The Gigantic List of Amazing Startup Resources

The best time to follow your passion, and turn your idea into a successful startup is 10 years ago, the second-best time is right NOW!

Yes, building a startup is hard. Knowing where to start and what to do next once you take the first few steps can become a real challenge. But with the right resources, you can get started on the right foot and to keep you going one step at a time.

To help you along your journey, we (the team at Next Decentrum and I) put together a curated list of brilliant resources and tools that can address almost every question you may have about building your startup.

This list is divided according to the steps you need to take to turn your idea into a successful startup developed based on Launch’s Lean Entrepreneur Acceleration Program. I hope you find them useful and helpful on your journey as a founder. And if you come across other great resources or tools that you find helpful please add them in the comments for your fellow founders.

Together we learn, grow, and build a better world ;)

PS: We have made every effort to make sure that at the time of putting together this list every link is working, if you find a link that is not, please call it out in the comments. Thank you.

Idea

Learn

• How to Choose Your Startup Idea
• 50 Signs You Might Be an Entrepreneur
• Find Your Why
• Where Good Ideas Come From
• The Dark Art Of How To Turn An Idea Into A Successful Startup
• Why not to do a startup
• The Lean LaunchPad Online Class
• YCombinator Startup Playbook
• How To Build a Web Startup — Lean LaunchPad Edition
• How to Create a $1M Web Business: How to Create a Million-Dollar Business This Weekend (Examples: AppSumo, Mint, Chihuahuas)
• Innovators podcast @ Stanford
• How to name your startup?
• Never underestimate your first idea
• Beauty of A Bad Idea w/ Walker & Company’s Tristan Walker
• Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups
• From a Twinkle in the Founder’s Eye: Intellectual Property for New Startups
• Start by CO — : Everything that you need to know to start your own business. From business ideas to researching the competition.
• The Top 20 Reasons Startups Fail

Take Action

• The Name App: Find available domain names and social handles for your brilliant idea.
• Germ.io: capture every great idea, brainstorm, and turn them into actionable project plans..
• Skitch: Get your point across with fewer words using annotation, shapes and sketches, so that your ideas become reality faster.
• Impossibility: The best domain name generator ever.
• Wordoid: Catchy Names for your Company, Product or Website.
• Naminum: Discover a perfect company name.
• Domainr: Find your perfect name.
• Domain.com: Start with the perfect domain name
• Short Domain Search: Find short, available single-word domain names.
• Lean Domain Search: Find a domain name for your website in seconds.
• DomainNameBrain: The smartest way to find a domain name!
• NameCheap: Search for your domain name
• Namesmith: The creative business name generator.
• KnowEm allows you to check for the use of your brand, product, personal name or username instantly on over 500 popular and emerging social media websites. Grab your name and secure your brand before someone else does.

Startup Strategic Action Plan Using The Lean Canvas

Learn

• What is a startup?
• The single biggest reason why startups succeed
• Business Model versus Business Plan
• Why the Lean Startup Changes Everything
• The Lean Startup | Methodology
• Business Model Canvas Explained
• 9 Steps to Creating a Successful Business Model
• How to Document Your Business Model On 1 Page — Love the Problem
• THE 20 MINUTE BUSINESS PLAN: BUSINESS MODEL CANVAS MADE EASY
• Lessons Learned, “The Lean Startup”
• Capture Your Business Model in 20 Minutes — Lean Canvas
• Business Model Archetypes

Take Action

• LeanStack: 10X your traction in 12 months. Validate and scale your idea.
• Javelin.com: All-in-one Lean Startup and Customer Development software.
• Launchpad: Innovation management software, empowering organizations of all types to bring their best ideas to market.
• Mural.ly: Remote collaboration made simple. allows distributed teams to practice Lean -Visual collaboration for creative people
• Canvasizer: Create and edit a canvas. Brainstorm better concepts. Together with your team.
• Vizologi: Create better business strategies using business model data
• Canvases, Tools and More. Over 30 free downloads that you can use to better design, test, and assess your business ideas.
• Cuttles: Startup Planning App

Know Who’s Your Target Customer

Learn

• What is Customer Discovery
• The Customer Development Process.
• Have a customer before you start your business
• Users vs Customers
• How to Define Your Target Market
• How to spot an early adopter and jumpstart your business
• Understanding Early Adopters and Customer Adoption Patterns
• Predictive personas — InVision Blog
• What Is Customer Journey Mapping and How to Start?
• How to Create a Customer Journey Map — UX Master
• Conducting Customer Research Remotely: Tips, Tricks, And Resources

Take Action

• Mapovate: Create Smarter Customer Journeys
• Persona Template
• InfoUSA: Data on More Than 24 Million Businesses and 235 Million Consumers
• BizStats: Free business statistics and financial ratios
• The SBDC: National Information Clearinghouse
• The Census Bureau serves as the US’ leading provider of quality data about its people and economy.
• EASIDemographics: Demographics Made Easy!
• Claritas: help marketers Identify their best customers
• S&P Global Ratings Research & Insights: is the world’s leading provider of independent credit ratings.
• International Trade Administration: Find trade data, research and reports about countries and markets around the world.
• CBInsights Research
• British Columbia Data
• Vancouver Open Data Portal
• DataCite: Locate, identify, and cite research data with the leading global provider of DOIs for research data.
• figshare is a repository where users can make all of their research outputs available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner
• Datahub is the fastest way for individuals, teams and organizations to publish, deploy and share their data
• Open Data CERN Explore more than two petabytes of open data from particle physics!
• Eurostat: European Stats
• Knoema is the most comprehensive source of global decision-making data in the world.
• OECD Data: Find, compare and share the latest The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development data: charts, maps, tables and related publications.
• UN Data: 32 databases — 60 million records
• World Bank Open Data: Free and open access to global development data
• IMF DATA: a range of time series data on IMF lending, exchange rates and other economic and financial indicators.
• Statista: Insights and facts across 600 industries and 50+ countries
• 451 Research: proprietary research into high-growth emerging technologies
• Forrester is one of the most influential research and advisory firms in the world
• Gartner research and advisory company
• Frost & Sullivan: research and analysis
• The NPD Group offers data, industry expertise, and prescriptive analytics
• IQVIA is a world leader in using data, technology, advanced analytics.
• USA Spending: Tracks federal spending and how it’s being used in communities across America.
• analytics.usa.gov understand how people find, access, and use government services online
• Data.Medicare.gov Explore & download Medicare data
• Archives Library Information Center (ALIC) Online Databases
• Pew Research Center: Nonpartisan, non-advocacy data and analysis on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world
• Ideal Client Persona Worksheet

