Startup Tools

1. Startup Tools Click Here

2. Founding/Running a Startup Advice Click Here

3. Market Research Click Here

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Startup Tools

Getting Started

• The Lean LaunchPad Online Class – FREE
• How to Build a Web Startup – Lean Launchpad Edition
• How to Create a $1M Web Business – Noah Kagan

Lists of Tools from Others

• HBS Startup Tribe Tools List – from Tom Eisenmann at HBS
• NYU Startup Resources Library
• PBworks startup tools List
• Startup Weekend tools list
• Y Combinator Startup Library
• Startup Foundry tools list
• Small Business tools list
• Market research list
• Software Advice

Groups

• Startup Weekend – Launch a Startup in 54 hours
• Startup America Partnership – access to Relationships, Opportunities and Knowledge
• The Lean Startup Machine – Launch a Startup in 48 hours
• Startup Monthly – Launch a Startup in a month
• Lean Startup Circle – Google Group for startup advice
• LUXr – Lean UX residency
• Women 2.0 – Launch a startup for women
• Meetup – Meet people you’re interested in

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

“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 Do I Contact Customers?” Tools

• Jigsaw – business contacts
• Hoovers – phone and email contacts for sale
• Harrisinfo – sales leads for sale
• InfoUSA – email lists for sale
• ThomasNet – find any company

 

Product Launch Tools

• LaunchRock – Create a viral “coming soon” landing page
• LaunchSoon – create a coming soon landing page
• KickOffLabs – another viral “coming soon” landing page
• Prefinery– Beta and Launch Mgmt software
• Ooomf – iPhone app store build/push/launch

Product Demo 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
• Thinkmojo – animated product videos
• Epipheo Studios – animated product videos
• How to roll you own – Grumomedia

On-Line Advertising Platforms (SEO)

• Startup Metrics for Pirates – read this before you spend time elsewhere
• 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 blog – good analytics tutorials
• SEO for Startups – good tutorial
• Andrew Chen’s Essays – great web customer acquisition tutorials
• 5 Landing Page Metrics You Need to Know – simple tutorial

 

Web/Mobile/Social Analytics Tools

• Google Analytics – web analytics and optimizer from the borg
• Kissmetrics– actionable analytics
• GetClicky – real-time web analytics
• Swix – analytics for social media and online
• Leadlander – marketing automation analytics
• Seomoz – SEO and social monitoring
• Wordtracker – find the best keywords and links
• Serpico – monitor your competition, backlinks & rankings
• Chart.io – easy analytics for business data
• Mixpanel– real-time event tracking
  • Mixpanel Analytics Tutorials
• Crazyegg– visualize analytics
• 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
• 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

Online Marketing Suites

• Relead – turn website visitors into sales pipeline leads
• 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
• MarketBright – marketing automation suite
• HootSuite – social media dashboard
• Intercom – CRM and web messaging tool for web apps
• Salestrakr – low cost CRM
• InviteBox – referral program platform
• Crowdtap – Influencer Marketing platform

Email Marketing/Blasting

• Best email Subject-lines
• MailChimp – free basic email blast software
• Tout – email blast and mgmt software
• Constant Contact – email, event promotion, social campaigns
• Campaigner – email marketing suite
• Exact Target – social media and email marketing
• Postmark – email blast and mgmt software
• Mad Mimi – email blast software
• JangoMail – marketing and transactional email
• SendGrid – email blast software
• GroupVine – email marketing, community engagement, surveys
• Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)  – pretty cool
• Campaign Monitor – basic email software
• Litmus – email previews and email analytics
• Emma – basic email marketing
• Postcron – schedule posts on Twitter or Facebook
• Mailjet – bulk and marketing email

Surveys

• Google Consumer Surveys
• Zoomerang – Free basic version, surveys polls, 150+ templates
• AYTM – Ask Your Target Market
• Ethnio – Recruit real people from your website for user research
• Qualtrics – cloud-based survey, free account
• KissInsights – survey visitors while they surf your site
• Wufoo – create contact forms, online surveys and event registrations.
• Poplytics – online surveys and analytics
• AskYourTargetMarket – market research surveys
• SurveyMonkey–  granddaddy of on-line surveys
• QuestionPro – on surveys, plus templates
• SnapSurveys – online and mobile surveys
• Amazon Mechanical Turk – you can set up a question and get answers
• PickFu – A/B testing $5 for 50 opinions
• SurveyGizmo – free version, survey creation and data integration tools
• 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

