1. General Resources
Entrepreneurship Book Lists
- Books for Startups according to Steve Blank
- Books for Startups according to Personal MBA
- Amazon Best Sellers
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
- Platforms
- AngelList - connecting startups and angels
- Seed-Db - database of seed accelerators and their companies
- Gust - Platform for Startup Funding
- MicroVentures - connects Startups with Angel investors
- Articles:
- Guide to Super Angels – Chubby Brain's Guide to
- Types of Angel Financing
- Angel Financing Tips and here
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
- Top Tech Incubators according to Forbes
- List of Incubators of Startup Weekend around the world
- FindTheBest Incubators compares the incubators in your area
- Top Startup Incubators in the San Francisco Bay
- Top 15 accelerators in the US in 2011
- Apply to accelerators all around the world
- Accelerate: Founder Insights Into Acceleration Program
- SPARK DISCOUNT: Get 20% off by using the code 'spark' at checkout
Corporate Innovation Programs
- The four models of corporate entrepreneurship according to Sloan Review
- Corporate Entrepreneurs - Blog about innovating in a big structure
- Qualcomm Innovation program
- P&G Connect & Develop – Open Innovation
Must Read Blogs
- Best Blogs Every Entrepreneur should read
- Seth Godin's Blog - Inbound Marketing and entrepreneurship
- Penelope Trunk Blog - Productivity and entrepreneurship
- Duck Tape Marketing: John Jantsch's Blog
- Four Hour Work Week: Tim Ferris Blog
- Shankman - Peter Shankman's Blog
- Chris Dixon
- Danny Brown's Blog
- Chris Brogan's Blog
- Both Sides of the Table – Mark Suster
- Eric Ries – Startup Lessons Learned
- Chris Ducker's Blog
- Mark Peter Davis blog
- Kevin Dewalt
- The foundation - Blog of Dane Maxwell
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.
- Developing a stable Business Model - Entrepreneur
- Business Model Toolbox – iPad app from the master himself!
- Business Model Canvas – free downloadable Canvas
- Tutorial on how to use the Canvas - Alex Cowan
- Business Model Canvas Tutorial -Business Model Generation
- Business Model With Wordpress – business model plugin for WordPress
- Strategizer – a Canvas Business Model app
- LaunchPad Central - the standard for Model Canvas/Customer Development progress for companies/incubators/accelerators
- Mural.ly - Visual collaboration for creative people
- Canvasizer – create and edit a canvas
- Business Model STOF - Another method than the Canvas
- How To Start SoftWare and Saas companies from Nothing - The Foundatio
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."
- Customer Creation - Chapter 5 of the Four Steps to the Epiphany
- Find a GrowthHacker – Sean Ellis Article that turned Customer Creation into Growth Hacking
- GrowthHackers – Community
- GrowthHacking Skeptic - Muhammad Saleem
- Building Your Marketing Funnel with Google Analytics - John Doherty
- Free e-Books & Books:
- The Definitive Guide to GrowthHacking - Patel and Taylor
- GrowthHacker Marketing - Ryan Holiday
- LeanStartup Marketing – Sean Ellis
- Lean Analytics – Croll and Yoskovitz
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
- Insightful Customer Service Resources - very good resources by Help Scout
- Product/Market Fit: the Value Proposition Canvas - Alex Osterwalder
- Testing Product/Market Fit: Value Proposition Canvas – Alex Osterwalder
- Customer Development: How to get customer interviews- Kevin Dewalt
- Business Model Canvas Tutorial - Business Model Generation
- Customer Development Tutorial - steve blank
- How to do Customer Discovery – SWNext
- Bad Customer Development Questions – Kevin Dewalt
- Customer Discovery Toolkit – Stanford d.school – awesome resource
- Customer Interview Templates – Lean Startup Circle
- Foundersuite – software and templates for startup founders
- ProdThink – test a feature before you code it
“How Big is the Market?” Tools
- Google Trends - what are the search trends for key items
- Google Insights - breaks down the search data by location
- Facebook ads - check out the total available market
“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
- InfoChimps - data marketplace
- WindowsAzure – Data Marketplace
- Gartner, Forrestor, Yankee - IT
- Frost & Sullivan – mulitple industries
- NPD – entertainment
- IMSHealth – health care
- MedMix – lifesciences
- CMR – chemical
- API – petroleum industry
Statistics
- Eurostat – European Statistics