Discover The Key Problems

Learn

• Getting Out of the Building. 2 Minutes to See Why
• Find Better Problems Worth Solving with the Customer Forces Canvas
• Love the Problem, Not Your Solution — Love the Problem
• Steve Blank’s Customer Discovery Checklist
• Customer Interview Templates and Resources
• Customer Discovery: Who Do You Interview
• Why startups need to constantly communicate with their customers
• Customer Discovery: What Do You Ask
• How to Test & Validate Your Startup Idea or Product Without Spending a Single Dollar
• The 5 Whys Process We Use to Understand the Root of Any Problem
• How To Really Listen To Your Customers
• 6 foolproof ways to get your startup its first 100 customers

Take Action

• ConfirmKit is the modern user research platform that helps you and your team to talk to users in an approachable and efficient manner. Now everyone in your organization can meaningfully contribute to making your products better.
• Typeform: Engage your audience with conversational forms & surveys — and get more data.
• SurveyMonkey:Create simple to sophisticated surveys online. Turn data into business results.
• Free Survey Creator: Make a free survey to know your users!
• Helprace: Tightly integrates multiple tools together for great customer service: Tickets, Email Management, Customer Community, Feedback, Docs & Knowledge Base.
• Google Trends: Explore what the world is searching
• Problem Interview Script
• Free Survey Creator: Create a survey. Get user feedback for free.
• FAQ Fox: Content Idea & Market Research Tool

Create, Communicate, and Test Your Value Proposition

Learn

• Value Proposition Canvas
• Writing Value Propositions that Work
• 32 Value Propositions that are Impossible to Resist
• How To Create A Useful Value Proposition w/ Examples
• Product/Market Fit: the Value Proposition Canvas
• Testing Product/Market Fit: Value Proposition Canvas
• Business Marketing: Understand What Customers Value
• Why Value Creation is the Foundation of Business: How to define it, measure it, and manage it
• Why a Unique Value Proposition is Crucial for Higher Conversions
• 25 Companies Who Absolutely Nailed Their Unique Value Proposition
• How to Optimize this Critical Marketing Element — and Lift Your Results
• The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Value Proposition that Works
• 26 Powerful Value Proposition Examples That Convert Visitors
• How do I use the Value Propositions building block of the Business Model Canvas?
• How to Create a Unique Value Proposition — with Examples
• How Product Managers Can Write More Compelling Value Propositions
• 21 Great (And Not So Great) Value Proposition Examples
• How to Write a Great Value Proposition [Infographic]
• The 31 Best Value Proposition Examples You Wish You Had [+VIDEO]
• 7 of the Best Value Proposition Examples We’ve Ever Seen

Take Action

• Free Value Proposition Canvas Template
• These 10 templates will make you rethink how you design value propositions
• Value Proposition Canvas Template | Editable Diagram Template
• A Value Proposition Template For Smart Marketers | BARQAR Marketing
• Angel: The world’s largest startup community
• Product Hunt surfaces the best new products, every day.
• Blog Ideas Generator: a year’s worth of blog post ideas in a matter of minutes
• Startups List: Collections of the best startups in different places
• BetaList: Discover and get early access to tomorrow’s startups
• Headline Analyzer Tool: Write Better Headlines
• Headline Analyzer From CoSchedule: Write Better Headlines
• Blog Post Idea Generator

Perfect Your Pitch and Present With Confidence

Learn

• What is a Pitch Deck
• 30 Legendary Startup Pitch Decks And What You Can Learn From Them
• How to Pitch the Problem
• Airbnb pitch deck: teardown and redesign
• The Ultimate Cheat Sheet for your Startup’s Investor Pitch Deck
• Presentation Essentials: How to Share Ideas That Inspire Action
• Pitch decks that helped hot startups raise millions
• Pitch Deck examples from successful startups (Airbnb, Uber, Facebook)
• 10 things to know before you pitch a VC for
• Why Confidence is So Important in Fund Raising
• What Should You Send a VC Before Your Meeting?
• What I Wish I Knew Before Pitching LinkedIn to VCs
• I Know Everybody Told You to Send Your Fund-Raising Decks as a Link. Here’s Why You Should Just Send the Deck
• What Founders Need to Know: You Were Funded for a Liquidity Event — Start Looking
• The Quick and Dirty Guide to Creating a Winning Pitch Deck
• The Periodic Table of Venture Capital Blogs
• A Harvard Social Psychologist on the Key to Mastering Public Speaking
• 18 Pitching Essentials: How to Pitch an Idea to Investors (and Early Customers)
• 30 Legendary Startup Pitch Decks And What You Can Learn From Them
• This Pitch Deck Will Rock Your 500 Startups Application
• Be inspired by the early-stage pitch decks of 20 of today’s most innovative companies
• The Step by Step Process to Create a Killer Pitch Deck For Investors
• The Only 10 Slides You Need in Your Pitch
• Create a Winning Startup Pitch Deck With This Easy-to-Use Template
• 50 Best Pitch Deck Examples from 2018 | YC & 500 Startups →
• All the Public Startup Pitch Decks in One Place
• The Early Pitch Decks Of 15 Startups Before They Became Billion-Dollar Companies
• Startup Pitch Decks — Universe
• 25+ Best Pitch Deck Examples, Tips & Templates for 2019

Take Action

• TEMPLATE — Your Fundraising Pitch Deck — The Do’s and Don’ts
• Startup Valuation Calculator
• Startup Growth Calculator: Calculates how much funding your startup needs.
• BaseTemplates: Create a pitch deck that gets you funded.
• 17 Pitch Deck Templates Inspired By Real-Life Startups and Businesses [Edit and Download]
• Pitcherific: Prepare better pitches. Convince more people
• Piktochart: : Create Infographics, Presentations & Flyers
• Slidebean AI: Pitch Deck Design | Presentation Software
• Peetch by Slidor: Free Pitchdeck Template
• Free PowerPoint resources
• Selfone by Slidor: Template for PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slide
• Glide by Slidor: Free PowerPoint Template
• Haiku Deck: Presentation Software and Online Presentation Tools
• Prezi: Presentation Software | Online Presentation Tools
• Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for modern teams
• Visme: Free Infographic Software and Presentation Maker
• 100+ Pitch Deck Examples and Templates — Free Downloads
• Pitch Deck: Create winning pitch decks
• Pitch Deck Template
• Beautiful.ai: Presentation Software — Basic to Beautiful in Minutes

