1. Startup Tools Click Here
2. Lean LaunchPad Videos Click Here
3. Founding/Running Startup Advice Click Here
4. Market Research Click Here
5. Life Science Click Here
6. China Market Click Here
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Startup Tools
Getting Started
- Why the Lean Startup Changes Everything – Harvard Business Review
- The Lean LaunchPad Online Class – FREE
- How to Build a Web Startup – Lean Launchpad Edition
- How to Build a Web App – isomoprhic web app boilerplate project (Node.js + Reactjs stack)
- YCombinator Startup Playbook – Sam Altman
- How to Create a $1M Web Business – Noah Kagan
- Web Fundamentals – Google developers
- QuickMVP – test your ideas
- FoundersSuite – Startup Mgmt Software
- Startup Failure Postmortems – CBinsights
- The U.S. Digital Service Playbook – sheer and practical genius
- Whitehouse/playbook – Github
- The TechFAR Handbook – how to hack Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR)
- GSA 18F – Digital Services Delivery
- Cloud.gov – U.S. government cloud innovation platform
- CSS coding style guide – 18F
- API.data.gov – API key, analytics, and proxy solution for government web services
- 600 Startup Pitchdecks – starthouse
Lists of Tools from Others
- The Book of Secret Knowledge – Github
- Awesome – Github
- List of Applications – ArchLinux
- Tools of the trade – startup tools from Hacker News
- Libraries.io – open source libraries, modules and frameworks
- HBS Startup Tribe Tools List – from Tom Eisenmann at HBS
- NYU Startup Resources Library
- StartupStash – Bram Kanstein
- Harvard Innovation Lab
- PBworks startup tools List
- Startup Weekend tools list
- Y Combinator Startup Library
- Triple Crown Leadership Resources
- Startup Resources
- Lean Startup Tools and Services
- Toolboard -web and startup tools
- Startup Foundry tools list
- Small Business tools list
- Market research list
- TopAlternatives – best tools for your website
- Software Advice
- 2start– 1000+ free
- Tools of the Trade 2013
- GetApp – business software reviews
- AlternativeTo – alternatives to expensive software
- AppMarketing Tools for developers
- Public Data Sources
Groups
- Startup Weekend – Launch a Startup in 54 hours
- The Lean Startup Machine – Launch a Startup in 48 hours
- Startup Monthly – Launch a Startup in a month
- Startup Grind – community looking to be educated, and network with the smartest startup minds
- Lean Startup Circle – Google Group for startup advice
- Women 2.0 – Launch a startup for women
- Meetup – Meet people you’re interested in
- Top Startup Conferences (North America)
Find a Co-Founder
- FounderDating – premiere site for founders/co-founders
- CoFoundersLab – find a co-founder in any city
- YouNoodle – founder matching
- CodeArmy – CTO’s for Non-Tech Founders
- FoundersNation – founders in Israel, London & NY
- Stanford Business School Interns – hire a Stanford Bus School intern cheap
- AngelList – Angel List jobs board
- Startup Weekend – Launch a Startup and meet a co-founder
- Founder Strengths – Gallup Strengths Center
- Meetup – go to a Meetup!
- How to hire developers – mike greenfield
Developer Bootcamps
- Programing Bootcamp Finder –
- DevPost – Follow hackathons around the work
Job Interviewing Tools
- InterviewCake – resource for data structures and algorithms
- HiredInTech’s System Design Section – guide for system design interview questions
- Coderust – solutions in almost any programming language, with interactive diagrams
- Reddit’s How to Prepare for Tech Interviews – a benchmark for interview prep
- Front End Interview Questions – exhaustive list of front-end questions
- Leetcode – resource for algorithm and data structure questions
Tools from Steve: Lean Startup/Business Model Canvas/Customer Development Tools
- Founders Workbook – A Checklist for the Startup Owners Manual
- Over 500 presentations and videos (mine and my students class finals) on Slideshare
- Harvard Business Review article on Lean here
- My free online Lean LaunchPad class on Udacity is here.
- I also share all my syllabi, student presentations and my class lectures slides as well.
- Educators Training Guide is here
- Course for Educators is here
- Teachable moments videos for the Lean Launchpad class here
- How do Customer Discovery videos here
- How to do Customer Discovery workbook here
- Sample Lean LaunchPad Lecture slides and suggested syllabus here
- Latest presentations posted click here
- Latest student videos posted here
- National Science Foundation presentations here
- Stanford presentations, lectures and syllabus here
- Berkeley presentations, lectures and syllabus here
- Columbia 5-day presentations, lectures and syllabus here
- Caltech 5-day presentations, lectures and syllabus here
- Business Model Competition slides here
- Some general customer development slides click here
- National Science Foundation I-Corps presentations, lectures and syllabus click here
- National Science Foundation/NCIIA I-Corps Faculty toolkit is here
- LaunchPad Central – the standard for Bus Model Canvas/Customer Development progress for companies/incubators/accelerators
Business Model Canvas
- Business Model Toolbox – iPad app from the master himself!
- Business Model Canvas – free downloadable Canvas
- Tutorial on how to use the Canvas – Alex Cowan
- Business Model Press – business model plugin for WordPress
- Business Model Designer – a web Canvas tool
- Business Model marketplace – Vizologi
- Mural.ly – allows distributed teams to practice Lean -Visual collaboration for creative people
- Canvasizer – create and edit a canvas
Customer Development
- Product/Market Fit: the Value Proposition Canvas – Alex Osterwalder
- Testing Product/Market Fit: Value Proposition Canvas – Alex Osterwalder
- Customer Development: How to get customer interviews– Kevin Dewalt
- ConfirmKit – user research platform for teams and product people
- Business Model Canvas Tutorial – steve blank
- Customer Development Tutorial – steve blank
- How to do Customer Discovery – SWNext
- Bad Customer Development Questions – Kevin Dewalt
- Customer Discovery Toolkit – Stanford d.school – awesome resource
- Customer Interview Templates – Lean Startup Circle
- Foundersuite – software and templates for startup founders
- Customer Archetype/Persona template – wireframes
- Mapovate – map your customer journey
Social Entrepreneurship / Non-Profits
- Art of the Ask – donors as a customer segment
Customer Discovery Checklist
Introduction
Before Leaving the Building
- Pre-Planning Contacts 4:24
- Customer Interview Dry Runs 0:49
- Discovery is For Founders 1:30
- Pass/Fail Experiments 1:32
Outside the Building
- Being Aggressive 1:29
- Conducting a Customer Interview 1:30
- Letting the Customer Interview Flow 1:37
- Seizing the Opportunity and Market Type 2:50
- Finding Patterns 1:50
- Looking for Insights 0:58
Returning to the Building
How to Do Customer Discovery Interviews
Founder Stories
- Stanford E-Corner – the motherlode of founder interviews
- FounderLy – Matthew Wise
- Founder Films – Matt Terrell
Website Domain Names
- Knowem – domain and trademark search tool
- NameSmith – Business Name generator
- Appellita– brand name ideation
- Domainr – domain name search
- GoDaddy – domain names, web hosting
- NameCheap – cheap domain names
- DomainNameBrain – domain name generator & availability
- Picking a domain name – Jason Calacanis
Create Websites Automagically
- How to build a website – Ray Tan
- Web Starter Kit – Google
- Web Fundamentals – Google
- Marvel – design, wireframe, collaborate
- InVision – design, wireframe, collaborate
- Edicy – Create a website
- Webs – Create a free website
- Strikingly – build mobile-optimized websites
- Squarespace – build an exceptional website
- Wix – free website builder
- Pixpa – create portfolio website, online store, blog and client proofing
- Moonfruit – free website/mobile builder
- Pagelines – build a website with WordPress
- Zozolo – start a website within Facebook
- Plinqs -simple web page creation
- GoogleSites – simple web host provider
- Google tag manager – create and update tags for your website and mobile apps
- Weebly – get a website up quickly with no tools
- Yola – get a website up quickly with no tools
- Render – simple cloud provider
- Cloudinary – image and video cloud serving service
- Algolia – custom search
Build Static-site blogs
- StaticGen – list of static-site generators
- Hugo – framework for building static-sites
- Forestry – static-site content management system integrates into Cloudinary
- Jekyll – build static sites
- VuePres – static-site generator
- HeXo – static-site generator
- GitBook – static-site generator for documentation
- MiddleMan – static-site generator for documentation
