Overview of the useful tools for Startups from Steve blank. Suggest tools or create your own ZEEF page here.

Startup Toolkit from Product Hunt

  1. 1 Intercom.io - An entirely new way to connect with your customers 72
  2. 2 Trello - Organize anything with anyone. 31
  3. 3 ProductHunters - Build Realtime Search 29
  4. 4 Mixpanel - The most advanced analytics platform for mobile & the web 17
  5. 5 Optimizely - A/B Testing you'll actually use for web and mobile apps 12
  6. 6 Typeform - Human & beautiful responsive online form & survey builder 20
  7. 7 reddit.com - Promote to +170 million engaged + passionate users on reddit 29
  8. 8 Peek by UserTesting - Get a 5-minute video of a real person using your site or app 15

Blogs for Entrepeneurs

  1. 1 20 Blogs Every Entrepreneur Should Read 137
  2. 2 Larrycheng.com 33
  3. 3 Master of 500 Hats 38
  4. 4 Mark Peter Davis 14
  5. 5 AVC 8
  6. 6 A Marc Andreessen blog archive 8
  7. 7 Essays 12
  8. 8 Hacker News 31

Launch Tools/Landingpages

  1. 1 Read: Great Landing Page Tutorial 273
  2. 2 Landerapp.com 170
  3. 3 Launchrock - create a launch page 119
  4. 4 Prefinery - invite beta users 73
  5. 5 Launcheffectapp.com 85
  6. 6 Ooomf.com 92
  7. 7 Unbounce - build and test landing pages 77
  8. 8 Instapage - build and test landingpages 73

Founder Stories

  1. 1 Stanford eCorner 41
  2. 2 Online / Remote Accelerator For Early-Stage Founders 37
  3. 3 Founders Films 29

Business Models

  1. 1 Business Model Generation 205
  2. 2 Business Model Canvas 130
  3. 3 The Platform for Evidence-Based Entrepreneurs 75
  4. 4 Murally - Visual Collaboration 55
  5. 5 Strategyzer - Business Model Canvas Tool 56
  6. 6 List of Revenue Models 82

Plug & play Website Builders

  1. 1 Launchrock.com 46
  2. 2 Pagelines.com 61
  3. 3 Edicy.com 67
  4. 4 Webs.com 33
  5. 5 Strikingly.com 29
  6. 6 Squarespace.com 11
  7. 7 Wix.com 13
  8. 8 Moonfruit.com 27

Find a Co-Founder

  1. 1 Meetup.com 28
  2. 2 Angel.co 29
  3. 3 Dutch Startup Events 17
  4. 4 Founderdating.com 52
  5. 5 Cofounderslab.com 28
  6. 6 Codearmy.com 28
  7. 7 Founders-nation.com 25
  8. 8 Startupweekend.org 19

Customer Development

  1. 1 Businessmodelalchemist.com - Value Proposition Designer 44
  2. 2 Foundersuite.com - Startup management software 30
  3. 3 Accelerate Your Customer Development 21
  4. 4 List of Bad Customer Development Questions 9
  5. 5 Stanford Customer Development Methods 22
  6. 6 The Lean Startup Circle Wiki / Customer Interview Templates and Resources 24
  7. 7 The Lean Enterprise Experiment Canvas 8

"How big is the market?" Tools

  1. 1 Google Trends 114
  2. 2 Google Insights 92
  3. 3 Facebook Advertising 49

Reading & Writing Tools

  1. 1 Hemingway - helps you write better 61
  2. 2 On-Page Optimization Tool 35
  3. 3 Read-able.com 23
  4. 4 Pr.co 22
  5. 5 Pocket - read later 5
  6. 6 Evernote - notes 2

Videos: Customer Discovery Checklist

  1. 1 The Phases of Customer Discovery 26
  2. 2 Pre-Plan Contacts 8
  3. 3 Customer Interview Dry Runs 8
  4. 4 Discovery is for Founders 6
  5. 5 Pass/Fail Experiments 6
  6. 6 Being Aggressive 10
  7. 7 Conducting a Customer Interview 9
  8. 8 Letting the Customer Interview Flow 8

Email Marketing/Blasting

  1. 1 Email Subject Best Practices 22
  2. 2 Mailchimp.com - Send Better Email 10
  3. 3 Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) 15
  4. 4 Sendy.co - Send Newsletters 100x cheaper via Amazon SES 31
  5. 5 ToutApp - Sales Email Tracking, Templates and Analytics 8
  6. 6 Constantcontact.com - Small Business Marketing 8
  7. 7 Campaigner.com - Email Marketing Services 10
  8. 8 Exacttarget.com - Email Marketing, Social Media, & Mobile Marketing 12

Online Q&A Communities

  1. 1 Stack Overflow 6
  2. 2 Stack Exchange 9
  3. 3 Programmers Stack Exchange 3
  4. 4 Ask Patents 11
  5. 5 Bright Journey 10
  6. 6 Nonprofit Software 5
  7. 7 Social Source Commons Blog 3
  8. 8 Quora 8

How Do I Contact Customers?