Find Investors and Raise Capital

Learn

• A Guide to Seed Fundraising
• Raising Venture Capital
• Raising Capital: This is the Advice We Give Our Founders
• How Much Is Your Startup Worth?? Why Most Entrepreneurs Don’t Understand Valuation
• Valuation For Startups — 9 Methods Explained
• How to Build a Startup & Understanding Venture Capital
• 50 Questions Angel Investors Will Ask Entrepreneurs
• What’s the FIRST thing you need to do before fund raising?
• Understanding Startup Investments
• The complete guide to startup & scaleup funding in Canada
• Some Advice Before You Hit the Fund-Raising Trail
• 9 Guaranteed Reasons Your VC Pitch Will Fail
• 9 Things not to Do When Talking to Investors
• GUIDE — Founder’s Guide to Raising Your Seed Round
• Pre-Seed Funding And Canada’s Startup Ecosystem
• How Many Investors Should You Talk to in a VC Fund Raise? And How Do You Prioritize?
• THE OPTIMAL SEED ROUND STRATEGY — TIMING AND SIZE
• The “Doubling Model” For Fundraising
• Understanding the Herd Mentality of VCs and How not to Let it Psyche You Out
• How Long It Takes To Raise Capital For A Startup
• Visualizing the Stages of Startup Funding From Pre-Seed to IPO
• Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever get
• The Founder’s Guide to Understanding Investors
• Why Hearing “No” in a Fund-Raising Process is Actually Healthy
• Demystifying the Six Documents You Will See When Raising Venture Capital
• How to Improve Your Odds of Getting to Yes with a VC — “Land and Expand”
• Convertible Debt Terms–Survey of Market Trends
• How Much Should You Raise in Your VC Round? And What is a VC Looking at in Your Model?
• The Hacker Guide To Angel Investing
• How to Talk About Valuation When a VC Asks
• Cap Tables 101: The Startup’s Guide to Cap Table Management
• Term Sheets 101: A beginner’s guide to VC term sheets
• Want to Know How VC’s Calculate Valuation Differently from Founders?
• Glossary of Funding Types
• Understanding Venture Capital Term Sheets
• 2020 — Top 30 Corporate Venture Capital Investors
• Who’s Who In Ed Tech? Top Investors And Their Board Seats

Take Action

• Gust: a global SaaS platform for founding, operating, and investing in scalable, high-growth companies.
• FoundersSuite: A better way to raise capital. Foundersuite brings structure, speed and efficiency to fundraising and investor relations.
• Kiss: Free legal docs for startup founders and investor. FREE legal docs you can use to RAISE MONEY quickly & easily, hopefully WITHOUT GETTING SCREWED.
• Series Seed Equity Financing Documents Generator
• Series Seed Convertible Note Financing Documents Generator
• TEMPLATE — How to Cold Email an Investor — And Get a Response
• TEMPLATE — Guide to Managing Investor Meetings
• Equity Investment Simulation
• Captable.io: Manage & plan your startup equity
• List of Pre-Seed Funds
• Signal: Discover the top VCs you should be talking to
• Pre Seed Angel Investors
• The Brief: Free & private tool for startup founders to craft their best fundraising pitch deck and get the investor meeting. Access 80+ unique fundraising advice and insights from top investors at Benchmark, Sequoia Capital, NFX, Greylock, Upfront, First Round Capital, Floodgate, CRV and more.
• VC Match: See your strongest VC matches based on your company’s sector, amount raising, location, and more
• Investor Hunt: The largest investor database online
• PitchBook: Venture Capital, Private Equity and M&A Database
• Eqvista: helps entrepreneurs record and manage their company’s stocks.
• Carta: helps companies and investors manage their cap tables, valuations, investments, and equity plans.
• Term Sheet Creator: Create drafts of startup and venture financing documents based on your responses to a series of interactive questions.
• Seed Financing Documents
• VC Term Sheets — Protective Provisions
• YC Safe Financing Documents
• Capital Calculator: Calculate the dilution you will experience when taking outside funding. Determine the payout in various sale of the business scenarios.
• CrunchBase: Discover innovative companies and the people behind them.
• Matermark: Discover, prospect, and track the world’s fastest-growing companies and investors.
• Kickstarter is a funding platform for creative projects
• Indiegogo is where early adopters and innovation seekers find lively, imaginative tech before it hits the mainstream.
• Republic equity investing platform and fundraising solution.
• Crowdfunder: Where Entrepreneurs and Investors Meet

Design and Build Your MVP — Minimal Viable Product

Learn

• What is a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
• The MVP is dead. Long live the RAT
• Beyond Landing Pages: Five Ways to Find Out if Your Idea Is Stupid
• How DropBox Started As A Minimal Viable Product
• Identify and Validate Your Riskiest Assumptions
• The Ultimate Guide to Minimum Viable Products
• The Quick and Dirty Guide to Validating Your Startup Idea
• This will change the way you build an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) in 2017…
• How we launched our first MVP in one month
• How to Build, Improve and Pivot a Minimum Viable Product
• 13 Great Landing Page Examples You Gotta Save for Your Swipe File

Take Action

• Squarespace Logo Designer
• logaster.com: Create your corporate style instantly with Logaster Brand Maker! Start with logo creation and get other design items in a few clicks!
• QuickMVP: QuickMVP is the easiest way to test your ideas, without wasting time or money.
• Mockingbird: Mock up an application and show what’s important:
• the idea, the information, the interaction.
• balsamiq: The fastest, most focused low-fidelity wireframing tool in the industry.
• InVision: The digital product design platform powering the world’s best user experiences
• Marvel: Wireframe, design and prototype fast with our intuitive design and prototyping tools.
• Yola: Create a professional, free website in minutes. Get leads, sell products, and grow your business online.
• Squarespace: Create a website that brings your ideas to life. Start with any website template and customize it to fit your needs, whether you’re making a portfolio, blog, or online store.
• Strikingly: Make a website in minutes.
• Wix: Everything you need to create a fully personalized, high-quality free website.
• LaunchRock: Build a beautiful marketing page in minutes and begin building your audience before your next big launch.
• Handcrafted UI components for landing pages

Hack Your Growth and Gain Traction

Learn

• The Bullseye Framework for Getting Traction
• The 19 Channels You Can Use to Get Traction
• 32 Fast and Cheap Marketing Tests You Should Consider Running
• Growth Hacking: Strategies & Tactics Learned Studying 77 Hyper-Growth Companies
• The Quick and Dirty Guide to Launching Your Startup in 2016
• 7 Counterintuitive Rules for Growing Your Business Super-Fast
• From Zero to 10,000 Clients in Two Years Using Channel Partners
• Landing Pages
• How Not To Run an A/B Test
• Behind the scenes: A/B testing part 3: Finalé
• These 6 Email Campaign Templates Could Boost Your Revenue
• The Ultimate Startup Marketing Strategy For Incredible Growth
• A collection of free images for your landing page
• How To Grow Your Email List Fast (1,000 Subscribers In 30 Days)
• Digital Marketing Plan
• Product landing pages gallery.
• 101 Trigger Words & Exactly How To Use Them
• 19 of the Best Landing Page Design Examples You Need to See in 2019
• 20 Uncommon Marketing Strategies That’ll Kickstart Your Startup
• How to Write A Newsletter: Step-By-Step Guide (With Real Examples)
• 7 Ways To Build A Free Email List From Scratch (1,000+ Subscribers)
• What are the best ways to learn Digital Marketing in 10 days?
• The Growth List
• Growth Hack List 2.0
• The Beginner’s Guide To Email Marketing Automation
• How to Start a Blog (in 2020): The Free Beginner’s Guide
• Primer: a free mobile app from Google that offers quick, easy-to-understand lessons for business owners and anyone looking to grow their business and digital marketing skills.
• Keep Your Customers Close: A collection of best practices, tips, tricks & techniques to not only help you retain your customers, but also maximize your Customer Lifetime Value.
• Email 1K: 30 days to double your email list
• Design for Hackers: Learn web design. A design book for programmers & developers

