When I started my first startup, I felt lost. There were not many free resources for startups at that time which was years ago although there was the library of course.
The option of attending a free seminar by a successful entrepreneur was often accompanied by hefty fees.
But otherwise, there wasn’t much to go around.
Today, things have changed.
Startup founders can easily access numerous networks, resources, websites and experts to help them launch their startups, notably startup competitions.
In other words, there are now countless free resources for startups to tap on today!
Knowledge is certainly the key to making the best decisions you can, and developing suitable strategies, to get your startup off the grind and into the ideal position to sustain itself.
Along with the free resources for startups provided below, we are also featuring The Strawberry Startup which is written by a successful business owner.
The book teaches anyone how to build their own startup with an interest they have a deep-rooted passion in. We recommend that you give it a read!
As an entrepreneur, there are many aspects of business that we must know about:
- Design
- Marketing
- Web creation
- Branding
- Vendor Sourcing
And so many more.
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150 Free Resources
Compiled below is a curated directory of over 150 resources & tools for startups. We would love to hear how people at startups are using these free resources!
This tightly curated list is categorised into the following categories:
- Business Development
- Marketing
- Programming, Design & Code
- Productivity
- Learn & Upgrade
For existing startups and companies, this page includes free useful resources that you can use to build your brand. They are likely to work best when you first identify your brand personality.
Content Creation: Writing & Blogging
- Hemingway: Hemingway App makes your writing bold and clear.
- Grammarly: Finds & corrects mistakes of your writing.
- Medium: Everyone’s stories and ideas.
- ZenPen: The minimal writing tool of web.
- Liberio: Simple eBook creation and publishing right from Google Drive.
- Editorial Calendar: See all your posts, drag & drop to manage your blog.
- Story Wars: Writing stories together.
- WP Hide Post: Control the visibility of items on your blog.
- Social Locker: Ask visitors “to pay” for your content with a tweet, etc.
- Egg Timer: Set a time and bookmark it for repeated use.
- BlankPage: Writing made simple.
- Wattpad: The world’s largest community for readers and writers.
- Known: A single site for the content you create.
- Wattpad: The world’s largest community for readers and writers.
- Dbook: Structured and collaborative writing for large documents.
- CoSchedule: Blog post headline analyzer.
- A5.gg: When you return your text will still be here.
- Free Summarizer: Summarize any text online in just a few seconds.
Find What’s Trending
- Buzzsumo: Analyze what content performs best for any topic or competitor.
- Ruzzit: Find the most shared content on the web.
- Feedly: Compiles news feeds from a variety of online sources for the user to customize & share.
- Swayy: Discover the most engaging content. Free for 1 dashboard user.
- Google Trends: A new way of displaying trending searches.
- Others: Google+ What’s Hot | Twitter Trending | Quora | Reddit |
- Hubspot Blog Topic Generator: Custom blog ideas.
- Portent: Content idea generator.
Free SEO Tools & Website Analysers
- Open Site Explorer: A comprehensive tool for link analysis.
- Ahrefs: Site explorer & backlink checker.
- Quick Sprout: Complete analysis of your website.
- WordPress SEO by Yoast: Have a fully optimized WordPress site.
- SEO Site Checkup: SCheck your website’s SEO problems for free.
- Hubspot Marketing Grader: Grade your marketing.
- SimilarWeb: Analyze website statistics for any domain.
- Alexa Ranking: Analytical insights to analyze any site’s rank.
- SERPs Rank Checker: Free keyword rank & SERP checker.
- OpenLinkProfiler: The freshest backlinks, for free.
- Keywordtool.io: Free alternative to Google Keyword Planner.
- Google: Analytics | Keyword Planner | Webmaster Tools | Trends |
- Nibbler: Test any website.
- Browseo: How search engines see your website.
- Broken Links: Find broken links, redirects & more.
- Copyscape: Search for copies of your page on the web.
- Google Pagespeed Insights: Check the performance of your site.
- Pingdom: Test & the load time of a site.
- GTMetrics: Analyze your page’s speed performance.