- Pelican – static-site generator
Blogging Platforms
- WordPress– king of blogging platforms…doubles as startup website
- WPEngine – wordpress hosting
- Tumblr – another blogging platform
- Disqus – Comments Platform
- Livefrye – alternate to Disqus
Website Bounce Reduction
- BounceExchange – drive conversions and leads on a website
- Optimonk – monetize abandoning website traffic
- EarnCoupon – give customers discounts for liking your site
“How Big is the Market?” Tools
- Google Trends – what are the search trends for key items
- Google Insights – breaks down the search data by location
- Facebook ads – check out the total available market
“How Do I Contact Customers?” Tools
- LinkedIn Alumni – awesome way to contact school alumni
- Data.Com – find business connections
- Art of Emails – prewritten sales templates
- RelateIQ – relationship intelligence
- Toutapp – sales email tracking, templates and analytics
- Rapportive – find Linkedin profies inside of Gmail
- Sende.rs – caller ID for email
- Connect6 – Chrome extension for people discovery
- Hoovers – phone and email contacts for sale
- Harrisinfo – sales leads for sale
- InfoUSA – email lists for sale
- ThomasNet – find any company
Surveys/Forms/Focus Groups
- Google Consumer Surveys – online market research
- Zoomerang – Free basic version, surveys polls, 150+ templates
- Qualtrics – cloud-based survey, free account a complete game changer – incredibly well built and powerful
- Qualtrics Wiki – Joseph Williams
- Amazon Mechanical Turk – you can set up a question and get answers
- Qualaroo – target surveys, boost signups, increase usage
- Fieldboom – create forms, surveys, and quizzes
- Remesh – truth discovery platform
- Userinput.io – get user feedback on your projects
- Pollfish – Create online/mobile app surveys
- Survata – Consumer feedback for any business decision
- Instantly – audiences and insight tools for businesses
- SimpleSurvey – free online survey creator
- Wufoo – create contact forms, online surveys and event registrations
- Vizir – free online questionnaires
- Typeform – forms/survey builder great U/I
- Formstack – Online Form Builder
- Formcrafts – free online form builder
- Awesomeforms – website forms
- AYTM – Ask Your Target Market
- Ethnio – Recruit real people from your website for user research
- Poplytics – online surveys and analytics
- SurveyMonkey– granddaddy of on-line surveys
- SurveyMoz – free on-line surveys
- FormTitan – customized email notifications, customized triggers, flow & conditions
- QuestionPro – on surveys, plus templates
- SnapSurveys – online and mobile surveys
- PickFu – Instant Market feedback A/B testing, polls
- SurveyGizmo – free version, survey creation and data integration tools
- 123ContactForm – create HTML forms and surveys
- SmartSurvey – UK’s leading survey tool, complies with the Data Protection Act
- FormAssembly – Create order forms, service requests or registration forms and collect payment securely
- FluidSurvey – web/mobile/tablet surveys
- SogoSurvey -web surveys w/analytics
- PollDaddy – from the makers of WordPress, powerful reporting & filtering
- SuperSimpleSurvey – survey creator, branching, mobile ready
- SurveyNuts – Free survey-maker/online questionnaire creation tool
- Insitez – Online customer feedback that boost conversions
- Polltango – create online polls
Product Launch Tools/Landing Pages
- Great Landing Page Tutorial – ConversionXL
- LaunchRock – Create a viral “coming soon” landing page
- Prefinery– Beta and Launch Mgmt software
- LaunchEffect – WordPress Landing pages for viral launches
- Ooomf – iPhone app store build/push/launch
- Unbounce – create, publish & test promotion specific landing pages
- Instapage – create a free landing page
- KickoffLabs -product landing pages
- LaunchGator – create a viral landing page
- Lander – create a landing page in minutes
- Ion – create landing pages that convert
- Clickthroo – landing pages with split-test, segment, personalization
- WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
Product Demo Videos
- How to Create a Whiteboard Video – tutorial by Nick Hershey
- Moovly – on-line video animation tool
- Renderforest – video and animation maker in the cloud
- VideoScribe – create awesome animated videos
- DunkTank – create product demo videos
- Whatfix – create interactive web guides
- Apptamin – App videos and websites
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Switch Video – produce an animated video
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Grumo Media – product demo videos
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Loose Keys – product videos as stories
- BreadnBeyond – Professional Explainer Video
- MotifMotion – animated videos for business
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Piehole.tv – product demo videos
- Explainify – product explaining videos
- Demoduck – explainer videos for business
- Levitate – video production for businesses
- VideoBrewery – curated marketplace of freelancers and studios to craft custom video content
- Sandwich Video – tech demo vidoes
- FireStarter – animated product videos
- LessFilms – explainer videos that increase conversions
- SimpleStoryVideos – tell the right story to your customers
- Kasara – animated and live action explainer videos
- PandaMotion – animated and live action explainer videos
- NobleDigital– Video Ad Campaigns to drive traffic to your site
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Thinkmojo – animated product videos
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Epipheo Studios – animated product videos
- The Video Animation Company – Animation For Business
- How to roll you own – Grumomedia
- Amazon Elastic Transcoder – video transcoding in the cloud
- Tongal – get creative work -TV commercials, social videos, music videos, branded entertainment
- Wistia – professional video hosting and analytics
Screencasting Software
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Screenflow– screen recording and editing
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Snagit – screen capture
- Camtasia – screen recording and video editing
- Jing – screenshots and screencasts
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Screen-o-Matic – cloud recording
- SnapzProX – mac screen capture software
- ScreenFlow – mac screen capture and effects
- Screencastify – screen video recording for Chrome
- Snagit– Chrome plugin/downloadable, they also build a ton of other software (500 person company in Michigan)
- ClipChamp – online video editor
Streaming Video Marketplace
- Periscope – live streaming video
- Meerkat – live stream video
- Streamium – Stream live video directly to your viewers and get paid in bitcoin
- Findstringers – global freelance marketplace
- Twitch –
Traditional Media
- Media Planning and Buying Calculators
- SRDS Media Buyers info – advertising rates and data
On-Line Advertising Platforms (SEO)
- Google Ads
- Google Keywords Tool
- Google Adwords Keyword Planner – search for new keywords or ad group
- Google Market Finder – find the right adwords globally
- Google Trends – what are people searching for?
- Google Corrolate – find searches that correlate with real world data
- Ubersuggest – keyword suggestion tool/google suggest scraper
- Google Adwords Editor – manage large AdWords accounts
- Think with Google – awesome channel tutorial to online purchases by market
- LinkedIn Ads
- Facebook Ads
- Facebook PowerEditor – bulk ad creation and mgmt tool – works only in Chrome
- DriftRock – facebook ad tools
- Qwaya – Facebook ad tools
- AdExpresso – Optimize Facebook ads
- Bing & Yahoo Ads
- Biddable – Self serve advertising bidding platform
Competitive Online Adword/PPC Analysis
- SEMRush – SEO and campaign management tool
- SimilarWeb – discover traffic for any web site or mobile app
- Thalamus -comprehensive research database of advertising vendors
- Alexa – competitive website info
- KeywordEye – generate keywords
- Spyfu – download competitors keywords and ads
- BuzzStream – link building and digital PR
- Market Samurai – SEO Keyword Analysis Tool
- WordStream – competitive adword analysis
- K-Meta – find competitive adwords keywords
- Moz – keywords, links and on-page metrics
Social Media Advertising
- Captiv8 – social media mgmt platform – connect brands to advertisers
- Atlas – Facebook’s cross platform solution
- Adaptly – twitter and facebook advertising platform
- MarinSoftware – online advertising platform
- Adroll – retargeting and display advertising
- Kenshoo – predictive marketing
- Adstage – manage google, bing, facebook, twitter & linked in Ads
- Followerwonk – Twitter analytics, online segmentation
Search Engine Optimization and Tools
- How Does Google Adwords Work?