Take Action

• Startup — Free Bootstrap Builder for Templates & Themes
• Batch: A fully-fledged mobile engagement platform to execute CRM tactics over iOS, Android & mobile websites.
• Thomas: Connect with the most active and qualified network of B2B buyers for product discovery and supplier selection.
• D&B Hoovers: dynamic search and list-building capabilities, real-time trigger alerts, comprehensive company profiles, and valuable research and technology reports to help sellers get in the door first.
• Art of Email: 60+ free cold email and sales email templates
• OptiMonk: Turn your website visitors into customers with a set of flexible tools to capture more subscribers, reduce cart abandonment & grow sales.
• BounceX: recognizes visitors by device and matches them back to an email address in real-time. This powers a suite of products designed to increase the relevance of your message to consumers across channels.
• Smedian: Request to contribute to 1055 publications
• Content Row: Content marketing tools made by experts hell-bent on creating awesome, shareable content that converts.
• Expertise Finder: Search Engine to Find Experts from Universities
• Surf brings the best digital content and services to you in Moments that are right for you.
• Tindie: Buy awesome things directly from makers.
• OmniConvert: Optimize your customer journey with data-driven decisions.
• Teachery: Build and sell your awesome online course with zero fees.
• VWO: Build extraordinary digital experiences that convert better using a single platform
• UserThink: User Feedback On Demand For Your Landing Pages
• Built With: Find out what websites are Built With
• BuzzSumo: Find the content that performs best.
• Followerwonk: Twitter analytics to find, analyze, and optimize for social growth.
• Hello Bar: Convert visitors into customers
• Google News Downloader: Uses Google News API to look for news stories worldwide, and in the 10 largest US cities.
• Show HN: is a way to share something that you’ve made on Hacker News.
• Promotehour: Get press coverage for your startup, without a PR agency.
• Envato Elements: Download Stock Photos, Fonts & Templates
• PR Hacks: Best tools for startups to find Journalists and get press
• Autopilot: Marketing Automation
• Brizy: Create Highly Converting Landing Pages in a Breeze
• Mailchimp: All-in-One Marketing Platform
• Wishpond: Marketing Automation & Landing Pages
• Canvas by Wishpond: Super fast and easy drag-and-drop landing page builder.
• Infogram: Create Infographics, Reports and Maps
• Carrd: Simple, free, fully responsive one-page sites for pretty much anything
• Landen: The Website Platform for Startups
• Unicorn Platform : Landing page builder for startups
• Cruip: HTML, Vue.js and React templates for startup landing pages
• Slides: Free Static Website Generator and Landing Page Builder
• Landbot.io: Intuitive Conversational Chatbot Builder
• Drift: Conversational Landing Page Software
• Viral Loops: Viral & Referral Marketing Software
• Launchaco: Startup Website Builder
• Postcards: Free HTML Email Template Builder with Drag & Drop
• Landing Page Analyzer| Landing Page Optimization Tool
• HubSpot’s Website Grader
• ContactInBio: Create Microlanding Page For Your Social Media Profile
• Linktree: Connect audiences to all of your content with just one link
• Leadpages: Landing Page Builder & Lead Gen Software
• WikiGrabber: The quick way to find Wikipedia pages that need citations and dead or broken link replacements.
• Wattpad: Wattpad connects a global community of 80 million readers and writers through the power of story.
• SharedCount: Social URL Analytics
• Click To Tweet: Create tweetable content for your readers right from WordPress.
• Writerack is the best way to tweetstorm.
• BEE Free: Free online email editor to build responsive layout emails
• RetargetLinks: #1 Link Retargeting Service
• Sumo: The #1 FREE email capture tool
• Sumo Scroll Box: Politely Grow Your Email List
• Sumo List Builder: Grow Your Email List
• Pablo by Buffer: Design engaging images for your social media posts in under 30 seconds
• Stencil: The Web’s Favorite Online Graphic Design Tool
• Rite.ly: Place your ad on all links you share
• What’s a click worth? Lead-based Internet Marketing Worksheet
• Buffer: Simpler social media tools for authentic engagement
• Email Subject Line Tester
• Coolors.co: The super fast color schemes generator
• The Stocks: Best royalty free stock photos, videos, mockups, icons and fonts
• Portent’s Content Idea Generator: Instant Blog Topic Inspiration
• Keyword Tool: Find Great Keywords Using Google Autocomplete
• RiteBoost: Improve ROI of your social media posts in a click
• LogoDix: Logos, emblems and symbols repository
• RiteTag: Find the best hashtags
• HubSpot: The Free CRM for Small to Enterprise Businesses

Measure Your Progress and Track Your Metrics

Learn

• Product/Market Fit and Lean Analytics
• Accelerate Your Startup: It’s Time to Floor It
• AARRR: Pirate Metrics for SaaS
• The Complete Quantitative Guide To Judging Your Startup
• 16 Startup Metrics
• 16 More Startup Metrics
• I’m Sorry, But Those Are Vanity Metrics
• YOUR STARTUP’S 10 MOST IMPORTANT METRICS
• How to Pick Metrics that Matter for Your Startup
• SIX KEY BENCHMARKS FOR YOUR SAAS STARTUP
• The One Metric That Matters
• AARRR Framework- Metrics That Let Your StartUp Sound Like A Pirate Ship
• Why Pivots are Pivotal to Your Success
• 12 Things about Product-Market Fit
• MEASURING BOOKINGS, MRR, REVENUE AND CASH FOR YOUR SAAS STARTUP
• The Rule of 40% For a Healthy SaaS Company
• THE INNOVATOR’S DILEMMA FOR SAAS STARTUPS
• 2016 SaaS Survey Infographic
• The Dangerous Seduction of the Lifetime Value (LTV) Formula
• THE FUNDAMENTAL UNIT OF SAAS GROWTH
• The Illusion of Product/Market Fit for SaaS Companies
• The Elite 8%: How Successful Startup Founders Set and Achieve Company Goals

Take Action

• ZOZOLO: Track & increase ROI from your social media presence with built in dashboard and built in loyalty points system. Increase sales from social media, enhance engagement, boost campaign participation and decrease media spends.
• Google Tag Manager: Simple, reliable, easily integrated tag management solutions — for free. Manage all your website tags without editing code.
• Evan’s Awesome A/B Tools: Intuitive statistical calculators, ideal for planning and analyzing A/B tests.