- Moz Local: Check your local listings on Google, Bing, and others.
- XML Sitemaps: Sitemap generator that creates XML & HTML variants.
- Shopify E-commerce Report: Get your free Ecommerce report.
- W3C validator: Easy-to-use markup validation service.
Free Image Optimisers & Third-Party Image Hosting
- 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.
- Dunnnk: Beautiful mockups.
- InstaMockup: Create beautiful screenshots of your app or website.
Free Photo Editing Tools
- Canva: Amazingly simple graphic design for bloggers.
- Pixlr: Pixlr Editor is a robust browser photo editor.
- Skitch: Get your point across with fewer words.
- Easel.ly: Empowers anyone to create & share powerful visuals.
- Social Image Resizer Tool: Create optimized images for social media.
- Placeit: Free product mockups & templates.
- Recite: Turn a quote into a visual masterpiece.
- Meme Generator: The first online meme generator.
- Pablo: Design engaging images for your social media posts in under 30 seconds.
Free Email Management
- Contact form 7: Famous WordPress plugin to collect email addresses.
- Mailchimp: Send 12,000 emails to 2,000 subscribers for free.
- ManyContactsBar: Free contact form sits on top of your website.
- Hello Bar: Get more email subscribers.
- Sumome List Builder: Collect email addresses with light box popover.
- Scroll Triggered Box: Boost your conversion rates — Wordpress only.
- Sumome Scroll Box: Capture more email addresses, politely.
- Mandrill: The fastest way to deliver email. Free 12K emails/month.
- Mailgun: The Email Service For Developers. Free 10K emails/month.
- Sendgrid: Delivers your transactional and marketing email. Free 12K emails/month.
- Sendinblue: Free 9K emails/month.
- Mailtrack: The best free email tracking solution.
- Beefree: Free Email editor to build responsive design messages.
- Canned Emails: A minimal site with prewritten emails.
Free Social Media & Community Management
- WriteRack: The best way to tweetstorm.
- Spruce: Make Twitter ready images in seconds.
- Click To Tweet: Get more shares on your content.
- MyTweetLinks: Increases Twitter traffic.
- Latergram: Easily plan & schedule your Instagram posts.
- WordPress Pin it Button for Images: Add a “Pin It” button.
- SharedCount: Track URL shares, likes, tweets, and more.
- How Many Shares Count how many shares a URL has across most social networks, all in one place.
- Justunfollow: Follow / unfollow people on Twitter & Instagram.
- SocialRank: Identify, organize, and manage your followers on Twitter.
- Klout: Social media influence score on browser extension.
- Ritetag: Instant hashtag analysis.
- Social Analytics: Interactions for a URL on most social platforms.
- Buffer Free Plan: Schedule posts to Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Google+.
- Bitly: Create, share, and track shortened links.
- Filament: A free beautiful and customizable sharing bar.
- Addthis: Get more shares, follows and conversions.
- Sumome Share: Auto-optimizes your share buttons for max traffic.
- Digg Digg: Your all in one share buttons plugin.
- Disqus: Build a community of active readers & commenters.
- App Review Monitor: App reviews delivered to Slack and your inbox.
- Presskit Generator: Generate a Press Kit for your iOS App for free.
- Free Survey Creator: Create a survey. Get user feedback for free.
Free Guides & Courses
- Primer: No-nonsense, jargon-free marketing lessons (by Google).
- KeepYourFriendsClose: A free e-book about maximizing Customer Lifetime Value.
- Pricing Course: A free 9 day course on charging what you’re worth.
- Email Course for Sponsorships: How to get sponsorships for anything.
- Startup Sales Course: A free course to help you become a better marketer.
- Build an online course: A free course to help you build an online course.
- MailCharts: A FREE email course to help you become a better marketer.
- FirstSiteGuide: The beginner’s guide to successful blogging.
Free Customer Service Tools & Surveys
- Typeform: Free beautiful online survey & form builder.
- Tally: Create polls in no time.
- Free Survey Creator: Create a survey. Get user feedback for free.
- Batch: The first-ever 100% free engagement platform for mobile apps.