Gamification

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

Loyalty Programs

• 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

Collaboration

• Dropbox – free store, sync, and, share files online.
• Box – online file sharing
• Google Apps – free Email, Chat, Docs
• LibreOffice – free wordprocessor, spreadsheet, drawing, presentation, pdf maker and database office suite
• Skype– free voice and video communication tool
• Typewithme – document collaboration tool
• Google Hangouts – Googles uber Skyoe
• Evernote – remember everything
• Campfire – team collaboration
• Wikispaces – wikis for everyone
• Slideshare – share Powerpoints and docs with customers
• Join.me – free screen sharing
• Ning – Create your own social network
• Yammer – free enterprise social network
• Doodle – online group scheduling
• Freeconferencecall.com – Free conference calls – awesome!
• Speek – easy to setup conference calls, file sharing
• Syncpad – collaborative whiteboard
• Piktochart – make infographics

On-line Q&A Communities

• Stack Overflow – questions and answers for programmers
• StackExchange – expert answers to your questions
  • Programmers StackExchange
  • AskPatents StackExchange
• 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

Blogging Platforms

• WordPress– king of blogging platforms…doubles as startup website
• Tumblr – another blogging platform
• Posterous – yet another blogging platform
• Disqus – Comments Platform

Wireframing Tools

• Great list of rapid prototyping tools here – dan harrelson
• Keynotopia – use PowerPoint/Keynote to create web/mobile apps – Cool!
• Lean Design – design using HTML5-editor and automatically convert it to XHTML/CSS
• 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
• Draw.io – draw diagrams online
• 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
• JustinMind– define web and mobile apps with interactive prototypes
• JustinMind UserNote – get user feedback/test usability
• Wirify – turn any webpage into a wireframe
• LucidChart – Cloud-based drawing tool
• InVision – UX Prototyping from jpg, .png or .gif files
• Cacoo – free online drawing tool
• Axure – Wireframing, prototypes: buil-in widgets and shapes
• HotGloo – Online Wireframing Tool
• Mocksup – Share your web site mockups
• Mockingbird – Mock it up and share web site wireframes
• Protoshare – website wireframing
• Gliffy – Online Diagraming
• Keynotopia – wireframing + high fidelity (pixel perfect) prototyping tool
• Free Wireframe templates for iPhone, iPad and Web
• Wireframing Tutorial

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
• Userfy – live user testing of your site
• Experimently – heat maps, A/B testing experiments
• 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

Website A/B and Landing Page Testing

• A/B Testing Tutorial – read first
• Landing Page Tutorial
• Fivesecondtest – Landing page optimization
• VisualWebSiteOptimizer – A/B testing (split tests)
• Optimizely – A/B testing (split tests)
• Silverback – usability testing for designers and developers
• FeedbackArmy – web usability testing
• 37Signals Advice on A/B testing

• 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
• 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
• 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
• NewRelic – manage and tune website performance for Rails
• 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

Video Analysis Tools

• Tracker – way cool video analysis tool

Web Application Frameworks

• 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
  • Zend – yet another PHP framework
  • PHP Tutorial  and PHP Manual  and Freaks
• Python
  • Django – high-level Python framework
    • Fabric – django deployment tool
  • Tornado – Python framework
  • Web2py – Pythonweb framework
• Ruby
  • Ruby on Rails – open source framework for Ruby
    • Capistrano – Rails deployment tool
    • 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 – another Ruby framework
• JavaScript
  • Node.js –  event-driven I/O server-side JavaScript environment based on V8
  • Express – web development for Node.js
  • 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
  • Baseline for front end developers – good summary
• Drupal – open source content management platform
• Joomla – another open source content management system
• Learn to Code – Stanford Computer Science classes – free

Cloud Services and Tools

• Web Hosting Tutorial
• Heroku – Ruby, Node.js, Clojure, Java cloud platform – Platform as a Service
  • AppHarbor – Heroku for .net
• 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
  • Amazon CloudWatch – Monitoring for Amazon EC2 and RDS DB
  • Scalr – Tool to manage scaling servers in Amazon’s cloud.
  • Amazon EC2 developer tools
  • Amazon AWS developer tools
• Joyent – high performance cloud – Infrastructure as a Service
• Rackspace – Managed and cloud hosting- Infrastructure as a Service
  • Rackspace Cloud Tools marketplace
• Linode – Linux virtual servers in the cloud
• Google App Engine – Googles version of a cloud solution
• Google SQL – Googles version of MySQL in the cloud’
• Windows Azure – Microsoft Cloud Platform
• DotCloud – Build and deploy any application to the cloud
• Storage Room – 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
• Netflix experience in moving from datacenter to cloud

NoSQL Databases

• NoSQL list – start here
• Hadoop – distributed processing of large data sets across clusters
  • Hive – data warehouse for Hadoop
• Cassandra – scalable database no single point of failure
• Couchdb – document database
• Redis – data structure server
• MongoDb –  NoSQL database
• Riak – NoSQL database implementing Amazon’s Dynamo
• MemSQL – SQL in memory
• Rdbhost.com – browser SQL database hosting.Python/Javascript APIs