Need to go further on a specific topic? There is a list for that :)

Build Your Team

Learn

• You Need Employees with the “Founder’s Mindset”
• How to Split Co-Founder Equity Fairly
• Startup Equity 101: Who Gets What Slice Of The Pie
• The Option Pool Shuffle
• Turning Teams from Good to Great in 3 Easy Steps
• How Much Equity to Give Your Cofounder
• Understanding How Dilution Affects You at a Startup
• An Engineer’s guide to Stock Options
• The Stock Plan Used by Hundreds of YC Companies
• Equity Compensation: When Startups Should Grant Restricted Stock, ISOs, NSOs, or RSUs
• Secondary Sales in VC-backed startups: A Quick Primer for Entrepreneurs
• An Introduction to Stock & Options for the Tech Entrepreneur or Startup Employee
• Primer for Building an Effective Board for Growing Startup Companies
• What Makes a Great Independent Board Member?
• Why Board Meetings Suck — Part 1 of 2
• Reinventing the Board Meeting — Part 2 of 2 — Virtual Valley Ventures
• Don’t Give Away Your Board Seats
• A No B.S. Guide to Startup Stock Option Grants
• Everything you ever wanted to know about advisors
• The Right Way to Grant Equity to Your Employees
• Experimentation and Testing: A Primer
• The Most Productive Ways to Take (and Give) Feedback
• Gain Clarity w/ Clients Using Objective Criteria
• Principled Negotiation — The Harvard Approach — Fisher & Ury
• Objective Criteria in Negotiation

Take Action

• Slicing Pie is a universal, one-size-fits all model that creates a perfectly fair equity split in an early-stage, bootstrapped start-up company.
• The Grunt Fund Calculator: an Excel spreadsheet that calculates slices of pie based on the model in the book.
• Startup Equity Calculator
• Public Template: Stock Option Value Calculator for Current Employees
• Public Template: Stock Option Grant Evaluator for Candidates
• Public Template: Offer deck stock option value template
• CoFoundersLab: Find your tech cofounder and access 300,000+ entrepreneurs
• Basecamp: Project Management & Team Communication Software
• REMOTE: Office Not Required
• It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work
• Atlassian: Software Development and Collaboration Tools
• Yammer: Connect with people across your organization to make better decisions, faster.
• Pivotal Tracker: Agile Project Management
• Slack: Where work happens
• Flowdock: Group chat for teams. Integrates with GitHub, Jira, Trello.
• Typetalk: Chat App for Businesses and Teams
• Startup Equity Calculator: Figure out Grants
• Asana: Manage your team’s work, projects, & tasks online
• Google Hangouts: bring conversations to life with photos, emoji, and even group video calls for free.
• Yanado: Best Task & Project Management Tool For Gmail
• Trello: work more collaboratively and get more done.
• Founder2be: Start a startup and find a co-founder. Find a developer, web designer for your business ideas.
• Atlassian: Software Development and Collaboration Tools

Build Your Product

Learn

• How to design successful social products with 3 habit-forming feedback loops
• Patent Help — Getting Started
• Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World
• Web Fundamentals: Google’s opinionated reference for building amazing web experiences.
• How to Build a Web App: React Starter Kit — isomorphic web app boilerplate (Node.js, Express, GraphQL, React.js, Babel, PostCSS, Webpack, Browsersync)
• Top Hacks from a PM Behind Two of Tech’s Hottest Products
• ElectronicFrontierFoundation(EFF) on patents
• Pricing Tables: Examples And Best Practices
• I analyzed 250 SaaS pricing pages — here’s what I found
• Examples of Pricing Pages — The Lean Startup Circle Wiki
• Unified: a 200+ international membership organization that seeks to improve patent quality and deter unsubstantiated or invalid patent assertions in defined technology sectors (Zones).
• Trolling Effects is a resource for those who have been targeted by patent trolls.
• Essential ‘how-to’ guidance for product managers in government.
• Product Psychology: Understanding Consumer Behavior
• Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters
• The UX Newsletter
• UX Design Weekly — The Best UX Design Links Each Week
• Rocketship: Podcast for entrepreneurs, product managers and anyone working in tech today.

Take Action

• HTML5 UP: makes spiffy HTML5 site templates that are: Fully Responsive, Built on intelligent HTML5 + CSS3, Super, Customizable, 100% Free under the Creative Commons
• Public Data Sources: Thousands of Public Data Sources
• Algolia: search-as-a-service and full suite of APIs allow teams to easily develop tailored, fast Search and Discovery experiences that delight and convert.
• Cloudinary: Efficiently manage, optimize, and deliver images, videos and other media across every device and channel.
• Render: a unified platform to build and run all your apps and websites with free SSL, a global CDN, private networks and auto deploys from Git.
• A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy
• Reddit Datasets Thread
• Appcues: Convert new users into raving fans with automated and personalized onboarding, product tours, surveys, and announcements.
• UserOnboard: see how popular web apps handle their signup experiences
• LookTracker: Eye Tracking Usability Testing
• Inspectlet Record and watch everything your visitors do.
• Optimal Workshop: global usability research easy and affordable
• Usabilla: Build Future-Proof Customer Experiences
• ContentSquare: experience analytics platform captures every in-page interaction and micro-gesture to understand the how and why of customer behavior.
• What Users Do: understand how your customers engage with your website or product
• TryMyUI: Watch videos of real people using your website and find out how you can improve your website, app, blog, idea. design, product.
• Crowdsourced Testing connects web and software development companies with professional software testers from around the world.
• UserZoom: Research, measure & benchmark the UX of any digital product, on any device
• UserTesting: See, hear, and talk to your customers, remotely, as they engage with your products, apps, and messaging.
• Import.io enables software development teams who want to leverage web data with a comprehensive SaaS platform to extract and structure data from any web page.
• Optimizely: ship high-quality code and experiences faster, with data-driven confidence in the results.
• Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection
• Registry of Open Data on AWS: discover and share datasets that are available via AWS resources.
• Microsoft Releases 125 million Building Footprints in the US as Open Data
• Data.gov is the federal government’s open data site, and aims to make government more open and accountable.
• Census Data API Discovery Tool
• US Government Web Services and XML Data Sources
• APIs and Data Feeds from USA.gov
• FRED data service Download, graph, and track 737,000 US and international time series from 91 sources.
• OpenFDA: APIs and raw download access to a number of U.S. Food and Drug Administration high-value, high priority and scalable structured datasets.
• Data Download Program (DDP) from the Federal Reserve Board
• California Open Data
• U.S. Government’s open data
• Canada Government Open Data
• UXPin: UI Design and Prototyping Tool
• FlowMapp: Visual Sitemaps, User Flow and Personas Tool
• Dunnnk: Beautiful mockups.
• Edraw: Diagram Software for Flowchart, Org Chart and Mind Map
• ProductPlan: Product Roadmap Software
• Creately: Chart, Diagram & Visual Canvas Software
• Whimsical: Collaborative flowcharts, wireframes
• Mobbin: a hand-picked collection of the latest mobile design patterns from apps that reflect the best in design.
• UpLabs: a website for designers and developers to find and share resources to build apps and sites
• Tethr: A free mobile app UI kit
• UI Cloud: The largest user interface design database in the world.
• UI Space: High quality hand-crafted Freebies for awesome people
• Pttrns: Mobile Design Patterns
• The Starter Kit: Curated resources for web developers and visual designers
• One Page Love: One Page Website Inspiration and Templates
• Niice: The creative review platform for dynamic design teams
• UI DESIGN: a showcase of some of the best examples of UI Design for Mobile Apps and the Web.
• Window Resizer: Resize the browser window to emulate various screen resolutions.
• CodyHouse: Front-end framework and library of accessible HTML, CSS, JavaScript components.
• Ionic: Cross-Platform Mobile App Development
• Pingdom: Website Performance and Availability Monitoring
• App Cost Calculator: Calculate how much does it cost to make an app
• Assembly: : Create, build, and deliver products made in China.
• BetaTesting: Beta testing for iOS, Android apps, websites, and tech products
• Voxeet: SDK & API for Video Conference Call & Chat API
• Octave: A free library of UI sounds.
• ThoughtFlow: Visual Mapping for Creators
• Textografo: Flowchart Maker — Easy Online Diagramming
• Mailgun: Transactional Email API Service For Developers
• Mandrill: Transactional Email from Mailchimp
• Segment: Customer Data Platform (CDP)
• Mixpanel: Product and User Behavioral Analytics for Mobile, Web, & More
• Heap: The New Standard in Product Analytics
• Pendo.io: Understand and Guide the Product Journey
• Intercom: Customer Messaging Platform
• SendGrid: Email Delivery Service
• Lorem Ipsum: Generator, Origins and Meaning
• Placeholder.com: The Free Image Placeholder Service Favoured By Designers
• Lorem Picsum: The Lorem Ipsum for photos
• Fake images: Placeholders All the Way
• Ipsum Image: Placeholder Image Generator Hosted on Google App Engine
• ImgPlaceholder.com: Image and Icon Placeholders
• PlaceIMG: Easy FPO and Dummy Images for Any Project
• Dummy Image Generator: fine placeholder images for web designers
• LoremFlickr: free placeholder images
• Dynamic Dummy Image Generator
• One-Click Lorem Ipsum Generator