- Helprace: Customer service tool. Free for up to 3 agents for small support teams.
A/B Testing & Growth Hacking
- Petit Hacks: Acquisition, retention, & revenue hacks used by companies.
- Optimizely: One optimization platform for websites and mobile apps.
- Hello Bar: Tool for A/B testing different CTAs & power words.
- GrowthHackers: Unlocking growth. Together.
Free Website Building Tools
- HTML5 UP: Responsive HTML5 and CSS3 site templates.
- Bootswatch: Free themes for Bootstrap.
- Templated: A collection of 845 free CSS & HTML5 site templates.
- WordPress.org | WordPress.com: Create your new website for free.
- Strikingly: Free, unlimited mobile optimized websites for strikingly domains.
- Layers: A WordPress site builder so simple. It’s free, forever.
- Bootstrap Zero: The largest open-source, free Bootstrap template collection.
- Landing Harbor: Promote your mobile app with a free landing page.
Free Logo & Branding Tools
- Logaster: Professional online logo maker & generator.
- Hipster Logo Generator: It’s Hip, It’s Current, It’s Stylish, It’s Hipster.
- Squarespace Free Logo: You can download free low-res version for free.
- Signature Maker: A free web based tool that creates your handwritten digital signature.
Free Invoicing Tool
- Invoice to me: Free Invoice Generator.
- Free Invoice Generator: Alternative free invoice generator.
- Slimvoice: Insanely simple invoices.
- Wave: Free & easy accounting, invoicing and more.
- Invoice.to: Free invoice generator.
Free Legal Docs
- Kiss: Free legal docs for startup founders and investor.
- Docracy: An open collection of free legal documents.
- Shake: Create, sign and send legally binding agreements in seconds. Free for personal use.
Free Ideas Management
- Experiment Board: Test your startup idea without wasting time or money.
- Germ.io: Get from idea to execution.
- Skitch: Your ideas become reality faster.
Free Business Names & Project Names’ Generator
- The Name App: Find an available name for your brilliant idea.
- Naminum: Discover a perfect company name.
- Short Domain Search: Find short, available single-word domain names.
- Wordoid: Pick a short and catchy name for your business.
- Hipster Business Name: Hipster business name generator.
- Impossibility: The best domain name generator ever.
- Lean Domain Search: Find a domain name for your website in seconds.
- Domainr: Fast, free, domain name search, short URLs.
Free Design Resources
- Freebbble: High-quality design freebies from Dribbble.
- Dribbble: Dribbble search results for “freebie”. An absolute freebie treasure.
- Graphic Burger: Tasty design resources made with care for each pixel.
- Pixel Buddha: Free and premium resources for professional community.
- Premium Pixels: Free Stuff for Creative Folk.
- Fribbble: Free PSD resources by Dribbblers curated by Gilbert Pellegrom.
- Freebiesbug: Latest free PSDs & other resources for designers.
- 365 Psd: Download a free psd every day.
- Dbf: Dribbble & Behance best design freebies.
- Marvel: Free resources from designers we love.
- UI Space: High quality hand-crafted Freebies for awesome people.
- Free Section of Pixeden: Free design resources.
- Free Section of Creative Market: Freebies coming out every monday.
- Teehan+Lax: iOS 8 GUI PSD (iPhone 6).
- Teehan+Lax: iPad GUI PSD.
- Freepik: iFree graphic resources for everyone.
- Tech&All: PSD, Tech News, and other resources for free.
- Tethr: The most beautiful IOS design KIT ever.
- Web3Canvas: PSD Freebies, HTML Snippets, Inspirations & Tutorials.
- SketchAppResources: Free graphical resources.
- Placeit Freebies: Freebies delivered right to your Dropbox.
Free Colour Pickers
- Material Palette: Generate & export your Material Design color palette.
- New Flat UI Color Picker: Best flat colors for UI design.
- Flat UI Colors: Beautiful flat colors.
- Coolors: Super fast color schemes generator for cool designers.
- Skala Color: An extraordinary color picker for designers and developers.
- Material UI Colors: Material ui color palette for Android, Web & iOS.