- EEA – European Environment Agency
- OECD Stat Extracts
- United Nations Statistics
- The World Bank - finance
- International Monetary Fund - data and stats
- Statista – market data/statistic portal
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
- Google Ads
- Google Keywords Tool
- LinkedIn Ads
- Facebook Ads
- Bing & Yahoo Ads
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
- Boost Blog Traffic - Funny, accurate and simple advices
- QuickSprout - Great marketing strategies
- Social Triggers - Psychology & Marketing
- Convince and Convert - Focus on social media
- Top Rank Blog - Online Marketing Focus
- Brian Solis - Focus on Social Media / Public Relation
- Portent Content Idea Generator - Creates titles for articles
Content Marketing Tools
- ScoopIt - publishing by curation
- Roojoom - turn content into leads
- Scribe - Content Marketing Software
- Inbound Writer - Content Marketing Software
- Piktochart - Infographies creation tool
- TrendSpottr - Trending topics finder
- Contently - network of freelance writer
- Soolve / Topsy
- SlideShare - Sharing of slides
Website Best Practice
- Building Your Marketing Funnel with Google Analytics - Article by John Doherty
- Tune Your Startup - List of tools for startups
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 Basics - by CopyBlogger
- List Buidling - Acquring Customers with email - Tutorial by HelpScout
- Best email Subject-lines - Statistics b MailChimp
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
- Don’t Cheat on Social Media - Social media Strategy From Convince and Convert
- Become a rockstar in social media - 40 Tips by Jeff Bullas
- The Marketer’s Guide to Facebook - Great Insights by Kissmetrics
- The Marketer’s Guide to Twitter - Great Insights by Kissmetrics
- The Marketer’s Guide to LinkedIn - Great Insights by Kissmetrics
- The Marketer's Guide to Tumblr - Great Insights by Kissmetrics
- The Marketer's guide to Youtube - Great Insights by Kissmetrics
Social monitoring
- Hootsuite - Social Media Management
- ZignalLabs – Social Media monitoring
- InfiniGraph – Social Media monitoring
- SocialMention – Social Media monitoring
- Topsy - Social Media 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
- Stack Overflow - questions and answers for programmers
- StackExchange – expert answers to your questions
- Programmers StackExchange
- AskPatents StackExchange
- AnswersOnStartups
- Social Source Commons Q&A/tools for non-profit programmers
- Social Source blog- blog for non-profit programmers
- Quora – questions and answers for non-programmers
- Yahoo Answers - post questions, sometimes get answers
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
- Google Consumer Surveys - online market research
- Zoomerang - Free basic version, surveys polls, 150+ templates
- Qualtrics - cloud-based survey, free account a complete game changer – incredibly well built and powerful
- Qualtrics Wiki - Joseph Williams
- Amazon Mechanical Turk - you can set up a question and get answers
- Qualaroo - target surveys, boost signups, increase usage
- KissInsights - survey visitors while they surf your site
- Wufoo - create contact forms, online surveys and event registrations
- Formstack – Online Form Builder
- Formcrafts – free online form builder
- AYTM - Ask Your Target Market
- Ethnio - Recruit real people from your website for user research
- Poplytics - online surveys and analytics
- AskYourTargetMarket – market research surveys
- SurveyMonkey- granddaddy of on-line surveys
- SurveyMoz – free on-line surveys
- QuestionPro - on surveys, plus templates
- SnapSurveys - online and mobile surveys
- PickFu - Instant Market feedback A/B testing, polls
- SurveyGizmo - free version, survey creation and data integration tools
- 123ContactForm – create HTML forms and surveys
- SmartSurvey - UK’s leading survey tool, complies with the Data Protection Act
- FormAssembly - Create order forms, service requests or registration forms and collect payment securely
- FluidSurvey – web/mobile/tablet surveys
- SogoSurvey -web surveys w/analytics
- PollDaddy – from the makers of WordPress, powerful reporting & filtering
- SuperSimpleSurvey – survey creator, branching, mobile ready
Testimonials/Social Reviews
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
- Google Keyword Tool
- SEOmoz’s Tools
- SEOBook’s Tools
- Google Webmaster Tools
- Open Site Explorer
- Serp IQ
- Wordtracker Keyword Tool
Search Engine Optimization tools
- How Does Google Adwords Work?