Development Tools

• Twisted – easy to implement custom network applications, event-driven networking engine written in Python
• 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
• Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform
• CircleCi – Continuous integration and deployment tool for web apps
• TeamCity – continuous integration and unit testing, code quality analysis, pre-tested commits, reporting on build problems
• 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 & SourceLair API– 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

Project Management

• 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
  • Bitbucket – cloud hosting for Git or Mecurial projects
• Mercurial – free, distributed source code control management system
  • Bitbucket – free code hosting site for Mercurial
• Kanban versus Scrum – description
• Kanban Tools
  • Kanban Tool – Another 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
• Scrum Tools
  • TeamPulse -Scrum and Kanban
  • RallyDev – Automates Agile / Scrum development
  • YoDiz – agile/scrum tool, issue tracking
  • VersionOne – agile product management and Scrum tool
  • ScrumPad – Agile tool collaborative product life-cycle
  • 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
• Trello – team collaboration around “boards”
• Rally – agile product management
• Clarizen – cloud project mgmt tool
• Webplanner – online collaborative project management application.
• ChiliProject – web based project management
• Kiln – Version control and code review
• Fogbugz -bug tracking, project mgmt, customer support
• Preceden – simple way to make timelines for presentations
• Intervals – time tracking and task management
• Asana – shared task list for your team
• Teambox -combines social networking and project management
• Milestone Planner – planner for deadline/outcome driven environments
• 5pm – Online project 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
• Lighthouse – Issue Tracking Tool
• Toggle – time tracking tool
• Tabb – online time mgmt and to-do
• Jira – Bug, Issue and Project tracking tool
• Bontq – hosted bug tracking and project management needs.
• Managewith.us – Collaborative Task Manager
• Mavenlink – manage project communications, documents, schedules, budgets, payments
• Industrial Logic – Agile eLearning

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

Digital Asset Management

• MediaValet – for agencies, creatives, enterprise
• Celum – digital and video asset mgmt.
• Canto Cumulus – digital asset mgmt
• ThirdLight – digital asset mgmt
• WebDam –

Billing/Subscription Management/E-Store

• Square – accept credit cards from ipad/iphone/android
• Stripe – accept credit cards on the web
• Chargify – Recurring billing without the headaches
• Recurly – Subscription billing
• Paypal – the standard for payment
• Paypal Payments Pro – accept debt and credit cards on your website
• Braintree – online credit card merchant processing
• Aria – online billing platform
• Shopify – create an online store
• EStoreApp – a webstore in 5 minutes
• Vindicia – on demand billing and fraud management
• Volusion – shopping cart software
• CheddarGetter – online recurring billing
• Cloudware City – online app store for subscription services
• Spreedly – sell subscriptions on your site. signup, upgrade, trial pricing
• Zuora – online subscription management
• FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors
• HealPay – Collections made easy

Customer Support/Feedback

• Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site
• GetSatisfaction – conversations between companies / customers
• Zendesk – web help software
• Clickdesk – Help desk, live chat, social toolbar
• SnapEngage – live chat integrates with your apps
• Freshdesk – completely unique never seen before web help software
• Testimonial Monkey –  integrate customer feedback into your site
• Kayako – Help desk
• UserVoice – turn customer feedback into action
• Kampyle – turn customer feedback into sales and relationships
• Ideaffect – customer feedback, vote, comment, manage
• Olark – live customer chat and customer loyalty
• 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
• HelpSpot – Helpdesk software
• Webengage – website survey, feedback and notification tool

Recruiting Tools

• JobVite – recruiting software, applicant tracking
• Zoho Recruit – applicant tracking
• Resumator – applicant tracking and social recruiting
• RecruiterBox – recruitment software, applicant tracking
• ActiveInterview – Video interviewing
• JobPage – applicant tracking and social recruiting
• Zartis – social recruiting
• MasterBranch – show off your skills
• VidCruiter – video interview software
• LinkedIn – the uber connector

Misc Office Help

• SharedDesks – Coworking and Office Space
• Google Apps – cloud mail server, calendar, docs, etc.
• Grasshopper – virtual phone system
• Hoiio – business communications apps
• Ringio – cloud 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
• Expensify – billing, expenses, receipts
• BambooHR – Employee Records, Benefit Information, Payroll Data, etc.
• Xobni – Outlook plugin to search
• QuoteRoller – create, deliver and negotiate proposals online

Outsourcing/Freelance Help

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

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

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Market Research Tools

• Clipular – Camera for the web/great research clippings
• Business Research LaunchPad – start here
• Private “pay for market research” firms
  