- Colorful Gradients: Gradients automatically created by a computer.
- Adaptive Backgrounds: Extract dominant colours from images.
- Brand Colors: Colors used by famous brands.
- Paletton: The color scheme designer.
- 0 to 255: A simple tool that helps web designers find variations of any color.
- Colour Lovers: Create & share colors, palettes, and patterns.
- Adobe Color CC: Color combinations from the Kuler community.
- Bootflat: Perfect colors for flat designs.
- Hex Colorrrs: Hex to RGB converter.
- Get UI Colors: Get awesome UI colors.
- Coleure: Smart color picker.
- Colllor: Color palette generator.
- Palette for Chrome: Creates a color palette from any image.
- PLTTS: Free color picker.
Inspiration
- MaterialUp: Daily material design inspiration.
- FLTDSGN: Daily showcase of the best flat UI design websites and apps.
- Site Inspire: Web design inspiration.
- UI Cloud: The largest user interface design database in the world.
- Moodboard: Build a beautiful moodboard and share the result.
- Crayon: The most comprehensive collection of marketing designs.
- Land-Book: Product landing pages gallery.
- Ocean: A community of designers sharing feedback.
- Dribbble: Show and tell for designers.
- Behance: Showcase & discover creative work.
- Pttrns: Mobile user interface patterns.
- Flat UI Design: Useful Pinterest board.
- Awwwards: The awards for design, creativity and innovation.
- The Starter Kit: Curated resources for developers and designers.
- One Page Love: Resource for one page website inspiration.
- UI Parade: User interface design tools and design inspiration.
- The Best Designs: The best of web design.
- Agile Designers: Best resources for designers & developers.
- Niice: A search engine with taste.
Free Stock Photography
- Stock Up: Best free stock photo websites in one place.
- Pexels: Best free photos in one place.
- All The Free Stock: Free stock images, icons, and videos.
- Unsplash: Free (do whatever you want) high-resolution photos.
- Splashbase: Search & discover free, hi res photos & videos.
- Startup Stock Photos: Go. Make something.
- Jay Mantri: Free pics. do anything (CC0). Make magic.
- Moveast: This is a journey of a portuguese guy moving east.
- Travel Coffee Book: Sharing beautiful travel moments.
- Designers Pics: Free photographs for your personal & commercial use.
- Death to the Stock Photo: Free photos sent to you every month.
- Foodie’s Feed: Free food pictures in hi-res.
- Mazwai: Free creative commons HD video clips & footages.
- Jéshoots: New modern free photos.
- Super Famous: Photos by Dutch interaction designer Folkert Gorter.
- Pixabay: Free high quality images.
- Super Famous: Photos by Dutch interaction designer Folkert Gorter.
- Picography: Free hi-resolution photos.
- Pixabay: Free high quality images.
- Magdeleine: A free high-resolution photo every day.
- Snapographic: Free stock photos for personal & commercial use.
- Little Visuals: 7 hi-res images in your inbox every 7 days.
- Splitshire: Delicious free stock photos.
- New Old Stock: Vintage photos from the public archives.
- Picjumbo: Totally free photos.
- Life of Pix: Free high-resolution photos.
- Gratisography: Free high-resolution photos.
- Getrefe: Free photos.
- IM Free: A curated collection of free resources.
- Cupcake: A photographer’s treat by Jonas Nilsson Lee.
- The Pattern Library Free patterns for your projects.
- Public Domain Archive: New 100% free stock photos.
- ISO Republic: High-quality, free photos for creatives.
- Stokpic: Totally free photos.
- Kaboompics: The best way to get free photos.
- Function: Free photo packs.
- MMT: Free stock photos by Jeffrey Betts.
- Paul Jarvis: Free high-resolution photos.
- Lock & Stock Photos: Free stock photos for you.
- Raumrot: Free high-resolution picture.
- Bucketlistly: A free creative common collection of travel photos.
- Some more websites: Free Digital Photos | Morguefile | Public Domain Pictures | Free Stockvault | ImageFree | Rgbstock | Dreamstime | FreeImages | FreeRangeImages | FreePhotosBank
- Some handpicked free photo packs:
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- StockSnap: Beautiful free stock photos.