- Great SEO Programmers Tutorial
- Great tutorial on the conversion funnel – andrew chen
- Ad Contrarian – Grumpy old ad guy with great insights
- SEOBook Tools – Free SEO tools
- SEO Tools: The Complete List
- SEO Digger – Find the top ten keywords ranking to your websites
- Clickable – Pay per click management
- WooRank – SEO optimization tool
- Moz – SEO Software Tools and Resources
- Majestic – SEO Backlink checker and site explorer
- Ahrefs – SEO tool, backlinks and keyword analysis
- MoonSearch – SEO tool, backlinks and keyword analysis
- SearchEngineLand – News about Search Marketing
SEO and Analytics Tutorials
- Startup Metrics for Pirates – read this before you spend time elsewhere
- 16 Startup Metrics – Andreesen Horowitz
- 16 more startup Metrics – – Andreesen Horowitz
- Cohort and Churn analysis spreadsheet & tutorial – Christoph Janz
- Beginners Guide to Conversion Rate Optimization – Sean Ellis
- SaaS Metrics Tutorial – worth reading as well
- The Noob Guide to Online Marketing – great graphic and tutorial
- Analytics review – mixpanel vs kissmetric vs google analytics review
- Analytics Academy – lessons to teach you analytics
- Analytics blog – good analytics tutorials
- Andrew Chen’s Essays – great web customer acquisition tutorials
Online Ad Fraud Tools
- Forensiq – fight online ad fraud
- SimilarWeb – website traffic and mobile app analytics
- WhiteOps – Digital ad fraud detection
Web/Social Customer Analytics Tools
- Google Analytics – web analytics and optimizer from the borg
- DoubleClick Floodlight – now owned by Googel
- Kissmetrics– actionable analytics
- MetricStory – Google analytics automatically delivered
- QuantcastMeasure – measure reach, traffic, frequency, demographics, interests/lifestyle, etc
- Comscore – ad agency/enterprise analytics
- AdobeAnalytics – ex Omniture
- Amazon Analytics – cross–platform mobile analytics reporting service for your app or game
- FacebookDomainInsights – provides developers and Page owners with metrics about their content
- HeapAnalytics – captures user action Clicks, taps, swipes, form submissions, page views and lets you measure it
- GetClicky – real-time web analytics
- Grafana – Beautiful metric & analytic dashboards for time series and metrics
- InfluxDB – the platform for time series data
- Leadlander – marketing automation analytics
- Segment.io – analytics API
- Wordtracker – find the best keywords and links
- Serpico – monitor your competition, backlinks & rankings
- WhatRunsWhere – locate and assess competitors ads and copy
- Chart.io – easy analytics for business data
- Mixpanel– real-time event tracking
- DigMyData – analytics dashboard for sales, email, social and ad marketing
- Crazyegg– visualize analytics
- Mint – site analytics
- Piwik – open source web analytics
- Visistat – web analytics measure marketing campaigns
- DbFace – SQL database application builder build no coding PHP or any frontend html, css
- Webtrends – analytics and segments
- Chartbeat – website analytics for doers
- Kontagent – user analytics for the social and mobile web
- Forsee – web, mobile, social, contact center analytics
- Woopra – real time customer and visitor analytics
- StatsMix – track and display internal & web metrics
- Keylines – amazing email visualization tool (Palantir for the rest of us)
- Ducksboard – very cool way to measure any online metrics
- Dasheroo – Business dashboards done right
- Cyfe – monitor social media, analytics, marketing, sales, support
- Mention – media and social monitoring
- Geckoboard – widget-driven business dashboard
- Grappster – dashboard for your cloud apps
- Leftronic – dashboard for real-time analytics
- Ubiq –data into dashboards
- PirateMetrics – track acquisition, activation, retention, referral, and revenue
- Recon.io – Twitter brand monitoring
- WhosTalkin – Social Media Search tool
- Diffbot – identify and extract from any web page (stealth search engine!)
- Kumu – track, visualize and leverage relationships
IoT (Internet of Things) Analytics
- Tellient – the only analytics platform built specifically for the IoT
- First Analytics – predict time-to-failure for industrial equipment or solve complex optimization problems involving industrial IoT
- Uptake – IoT and data analytics company
SEO for Mobile Apps
- MobileDevHQ – app store optimization made simple
- SearchManSEO – mobile SEO for IOS apps
- AppCodes – iOS app store optimization
- AppStoreRankings – mobile SEO and keyword optimization
- IOS SEO Tutorials – excellent primer
- Fuisz -makes video interactive
Mobile App Store Customer Analytics / Ad Platform
- Amazon Mobile Analytics
- Amazon Simple Notification Service
- Amazon Mobile Analytics
- Google Analytics – for Mobile
- App Annie – Apple/Google/Amazon app store analytics
- Appfigures – mobile analytics and sales data
- HeapAnalytics – captures user action Clicks, taps, swipes, form submissions, page views and lets you measure it
- Mopapp – mobile analytics, sales data, rankings
- Distimo – Apple/Google/Amazon app store analytics
- Xylogics – search engine for Apple/Google/Amazon app store
- Apptrace – app store intelligence
- Swrve – Customer Loyalty, Retention, and Engagement Across Channels
- AskingPoint – mobile analytics with polling
- Flurry – mobile app analytics and traffic acquisition
- AppsFlyer – mobile app tracking & Attribution analytics
- TestFlight – IOS analytics in beta testing on the fly
- Apsalar – mobile apps analytics & ads
- Count.ly – multiplatform mobile analytics
- KeenIO – analytics as an API
- Capptain – mobile analytics + push
- TapStream – Marketing analytics for apps
- UrbanAirship – mobile engagement
- Crittercism – mobile app intelligence
Social Listening
- Datarank – social listening and analytics tools
- Bottlenose – social listening for stream data
- Dataminr – transforms Twitter stream and other public datasets into actionable signals
- Trendspotrr – transforms social media into action
- DataSift – human data intelligence
- Salesforce Radian6 – social media monitoring platform for marketers
- Brand24 – social media monitoring and analytics
Mobile App Location / Ad Platform / Misc
- Placed – location based analytics for mobile apps & websites
- Burstly – mobile app monetization tools
- Yozio – campaign tracking & viral optimization for mobile apps
- Tapjoy – mobile app turnkey ad platform
- Appbackr – market, sell and distribute your apps
- Chartboost – make money with mobile games
- Google AdMob – monitize and promote your mobile games
- Vungle – integrate video ads into your apps
Online Marketing Suites
- HubSpot – online marketing and web analytics system
- Eloqua – marketing automation
- Pardot – marketing automation for multi-touch sales
- Silverpop – end to end marketing automation
- AgileCRM – CRM, Sales & marketing automation
- HipCricket – mobile marketing platform
- Infusionsoft – small business CRM and marketing automation software
- Performable – personable web analytics/lifecycle marketing
- Custora – customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value
- Zoho – free/cheap web customer relationship mgmt software
- Sharebird – Sales enablement software
- Highrise – small business CRM
- Pipedrive – sales pipeline management
- Zferral – affiliate and referral marketing on the web
- Genoo – marketing automation software
- Act-on – marketing automation suite
- Wishpond – social media marketing
- Intercom – CRM and web messaging tool for web apps
- Salestrakr – low cost CRM
- OntraPort – small business CRM, email management, list segmentation, marketing automation, billing, easy website building
- InviteBox – referral program platform
- Crowdtap – Influencer Marketing platform
- Helloworld – promotions, loyalty, mobile, live events, analytics
- Scaledrone – service for pushing messages to browsers
- Retargeting.biz – retargeting and marketing automation for commerce
Content Marketing Tools
- ScoopIt – publishing by curation
- Roojoom – turn content into leads
- SnapApp – Content Marketing platform
- Milkwhale – Design Infographics
- Reddit – forums to which its users post
- How to use Reddit for Marketing – tutorial by Nick Hershey
GrowthHacking
- Customer Creation – Chapter 5 of the Four Steps to the Epiphany
- Find a GrowthHacker – Sean Ellis Article that turned Customer Creation into Growth Hacking
- GrowthHackers – Community
- GrowthHacking Skeptic – Muhammad Saleem
- Diligence at Social Capital – Jonathan Hsu
- Books
- Building Your Marketing Funnel with Google Analytics – John Doherty
- The Definitive Guide to GrowthHacking – Patel and Taylor
- GrowthHacker Marketing – Ryan Holiday
- LeanStartup Marketing – Sean Ellis
- Lean Analytics – Croll and Yoskovitz
Social Monitoring