  1. 1 The Best Way to Network with Alumni on LinkedIn 23
  2. 2 Data.com 35
  3. 3 Rapportive.com 16
  4. 4 Hoovers.com 27

Transactional Email

  1. 1 Mandrill 32
  2. 2 Postmark 8
  3. 3 Mailgun 13
  4. 4 Mailjet 6
  5. 5 Sendgrid 6
  6. 6 Acoustic 4
  7. 7 Postageapp 7

Growth Hacking

  1. 1 The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Steve Blank 30
  2. 2 Find a Growth Hacker for Your Startup 42
  3. 3 Growthhackers.com 30
  4. 4 Marketingland.com - Growth Hacking Is Bull 12
  5. 5 Moz.com - Building Your Marketing Funnel 18
  6. 6 Quicksprout.com - The Definitive Guide to Growth Hacking 15
  7. 7 Lean Marketing for Startups 18
  8. 8 Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster 8

Frontend Tools

  1. 1 Bootstrap 28
  2. 2 Simple Stack Effects 42
  3. 3 Huge list of frontend resources 37

Issue Tracking Tools

  1. 1 DoneDone - simple issue tracker 41
  2. 2 JIRA: Issue & Project Tracking Software 10
  3. 3 Sifter - simple issue tracker 14

Recruitment Tools

  1. 1 Sourcecon.com 25
  2. 2 360social.me 25

Online Advertising Platforms (SEO)

  1. 1 Google Ads 13
  2. 2 Google Keyword Planner 13
  3. 3 LinkedIn Ads 3
  4. 4 Facebook Ads 6
  5. 5 Bing & Yahoo! Ads 4

Font Tools

  1. 1 Google Fonts 19
  2. 2 Type-Finder - find the right font 16
  3. 3 Tiff - spot the difference between fonts tool 2
  4. 4 Glyphr Studio - free font editor 7
  5. 5 Lost Type Co-op 10
  6. 6 Handpicked free fonts 15

Website Domain Names

  1. 1 KnowEm Username Search 43
  2. 2 Domainr: fast, free, domain name search 23
  3. 3 Godaddy.com 8
  4. 4 Transip.nl 7
  5. 5 Namecheap.com 7
  6. 6 How to Name Your Startup 19
  7. 7 Name.com 10
  8. 8 Domain Name Search 7

SEO Tools

  1. 1 Ritholtz.com - Infographic: How Does Google AdWords Work? 35
  2. 2 Katemats.com - What Every Programmer Should Know About SEO 29
  3. 3 Andrewchen.co - Conversion Funnel Tutorial 11
  4. 4 The Ad Contrarian 5
  5. 5 Ahrefs.com 3
  6. 6 Tools.seobook.com - Free SEO Tools & Search Engine Optimization 8
  7. 7 Seodigger.com 10
  8. 8 Semrush.com 7

Product Demo Videos

  1. 1 Sparkol VideoScribe 71
  2. 9 Explainify.com 54
  3. 3 Brainshark 27
  4. 2 Dunktank.co 14
  5. 5 Switchvideo.com 12
  6. 6 Grumomedia.com 8
  7. 4 Apptamin.com 6
  8. 10 Thinkmojo.net 5

Survey Tools

  1. 1 Google Consumer Surveys 37
  2. 2 Zoomerang.com 14
  3. 3 Wufoo.com 11
  4. 4 Formstack.com 12
  5. 5 Qualtrics.com 6
  6. 6 Surveymonkey.com 5
  7. 7 Kissinsights.com 8
  8. 8 Pollfish: Survey millions 7

Content Marketing Tools

  1. 1 Scoop.it - news curation tool 20
  2. 2 Nouncy - announcements 13
  3. 3 Roojoom - online presentation tool 15
  4. 4 Buffer - smart social sharing 5
  5. 5 Postcron, the best Tool to Schedule Posts on Social Media Accounts 8

Collaboration

  1. 1 Slack.com 18
  2. 2 Uberconference 42
  3. 3 Dropbox 4
  4. 4 Tresorit 28
  5. 5 Box 8
  6. 6 Hipchat 9
  7. 7 Yammer 12
  8. 8 Google Apps for Business 9

Social Monitoring

  1. 1 Zignallabs.com 38
  2. 2 Infinigraph.com - Intelligent Marketing for Social Media 15
  3. 3 Socialmention.com - Real Time Search 13
  4. 4 Topsy 18
  5. 5 Tweetburner 10
  6. 6 Hootsuite 10
  7. 7 Trackur 9
  8. 8 Wildfire - Social Media Monitor 10

Mobile App Location / Ad Platform / Misc

  1. 1 Placed 13
  2. 2 service首页 6
  3. 3 Burstly 9
  4. 4 Findera 6
  5. 5 Mobile Advertising and App Monetization That Works 4
  6. 6 appbackr 7
  7. 7 In-app monetization & programmatic advertising 4
  8. 8 AdMob – monetize and promote your mobile a… 2