- Unfinished Business: Free stock photos featuring Vince Vaughn.
- Free Nature Stock: Royalty-free Nature Stock Photos. Use them however you want.
Free Typography
- TypeGenius: Find the perfect font combo for your next project.
- Font Squirrel: 100% free commercial fonts.
- FontFaceNinja: Browser extension to find the web fonts a site uses.
- Google Fonts: Free, open-source fonts optimized for the web.
- Beautiful Web Type: Best typefaces from the Google web fonts directory.
- DaFont: Archive of freely downloadable fonts.
- 1001 Free Fonts: A huge selection of free fonts.
- FontPark: The web’s largest archive of free fonts.
- Font-to-width: Fit pieces of text snugly within their containers.
- Adobe Edge Fonts: The free, easy way to get started with web fonts.
- Typekit: A limited collection of fonts to use on a website or in applications.
Free Icons
- Fontello: Icon fonts generator.
- Flat Icon: A search engine for 16000+ glyph vector icons.
- Material Design Icons: 750 Free open-source glyphs by Google.
- Font Awesome: The iconic font and CSS toolkit.
- Glyphsearch: Search for icons from other icon databases.
- MakeAppIcon: Generate App Icons of all sizes with a click.
- Endless Icons: Free flat icons and creative stuff.
- Ico Moon: 4000+ free vector icons, icon generator.
- The Noun Project: Thousands of glyph icons from different artists.
- Perfect Icons: A social icon creation tool.
- Icon Finder: Free icon section of the website.
- Free Round Icons: Doodle Set | Flat Set | Vector Line Set
- Icon Sweets: 60 free vector Photoshop icons.
- Make Appicon: Generate App Icons of ALL sizes with a click.
- App Icon Template: Royalty free app icon creator for iOS, OS X and Android.
- SmartIcons: Download 1450 premium icons for free.
- Ego Icons: 100 Free vector icons with a clean look and feel.
- FlatIcons: Free flat icon customizer, royalty free.
- To(icon): Free icons.
Free Useful Stuff
- UI Names: Generate random names for use in designs and mockups.
- UI Faces: Find and generate sample avatars for user interfaces.
- Copy Paste Character: Click to copy.
- Window Resizer: See how it looks on various screen resolutions.
- Sonics: Free packs of UI sounds and sound effects delivered to your inbox every month.
Free Coding Things
- Hive: First free unlimited cloud service in the world.
- GitHub: Build software better, together.
- BitBucket: Git and Mercurial code management for teams
- Chisel: Chisel offers an unlimited number of fossil repositories.
- Visual Studio: Comprehensive collection of developer tools and services.
- Landscape: Landscape is an early warning system for your Python codebase.
- Swiftype: Add great search to any website. Free with limitations.
- Keen.io: Gather all the data you want & start getting the answers you need.
- Coveralls: Test coverage history and statistics.
- LingoHub: Free for Small Teams, Open Source usage and Educational projects.
- Codacy: Continuous Static Analysis designed to complement your unit tests.
- Searchcode: Search over 20 billion lines of code.
- TinyCert: Free SSL certificates for your startup.
- StartSSL: Free SSL certificates.
- Opbeat: The first ops platform for developers. Free for small teams.
- Pingdom: Website monitoring. Free for one website.
- Rollbar: Full-stack error monitoring for all apps in any language.
- Loggly: Simplify Log Management Forever. Free for one user.
- Devport: Get your developer portfolio.
- Getting Real: The smarter way to build web apps. A free book by 37signals.
- Peek: Get a free, 5-minute video of someone using your site.
- Creator: Build better Ionic apps, faster.
- DevFreeCasts: A huge collection of free screencasts for developers.
- Cody: A free library of HTML, CSS, JS nuggets.
Background Sounds to Focus
- Noisli: Background noise & color generator.
- Noizio: Ambient sound equalizer for relax or productivity.
- Defonic: Combine the sounds of the world into a melody.