- ZignalLabs – Social Media monitoring
- InfiniGraph – Social Media monitoring
- SocialMention – Social Media monitoring
- Topsy – Social Media monitoring
Social Media Marketing
- Sprinklr – social media marketing and mgmt software
- Socialbakers – social media marketing and mgmt software
- ZohoSocial – social media marketing and mgmt software
- HootSuite – social media dashboard
- Buffer – schedule and manage social media posts and analyze performance
- Postcron – schedule posts on Twitter or Facebook
- Later – plan and schedule Instagram posts
- Tweetdeck – twitter real-time tracking, organizing, and engagement
- Socialoomph – schedule and monitor social media activity
- Friends+Me – schedule social media posts
- Crowdfire – publish and curate content
Email Marketing/Blasting
- Best email Subject-lines
- LiveIntent – turn-key premium email advertising solutions
- Opt-Intelligence – opt-in email subscriber acquisition
- MailTester – awesome tool to validate email addresses
- Email Spam Check – another mail testing tool
- MailChimp – free basic email blast software
- MixMax – track and automate gmail
- GetResponse – email blast software and autoresponder
- Sailthru – email marketing via web, mobile, social
- Sendy – blast 100x cheaper via Amazon SES
- FreshChat – customer messaging
- SendinBlue – online email marketing & SMS
- Tout – email blast and mgmt software
- Constant Contact – email, event promotion, social campaigns
- Campaigner – email marketing suite
- Exact Target – social media and email marketing
- Mad Mimi – email blast software
- GroupVine – email marketing, community engagement, surveys
- Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) – pretty cool
- Campaign Monitor – basic email software
- Emma – basic email marketing
- ReplyBoss -simple, automated email marketing
- Boomerang – scheduled sending and email reminders for gmail
- Streak– CRM inside of Gmail
Transactional Email
- Mailgun – mail server API’s for developers
- SendGrid – email blast software
- MailtTo – HTML email templates
- Postmark – email blast and mgmt software for web apps
- Amazon SES – Simple Email Service on AWS
- EmailOctopus – email marketing via Amazon SES
- AppMail – send email from inside your app
- Yesware – email tracking
- Mailjet – bulk and marketing email
- SmtpProvider – bulk email
- JangoMail – marketing and transactional email
- Silverpop – transactional email
- PostageApp – API for transactional emails
- atech/postal – Opensource alternative to Mailgun and Sendgrid
Email Sender Reputation
Sender Score – reputation mgmt for email senders
Email Testing
- Litmus – email previews and email analytics
- Glockapps – spam testing tools for email
- MailTester – test the spamyneess of your email
Social Acquisition
- Woobox – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social sweepstakes and coupons
Gamification
- Bunchball – gamification for user engagement and loyalty
- Hoopla – motivate employees, increase sales productivity
- Badgeville – gamification platform
- Gigya – social plugins, gamification
- Spinify -leaderboards using your own data to motivate teams
Loyalty Programs
- RewardStream – loyalty, customer referral
- 500Friends – customer loyalty program for ecommerce
- NextBee – customer referral and loyalty programs
- BigDoor – gamified loyalty and reward programs
- UrbanAirship – push marketing for mobile
Collaboration
- TeamViewer – remote support, remote access, online collaboration
- Pastebin – store and share text snippets online
- Collect – collect and manage client documents
- Hipchat – private group chat & IM for business and teams
- Yammer – private social network for companies
- Google Apps – Email, Chat, Docs
- LibreOffice – free wordprocessor, spreadsheet, drawing, presentation, pdf maker and database office suite
- Skype– free voice and video communication tool
- Fuzebox – web/mobile online conferencing
- Dialpad Meetings – online conference with visual icons
- ProfiConf – HD video conference in a browser
- Typewithme – document collaboration tool
- Unison – group communication to send group emails as well as SMS messages
- Google Hangouts – Googles uber Skype
- Evernote – remember everything
- Campfire – team collaboration
- RealTimeBoard – online whiteboard & collaboration tool
- Wikispaces – wikis for everyone
- Slideshare – share Powerpoints and docs with customers
- Join.me – free screen sharing
- Ning – Create your own social network
- Doodle – online group scheduling
- Freeconferencecall.com – Free conference calls – awesome!
- Speek – easy to setup conference calls, file sharing
- Syncpad – real time mobile collaborative whiteboard
- Piktochart – make infographics
- Stormboard– online brainstorming and collaboration
- Meldium– access all your apps with one click
Personal Cloud Storage
- Dropbox – free store, sync, and, share files online.
- Tresorit – secure dropbox alternative
- Google Drive – cloud storage and file backup
- iCloud – Apple store everything in the cloud
- OneDrive – Microsoft store everything in the cloud
- Box – online file sharing
On-line Q&A / Development Communities
- Apache Software Foundation – open-source software projects
- Stack Overflow – questions and answers for programmers
- StackExchange – expert answers to your questions
- Social Source Commons Q&A/tools for non-profit programmers
- Social Source blog– blog for non-profit programmers
- Quora – questions and answers for non-programmers
- Yahoo Answers – post questions, sometimes get answers
User On-boarding
- UserOnboard – how web apps handle their signup experiences
- AppCues – on boarding academy
Wireframing Tools
- Read this UX tutorial first – Alan Wells
- Great list of rapid prototyping tools here – dan harrelson
- Web Starter Kit – Google
- Web Fundamentals – Google
- Figma – team design of product mockups
- POP – Prototyping on paper for mobile phones – awesome
- Keynotopia – use PowerPoint/Keynote to create web/mobile apps – Cool!
- Lean Design – design using HTML5-editor and automatically convert it to XHTML/CSS
- Saas – CSS Extension Language
- Balsamiq– rapid wireframing tool. software mockups in minutes
- Napkee – export Balsamiq Mockups to HTML/CSS/JS and Adobe Flex 3 at a click of a button
- Justinmind – mac/pc mobile and web highly interactive prototypes
- JustinMind UserNote – get user feedback/test usability
- Figma – collaborative interface design tool
- Heflo – business process modeling
- FluidU/I – mobile prototypes for IOS
- Briefs – mac prototyping tool for iOS
- Flinto– web prototyping tool for iOS and Android from your screen designs
- Invision – web and mobile iOS and android prototyping & collaboration tools for design
- Proto.io – web prototyping tool for iOS and Android
- Solidify – web prototyping clickable mobile prototypes
- Axure – mac/pc wireframe software & mockup tool
- Irise – wireframes and prototypes. Inline requirements management. Real-time collaboration
- Protoshare – web prototyping tools for web & mobile wireframing
- Pidoco – online wire framing
- AppCooker – iOS mockup, wireframe or prototype
- Draw.io – draw diagrams online
- Moqups – HTML5 App used to create wireframes, mockups or UI concepts
- MxGraph – client side JavaScript diagramming library
- Sketch – professional digital design for the mac
- Pencil– Firefox add-on to do GUI prototyping and simple sketching
- Lumzy – quick mockup creation and prototyping
- CSS Hat – Turn Photoshop layers into CSS3
- Mockflow – online/offline, extensible wireframing tool w/design library
- OmniGraffle – it’s been around before the web even existed
- Wirify – turn any webpage into a wireframe
- LucidChart – Cloud-based drawing tool
- LucidPress – Cloud-based create and print digital documents
- Cacoo – free online drawing tool
- HotGloo – Online Wireframing Tool
- Mocksup – Share your web site mockups
- Mockingbird – Mock it up and share web site wireframes
- Creately – online diagraming and collaboration
- Gliffy – Online Diagraming
- Keynotopia – wireframing + high fidelity (pixel perfect) prototyping tool
- Free Wireframe templates for iPhone, iPad and Web
- Wireframing Tutorial
Markdown – text to HTML Text Style editor
- Markdown – John Gruber’s original markdown syntax
- Mastering Markdown – github
- CommonMark – strongly specified, highly compatible implementation of Markdown
- BabelMark2 – tool for comparing the output of various implementations of John Gruber’s markdown syntax
- MDtest – Michael Fortin’s test suite for Markdown implementations
- Mou – markdown editor for Mac
- Markdown editors for Windows
- Marked – provides a preview of your Markdown as you work in a text editor
- Dillinger – free online markdown editor that syncs with Dropbox, Google Drive and Github.