Market Your Startup

Learn

• Five steps of startup go to-market
• 5 factors that determine your advertising CPM rates
• What factors influence DAU/MAU? Nature versus nurture
• WHICH IS A MORE EFFICIENT WAY TO BUILD A SAAS STARTUP — BOTTOMS UP OR TOP DOWN?
• The SaaS Adventure
• How to Build a Website or Blog: Easy 4-Step Guide for Beginners
• Rational Growth An introduction to growing user signups via data and analytical thinking
• THE MARKETING MATH BEHIND SCALING A SAAS SALESFORCE
• Grow by CO — : Expert advice on how to grow your business — from attracting new customers to keeping existing customers happy and having the capital to do it.
• Think with Google: Insights. Ideas. Inspiration. Take your marketing further with Google Consumer Insights, Marketing Resources and Advertising Channels
• These 6 Email Campaign Templates Could Boost Your Revenue
• Lead Generation Case Study: How To Get 40,000 Leads Per Month
• 189 Powerful Words That Convert: Write Copy That Gets Your Customer’s Attention Every Time
• The Growth Handbook
• 10 Proven Email Blast Examples (With Open And Click Rate Data)
• Make More Sales: Write Better CTAs With These 7 Tips
• A Step-By-Step Guide to Structuring a Digital Marketing Plan
• The Best Landing Page Inspiration
• Curated Landing Page gallery with 445+ designs
• A collection of the best landing pages with a focus on copywriting and design.
• How to Make a Website, An Easy, Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners

Take Action

• Social Media Content Calendar Template for Startups
• Create a Digital Marketing Plan in 6 Steps [Marketing Template]
• Marketing Strategy Template
• Website Launch Template
• Content Marketing Template
• Marketing & Sales Templates
• Signature Maker: Create a handwritten digital signature
• Bootswatch: Free themes for Bootstrap.
• Bootstrap Zero: Open-source, free Bootstrap template collection.
• Templated: A collection of 867 simple CSS, HTML5 & Responsive site templates released for free under the Creative Commons.
• WordPress: open source software you can use to create a beautiful website, blog, or app.
• Layers: Customize your WordPress site, without touching a line of code.
• AppMarketing Tools for developers
• Launchparty.org: Learn how to make your first WordPress website with free 3-day challenge for beginners!
• Pelican Static Site Generator, Powered by Python
• Middleman: Build static websites with an easy-to-use framework.
• Hexo: A fast, simple & powerful blog framework
• VuePress: Vue-powered Static Site Generator
• Jekyll: Transform your plain text into static websites and blogs.
• Forestry: Create and edit Markdown-based content with ease.
• Hugo: The world’s fastest framework for building websites
• Weebly: Easily build a free website to help you get discovered and grow your customer base in style. Start today with our powerful free website builder.
• Moonfruit: Create a beautiful website in minutes — no coding skills required.
• Pixpa: all-in-one platform to create a beautiful portfolio website with e-commerce, client galleries, and blog.
• Webs: Create a website with our professionally designed templates and easy to use free website builder.
• Voog: A powerful, yet simple to use tool for creating and managing multilingual websites that look gorgeous both on mobile and desktop screens.
• Lightning Data: Fuel your business with the right data.
• Mentionmapp: Visualize and explore interactions, build critical relationships and find out who is carrying today’s conversations.
• CrunchBase: We track anything, we alert you anywhere. With or without apps
• Connect + Develop designed to help innovators and patent-holders connect with P&G.
• Mouseflow reveals why your visitors aren’t converting into customers.
• ClickHeat is a visual heatmap of clicks on a HTML page, showing hot and cold click zones.
• Five second tests: Optimize the clarity of your designs by measuring first impressions and recall.
• SessionCam: recording user behavior on a website and then replaying that experience.
• Nelio A/B Testing: Create and A/B test different versions of your WordPress to discover what is best for your audience and improve your conversions.
• Lucky Orange will automatically create a recording of every visitor to your website. Quickly filter and segment recordings so you can see exactly why visitors are not converting.
• Validately: conduct 2x the user testing in 50% less time.
• Traackr data-driven influencer marketing platform.
• Unbounce: Create custom landing pages that convert more visitors than any website — no coding required.
• Instapage: personalized post-click landing page experiences.
• Ontraport: The Only Software That Turns Your Business On
• Drift: The New Way Businesses Buy From Businesses
• IM Creator: Free Website Builder | Free Website Maker | White label
• Crayon: Market & Competitive Intelligence Tools
• MailCharts: Competitor Email Monitoring
• Pexels: The best free stock photos & videos shared by talented creators.
• New Old Stock: Vintage photos from the public archives.
• The Pattern Library
• IM Free: A curated collection of free web design resources, all for commercial use.
• CM Commerce: Email automation for ecommerce stores
• Placeit: Make Mockups, Logos, Videos and Designs in Seconds
• Freepik: iFree graphic resources for everyone.
• Pixel Buddha: Free and premium resources for professional community.
• GraphicBurger: Tasty design resources made with care for each pixel
• Envato Elements: Download Stock Photos, Fonts & Templates
• Site Inspire: Web design inspiration.
• Land-book: the finest hand-picked website inspirations
• Dribbble: Discover the world’s top designers & creatives
• Awwwards: Website Awards — Best Web Design Trends
• Blocs Website Builder: Create responsive websites without writing code.
• Kaboompics: Free stock photos
• The Best Designs: Web Design Inspiration
• Mazwai: Hand picked stock video footage
• Unsplash: The internet’s source of freely usable images.
• AllTheFreeStock.com: Get all the Free Stock Images, Videos, Music and Icons in one location.
• SplitShire: Free Stock Photos
• Foodiesfeed: Free Food Photos
• Picography: Gorgeous Free Photos
• Pixabay: 1.7 million+ Stunning Free Images to Use Anywhere
• Paid Advertising Calculator
• Canva: Collaborate & Create Amazing Graphic Design for Free
• CoSchedule Marketing Suite: Organize Your Marketing In 1 Place
• Crowdfire: The only social media manager you’ll ever need
• Later: #1 Instagram Scheduler & Social Media Platform
• Mailtrack: Email tracking for Gmail
• Sendinblue: All Your Digital Marketing Tools in One Place
• ManyContacts: Auto-qualify your web visitors while they fill your online forms
• Mailchimp: All-in-One Marketing Platform
• Pixlr.com: Photo editor online
• XML Sitemaps Generator: Create your Google Sitemap Online
• Moz: SEO Software for Smarter Marketing
• GTmetrix: Website Speed and Performance Optimization
• Pingdom Tools: Website Speed Test
• Google Search Console
• Google Marketing Platform: Unified Advertising and Analytics
• Online Marketing Calculator: Custom Internet Marketing Strategy
• Portent’s SERP Snippet Preview Tool for Titles and Meta Descriptions
• Collect UI: Daily inspiration collected from daily ui archive and beyond. Based on Dribbble shots, hand picked, updating daily
• RiteForge: Increase click-throughs and views with a single click
• Fix Your Marketing Funnel!: Inbound Marketing Funnel Tool
• Bitly: URL Shortener, Custom Links & Link Management
• Copyscape Plagiarism Checker: Duplicate Content Detection Software
• Find Broken Links, Redirects & Site Crawl Tool
• Nibbler: Test any website
• Google Ads: Get More Customers With Easy Online Advertising
• OpenLinkProfiler: Free link analysis tool — Link research
• SimilarWeb: Website Traffic Statistics & Market Intelligence
• Alexa: Keyword Research, Competitive Analysis, & Website Ranking
• Disqus: The #1 way to build an audience on your website
• Material Palette: Material Design Color Palette Generator
• SEO Checker: Get Your Free SEO Report & SEO Analysis Now
• Adobe Color: Color wheel, a color palette generator
• Readable: Free Readability Test Tool
• HubSpot’s Website Grader
• Portent’s SEO Page Review: lightweight browser add-on that reviews basic onsite SEO elements.
• The Portent Tone of Voice Generator
• SocialRank: find your most valuable, most engaged, and overall best followers
• AddThis: Get more likes, shares and follows with smart website tools
• Sumo Share: Get 20% More Traffic With Free Social Media Buttons

Increase Your Productivity

Learn

• How to Write SMART Goals
• How to Write SMART Project Objectives
• REWORK — the New York Times bestselling book about business.
• Workfrom — Best Places to Work Remotely in a City
• Work Smarter, Not Harder: Time Management for Personal & Professional Productivity

Take Action

• Software Advice: Get real advice from real people. One-on-one help and personalized recommendations to your top software options.
• Hemingway: Hemingway App makes your writing bold and clear.
• Grammarly: Finds & corrects mistakes of your writing.
• TinyJPG | TinyPNG: Compress images.
• Compressor.io: Optimize and compress your images online.
• Kraken: Optimize your images & accelerate your websites.
• ImageOptimizer: Resize, compress and optimize your image files.
• ImageOptim: Makes images take up less disk space & load faster.
• Smush.it: Image optimizer WordPress plugin.
• InstaMockup: Create beautiful screenshots of your app or website.
• Clipular: A new easy way to simply collect, share and remember all the important things on the web.
• Blinkist: Big ideas in small packages
• Pipefy: Workflow Management | Process Management and Automation | Request Management
• Defonic: A fabulous ambient noise generator
• Any.do: To do list app with Calendar, Planner & Reminders
• FreeBusy: The complete solution to automate meeting scheduling
• Vyte: Smart all-in-one tool for scheduling and customer bookings
• Raindrop: the best place to keep all your favorite books, songs, articles or whatever else you come across while browsing.
• Noizio: ambient sound equalizer for relax or productivity for macOS and iOS.
• Pocket: Save content from everywhere.
• WeTransfer: The simplest way to send your files around the world
• Evernote: Note Taking App — Organize Your Notes
• Noisli: Improve Focus and Boost Productivity with Background Sounds
• Cold Turkey: The Toughest Website Blocker on the Internet
• SelfControl app: A free Mac application to help you avoid distracting websites.
• Coffitivity: Recreates the ambient sounds of a cafe to boost your creativity and help you work better.
• E.gg Timer: Start a web timer
• ZenPen: Writing with Minimal Distraction, Maximum Zen
• esummarizer: The smartest tool to summarize any text online.
• Canned Emails: a minimal site with prewritten emails
• easel.ly: create and share visual ideas using infographics
• Skitch: Get your point across with fewer words using annotation, shapes and sketches
• Title Capitalization Tool: Automatic Title Case Converter
• Status Generator for Facebook and Twitter
• OneTab: Save up to 95% memory and reduce tab clutter in Google Chrome
• Toby: Better Than Bookmarks
• Airtable: Use Airtable to organize their work, their way
• iLovePDF: Online PDF tools for PDF lovers
• Roman Numerals Generator
• Online Counter — Tally & Number Counting Tool
• 🎁 Emoji cheat sheet for GitHub, Basecamp, Slack & more
• Password Generator