- Designers.mx: Curated playlists by designers, for designers.
- Coffitivity: Stream the sounds of a coffee shop at work.
- Octave: A free library of UI sounds, handmade for iOS.
- Free Sound: Huge database of free audio snippets, samples, + recordings.
- Sonics: Free packs of UI sounds and sound effects delivered to your inbox every month.
- Deep Focus: Spotify’s famous playlist to focus.
Avoid Distraction
- Self Control: Mac: free application to help you avoid distracting websites.
- Cold Turkey: Windows: temporarily block yourself off of distracting websites.
Free Organise & Collaboration Tools
- Trello: Keeps track of everything.
- Evernote: The workspace for your life’s work.
- Dropbox: Free space up to 2GB.
- Yanado: Tasks management inside Gmail.
- Wetransfer: Free transfer up to 2GB.
- Drp.io: Free, fast, private and easy image and file hosting.
- Pocket: View later, put it in Pocket.
- Raindrop: Mac app for bookmarking and reading it later.
- Flowdock: Free for teams of five and non-profits.
- Typetalk: Share and discuss ideas with your team through instant messaging.
- Slack: Free for unlimited users with few limited features.
- HipChat: Free for unlimited users with few limited features.
- Google Hangouts: Bring conversations to life with photos, emoji and group video calls.
- Voveet: Simple, free 3D conference calls. Experience the difference.
- FreeBusy: Eliminate coordination headaches when you need to schedule a meeting.
- Miro: Your regular whiteboard, re-thought for the best online experience. (rebranded from RealTimeBoard)
- Witkit: Witkit is the secure platform for teams. 50GB of free encrypted data storage.
- Any.do: Get things done with your team.
- Asana: Teamwork without email.
- GoToMeeting: Online meetings without the hassle.
For Digital Nomads & Remote Working
- Founded X Startup Stats: Find the best country to build your startup in
- Teleport: Startup Cities: Discover and budget your next move to 100+ startup cities.
- Nomad House: Houses around the world for nomads to live and work together.
- Workfrom: Coffee, WiFi and good vibes.
- Lastroom: Simplifying your team travel management
- Nomadlist: The best cities to live and work remotely.
- What’s It Like: Helping travelers figure out WHEN to go.
- Nomad Jobs: The best remote jobs at the best startups.
Discover Tools & Startups
- Product Hunt: Curation of the best new products, every day.
- Angellist: Where the world meets startups.
- Beta List: Discover and get early access to tomorrow’s startups.
- StartupLi.st: Find. Follow. Recommend startups.
- Startups List: Collections of the best startups in different places.
- Erli Bird: Where great new products are born.
Build Together
- Assembly: Co-create new ideas no matter where they are.
- CoFoundersLab: Find a co-founder in any city, any industry.
- Founder2be: Find a co-founder for your startup.
Learn
- Coursera: Free online classes from 80+ top universities & organizations.
- Khan Academy: Free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.
- Skillshare: Unlock your creativity with free online classes & projects.
- Codecademy: Learn to code interactively, for free.
- How to start a startup: As an Audio Podcast or As Online Course
- Startup Notes: Startup School invites amazing founders to tell their story.
- The How: Learn from entrepreneurs.
- Launch This Year: Guide to help you launch your online business.
- Closed Club: Browse shut-down start-ups & learn why they closed down.
- Startup Talks: A curated collection of startup related videos.
- Rocketship.fm: Learn from successful entrepreneurs each week.
- reSRC.io: All free programming learning resources.
- The Lean LaunchPad: How to Build a Startup.
- TalentBuddy: Learn to code.
- Mixergy: Learn from proven entrepreneurs.
- Hackdesign: Receive a design lesson in your inbox each week.
Newsletters that don’t suck
- Email1K: A free 30 day course to double your email list.
- Design for Hackers: 12 weeks of design learning, right in your inbox.
- Startup Digest: Personalized newsletter for all things startup in your area.
- Mattermark Daily: Curated newsletter from investors & founders.
- ChargeWhatYou’reWorth: Free course on charging what you’re worth.
