Incorporate Your StartUp using:
Find your Domains:
Give your domain a happy ending: http://domai.nr
Domain name generator: Dot-o-mator: http://www.dotomator.com/web20.html
Wordoid: http://wordoid.com/
Free Email/Calendar/Intranet/Chat for your startup:
Google Apps: http://www.google.com/a – (Free for 50 users after that you need to upgrade to premium which is 50/user/year)
Office Live and Office Live for small business: http://smallbusiness.officelive.com/ & http://www.officelive.com/
Tech Blogs:
TechCrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/
Social Media Blog: http://www.mashable.com/
Gizmodo: http://www.gizmodo.com
Gadget Blog: http://www.engadget.com
Giga Om: http://www.gigaom.com
Venture News: http://www.venturebeat.com
Good Venture Advice for Startups: http://venturehacks.com/
Start up Marketing – Sean Ellis: http://startup-marketing.com/
Original Signal: http://web20.originalsignal.com/
Start-up Who’s Who:
37 Signals: http://www.37signals.com/
Jason Calacanis: http://calacanis.com/
Jason Nazar: http://www.jasonnazar.com/
Mark Suster: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/
Dave McClure: http://500hats.typepad.com/
Inspirational stories of startups:
Home of the Ambitious upstart: http://www.mixergy.com
Meeting people physically based on interests:
Meetup (Thanks to Anand): http://www.meetup.com
Twestival: http://twestival.com/
Direct Response Marketing Education:
Eben Pagan’s Guru Blue Print: http://gurublueprintblog.com/
Eben Pagan’s Ignition Program: http://ignitionpowerpack.com/getignition/
Tech Tutorials:
NetTuts: http://net.tutsplus.com/
Smashing Magazine: http://www.smashingmagazine.com
iLoveTypography: http://www.ilovetypography.com/
Good Books:
Getting Real: http://gettingreal.37signals.com/toc.php
Rework: http://37signals.com/rework/
Lynchpin: http://www.amazon.com/Linchpin-Are-Indispensable-Seth-Godin/dp/1591843162/permissionmarket
Purple Cow: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591843170/permissionmarket
Four Hour Work Week (Thanks to Anand): http://www.amazon.com/4-Hour-Workweek-Expanded-Updated-Cutting-Edge/dp/0307465357/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276060364&sr=1-1
Videos:
You-Tube (10 mins video upload allowed): http://www.youtube.com/
Vimeo (only filesize limit): http://www.vimeo.com
Your Own TV show:
blip.tv: http://www.blip.tv
Live Broadcasting:
Justin TV: http://www.justin.tv/
Screencasting for your product demos:
Free Screencasting: http://www.screentoaster.com/
Jing: http://www.jingproject.com/ – includes capability to snap pictures of your screen
Camtasia: https://store.techsmith.com/buy/camtasia
ScreenShots On Your Computer:
On a Mac: Control+Shift+4
On Windows: Snipping Tool (Only on Windows 7) http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/features/snipping-tool
On Windows: SnagIt http://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.asp
Document Sharing:
DocStoc: http://www.Docstoc.com
Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/
Presentation Sharing:
SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net
Great Speakers / Marketeers / Inspiration Transmitters:
Ted Conferences: http://www.ted.com/
Seth Godin: http://www.sethgodin.com
Seth’s blog: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/
Social Media Sites for propagation of your idea:
Site List: http://www.doshdosh.com/list-of-social-media-news-websites/
Top Sites to get loyal fans:
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com
FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com
StumbleUpon: http://www.stumbleupon.com
Read Write Web: http://www.readwriteweb.com
Slash Dot: http://www.slashdot.org
Digg: http://www.digg.com
Reddit: http://www.reddit.com
Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/
Online Business strategy/SEO/Social Media Marketers:
God of SEO – Rand Fishkin’s: http://www.seomoz.org/
Ann Smarty: http://www.seosmarty.com/ann-smartys-profile/
Brent Csutoras: http://www.brentcsutoras.com/
Tony Adams: http://tonyadams.com/
Neil Patel: http://www.quicksprout.com/
Ann Smarty: http://www.seosmarty.com/
Matt Inman: http://0at.org/ & http://theoatmeal.com/
Distribute your Press Release:
PR Web: http://www.prweb.com/
How to write a press release: http://www.prwebdirect.com/pressreleasetips.php
PR News Wire: http://www.prnewswire.com/
Link/Article Submission Sites:
Ezine: http://ezinearticles.com/
Go to Articles: http://www.goarticles.com/
Inexpensive servers:
Start with http://www.rackspacecloud.com