- Great SEO Programmers Tutorial
- Great tutorial on the conversion funnel – andrew chen
- Ad Contrarian - Grumpy old ad guy with great insights
- SEO Digest – helpful articles
- SEOBook Tools - Free SEO tools
- SEO Digger - Find the top ten keywords ranking to your websites
- SEMRush - SEO and campaign management tool
- Clickable - Pay per click management
- Spyfu - tells you how much adwords cost
- Market Samurai - SEO Keyword Analysis Tool
- WooRank – SEO optimization tool
- Ahrefs – SEO tool, backlinks and keyword analysis
- MoonSearch - SEO tool, backlinks and keyword analysis
- SearchEngineLand – News about Search Marketing
SEO and Analytics Tutorials
- Startup Metrics for Pirates – read this before you spend time elsewhere
- SEO Explained in 2 minutes – another good tutorial
- Cohort and Churn analysis spreadsheet & tutorial - Christoph Janz
- Beginners Guide to Conversion Rate Optimization – Sean Ellis
- SaaS Metrics Tutorial – worth reading as well
- The Noob Guide to Online Marketing – great graphic and tutorial
- Analytics review – mixpanel vs kissmetric vs google analytics review
- Analytics Academy - lessons to teach you analytics
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
- VideoScribe – create awesome animated videos
- DunkTank - create product demo videos
- MyBrainshark – online and mobile videos
- Apptamin – App videos and websites
- Switch Video – produce an animated video
- Grumo Media – product demo videos
- Loose Keys – product videos as stories
- Piehole.tv - product demo videos
- Explainify – product explaining videos
- Thinkmojo – animated product videos
- Epipheo Studios - animated product videos
- How to roll you own - Grumomedia
- Amazon Elastic Transcoder – video transcoding in the cloud
- VideoLean - Templates for videos ranging from $15 to $50
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
- Square - accept credit cards from ipad/iphone/android
- Stripe - accept credit cards on the web
- Amazon Payments – login and pay with Amazon
- Balanced – Payments processing, escrow & payouts API
- BancBox – Payments service platform
- Paypal – the standard for payment
- Paypal Payments Pro - accept debt and credit cards on your website
- Braintree - online credit card merchant processing
- Paymill - accept online payments on the web
- bitcoin.org - Official Bitcoin website
- Categories of Bitcoin apps – Chris Dixon
coinbuzz.com - Bitcoin news
coinbase.com - Bitcoin Payment processor
bitpay.com - Bitcoin Payment processor
- WeUseCoins - accept Bitcoins as payment
- 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
- Gumroad - sell your digital products directly to your audience
- Postmaster - Integrate package shipping, tracking and notification into your app
Product Pricing 101 for Entrepreneurs
Product Pricing Wiki Page – great links to pricing models
- How to design Web Pricing Pages - from Smashing Magazine
- What Influences Daily and Monthly Active Users (DAU/MAU) – Andrew Chen
- How to determine your advertising CPM rates – Andrew Chen
- How to solve the “cold start” problem for social products – Andrew Chen
- Design social products with 3 feedback loops – Andrew Chen
- Growing user signups with data and analytical thinking – Andrew Chen
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
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
- JustinMind UserNote - get user feedback/test usability
- 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
- Builtwith - tells you which technologies a website uses
- Twitter Bootstrap - Twitter toolkit for development of slick, intuitive webapps and sites
- Bootsnip- - free HTML snippets for Bootstrap
- WrapBootstrap – Themes for Bootstrap
- Bootswatch – More themes for Bootstrap
- Buttons for Bootstrap
- StartBootstrap – free HTML templates for Bootstrap