- Product Psychology: Lessons on User Behavior.
- UX Newsletter: Tales of researching, designing, and building.
- UX Design Weekly: Best user experience design links every week.
Useful Resources for Startups
- Foundrs: Co-founder equity calculator.
- Ad Spend Calculator: Should my startup pay to advertise?
- HowMuchToMakeAnApp: Calculate the cost of a mobile application.
- App vs. Website: Should you build an app or website?
- Pitcherific: Pitcherific helps you create, train, and improve your pitch.
- Startup Equity Calculator: Figure out how much equity to grant new hires in second
- 6 Myths about Starting your Own Business: Figure out the myths that act as limiting beliefs
- How to Ace Job Interviews like a Pro: Learn how to excel at job interviews
Our Free Resources for Startups
- How to Ace Job Interviews like a Pro
- 6 Myths about Starting your Own Business
- Guest Post: 5 ways to get more followers for your small business on Twitter
- 3 Online bookstores where you can find The Strawberry Startup
- How to read ebooks if you do not have a Kindle ereader (Ebook release: The Strawberry Startup)
- Have you heard of The Strawberry Startup?
- What is Startup Storey all about?
- What if someone steals my startup idea?
About the Author
The Strawberry Startup is an ebook that teaches you how to reinvent the way you live, and start living the way you want by building your own business.
This business is ideally founded on your interests and passion that will keep the creative juices flowing, and the profits coming in. Find out more about our ebook in this blog post here.
To contribute to this list:
– CodeAcademy Offers free interactive programming sessions (HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP You can learn code and learn to become a developer and even build your own website, app or online products.
– Coursera provides free courses to its 10 Million users and has 114 educational partners.
– HubSpot Academy – Free Certification Programs on Marketing, Web Optimization & must have skills online.
– Khan Academy – Free learning resource with 100,000 interactive exercises which you can put to good use from finance, economics, tax accountancy.
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If you’re entirely new to blogging, start with a free platform first.
If you’re planning to blog seriously in the long term, go for a paid option. For WordPress, there are 2 options – WordPress.com and WordPress.org.
For WordPress.com, you can just buy a domain name (you have to buy through WordPress to save domain transfer fees) but for WordPress.org, you can buy from external, third-party domain providers such as GoDaddy (we will write more about building your own website soon). For WordPress.org, note that you need to find your own hosting, and also learn how to install WordPress on your host server though most hosts tend to allow a 1-click installation.
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That’s great! We wrote this list to help other entrepreneurs as well.
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I think a great resource entrepreneurs can use is listening and learning from other entrepreneurs. By listening to what others have done you can use those same strategies and learn from their mistakes.
Today, I went to the beach front with my children. I found a sea shell and gave it to my 4 year old daughter and said “You can hear the ocean if you put this to your ear.” She placed the shell to her ear and screamed. There was a hermit crab inside and it pinched her ear. She never wants to go back! LoL I know this is totally off topic but I had to tell someone!
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Great list of resources for any new/aspiring startup! Thanks for posting.
One additional resource is MotoMentor. It’s a free motivational newsletter for entrepreneurs that goes out every Monday morning. 100% free and can really help you stay on track : )
Best of luck to everyone.
Thanks so much for such great list! I’ve saved it to bookmarks. Also I’d suggest our customer service tool, Deskun. It lets you support customers through various communication channels and combine all the messages in the Gmail interface. Take a look and let us know your thoughts.
That’s great! What does Deskun do?
Moseslim, It helps you organize customer support inside your Gmail. So you can work with email tickets, live chat messages etc.
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Thanks for dropping by our website – StartupStorey. When will this festival be occurring?
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You can start with one of the free options – Blogger or WordPress.
For professional Blogging, you need:
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– Self-managed web hosting(You’ll have to set everything up yourself)
– Managed Web hosting(best for people who just want to blog leaving the technical part to experts to manage)
– A domain name(you’ll get it free with web hosting)
-CMS like WordPress or Ghost (1 click install will be available in web hosting account)
– Your commitment. MOST IMPORTANT
We will write more about this soon!
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