Scale with http://aws.amazon.com
Fixed long term servers: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/reserved-instances/
Nightly processing Spot instances on amazon: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot-instances/
Content Delivery Network: http://aws.amazon.com/s3/
Windows Azure: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/
Media Temple: http://www.mediatemple.com
Physical colocation servers:
Softlayer: http://www.softlayer.com
RackSpace: http://www.rackspace.com
Rails hosting: http://www.engineyard.com
Rails hosting: http://www.heroku.com
Rimu hosting: http://rimuhosting.com/
Web Payment Solutions for one time and recurring payment for SAAS sites:
Cybersource’s Authorize.net: http://www.authorize.net/
Braintree Payment: http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/
American Express’s Payment Gateway: http://www.acceptpay.com/
Spreedly: http://spreedly.com/
Chargify: http://chargify.com/
Recurly: http://recurly.com/
Payment processor (Thanks to Alexander): http://2checkout.com
SAAS payment comparison Google Spreadsheet:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Am-IqvxibpBWdGE0UWQ0WU5BSUw4NDM3QVBfdnFZanc&hl=en
Damon Cortesi’s Payment Solution commentary on Untitled StartUp:
http://www.untitledstartup.com/2010/02/accepting-payments-on-the-real-time-web/
Pricing for SAAS:
Pricing Examples: http://leanstartup.pbworks.com/Pricing-pages
Best OS in the cloud:
Ubuntu: How to load ubuntu on your AWS Server?
Top 3 webframeworks to develop:
PHP based very light weight MVC framwork (recommended by the creator of PHP): http://www.codeigniter.com/
Rails based: Ruby on Rails: http://www.rubyonrails.org
Python Based: Django: http://www.djangoproject.com
CSS frameworks:
960 Grid System: http://960.gs/
BluePrint CSS: http://www.blueprintcss.org/
JavaScript Frameworks (ajax/RIA):
Design your Logo/Blog or WebSite:
99Designs: http://www.99designs.com
UI Prototyping:
Paper and Pencil
Balsamiq: http://www.balsamiq.com/
iPhone/iPad GUI mock up kit:http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/2009/06/18/iphone-gui-psd-30/
Android GUI mock up kit: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/08/18/android-gui-psd-vector-kit/
UI typography:
Generate your own embeddable font (FREE): http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator
Typekit: http://typekit.com/
Usability Gurus:
Jacob Nielsen: http://www.useit.com/
Steve Krug: http://www.sensible.com/
Usability Testing:
User Testing: http://www.usertesting.com/
Software Testing (Thanks to Alexander):
http://testlab2.com — software testing service
http://loadimpact.com — load testing (including free ones)
People Powered Customer Service/Help Desk:
Get Satisfaction:http://www.getsatisfaction.com/
Zen Desk: http://www.zendesk.com/
User Voice: http://uservoice.com/
Learn Copywriting/Linkbaiting/eBooks/Writing Sure Fire Headlines:
CopyBlogger: http://www.copyblogger.com
Free Blog software for your site:
WordPress: http://www.wordpress.org
Best source control of your code and design:
Git: http://git-scm.com/
Assembla (Thank to Ricardo) – http://www.assembla.com/
For your open source projects (Thanks to Nakul Agarwal) Github: http://www.github.com – (makes it easy to search and copy code
)
Free Git and Subversion hosting for your code repository: http://www.projectlocker.com/
Best free issue/bug tracker:
Trac: http://trac.edgewall.org/
Monitoring your site:
http://www.bijk.com – free Linux server performance monitoring
Analytics for your website:
http://www.google.com/analytics/
Live analytics (Thanks to Nakul Agarwal) – http://www.woopra.com/
Avinash Kaushik – Google Analytics evangelist’s blog: http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/
Heat Map Analytics: http://www.crazyegg.com
Social and Conversion metrics: http://www.kissmetrics.com
Look up someone else’s (competitor’s) web analytics:
Website validation by search engines:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/
Marketing your site or app:
Paid Traffic: http://www.google.com/adwords
Find out viability of your product:
Google’s old keyword tool (much better and usable than new) – https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal?forceLegacy=true
Google’s new keyword tool – https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
Double Click Ad Planner – https://www.google.com/adplanner/planning/
Google Insight – http://www.google.com/insights/search/
Making money on your site:
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