Web Drawing Libraries
- Paperjs – vector graphics scripting framework runs on HTML5 Canvas
- Processingjs – vector graphics scripting framework runs on HTML5 Canvas
- Verb -Javascript CAD Library for manipulating NURB surfaces on the web
- CGAL – Computational Geometry Algorithms Library – gold standard for geometric libraries
Web Screen Scraping Tools
- Import.io – screen scraper and crawler – free
Word Cloud Generators
- Taxedo – word cloud with styles
- WordMosaic – create word cloud inside your own symbol/picture
- Yippy – create world cloud for your blog-generates html and matches blog style
- Worldle – word cloud generator
- Worditout – word cloud generator
- VocabGrabber – word cloud plus visual thesaurus – really useful
Website Usability Testing/Heatmaps/Mouse Tracking
- Usertesting – $39 live users testing your site – cheap
- ProdThink – test a feature before you code it
- YouEye – usability testing with webcam eye tracking
- Validately – Test a feature before you write code
- LuckyOrange – affordable usability testing, heat maps, polls, visitor map
- Experimently – heat maps, A/B testing experiments
- Nelio A/B Testing – WordPress conversion optimization. Test headlines, posts, pages, widgets, themes, heatmaps
- Crowdsourced Testing – just like it sounds
- SessionCam – session replay, heat maps, conversion funnels
- FiveSecondTest – fine-tune landing pages
- TryMyUI– watch videos of users using your site
- FeedbackArmy – $20 website usability testing
- WhatUsersDo – UK live usability testing
- Clicktale – watch live clicks and browsing, optimize usability
- Usabilla – Micro usability tests
- OptimalWorkshop – tool suite for remote user research
- Clickheat – heat map of a website (where do users click)
- Mouseflow – attention heatmaps, mouse tracking and video playback
- Clixpy – tracks users clicks and browsing
- Openhallway – lets you remotely record user test scenarios
- InspectLet – Usability testing/Heat Maps and screen capture
- UsabilityTools – discover user needs, increase conversion rates
- ReviewbyOthers – get reviews of your website, blog, etc.
- LookTracker – eye tracking maps
- Omniconvert – A/B tests, personalizations and advanced segmentation
Emotion Analytics
- Affectiva – Test content for emotional engagement by facial analysis
- Emotient – facial expression recognition software
- Realeyes – measure peoples emotions via a webcam
- Sension – use webcams as a visual interface for interacting with content
Mobile Usability Testing/Heatmaps/Build Tools
- Amazon Mobile SDK– build mobile apps, mobile-optimized connectors to AWS data streaming, storage and database services
- HeatData – heatmaps for Mobile website
- Heatma.ps – Heatmaps for IOS apps
- Clutch.io – A/B testing for Mobile Apps
- Taplytics – A/B testing on IOS without app store updates
- Apptimize – mobile A/B testing for iOS and Android
- TestFlight – IOS beta testing on the fly
- Elusivestars – mobile app testing for developers
- Testin – cross platform automated app testing solutions
- Pusher – hosted API for realtime mobile/web apps
- PerfectoMobile – mobile app testing
- MobiReady – testing tool evaluates website mobile-readiness
- Compuware – test your website for “mobile ready”
- Rigor – test/monitor performance of mobile apps/websites
- W3C Mobile OK – test your website for mobile
- Google Page Speed – test your mobile speed
- AppMockUpTools – iPhone App Mockups
- Bugclipper – plug n play bug reporting library capture screen shots, highlight issues & record screen activity
- Appery – Cloud-based HTML5, jQuery Mobile & Hybrid Mobile App Builder for Android, iOS and Windows Phone
Website A/B and Landing Page Testing
- A/B Testing Tutorial – read first
- Landing Page Tutorial
- Fivesecondtest – Landing page optimization
- Subintent – A/B testing + page optimization for best conversion rates
- VisualWebSiteOptimizer – A/B testing (split tests)
- Optimizely – A/B testing (split tests) made easy
- Evan’sAwesomeA/B Tools – evan miller
- How not to run A/B testing -evan miller
- Silverback – usability testing for designers and developers
- FeedbackArmy – web usability testing
- 37Signals Advice on A/B testing
- UsersThink – get feedback on your landing page
Website/Browser Testing
- Sauce Labs – cross-browser testing in the cloud
- Browerstack – test websites across all browser w/debugging tools
- CrossBrowserTesting – pick an OS, pick a browser, pick a website
- RainforestQA – QA as a service
- Testling – cross browser testing
- Browershots – free browser testing makes screenshots in different os’s and browsers
- 99Tests – Crowdsourced software testing
- BetaList – get beta testers online
Website Performance Testing
- NewRelic – manage and tune website performance for Rails
- DareBoost – Test, Analyze and Optimize your website
- WebPageTest – website speed test from multiple locations around the world
- Google Pagespeed – performance recommendations
- PingDom – uptime and user monitoring
- Super Monitoring – uptime and basic website functions monitoring
- SpeedCurve – front-end performance benchmarking
- Monitive – site uptime monitoring
- Monitor – free website monitoring
- Webmon – website monitoring and escalation
Website Designers
- 99 Designs – marketplace for crowdsourced graphic design
- IconFinder – great way to find free graphic icons on the web
- FindIcons – 400,000+ icons on the web
- xScope – measure, align and inspect on-screen graphics and layouts
- Scoutzle – curated community for the best mobile designers
Website Design Tools
- Builtwith – tells you which technologies a website uses
- Twitter Bootstrap – Twitter toolkit for development of slick, intuitive webapps and sites
- Bootsnip– – free HTML snippets for Bootstrap
- WrapBootstrap – Themes for Bootstrap
- Bootswatch – More themes for Bootstrap
- Buttons for Bootstrap
- StartBootstrap – free HTML templates for Bootstrap
- iBootstrap – gallery of free code snippets and resources
- BootstrapZero – bootstrap themes
- Google Web Fonts – open API of 613 web fonts
- Google Font Pairs – how to mix fonts and finding ideal pairings
- Subtle Patterns – free tileable textured patterns
- Lensicle – editable royalty free stock photos
- iStock Photos – Royalty Free stock photos and images
- Canstockphoto – Royalty Free stock photos and images
- Fotosearch – royalty-free stock photography, clip-art, and illustrations
- Fotolia – images, vectors and videos- pay as you go or subscription
- 123RF – 19 million stock photos
- GoGraph – flexible royalty free stock photography, vectors, illustrations, graphics, and stock footage
- ColorSchemeDesigner – find complementary colors
- Image Color Picker –
- ColourLovers – share colors, palettes, and patterns
- Meteor – open source platform for building web apps
- ThemeForest – site templates cheap
- Scraster– Record screen and webcam. Simple editing. Perfect for screencasts or user studies
- Microsoft WebMatrix – Web server, database, and ASP.NET and PHP
- AppMakr – Mobile Ap Creator create quick mobile apps
- EditMe – create collaborative websites
- Dropr – share your portfolio online
- GooglePageSpeed – optimize your web pages
- Launchbit – online web site class for novices
- Zencoder – online video converting/encoding/transcoding service
- Google: HTML, CSS and Javascript from the Ground Up
- Appointlet – add a scheduler to your web site
- Krita – Photoshop Alternative
- Pixelmator – Photoshop Alternative for Mac and iPad
Phone/SMS Cloud Apps
- Twilio – add mobile and sms to your app
- Tropo – Cloud API for adding voice and sms to your app
- Callfire – add voice and sms to your app
- Voxeo – voice recognition and IVR to your app
- Jajah -telephony api
- PlumVoice– IVR Systems
Photo/Video Analysis Tools
- Introduction to digital video – great tutorial
- Tracker – way cool video analysis tool
- EXIF Viewer – view image metadata
- ExifTool – view image metadata
- FotoForensics – view image metadata plus Error Level Analysis
Voice Analysis Tools
- BeyondVerbal – Emotions analytics
- Nemesysco – voice analysis
- OperaVox – voice analysis
- Lyrebird – create a digital copy of any voice
Learning to Code
- Programming Languages and Tools compared – Hyperpolyglot
- Learn a programming language in minutes – adam bard
- Apple iOS (Apple’s operating system for their phones and tablets) to build games or apps in the App Store: Swift, Objective C
- Web games or apps: Django
- Websites: python, ruby, java. You can think of these as foundational languages, especially Java
- HTML/CSS: this is how a website sets up its visual look and feel, color, information organization, etc.