- Google Web Fonts - open API of 613 web fonts
- Google Font Pairs - how to mix fonts and finding ideal pairings
- Subtle Patterns - free tileable textured patterns
- iStock Photos - Royalty Free stock photos and images
- Fotolia – images, vectors and videos- pay as you go or subscription
- 123RF – 19 million stock photos
- ColorSchemeDesigner – find complementary colors
- ColourLovers – share colors, palettes, and patterns
- Meteor - open source platform for building web apps
- ThemeForest - site templates cheap
- Scraster- Record screen and webcam. Simple editing. Perfect for screencasts or user studies
- Microsoft WebMatrix - Web server, database, and ASP.NET and PHP
- AppMakr – Mobile Ap Creator create quick mobile apps
- EditMe - create collaborative websites
- GooglePageSpeed - optimize your web pages
- Launchbit - online web site class for novices
- Zencoder – online video converting/encoding/transcoding service
- Google: HTML, CSS and Javascript from the Ground Up
- Appointlet – add a scheduler to your web site
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
7. Analytics
Analytics Informations
- 9 Metrics your startup should be tracking - KISSmetrics
- Advanced Google Analytics Tips and Tricks - Moz
- 5 Ways to Use Google Webmaster Tools - Search Engine Journal
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
- A/B Testing Tutorial - read first
- Clicktale - Optimization of marketing campaigns
- CrazyEgg - Eye tracking Technology
- Landing Page Tutorial
- Fivesecondtest – Landing page optimization
- Subintent – A/B testing + page optimization for best conversion rates
- VisualWebSiteOptimizer - A/B testing (split tests)
- Optimizely - A/B testing (split tests) made easy
- Evan’sAwesomeA/BTools – evan miller
- How not to run A/B testing -evan miller
- Silverback – usability testing for designers and developers
- FeedbackArmy – web usability testing
- HubSpot - Marketing tool
- 37Signals Advice on A/B testing
Conversion Rate Optimization Blogs
- Unbounce blog - specialists of A/B testing
- Conversion Rate Experts - Conversion rate agency
- ConversionXL - Blog about Conversion
- Visual Website Optimizer blog - A/B testing
- KISSmetrics Blog - Blog about analytics, marketing and testing
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
- CakePHP – a PHP open source framework
- Symfony – another PHP framework
- Silex - PHP web micro framework based on Symofony2
- Zend – yet another PHP framework
- Slim – PHP web Micro-framework
- PHP Tutorial and PHP Manual and Freaks
- 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
- Ruby on Rails – open source 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
- jQuery UI - official jQuery user interface library. interactions, widgets, effects
- Javascript tutorial - jQuery
- Cappuccino - JS development framework
- JSFiddle - preselect/add JavaScript frameworks and test your code
- Handlebars – build semantic templates
- Baseline for front end developers - good summary
- Node.js - event-driven I/O server-side JavaScript environment based on V8
- The Go Programming Language
- The Go Project
- The Go programming language
- gccgo – complier for Go, front-end for GCC GNU compiler
- Goji – web micro framework for Go
- Gopher Academy – go education
- 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
- Web Hosting Tutorial
- Heroku - Ruby, Node.js, Clojure, Java cloud platform - Platform as a Service
- AppHarbor - Heroku for .net
- How Heroku Works
- CloudFoundry – deploy and scale apps in seconds- open source Platform as a Service
- Amazon Web Services - Amazon’s cloud solution - Infrastructure as a Service
- Amazon Web Services very basic primer
- AWS Marketplace – find and buy server software
- Amazon CloudWatch - Monitoring for Amazon EC2 and RDS DB
- Scalr - Tool to manage scaling servers in Amazon’s cloud.
- Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
- Amazon Glacier – Archival Storage in the Cloud
- Amazon Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2)
- Amazon AWS developer tools
- Amazon AppStream - stream resource intensive applications and games from the cloud
- Google Cloud Platform - Google’s cloud solution
- Google App Engine - Googles version of a cloud solution
- Google Compute Engine - Google virtual machines in the cloud
- Google SQL - Googles version of MySQL in the cloud
- Google Cloud Storage - object storage service with global edge-caching
- Google Cloud Datastore - managed, NoSQL, schemaless database
- Google Big Query - SQL-like queries against multi-terabyte datasets
- Windows Azure - Microsoft Cloud Platform
- Joyent – high performance cloud - Infrastructure as a Service
- Rackspace - Managed and cloud hosting- Infrastructure as a Service
- Rackspace Cloud Tools marketplace
- Linode - Linux SSD virtual servers in the cloud
- DotCloud - Build and deploy any application to the cloud
- Joppar- content mgmt for web & mobile apps
- Firehost – secure Cloud hosting
- Wowrack – managed Cloud hosting
- Bitnami – one-click Cloud hosting
- Enomaly - complete “cloud in a box” solution
- Wistia – video hosting for businesses
- AppDynamics - Cloud Performance Mgmt
- Epicnms - flexible data collection and plots
- Engine Yard - Ruby and PHP Cloud Hosting platform
- ServerPilot - hosting control panel for PHP developers using cloud servers
- DigitalOcean - inexpensive SSD cloud servers
- Netflix experience in moving from datacenter to cloud
NoSQL Databases
- Mining Massive Data Sets – awesome tutorial/text free
- Intro to Haddoop and MapReduce – Udacity Free class
- Data Analysis class – Coursera free class
- NoSQL list – start here for a list
- Hadoop - distributed processing of large data sets across clusters
- Hive - data warehouse for Hadoop
- Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) – Hosted Hadoop framework
- Amazon RDS – Cloud Relational Database
- Amazon Kinesis - real-time processing of streaming data at massive scale
- Amazon DynamoDB – NoSQL hosted on Amazon Web Services
- Riak - NoSQL database implementing Amazon’s Dynamo
- Cassandra – scalable database no single point of failure
- Couchdb – document database
- Redis - data structure server
- MongoDb – NoSQL database
- MemSQL – SQL in memory
- Rdbhost.com - browser SQL database hosting.Python/Javascript APIs
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
- Webkit Tutorial – Paul Irish
Open-source software hosting
- Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs
- Git Introduction - learn Github
- Git the Simple Guide – the basics
- Unfuddle - Git and subversion hosting
- 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
- TeamPulse -Scrum and Kanban
- RallyDev - Automates Agile / Scrum development
- YoDiz - agile/scrum tool, issue tracking
- VersionOne – agile product management and Scrum tool
- AgileScrumPro - Agile tool collaborative on an iPad
- Scrumy - project management tool loosely based off of Scrum
- OnTime Development Suite (and here) – provides bug tracking, scrum project management
- Acunote – Agile project management and Scrum
- Banana Scrum - A tool simple as Scrum itself.
- 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
- Crowdsupply - crowd funding for physical stuff
- Dragon Innovation - crowdfunding platform for hardware
- HWTrek - crowdfunding platform and community for hardware
- Electronics Stack Exchange Q&A site for electronics
- Bunnie Studios - Manufacturing tips
- Octopart – search engine for electronic parts
- What every hardware startup should know about parts
- Component purchasing for manufacturing
- SandSquid – magic! automated parts finder from a bill of material
- 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
- Digikey
- Mouser
- Newark
- Future
- Arrow
- Avnet
- Allied
- Sure
- Sparkfun - general components
- ExpressTechnology – new and obsolete components
- DowkeyMicrowave – RF Switches
- Microchip - great source of micro controllers and analog semis
- SemiconductorStore – wireless, video and embedded semi’s
- Baskville- if you need parts in New Zealand
- TI, Cypress, and Analog devices microcontrollers and IC’s
Startup Design/Prototype/Manufacturing Consultants/Helpers
- Dragon Innovation
- Highway 1
- MakeSimply
Manufacturing Resources
- Digikey - Electronic components distributor that offers products including semiconductors, passives and interconnects.