• Gartner, Forrestor, Yankee – IT
• Frost & Sullivan – mulitple industries
• NPD – entertainment
• IMSHealth –  health care
• MedMix – lifesciences
• CMR – chemical
• API – petroleum industry

Your local business school, should have a subscription to some or all of these

• Public or University library Resources:
  • Standard & Poor’s Industry Surveys
  • Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries, Gale Research
  • Encyclopedia of American Industries, Gale Research
  • Encyclopedia of Associations, Gale Research (find Trade Associations)
  • Harris InfoSource Business Directory
  • Lifestyle Market Analyst, SRDS – used for collecting psychographic data

  Market Research Resources Online

  • IOS / Android Market Size – Installed base
  • Edsurge – educational software
  • Alexa – competitive website info
  • Silicon Valley Bank Analytics
  • Compete – see competitive website traffic
  • SEC EDGAR – research on public U.S. firms
  • MarketReseach.com  – Retailer of private market research reports
  • ZapData.com – Dun & Bradstreet offers free statistical industry data
  • Thomas – find any company in any industry
  • BizStats.com – free business statistics and financial ratios
  • SBDC – National Information Clearinghouse of the U.S. Small Business Administration
  • Encyclopedia of Associations
  • U.S. Bureau of the Census
  • ESRI– Has free demographic data available by zip code
  • EASI – estimated demographic statistics within a user-specified radii for any address
  • Claritas – psychographic information and analysis of zip code areas
  • Standard and Poors – Industry Surveys
  • International Trade Statistics –
  • NVCA – venture capital industry data
  • PWC MoneyTree – more venture capital data
  • Chemical Industry data
  • FDA News – medical device and drug data/news
  • Asymco – great market intelligence blog

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Starting and Running a Startup Advice

Entrepreneurship Reading List

• Books for Startups my favorite business books.
• Tech Entrepreneurs reading list
• My class and presentation slides!

Entrepreneurship Online

• Stanford Entrepreneurship Corner
• Cornell eClips

Angel/SuperAngel Investors

• Venture Hacks Angel List – raise money with angel investors
• Gust – Platform for Startup Funding
• Guide to Super Angels – Chubby Brain
• Types of Angel Financing
• Angel Financing Tips and here

Crowdfunding

• Kickstarter – crowdfunding
• Indiegogo – crowdfunding
• Rock The Post – crowd funding

Best Startup Advice

• Best of Y- Combinator Startup Advice
• Tom Eisenmann Platform & Networks – Harvard Business School
• Uber list of Startup Resources – Legal, Equity, etc. – Bottom Line Law Group

Founder Equity Issues

• Fred Wilson Advice and spreadsheet
• Intro to Stock and Options – David Weekly
• 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

Executive / Advisory Board Compensation

• The Funded Standard Advisor Template
• Comp Study – Executive Compensation Website– unbelievably useful
• Expert CEO Compensation page – also incredibly useful
• SaaS Sales Team Compensation – Philippe Botteri, Bessemer Venture Partners
• VentureHacks on Startup Advisory Boards – great basics

Public Relations (PR) For Tech Companies

• Tech Reporters Contact Info – Conrad Egusa’s gift to us all
• Beginners Guide to PR
• 7 steps to get press coverage – Leo Widrich
• How to get media coverage – Leo Widrich

Finance 101 for Entrepreneurs

• MBA Mondays – Fred Wilson’s Tutorials
• How to Read a Financial Report, and here – Merrill Lynch

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
• Intellectual Property Law For Startups Blog
• 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.

List of Investment Platforms

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

Must Read Blogs

• Best Blogs Every Entrepreneur should read
• Top VC Blog List
• Fred Wilson – A VC
• SK Murphy
• Marc Andreessen
• Paul Graham
• Hacker News
• Brad Feld
• Chris Dixon
• OnStartups-Dharmesh Shah
• Both Sides of the Table – Mark Suster
• 37signals
• Eric Ries – Startup Lessons Learned
• Venture Hacks and http://twitter.com/venturehacks
• Andrew Chen
• Dave McClure
• Venture Made Transparent

More to read

• Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson – Ask the VC
• Dharmesh Shah  – On startups
• Josh Kopelman  – Redeye VC
• David Hornik – VentureBlog

Misc

Some of the material I have created or use in my classes does not lend itself to blogs. It’s more reference material. Thus, these pages.  I’ll add more as time goes on. See my slide/video links

• UC Berkeley, Haas Business School Customer Development: Spring 2011 MBA 295F syllabus
• Stanford University Engr 245 – The Lean Launchpad
• Class slides

Tenacity If you’ve gotten this far, here is a visual representation of tenacity and persistence