, hosted VoIP telephony
  • InDinero – easy business finance software
  • ZenPayroll – delightful employee payroll software
  • Freshbooks – cloud accounting and invoicing
  • Autotax – eFile IRS 1099 forms
  • Expensify – billing, expenses, receipts
  • BambooHR - Employee Records, Benefit Information, Payroll Data, etc.
  • Harvest – online time tracking
  • Xobni – Outlook plugin to search
  • Think-Cell – Powerpoint (windows) plug-in for advanced charting
  • QuoteRoller – create, deliver and negotiate proposals online
  • WordsRU – proofreading and editing service

8.2 Industries

Robotics/Drones/Computer Vision

  • ROS - Robot Operating System – open source framework for writing robot software
    • Ros Software
  • MRPT - Mobile robotics C++ libraries
  • PCL – Point Cloud open source 2D/3D image and point cloud processing Library
  • OpenCV - open source computer vision library
  • SimpleVC – open source computer vision Python library
  • Scikit – open source image processing in Python
  • OpenPilot - Open Source UAV autopilot
  • Paparazzi - open-source hardware and software  autopilot  for fixedwing & multicopters
  • DIYDrones - community for amateur UAV’s
  • QGroundControl – open source UAV ground control operator station
  • Hardware Incubators/Accelerators/Crowdfunding
    • LemnosLabs - best hardware incubator in San Francisco
    • Bolt - seed stage hardware fund in Boston
    • Highway1 - hardware accelerator in San Francisco
    • Springboard - techstars style hardware accelerator in London
    • R/GA - techstars style hardware accelerator in New York
    • ZahnCenter - hardware incubator in New York
    • Microyza – crowdfunding for Science Research grants
    • MakeSimply - sourcing and manufacturing services
  • Hardware Crowdfunding
  • Printed Circuit Boards (PCB’s)
    • Myro - prototype PCB’s and PCB assembly
    • Bay Area Circuits  - Printed Circuit Board manufacturing
    • Sierra Circuits - Printed circuit board manufacturing and assembly
    • Pentalogix - Quick turn printed circuit board manufacturing
    • PCBPool – low cost PCB boards in Europe
    • Screaming Circuits - Printed Circuit Board Assembly House
    • OSH Park - community circuit board design
    • Advanced Circuits - one day printed circuit boards
    • Sunstone - Printed Circuit Boards
    • BoldPort - source Python software PCB design software
  • Collaborative Tools
    • Upverter - collaborative circuit design
    • circuits.io - free circuit editor/pcb layout in your browser (just bought by Autodesk)
    • Scheme-it – design and share schematics (part of Digikey)
  • Circuit Simulation Tools
    • CircuitLabs – schematic editor and circuit simulator
    • PartSim – online SPICE circuit simulator
    • DoCircuits - schematic editor and circuit simulator
  • HardwareHacker – DIY Basic projects
  • Hacked Gadgets - DIY Tech
  • HackersCatalog – technical bookstore
  • Lady Ada - embedded applications and kits
  • Adafruit - embedded applications and kits
  • Arduino - open source hardware platform
  • Raspberry Pi – $25 credit-card sized computer board
    • Raspberry Pi App Store - apps & tools
  • LittleBits - opensource library of electronic modules that snap together
  • DangerousPrototype – open source hardware projects
  • Fritzing - opensource hardware community
  • Beagle Board - Open. ARM. Low cost, low power, open hardware expandible computer running latest Ubuntu and Android.
  • Saleae - Low cost logic analyzer
  • Hardware Debugging and monitoring tools
  • Microsemi (Actel) smartfusion: A low power development board full of peripherals and an FPGA chip

Electronics Component Suppliers

Startup Design/Prototype/Manufacturing Consultants/Helpers

Manufacturing Resources

3D Printers

  • makerbot - Replicator2 3d printer
  • Printrbot – low cost 3d printer kits and assembled
  • Afinia – H-Series 3d printer easiest setup and ease of use
  • 3D Systems - Cube and CubeX 3D printers
  • Stratasys – Idea Series 3D printer
  • Formlabs- Form1 3D printer
  • RepRap - open source 3d printer
  • Ultimaker – 3d printer kit – fastest

3D Printing Services

  • Sculpteo - 3d printing service
  • Shapeways - 3d marketplace and community
  • 3-D Prototype Design - 3D professional parts printing
  • RepRap - open source 3D Printing
  • MakerGear - homebrew 3D Printing
  • i.materialize - 3D parts printing service
  • Ponoco – 3D printing, laser cutting service, buy/sell/community
  • Sunglass.io - Easy way to share and collaborate around 3D content
  • On3DPrinting – good 3D news blog
  • 3DHubs – crowdsourced local 3D printing
  • 3DPrintBoard – forum for 3D printing

Custom Machine Parts/Industrial Supplies

  • eMachineShop – machine custom parts online
  • onlinemachinist – more custom parts online
  • Protolabs - custom CNC machined parts and injection molded parts
  • Hackerspaces -
  • TechShop – Bay Area and Raleigh N.C. open machine shop, ClubWorkshop – Denver
  • Instructables – shared maker community
  • Quirky – shared social inventor community
  • McMaster-Carr - 480,000 parts of hardware heaven
  • W.W. Grainger - Industrial supplies
  • Fastenal - more industrial supplies
  • Octopart – search engine for electronic parts
  • FandFIndustrial - family-run industrial tool and supply company

9. Financial Resources

Easy Finance Tools

Finance 101 for Entrepreneurs

Education Financing

  • K-12 Education VC Blog - Jennifer Carolan @ NewSchools
  • MOOCNews – education blog about MOOC’s
  • K12Labs – STEM education projects & lesson plans

Advice on Raising Startup Capital

Cap Tables / Valuation

Managing Your Board

Founder Equity Issues

List of Investment Platforms

  • Trusted Insight - Social marketplace for institutional investors
  • CapLinked - manage and close business transactions
  • SecondMarket - marketplace for alternate investment

10. Legal Resources

Blog of Lawyers for startups

Intellectual Property Advice

Lawyers/Legal

Fighting Patent Trolls

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