- SQL: how data in databases gets constructed and accessed
- How to Choose a Programming Language – Treehouse
- Codeacademy – learn to code online for free
- An Hour of Code – code.org
- Computer Science 101 – Stanford self-paced class
Reverse-Engineering Tools
- Ghidra – NSA open-source reverse engineering tool
- IDA Pro / HexRays– disassembler with debugger and plugin programming environment
- JEB – disassembly, decompilation, debugging, and analysis of code and document files
- BinaryNinja – reverse engineering platform
- Hopper – Disassembler for MacOs and Linux
- Radare – Disassembler
- Binja – Binary Ninja plugin to decompile binaries using RetDec API
- Retdec – retargetable machine-code decompiler based on LLVM
Application Frameworks
- Bento – everything you need to know about web development
- BlackDuck – open source security and license mgmt
- Really Helpful Guide to technology choices – Danny Boice
- Web Application Frameworks – start here
- Comparison of Web Application Frameworks – continue here
- Visual Basic, PHP, Rails, Node.js next? – Andrew Chen
- Libraries.io – open source libraries, modules and frameworks
- Bazel – Build and test software of any size
- PHP
- CakePHP – a PHP open source framework
- CodeIgniter – open source rapid development framework for building dynamic web sites
- Symfony – another PHP framework
- Silex – PHP web micro framework based on Symofony2
- Zend – yet another PHP framework
- Slim – PHP web Micro-framework
- PHP Tutorial and PHP Manual and Freaks
- Python
- Top 15 Python Libraries for Data Science – KDnuggets
- WSGI tutorials (Web Server Gateway Interface)
- Django – high-level Python framework
- NumbaPro – high performance python with nvidia cuda acceleration
- Pycharm – Python/Django Integrated Dev Environment
- Fabric – django deployment tool
- Numpy – core library for scientific computing with Python
- Scipy – functions that operate on numpy arrays
- Twisted – implement custom network apps, event-driven networking engine written in Python
- Tornado – Python web framework and asynchronous networking library
- Web2py – Pythonweb framework
- Bobo – light-weight framework to create WSGI web applications for python
- Bottle – lightweight WSGI micro web-framework for Python
- CherryPy – minimalist Python web framework
- Flask – microframework for Python based on Werkzeug, Jinja 2
- Pyramid -microframework for Python
- itty-bitty – itty-bitty Python web framework
- web.py – web framework for Python
- WheezyWeb – lightweight, high performance, high concurrency WSGI web framework
- Ruby
- Ruby on Rails – open source framework for Ruby
- Capistrano – Rails deployment tool
- NewRelic – manage and tune website performance for Rails
- Cuba – web micro-framework for Ruby
- Rack – Ruby Webserver interface
- EventMachine – simple event-processing library for Ruby programs
- Ruby on Rails Tutorial – Michael Hartl
- Ruby on Rails Guides – great tutorials
- RailsCasts – Ruby on Rails Screencasts
- Why’s (Poignant) Gude to Ruby – intro to Ruby with chunky bacon
- Tech*if*er0*urs – blog on roadmap for learning rails
- HelloRuby – teach kids how to learn Ruby
- RubyWizardry – another teach kids how to learn Ruby
- Sinatra – Ruby web microframework
- Padrino – web micro-framework for Ruby
- Ruby on Rails – open source framework for Ruby
- JavaScript/JScript
- Node.js – event-driven I/O server-side JavaScript environment based on V8
- Beginners Guide to Node.js – Brandon Cannaday
- Express.js – web development for Node.js
- Angularjs – an open-source JavaScript framework, assists with running single-page applications
- Backbone.js – RESTful JSON interface and is based on MVP
- Flatiron – framework for web apps with Javascript and Node.js
- Hapi – server frameworks for Node.js for web apps & services
- Koa – middleware for Node.js using generators
- Partial.js – web application framework for node.js
- Socketstream – node.js web framework for real-time single page apps
- Stack Abuse – tutorials on using Node.js
- nam – tools for the npm package manager
- Beginners Guide to Node.js – Brandon Cannaday
- JSON – lightweight data-interchange format, subset of Javascript
- SproutCore – open-source JavaScript framework
- jQuery – cross-browser JavaScript library
- jQuery UI – official jQuery user interface library. interactions, widgets, effects
- Javascript tutorial – jQuery
- JQuery Plugins – registry
- Cappuccino – JS development framework
- Turf – JavaScript library for spatial analysis
- Grunt – Javascript task runner
- JSFiddle – preselect/add JavaScript frameworks and test your code
- React.js – Javascript library for building user interfaces
- Relay – Facebook framework provides data-fetching functionality for React apps
- Breeze.js – rich data management for Javascript clients
- Knockout.js – dynamic UI’s with Model-View-Model pattern
- Mithril – client-side Javascript Framework
- Ember.js – Javascript library for creating ambitious web applications
- Handlebars – build semantic templates
- Modernizr – javascript library with feature detection for HTML5/CSS3
- SWFObject – embed Flash with one Javascript file
- Baseline for front end developers – good summary
- Node.js – event-driven I/O server-side JavaScript environment based on V8
- Clojure – dynamic programming language, compiles directly to java virtual machine bytecode
- Learn Clojure – clojure tutorial
- Adobe ColdFusion
- AdobeColdFusion – application server offers to build and deploy web and mobile applications
- The Go Programming Language
- The Go Project
- The Go programming language
- gccgo – complier for Go, front-end for GCC GNU compiler
- Goji – web micro framework for Go
- Gopher Academy – go education
- Electron – Build cross platform desktop apps with web technologies
- PhotonKit – beautiful Electron apps using simple HTML and CSS
- Apache Thrift – cross-language services dev between C++, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, Erlang, Perl, Haskell, C#, Cocoa, JavaScript, Node.js, Smalltalk, OCaml and Delphi and others
- Polymer – web components
- Parse – cloud-based app development framework
- Drupal – open source content management platform
- Firebug – edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page
- Fiddler – Debug web traffic from any Windows-based PC, Mac or Linux system, and mobile devices
- Joomla – another open source content management system
- Learn to Code – Stanford Computer Science classes – free
- Rust – systems programming language
- SumoLogic – analytics for the entire application stack
Create Mobile Apps Automagically
- Xamarin – create native iOS, Android, and Windows apps
- Codenameone – Write code in Java(tm) using Eclipse, NetBeans or IntelliJ/IDEA move to iOS, Android, and Windows
- Appcelerator – Write in JavaScript, run native everywhere
- AppPress – make a mobile app without coding
- Bubble – enables your to program web and mobile apps without code
- appery – mobile app builder and MBaaS
Apple iOS and MacOs Development
- How to distribute a Mac iOS or OS X App
- App Distribution Guide – distribute an app through the App Store or Mac App Store
- iTunes Connect – how to build and submit an iOS app
- App Store guidelines
- TestFlight Beta Testing – how to test an iOS with 1000 testers
- App Distribution Guide
- Sales and Trends – view how your product is doing
- In-App Purchases
- Game Center
- Push Notifications
- iAd
- NewsStand – delivering a newspaper or Magazine in iOS
- Apple Store Crawler – crawler for Apps data from the iTunes Apple Store
- Swift
- Swift Programming Language – for iOS and OS X apps – builds on C and Objective-C
- Swift resources
- Xcode -Apple’s integrated development environment (IDE) to build apps for iPad, iPhone, iWatch and Mac
- Xcdode Overview
- iOS Developer Library
- iOS Simulator – prototype and test builds of your app
- Internationalization and Localization
- Cryptographic Services
- Cocoa Overview
- iCloud For Developers
- CloudKit– stores structured app and user data in iCloud
- Yosemite (OS X 10.0) Tools
- AppExtensions – extend functionality beyond your app
- SpriteKit – graphics rendering and animation infrastructure
