Useful Resources for Startups
Get ready to take your initial idea to the next level with the following useful resources,
Business Model, Ideation and Prototyping Resources
- Business Model Canvas
- Lean Canvas
- Value Proposition Canvas
- How to Start a Startup
- Hook Methodology
- Why Startups Fail
- 4 Steps to the Epiphany, Steve Blank
- Lean Startup, Eric Ries
- Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg
- Hooked, Nir Eyal
- Innovator’s Dilemma, Clayton Christensen
- Zero to One, Peter Thiel
- Market Research : How to understand your customers
Software
For Making Websites,
For App Prototyping,
For Icons, Images and Presentations,
- Unsplash: beautiful, high-res freely-usable images
- Noun Project & Icons8: free icons for everything
- Ouch & FreePik: free vector Illustrations
- Undraw, Opendoodles, Illustrations.co: open-source illustrations for any idea you can imagine and create
- Artboard.Studio: create mockups online
- Genial: create visual stories and generate amazing communication experiences
Additional Design & Slides Resources,
- Canva: incredibly simple graphic design for everyone
- Powtoon: to make videos and presentations
- HiSlide: free library of beautiful Google Slides templates
- TinyTake: screen recording
Other Useful Tools,
- CRM: Hubspot, FreshSales
- Market Research: Think with Google, AYTM
- Keyword Research: Google Keywords, Wordtracker
- Legal: SmartUp, legalzoom, RocketLawyer, UpCounsel
- Videos/Presentations: Prezi, Google Slides
- Automation: Zapier, Integromat
- Finances: Expensify, Zoho Books
- Communities/Local Events: Eventbrite, Meetup
- Women Focus: Women 2.0, Girls in Tech
- Design/UI Tools: Whimsical, Lucid Chart, Miro
- Dev Tools: Google App Maker, Aptana, Google Chrome
- Email Integration: Sendgrid
- Domains: GoDaddy Registry, Google Domains
- Hosting: Heroku, Github
- Educational: Codecademy, Udacity, Appsumo
- Task/Project Management: Asana, Podio, Todoist, Trello, Basecamp
- Mailing lists/groups: Google Groups
- Forms/Surveys: Google Forms, Survey Monkey
- Personal Storage: Dropbox, Google Drive
- Social Media/Marketing: Unbounce, Google Analytics
- Social sharing: Add This, ShareThis
- Ad Promotion: Google Ads, Linkedin Ads, Facebook Ads
- Startup Promotion: Untorch
- Business Cards: Moo.com
- Email Marketing: Mailchimp, iContact