153 Links Every Start Up Should BookMark

Incorporate Your StartUp using:

http://www.incparadise.com

http://www.legalzoom.com

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):

http://jquery.com/

http://mochaui.com/

http://mootools.net/

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 :D )

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.pingdom.com

http://www.newrelic.com

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:

http://www.quantcast.com

http://www.siteanalytics.com

Website validation by search engines:

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

http://www.bing.com/webmaster

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:

http://www.google.com/adsense

http://www.adbrite.com

Do you have additional suggestions for any links?

  • http://twitter.com/nakula Nakul Aggarwal

    people can try woopra for real time analytics.
    for your open source projects please use github.com ..makes it easy to search and copy code :D
    readwriteweb is also worthy.. atleast better than mashable :)

  • edukatr

    I will update the post in a few with these.

  • Ricardo

    I'd add for these categories:
    Best source control of your code and design AND Best free issue/bug tracker:
    Assembla.com, they have a good plan for almost everyone and the UI is very good.

    Free for projects with public (read) repositories

    Excellent Post!

  • edukatr

    I will update the blog post with the above link.

  • Anand

    Really nice article, I absolutely enjoyed reading and learning about new products that are out there for aspiring entrepreneurs. It is articles like this that keep us motivated and driven to work towards the goals that we have and in the process why not make life simpler with all the new age tools out there. I wanted to add some more to the list,
    1. Four hour work week, by Tim Ferriss. I absolutely enjoyed reading that book and following Tim's every action.
    2. LightBank.com, the guys who built gourpon.com have started an investment firm and are investing big time on new projects. All you need is a brilliant idea, the willpower to drive you to glory and of course some caffine…
    3. Meetup.com, if you are a little social person like me you would love meeting local entrepreneurs who are building the next facebook..

    –Anand

  • Alexander Balabanov

    http://2checkout.com — payment processor

    http://testlab2.com — software testing service

    http://loadimpact.com — load testing (including free ones)

  • edukatr

    Done! Check it out. I am still struggling how to categorize groupon or Lightbank.

  • edukatr

    Done check it out.

  • Martin Thomson

    Monitoring your site (and Linux Server Performance):

    http://www.bijk.com – free Linux server performance monitoring

  • edukatr

    Excellent added it to the list and just downloaded it for my ec2 ubuntu instance.

  • http://Vimeo.com Blake Whitman

    Just a quick correction: we do not have a upload time limit at Vimeo, only file size.

    Thanks for listing Vimeo!

  • edukatr

    Updated! Thanks for pointing it out.

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