- Custom Circuit Boards - Printed circuit board manufacturer (USA) for prototype and production quantities
- Alibaba.com
- GlobalSources.com
- Sourcing in China
- Sourcing Blog
- Smart China Sourcing
3D Printers
- makerbot - Replicator2 3d printer
- Thingiverse - 3d designs for makerbot
- 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
- Calculating your true pre-money Valuation - Fastignite advices and tool
- Negociate a better Venture Deal - Fastignite advices and tool
- Vesting Calculator - Fastignite advices and tool
- Option Exercise & Sale - Fastignite advices and tool
Finance 101 for Entrepreneurs
MBA Mondays – Fred Wilson’s Tutorials
- How to Read a Financial Report, and here – Merrill Lynch
Education Financing
- Edsurge - the educational technology blog
- New Schools Education Tech Map
- 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
- LinkedIn’s SeriesB Pitch – Reid Hoffman
- FindtheBest Venture Capital
- Startup Valuation Advice - Mark Suster May 2011
- Fundraising 101 Checklist – Walker
- Pitching a VC - Mark Suster Advice
- How VC’s Evaluate Startups – Thomvest Ventures
- Seed Stage Valuation Guide - Jordan Cooper
- Alternate Funding Ideas – Business Insider
Cap Tables / Valuation
- Cap Table Template - Fred Wilson
- CapTable.io – set up your companies cap table
- Awesome Valuation/Equity Calculator - ownyourventure
- TrueEquity – Cap Table Mgmt software
- Capography – Cap Table Mgmt software too
- Simple CapTable calculator - David Miller
- How VC’s Calculate Valuation - Mark Suster
- Foundrs - co-founder equity calculator
Managing Your Board
- LaunchPad Central - the best way to share Bus Model Canvas/Customer Development progress
- Seederboard – startup reporting dashboard
Founder Equity Issues
- Fred Wilson Advice and spreadsheet
- Employee Equity
- Dilution
- Appreciation
- Options
- Option “Strike Price”
- RSU’s (Restricted Stock Units)
- Vesting
- How Much?
- The Right Way to Grant Equity – Andy Rachleff Wealthfront
- Intro to Stock and Options – David Weekly
- An Engineers Guide to Stock Options – Alex Maccaw
- Venture Hacks equity section
- Dilution – Mark Suster
- Joel Spolsky Advice on fairness
- Awesome Valuation/Equity Calculator - OwnYourVenture
- Splitting the Founders Pie - Frank Demmler
- ScottEdWalker - this legal blog is gold for a startup
- TruEquity Mgmt Tool - cap table management, free for founders
- Valuation on Revenue – Bill Gurley Above the Crowd
- Startup Salary & Equity – Wealthfront
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
- 8 Legal steps to creating a startup - Article by Corpnet
- Startup Lawyer
- Startup Law Blog
Intellectual Property Advice
- Patents – U.S. Patent Office
- Trademarks - U.S. Patent Office
- Intellectual Property in the “Real World”- Antone Johnson
- “Nuts and Bolts” of Intellectual Property - Antone Johnson
- Intellectual Property for Startups - Mashtag
- Intellectual Property Basics – great tutorials from Bryce Pilz of Univ of Michigan
- Trademark University – Gerben Law
Lawyers/Legal
- Orick’s Legal Documents for Startups - priceless
- Walker Law: Tips for Entrepreneurs
- Top Ten Legal Mistakes for Entrepreneurs
- Startup Law 101 – George Grellas
- Yoichiro “Yokum” Taku – Startup Company Lawyer
- Startup Law Blog – Davis Wright Tremaine, Joe Wallin
- Orrick – Startup Legal Tool Kit
- Goodwin, Proctor – Founders Workbench
- Law & Disorder: ARS Technica Legal Blog
- Likelihood of Confusion-trademark, copyright and Internet Law
- Technology & Marketing Law Blog
- American Bar Association Best Legal Blogs
- Music Law – one of the best legal blogs period. Read all of it.
- FindtheBestLawyers - list of best lawyers
Fighting Patent Trolls
- TrollingEffects - learn more about patent trolls
- UnifiedPatents – patent micropool to fight patent trolls
- ElectronicFrontierFoundation(EFF) – on patents
Now that you have everything to succeed, let's get to it!
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