- SceneKit – Objective-C framework for building apps and games that use 3D graphics
- Handoff – API to sync between iOS and OS X
- Apple Watch
- Homekit
- ResearchKit
- Metal – Apple GPU API for iOS
- tvOS
Android Development
- Building your first Android App
- Android Studio – API’s and development environment to build your app
- Intro to Android
- IntelliJ IDEA – Foundation for Android Studio
- Development Workflow
- API Guides
- Android Studio – new integrated development environment (IDE) to build Android apps
- Android Developer Support Resources
- Publishing Android Apps
- Google Play
- Google Play Services
- In App Billing
- Distribution
- Launch Checklist
- Google Play Store Crawler – crawler for Apps data from the Google Play Store
Microsoft Development
- Windows Developers
- Visual Studio – integrated development environment for Windows
- VisualStudioIDE – IDE for Android, iOS, Windows, web, and cloud
- VisualStudio for Mac – IDE for Mac
- VisualStudioCode – Build and debug web and cloud apps. Code is free. For Mac OSX, Windows
- Visual Studio open source
- Microsoft Azure (cloud computing platform and services)
- All Azure Products
- Azure Virtual Machines – cloud Linux and Windows virtual machines
- Azure App Service – cloud platform to build web and mobile apps
- Azure SQL database – cloud database as a service for app developers
- Azure DocumentDB – NoSQL service for distributed apps
- Azure storage – non-relational data storage including Blob Storage, Table Storage, Queue Storage, and Files in the cloud
- Azure HDInsight – managed Apache Hadoop, Spark, R, HBase, and Storm cloud service
- ASP.Net – Microsoft official site
- ASP.NetMVC – model view controller Microsoft site
Machine Learning/Deep Learning/Data Science
Machine Learning Tutorials
- Amazon Machine Learning University
- What I Learned From 200 Machine Learning Tools – Chip Huyen
- Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2018 – fast.ai
- Introducing Pytorch – fast.ai
- 10 Free Machine Learning books – KDnuggets
- Top 10 Machine Learning algorithms for beginners – KDnuggets
- 30 Machines Learning Cheat Sheets – KDnuggets
- Machine Learning is Fun! – medium.com/@ageitgey
- Machine Learning Crash Course: Part I, Part II, Part III – Machine Learning at Berkeley
- Intro to Machine Learning Theory and Applications: A Visual Tutorial with Examples – toptal.com-
- A Gentle Guide to Machine Learning – monkeylearn.com
- Which machine learning algorithm should I use? – sas.com
- Artificial Intelligence Primer – David Kelnar
- Machine Learning Primer – Andreessen Horowitz
- Neural Network Zoo – Great taxonomy
- https://github.com/rushter/data-science-blogs – github
- Best Hardware for Machine Learning/Deep Learning – Tim Dettmers
- Top 10 data mining algorithms explained – Raymond Li
- Machine Learning for developers – tutorial – Mike de Waard
- Comparison of Theano Caffe, Neon and Torch – Bahrampour, Ramakrishnan, Schott, & Shah
- Stanford Deep Learning Tutorial
- Machine Learning – Andrew Ng/Coursera
- Neural Nets Demystified – great videos from lumiverse
- Yet another Neural Nets Demystified – Welch Labs
- Hackers Guide to Neural Networks – Andrej Karpathy
- Recurrent Neural Networks – Andrej Karpathy
- Neural Nets and Deep Learning – free online book
- Geoff Hinton Coursera course on Neural Networks
- Neural Networks – Colahs Blogs
- A few things to know about Machine Learning – Pedro Domingos
- NYU Deep Learning course material – Yann LeCun
- NYU Deep Learning Tutorial– Yann LeCun
- Yann LeCun overview of Deep Learning – Marc’Aurelio Ranzato
- Dive into Machine Learning with ipython and scikit-learn -Michael Floering
- SebastianRaschka– great tutorial on machine learning algorithms
- Melbourne Data Science presentation – Jeremy Howard.
- Tour of Machine Learning Algorithms – jason brownlee
- Machine Learning Guide – DLIB
- Talking Machines Podcasts – about Machine Learning
- Carnegie Mellon Deep Learning Class – Bhiksha Raj
- Introduction to Machine Learning – RISE
- Deep Learning in a Nutshell (nikhilbuduma.com)
- A Tutorial on Deep Learning (Quoc V. Le)
- What is Deep Learning? (machinelearningmastery.com)
- Practical Deep Learning for coders – Jeremy Howard
- What’s the Difference Between Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning? (nvidia.com)
- DeepLearning.net tutorials
- Deep Learning Wikipedia page
- Deep Learning- Google+
- Deep Learning Tutorial – 2014 video John Kaufhold
- slides here
- Scikit-Learn – machine learning in Python
- How to Choose the Right Estimator – great clickable diagram
- PyCon scikit-learn Tutorial Index (nbviewer.jupyter.org)
- scikit-learn Classification Algorithms (github.com/mmmayo13)
- scikit-learn Tutorials (scikit-learn.org)
- Abridged scikit-learn Tutorials (github.com/mmmayo13)
Machine Learning Tools
- Cloud Machine Learning as a Service Comparison – Microsoft, Amazon, Google
- PyTorch – Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration
- OpenAI
- OpenAI API – an API for accessing new AI models developed by OpenAI
- Microscope – collection of visualizations of layer and neuron of important vision models
- Gym -toolkit for developing and comparing reinforcement learning algorithms
- Baseline – implementations of reinforcement learning algorithms
- GPT-3 – autoregressive language model with 175 billion parameters
- Google.ai – AI tools from Google
- TensorFlow – Google library for the optimization of machine learning algorithms, similar to Theano
- Tensorflow Tutorials (tensorflow.org)
- Introduction to TensorFlow — CPU vs GPU (medium.com/@erikhallstrm)
- TensorFlow: A primer (metaflow.fr)
- TensorFlow Fold – dynamic computation graps
- TensorFlow Research Cloud – Access to Google’s Cloud TPUs
- SyntaxNet – most accurate Natural Language parser
- TF Learn (aka Scikit Flow) – simplified interface for TensorFlow
- Cloud Machine Learning Services – neural net-based ML service
- Cloud Machine Learning Engine – managed service to build machine learning models
- Cloud Jobs – job search and discovery for the talent industry
- Cloud Video Intelligence – videos searchable/discoverable, by extracting metadata with a REST API
- Cloud Vision API – Image classifier in an REST API
- Cloud Speech API – Speech recognizer, convert audio to text
- Cloud Natural Language API – extract information, understand sentiment in text documents, news blogs
- Cloud Translation API – translate an arbitrary string into any supported language
- Google Prediction API – provides pattern-matching and machine learning capabilities deprecated and will be shut down on April 30, 2018
- TensorFlow – Google library for the optimization of machine learning algorithms, similar to Theano
- PyTorch – deep-learning framework from Facebook
- PyTorch Tutorials – pytorch.org
- A Gentle Intro to PyTorch – gaurav.im
- Tutorial: Deep Learning in PyTorch – iamtrask.github.io
- PyTorch Examples – github.com/jcjohnson
- PyTorch Tutorial – github.com/MorvanZhou
- PyTorch Tutorial for Deep Learning Researchers – github.com/yunjey
- Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit – open source deep-learning toolkit
- Microsoft Cognitive Services – machine learning with REST APIs
- Azure Machine Learning – cloud-based predictive analytics
- Azure Machine Learning Tutorial – microsoft
- start guide to R for Azure Machine Learning – microsoft
- Azure Machine Learning Tutorial – microsoft
- Flashlight – Facebook machine learning library
- Acme – DeepMind framework for distributed reinforcement learning
- Apache MxNet – library for deep learning
- Theano – Python numerical computation library to evaluate math expressions involving multi-dimensional arrays
- Pylearn2 – machine learning library built on Theano
- Keras – machine learning library built on Theano
- Theano Deep Learning Tutorial
- Caffe: deep learning framework for convolutional neural network algorithms from UC Berkeley
- DIY Deep Learning for Vision with Caffe – presentation
- Caffe documentation – tutorial
- Caffe2 – framework for machine learning products
- IntelCaffe – fork for Intel Xeon processors
- Salesforce Einstein Vision – deep learning to automatically recognize images w/API to build AI-enabled apps.