Screencasting Tools

  1. 1 ScreenFlow 51
  2. 2 Snagit 34
  3. 3 Camtasia 25
  4. 4 Jing 22
  5. 5 Screencast-o-matic.com 22
  6. 6 Snapz Pro X 28
  7. 7 Simple screenshot sharing for Mac 3

Tutorials: SEO & Analytics

  1. 1 Must Read - Startup Metrics for Pirates 31
  2. 2 The Angel VC: Excel template for cohort analyses in SaaS 6
  3. 3 The Beginner's Guide to Conversion Rate Optimization 13
  4. 4 SaaS Metrics Tutorial 8
  5. 5 The Noob Guide to Online Marketing 12
  6. 6 Review: Mixpanel vs KISSmetrics vs Google Analytics 7
  7. 7 Analytics Academy 3
  8. 8 Web Analytics 0

Online Marketing Suites

  1. 1 Hubspot.com - All-in-one Inbound Marketing Software 20
  2. 2 Eloqua.com - Marketing Automation 7
  3. 3 Pardot.com - B2B Marketing Automation 13
  4. 4 Silverpop.com - Marketing Automation & Email Marketing Software 2
  5. 5 Hipcricket.com 6
  6. 6 Custora.com - Lifecycle Marketing, Customer Lifetime Value 5
  7. 7 Zoho.com 3
  8. 8 Highrise - Small Business CRM, Web-Based Contact Management 7

Email Testing

  1. 1 Litmus.com - Test and track emails 18
  2. 2 Mailinator - Free disposable inbox 13

Web/Social Analytics Tools

  1. 1 Google Analytics 9
  2. 2 KISSmetrics - Customer Intelligence & Web Analytics 21
  3. 3 Amazon Analytics Service 10
  4. 4 Geckoboard - analytics dashboard 14
  5. 5 Heapanalytics.com - Mobile and Web Analytics 11
  6. 6 Getclicky.com - Web Analytics in Real Time 9
  7. 7 Swixhq.com - Social Media Marketing Platform for E-commerce 4
  8. 8 Leadlander.com - Marketing Automation, Lead Generation 8

Subscription Billing Platforms

  1. 1 Chargebee 35
  2. 2 Recurly 19
  3. 3 Zuora 8
  4. 4 Online payment processing for internet businesses 7
  5. 5 Gumroad 5
  6. 6 Chargify.com 16

Wireframing tools

  1. 1 Must read UX tutorial 37
  2. 2 Must read UX article from Brad Feld 13
  3. 3 List of rapid prototyping tools 22
  4. 4 POP 17
  5. 5 Leandesigns 21
  6. 6 Sass 11
  7. 7 Balsamiq 12
  8. 8 Napkee 5

SEO for Mobile App

  1. 1 Mobiledevhq.com - Mobile app marketing tools 12
  2. 2 Searchman.com- Easy SEO for Mobile Apps 7
  3. 3 Appcod.es - App Store SEO 11
  4. 4 Appstorerankings.net - App Marketing and Mobile SEO Keyword Optimization 6
  5. 5 AppCodes’s Presentations on SlideShare 8

Blogging Platforms

  1. 1 Wordpress 8
  2. 2 Tumblr 7
  3. 3 Medium 11
  4. 4 Disqus 10
  5. 5 Web content management for successful brands 7
  6. 6 Blogger 2
  7. 7 Svbtle 10

Project Management Tools

  1. 1 Trello 45
  2. 2 Basecamp.com 29
  3. 3 Wunderlist.com 13
  4. 4 Asana · Teamwork without email 19
  5. 5 Time tracking with Google Calendar 9
  6. 6 Project Management Software, CRM, Sales,… 14

Mobile App Store Customer Analytics / Ad Platform

  1. 1 Unified Advertising and Analytics 5
  2. 2 Appannie.com - App Ranking, Analytics, Market Intelligence 2
  3. 3 Appfigures.com - App Store Analytics for iOS and Android 3
  4. 4 Heapanalytics.com - Mobile and Web Analytics 4
  5. 5 Mopapp.com - App Store Analytics 7
  6. 6 Distimo.com - App Analytics, Conversion Tracking 4
  7. 7 Apptrace.com - App store intelligence 3
  8. 8 Askingpoint.com - Mobile App Advertising, User Acquisition 0

Mobile App Testing

  1. 1 Apptimize - A/B test iOS and Android 18
  2. 2 Amazon - A/B testing (Beta) 6
  3. 3 Leanplum - A/B testing for iOS and Android 1
  4. 4 Taplytics - iOS testing 4
  5. 5 Artisan 2
  6. 6 Vessel - mobile AB testing 2
  7. 7 Appthwack 3

How to Code for Entrepreneurs

  1. 1 Codecademy 22
  2. 2 Udemy 11
  3. 3 Udacity.com 9
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