Resources and Tools

These resources were assembled for my online class at http://novoed.com

I encourage anyone to sign up and take the class using the platform. However, I am making the materials available here if others would like to use them in accelerator programs or other classes outside of the schedule of the online course.

Videos for the class:

Part 1 and 2: Available on iTunes and on Vimeo

Syllabus

Team assignments with grading criteria

Available anywhere:

• Epicenter

• Stanford ECorner videos

• Startup Genome

• iStart

• LeanLaunchLab

• Stanford Technology Ventures Program

• Find co-founders - http://founderdating.com/, http://venture-lab.org, CoFoundersLab.com, http://foundershookup.com/

• For business models - http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/, http://bmdesigner.com/ or http://canvanizer.com/

• For brainstorming - www.tricider.com, https://stormz.me/

• Create a landing/splash page, with LaunchRock or KickoffLabs - for launch pages testing the user need or marketing campaigns

Team / Task Management

• TeamnSnippets.com - for team progress updates

• Task/project management - Week Plan, Sprint.ly, Asana, Basecamp

Prototyping

• Framer

• Origami

• FieldTestApp - for prototyping mobile apps or http://goesapp.com/

• website wireframe prototyping tool, (i.e. JustinMind, Balsamiq)

• 99 Designs is great to get “good enough” graphic design and web design work for very cheap using a contest format. Themeforest has great designs

Analysis and Metrics (thanks to Matt Dyor for a great talk at GES 2015 on these)

• Optimizely - great site for AB testing

• Google Analytics

• Kissmetrics

• Payboard

• Amazon Analytics and Amazon Mobile Analytics

• For surveys and pre-order forms, Wufoo and Google Forms can easily be embedded within your site with minimal coding.

• User interface testing with Usertesting or Userfy, or http://www.askyourusers.com/

• Domainr - domain name search

• App Links

• Legal - http://startuplawyer.com/startup-issues/if-i-launched-a-startup

• Use Unbounce, Google Sites, Weebly, Godaddy, WordPress or Yola, or SocialEngine

• Embed a slideshow on your site with Slideshare or embed a video/tour using GoAnimate, Youtube or Vimeo

• Post on your facebook, LinkedIn and twitter, use Google AdWords, Facebook ads and natural search to drive people to your Minimally Viable web site

• AngelList for funding

• YouNoodle - connect to the entrepreneurial grid

          Next steps to help develop your venture (incubators, accelerators, etc.)

• YCombinator

• TechStars

• nReduce

• StartX

• 500 Startups

• Startup Chile ($40k in non-dilutive funding, 1 year in Chile)

• Stanford Summer Institute for Entrepreneurship

• AngelPad

• Highland Capital summer program

• http://www.alchemistaccelerator.com/
  Lists of incubators/accelerators by country and state
  Launch.co list

• List on Quora

• Another list on Quora

Available at Stanford:

• Stanford Technology Ventures Program

• Stanford Entrepreneurship Network

• Entrepreneurship Week

• DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Series

Lists of Tools from Others

• Steve Blank

• 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

• Quora question:

  Software / Web

  • http://Dropbox.com (most popular answer, others suggested Box.net and Google Drive as an alternative)

  • Box.net (better if you are collaborating with teams and external collaborators than DropBox)

  • Oogwave.com (Team content sharing and collaboration)

  • Evernote.com

  • Clipular.com (fastest web screen capture/clipping tool)

  • http://Clipboard.com (web-based alternative to Evernote)

  • Gmail.com

  • CollateBox Organize and share parts of your spreadsheets

  • Google Chrome

  • Google Docs

  • LinkedIn.com

  • Founder2be.com

  • MailChimp.com

  • Mindmaps (Freemind or Mindmanager)

  • Skype.com

  • Wunderlist (very simple and easy-to-use task management tool)

  • Xobni

  • Pugmarks.me (news and people intelligence for your context)

  • Expensify

  • Exterminator

  • Skitch

  • Visual.LY

  • Mint

  • Collatebox

  • Pandaform - Database to manage all forms a business needs

  • Flow

  • rizzoma.com - communicate and collaborate in realtime

  • Basecamp - web-based project management and collaboration tool.

  • KeyRocket - (keyboard shortcut trainer)

  • Helpjuice.com (knowledge base)

  • Remember The Milk - the to-do list that’s everywhere you are: from your phone, to the web, to your Google apps

  • Akomplish - It is about a better productivity, encouraging creativity

  • point - (Presentation design)

  • PPTloom - (PowerPoints design)

  • SyncPad - real-time whiteboard/documents sharing

  • Review19- Collaborate & Track Decisions

  • SAP StreamWork

  • http://everhour.com (simple time tracking tool)

  • RescueTime http://rescuetime.com/

  • Sanebox http://www.sanebox.com/

  • Time Doctor http://timedoctor.com/

  • Get Pocket http://getpocket.com/

  • Google Calendar http://calendar.google.com/

  • Doodle http://doodle.com/

  • TheBrain http://www.thebrain.com/

  • KickoffLabs (http://www.kickofflabs.com) for social landing pages.

  • PHPForms (http://www.phpforms.net) for online web forms

  • Bookkeeperzoo

  • Hexigo - http://www.Hexigo.com - Hexigo is the only collaboration platform that drives teams to reach a formal outcome.

  • teamspotted.com - team up with awesome people - ( added by company marketer )

  • Simple Sales Tracking - http://www.simplesalestracking

  • Expense Sheet Tracker - Expense Claim Report & Budgeting Software

  • ReferralElite- http://www.referralelite.com/ (For attracting the right professionals your company needs)

  
  Real World

  • Whiteboards

  • Smartphone

  • Notebook

  • Skinny Pen

  • GoToMeeting or equivalent

  • IP Phone (with voice mail forwarding)

  • Post-its

  • Large LCD Monitor (for meetings and collaborating)

  • Large empty wall

  • Tape

  • Large table

  • MethodKit, (http://methodkit.com/)
    (physical cards to help structure projects & discuss)

  
  Project Management

  • Asana.com

  • http://breeze.pm

  • Siasto.com

  • Redmine

  • Binfire.com

  • Trello

  • Wrike

  • https://telety.pe

  • Basecamp

  • Streak

  
  BI

  • Ducksboard

  • Geckoboard

  • Leftronic

  • Chartbeat

  • Tableau

  • Hootsuite

  • LivePlan

  
  CRM

  • ClinchPad

  • Close.io

  • Streak

  • Sugar CRM (Open Source)

  • SalesForce.com

  • Teambox

  • Zoho

  • Insightly Free CRM for Small Business: Online Customer Relationship Software

  • Yesware Email for Salespeople.

  • Pipelinedeals

  
  Contact Form

  • Dropifi

  • Webengage

  • Snapenag

  
  Customer service

  • Live Chat Software by Comm100, which enables you to trackand engage visitors in real time. ( Added here by company marketer, not mentioned in answers )