Focusing on custom software development, Acklen Avenue is an agile team of coders who can build your backend, software suite, or full website. They focus on writing clean code that is easy to manage and to later upgrade if necessary. Acklen Avenue is who I plan to hire for my next big project.
If you have a static site, you have less options for forms. But Formspree is super easy to set up. Just add HTML code and you’re good to go. They handle the actual transmission. It’s not the most flexible system in the world, but it’s quick and easy. It’s what I am currently using on…
Lets you check for name availability across multiple TLDs and social media, and also generates suggestions. Once you find a good name, click through to register it at Namecheap. Very cool tool while you’re researching names.
These folks are disrupting the traditional agency model by allowing companies to engage with hundreds of naming experts. Their platform combines crowdsourcing, AI and gamification to help companies come up with high quality name ideas instantly. In addition to comprehensive Trademark validation, they offer audience testing to ensure that names resonate with your target audience.…
Track and share your financial data with Angeloop. Why? So that your investors and potential investors can know how your Startup is really performing. Customize and manage your Key Performance Indicators. Angeloop will make it easy too by automatically importing your financials.
Broader in scope than these other tools, Validately allows you to run tests, but also listen to and watch users try to make their way through your website. This may be the best solution if you wanted to perform user research more like focus groups.
AccountEdge Pro allows business owners to organize, process, and report on their financial information with ease so they can focus on their business. Its feature set is built to allow users to handle every aspect of their business including accounting, integrated payroll, sales and purchases, contact management, inventory, online orders, and time billing.
It’s pretty impossible to know exactly how your business will be doing in the future, but the raison d’être for Float is to help you forecast your future cashflow by syncing with your invoicing systems and budgets. Keep an eye on your burn rate and runway so that you do not run out of capital…
CountUp is a free platform for entrepreneurs to find and work with on demand accountants, and they do all the legwork of searching, inquiring and delegating tasks for you, saving you time and money. No more bloated accounting firm hourly rates, physical visits to “brick & mortar” locations, and wasted time searching on your own.…
Financials OnTap is a service that matches freelance top finance & accounting talent with startups. We offer a flexible cost-efficient way to plan, budget, and report on your business. We are project based and on-demand model which means you pay only for what you need and we operate on your timeline. We do budgets, projections,…
Poindexter is the easiest way to create financial forecasts and budgets for new business plans. See what your future financial projections look like based on your current growth rates. Track marketing expenses and estimated ROI. Build Businesses, Not Spreadsheets.
Tesults makes automating tests for your systems easy, and the results empower your team to improve quality of your service and reduce costs of your operation.
If you don’t need a complicated site, one with a convoluted back end and databases and everything, but you still want a beautiful responsive site, OneNine does great work. They also do branding, so they can take your project visually from start to finish. Plus they do social media consulting, training and management. Booyah.
Mint’s been around for a while, as a personal financial monitoring tool. It syncs with your bank accounts and credit cards and will watch your spending, allowing you to track what you’re spending money on and making sure you don’t go over in all your budgets. And while it’s for personal use, it can also…
Survicate engages the users on your site right now with surveys. It’s like a survey disguised as a chat box, ready to take feedback casually from your site traffic. Ask about your competition, if people completed their goals on your site, refine your product offering, and more.
Looking to hire for equity? Willing to work at a Startup for equity? Equity Directory is the first and only employment connection site that focuses on working for equity. (And don’t worry about starving, companies who hire via Equity Directory can pay you a salary plus equity, so it’s not always working for only equity.)…
Tired of managing all your social media? Don’t want to bring someone onto your team full time to do it? Good Audience provides a management team to handle your social media, giving you back hours every week. Let them focus on crafting and posting content, and responding to your fans, while they bring you leads…
Workflowy is meant to be a to-do list, but it’s flexible enough that you can shape it to fit other needs, like storing ideas, brainstorming and mapping things out. I’ve never used it personally, but it comes highly recommended, and they claim that Slack was originally organized on Workflowy!
Most people know about Trello, a hugely popular organization tool based on the Japanese KANBAN model, in which you move a card from column to column. I used it to organize and record all the tools for this site, and I use it to keep track of all my development tasks and marketing ideas, and…
A list of the best places to submit your startup, plus they have three different tiers of submission if you want them to save you hours of time by submitting to 30 or 50 directories.
I haven’t set one of these up personally, but I’ve used them plenty to give feedback. They’re gorgeous. Typeform simply creates elegant, dynamic forms that can change depending on what responses are given during the process of filling out the form. And it works with Zapier, so you can take that data and send it…
App Radar is an online tool that helps app developers understand and optimize their app store appearance. It comes with useful keyword tracking & research functionality and is the first tool that lets them publish and manage app store listings for both Google Play & Apple App Store in one place. It lets app owners…
Similar to BuzzSumo, Epicbeat lets you research the popular trends and influencers within your industry to capitalize upon these trends for your content marketing efforts. Find influencers to reach out to in order to help promote your Startup. They also have curated popular content by category if you want to browse for inspiration.