Manage Your Startup

Learn

• Revenue Royalties — Tools and Reference
• Accounting
• SAAS STARTUP BALANCE SHEETS: HOW MUCH CASH & HOW MUCH DEBT TO RAISE
• MODELING YOUR SAAS STARTUP’S REVENUE GROWTH EFFECTIVELY
• Revenue Models — Advertising
• Revenue Models — Subscriptions
• Revenue Models — Peer to Peer
• Revenue Models — Transaction Processing
• Revenue Models — Licensing
• Revenue Models — Mobile
• Revenue Models — Gaming
• The Balance Sheet
• Cash Flow
• Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs
• FAQ Startup Legal Topics
• Trademark Help
• Trademark University
• The Profit and Loss Statement
• STARTUP COMPANY LAWYER
• Run by CO — : Practical and real-world advice on how to run your business — from managing employees to keeping the books.
• FINANCE 101 FOR STARTUPS
• STARTUP FINANCIAL CONTROLS MATRIX
• The Mattermark Daily Newsletter: Sales, VC, Growth

Take Action

• Notion: The all-in-one workspace for you and your team. Write, plan, collaborate, and get organized.
• GitBook Document Everything For you, your users and your team
• Invoicely.com: Free, Powerful Invoicing Platform.
• Slimvoice: Insanely simple invoicing.
• Wave: Award-winning financial software designed for entrepreneurs.
• Invoice.to: Generate, send & get paid. Elegant invoice template for web & mobile.
• Docracy: Open Legal Documents. Provided and trusted by people like you.
• Shake: Create, sign and send legally binding agreements in seconds.
• EquityEffect: Cap Table Management Software.
• tl;drLegal: Software Licenses in Plain English. Lookup popular software licenses summarized at-a-glance.
• Orrick’s Documents on Docracy
• Cooley GO Docs Website Terms of Use Generator
• Cooley GO Docs Privacy Policy Generator
• Cooley GO Docs Website Terms of Use Generator
• Cooley GO Docs Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreement Generator
• Cooley GO Docs Offer Letter and Employment Agreement Generator
• Cooley GO Docs Consulting Agreement Generator
• Cooley GO Docs Advisor Agreement Generator
• Cooley GO Docs Incorporation Package Generator
• Startup Forms Library: Download the key legal forms that you will need to start and grow your company.
• Formation Tools: generate formation documents for start-up companies free of charge.
• DocuSign: A suite of applications for preparing, signing, acting on, and managing agreements.
• Google for Startups
• STARTUP TAX PREPARATION COST CALCULATOR
• Tender Support: Better Customer Support Software: Help Desk, Knowledge Base, Forums
• Qwilr: Software for creating proposals, quotes and documents as webpages

More Remarkably Helpful Resources and Tools

• Founders Films shares insight & inspiration from experienced entrepreneurs.
• Startup Stash: A curated directory of tools and resources to build your startup
• Startup Library by YCombinator
• Startup Lessons Learned
• 50 Best Venture Capital and Investment Blogs to Follow
• Mentorphile
• GetApp: Discover the Best Apps to Grow Your Business
• Startup Failure Postmortems — CBinsights
• Andrew Chen Long-form essays on startups, growth, metrics, and network effects.
• Tools for taking action by Stanford D School
• The Book of Secret Knowledge: A collection of inspiring lists, manuals, cheatsheets, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools, and more.
• Top 50 Venture Capital Blogs & Websites To Follow in 2020
• Libraries.io monitors 4,835,800 open source packages across 37 different package managers, so you don’t have to.
• 20 Blogs Every Entrepreneur Should Read
• Ideas and Research from Stanford University
• Startup Tools by Steve Blank
• Toolboard: The most comprehensive list of Web and Startup Tools
• Entrepreneurship Resources: Resources on Entrepreneurship, Startups, Innovation, and More
• Awesome: Awesome lists about all kinds of interesting topics
• Making it Real: Naval Ravikant’s Epic Tweetstorm “How to Get Rich (without getting lucky)”
• Lean LaunchPad for Life Sciences
• All the Venture Capital & Fundraising Bloggers You Should be Following
• AlternativeTo: a free service that helps you find better alternatives to the products you love and hate.
• Venture Capital (VC) Blog Directory
• StartupResources: Curated lists of the best startup tools and a weekly newsletter of all things dedicated to helping you build your startup.
• Startup Weekend Resources: Whatever you are building, our global partners and community have put together some fantastic resources to help you build your idea.
• Paul Graham Essays
• Traction Conference Videos
• 2start: The Ultimate List of Free Tools and Free Resources For Internet Marketers, Entrepreneurs and Startups
• Resources for Early-Stage Entrepreneurs: A Top 10 List
• Lean Launchpad Teachable Moments
• Startup Tools: Tools that can save you time and avoid reinventing the wheel focused on technical tools to save development time.
• HBS Startup Tribe: list of online tools exceptionally helpful to startups
• Resources to Help You Start Up from NYU
• List of applications: A general list of applications sorted by category, as a reference for those looking for packages. Many sections are split between console and graphical applications.
• Greatest Hits of SIGNAL V. NOISE
• Books for Startups
• Business Research Launch Pad
• 101 Small Business Web Applications You Must Check Out
• Hacker News Tools of the Trade
• The Ultimate Venture Capital Blog List
• Tools of the Trade 2013: thread on HN for discussing useful services
• StaticGen: A List of Static Site Generators for Jamstack Sites
• A Marc Andreessen blog archive
• Good Company by CO — : Entrepreneurs and industry leaders share their best advice on how to take your company to the next level.
• Resources for Early Stage Entrepreneurs: Now 20 Items in the “Top 10”
• Founders Workbench: a resource to help ease the process, and let you get started by providing you with free access to the Founders Toolbox.
• Deal Dictionary
• Small Business Hub: A Research Guide for Entrepreneurs
• Venture Hacks — Advice for Startups
• Internet Archive Wayback Machine: Explore more than 424 billion web pages saved over time
• Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
• Platforms and Networks: Insights and Resources for Tech Entrepreneurs
• The Small Business Administration’s dedicated to small business and provides counseling, capital, and contracting expertise.
• 101 places to find amazing, royalty-free images for your business
• 564 Growth Hacking Tools | Marketing Tools
• 400 Free Tools & Resources for Entrepreneurs and Startups
• GrowthHackers: Premier Growth Community
• Tech&All: an online web magazine for developers, designer, and all tech enthusiasts.
• Startup Digest: The personalized insider newsletter for all things startup in your area
• Startup Notes: Doodle notes of the most inspirational and actionable advice from each speaker of the Female Founders Conference.
• Mixergy: Learn from Proven Entrepreneurs
• Design lessons for everyone, curated by top designers
• QuickSprout: Everything you need to grow your business online
• Free Product Management Resource Collection
• Airtable Universe: a vibrant community of creators and creatives sharing their inspiring projects with the world.
• 150 Best Resources for Writers
• HubSpot Academy: free online training for inbound marketing, sales, and customer service professionals.
• AddThis Academy: Become a Better Online Marketer
• Startup Launch List: Articles you need to read before launching a startup.
• Dorm Room Tycoon: The podcast show that teaches you how to build a successful startup.
• Mixes: Interface Lovers is an online magazine for creative professionals
• Interface Lovers: An online magazine for creative professionals.
• Panda: The homepage for your favorite websites