- IBM / Apache SystemML – machine learning language written in Java;algorithm customizability, execution modes in, Standalone, Hadoop Batch, and Spark Batch, automatic optimization
- Baidu/Paddle – Parallel Distributed Deep Learning toolkit
- LICO – Lenovo Intelligent Computing Orchestration
- ClusterOne – run deep learning experiments at scale
- DeepBench – deep learning benchmark from Baidu
- OpenAI Gym – toolkit for developing and comparing reinforcement learning algorithms
- XGboost – scalable and portable gradient boosting
- Torch – scientific computing framework with wide support for machine learning algorithms – from Facebook
- Yahoo Webscope – machine learning datasets
- Yahoo newsfeed dataset – 1.5TBytes
- Yahoo image datasets
- Apache Mahout – Random Decision Forest classifier
- BidData Suite
- Java Libraries
- Deeplearning4j – library written in Java
- ND4J -scientific computing library in Java
- NVIDIA CUDA – parallel computing platform and programming model
- CUDA toolkit – NVIDIA
- intro to CUDA programming – NVIDIA
- cuDNN – GPU-accelerated library of primitives for deep neural networks
- cuda-convnet2: High performance C++/CUDA implementation of convolutional neural networks
- GPU accelerated libraries – NVIDIA
- Digits – deep learning GPU Training System
- Digits on github
- DigitsDevBox – GPU development hardware
- cuBLAS: GPU-accelerated version of the complete standard BLAS library
- MATLAB: Easy-to-use HPC language integrating computation, visualization, and programming
- Deepmat – Matlab Code for Restricted/Deep Boltzmann Machines and Autoencoders
- DeepLearningToolbox – Deep Belief Nets, Stacked Autoencoders, Convolutional Neural Nets, Convolutional Autoencoders and vanilla Neural Nets
- ConvNet – Convolutional Neural Networks for Matlab
- cxxnet: Neural network toolkit
- ConvNetjs – Javascript library for training Deep Learning models (mainly Neural Networks) in your browser
- SigOpt – tunes machine learning algorithms with Bayesian optimization
- Probabilistic Programming for Advancing Machine Learning (PPAML)
- Gamalon – Probabilistic Programming at scale
- Stan – probabilistic programming language
- PyMC3 – python module for Bayesian statistical modeling and model fitting
- Infer.NET – Microsoft framework for running Bayesian inference in graphical models
- Dimple – Java and Matlab libraries for probabilistic inference
- Chimple – Probabilistic Programming Java API
- Principles and Practice of Probabilistic Programming – Noah Goodman
- Design and Implementation of Probabilistic Programming Languages – Noah D. Goodman and Andreas Stuhlmüller
- Algorithms for supervised and unsupervised learning –
- UCI Machine Learning Repository – 120k instances, each described by 13 feature types, with class information, useful for exploring multiview topics (cotraining, ensembles, clustering,..)
- Stanford large network dataset collection
- SparkBeyond – predictive analytics
- Revolution R – statistic programming language
- Kaggle – competitions, predictive analysis, tutorials
- CrowdAnalytix – Crowdsourced analytics
- DrivenData – crowdsourced statistical model for difficult predictive social problems
- MLcomp – compare machine learning programs across various datasets for multiple problem domains
- Dato – build intelligent apps fast with the power of Dato’s machine learning platform
- Z3 Theorem Prover – open source
- Sirius – open source intelligent personal assistant, image/speech
- Pachyderm – containerized data analytics
- PredictionIO – an open-source machine learning server – create predictive engines for production environments (Spark, HBase, and Spray)
- Datameer – end-to-end big data analytics application purpose-built for HadoopInSpread – sophisticated analysis even if you’re not a data scientist
- Yhathq – predictive models and data-science in a box
- Palantir – large scale data fusion analytics and visualization
- Data Robot – nontraditional consulting firm that gets clients up and running quickly and makes them self-sufficient with predictive modeling platform (R, Python, Hadoop, Spark)
- Popily – go from spreadsheets to discoveries while you grab a cup of coffee
- Deep Learning/Machine Learning/Data Science Blogs
- Another word for it – Patrick Durusau
Data Science/Big Data Analytics / Log Management
- Anaconda – enterprise data science platform – 200 data science Python libraries
- rStudio – professional software for R
- Logit.io – Hosted ELK as a Service
- OpenRefine – data cleaning and exploring for large data sets
- Apache Airflow – author workflows as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) of tasks
- H20 – implementations of the most popular statistical and machine learning algorithms
- Splunk – log mgmt searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data
- Sumo Logic – log analytics platform
- Loggly – mine log data in real time
- ElasticLogstash – open-source log management
- RapidMiner – analytics platform, data mining, machine learning
- DataRPM – machine analytics for big data
- Metamind – deep learning for the enterprise
- Wandora – knowledge management application
Autonomous Vehicles
- Traffic Agent Motion Data Set – Lyft Prediction dataset
Speech Recognition
- Wav2letter++ – Facebook speech recognition engine
- Deepspeech – Mozilla speech recognition engine
Computer Vision/Image Recognition/Facial recognition/biometrics
- 2019 Guide to Human Pose Estimation with Deep Learning
- EfficientNet – computer vision model generated using neural architecture search
- Deepfake Detection – Facebook Challenge
- Nanonets – Machine learning API
- PCL – Point Cloud open source 2D/3D image and point cloud processing Library
- OpenCV – open source computer vision library
- SimpleVC – open source computer vision Python library
- FastCV – Qualcomm computer vision library for ARM
- Scikit – open source image processing in Python
- PhaseStretchTransform – Jalali Labs at UCLA
- ImageNet – easily accessible image database for researchers organized according to the WordNet hierarchy
- ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Contest– largest academic challenge in computer vision
- OpenImages – Google 9million image dataset annotated URL’s over 6000 categories
- Caletch 101 – Pictures of objects belonging to 101 categories. About 40 to 800 images per category
- Great paper – Fast, Accurate Detection of 100,000 Object Classes on a Single Machine
- Clarifai -Machine Intelligence API for mobile devices
- Torch/fbcunn – examples to train classifiers over ImageNet
- Pixy – Open source vision system, connects to Arduino
- Camfind – Image Recognition API
- Sirius – open source Speech and Vision Based Intelligent Personal Assistant
- vision.ai – real-time vision servers and clusters
- VMX – real-time object detection and recognition system
- Kitware – open source image and video retrieval platforms
- KWIVER – support for Kitware –
- MotionDSP – GPU, realtime video enhancement and forensics
- Blogs
- Tombone’s Computer Vision Blog – Tomasz Malisiewicz
- Image Sensors World – great blog on image sensor industry
- Moodstocks – image search against a database of references you supply; mobile app developer platform
- Blinkfire – uses computer vision to measure media value and impact for sports teams
- Slyce.it – visual search, image and retail item identification for retailers and brands
- ImageVision – big data for images and videos
- ViSenze – visual search technology
- OpenALPR – open automatic license plate reader software
Facial Recognition / Biometrics
- FVC-ongoing – automated evaluation system developed to evaluate biometric algorithms
- FERET – large database of facial images
- SCface – Surveillance Cameras Face Database
- SCfaceDB Landmarks– facial recognition landmarks
- CMU Multi-pie – Face database
- Facenet – A Unified Embedding for Face Recognition and Clustering
- Yale Face database B – 16128 images of 28 human subjects under 9 poses and 64 illumination conditions
- Adience– 26,580 images, 2,284 individuals, classified for 8 age groups, gender and
- FaceScrub – A Dataset With Over 100,000 Face Images of 530 People
- LFW3D and Adience3D sets
- Indian Movie Face database (IMFDB) -unconstrained face database consisting of 34512 images of 100 Indian actors
- Labeled Wikipedia Faces (LWF) – 8.5k faces for about 1.5k identities
- 10k US Adult Faces Database – 10,168 natural face photographs
- Denver Intensity of Spontaneous Facial Action (DISFA) Database stereo videos of 27 adults
- BU-3DFE Database (Static Data) – 100 subjects with 2,500 facial expression models.
- BU-4DFE Database (Dynamic Data)– 606 3D facial expression sequences captured from 101 subjects, with a total of approximately 60,600 frame models.
- BP4D-Spontanous Database – 41 participants (Each participant is associated with 8 tasks.
- DMCSv1 Database – 3D Face and Hand Scans
- CAFE – The Child Affective Face Set- 1200 photographs 100 children 2-8) making 7 different facial expressions
- UFI – Unconstrained Facial Images – images extracted from photographs of the Czech News Agency
Text Analysis Tools/Natural Language Platforms
- A Primer on Neural Network Models for Natural Language Processing – Yoav Goldberg
- The Definitive Guide to Natural Language Processing – monkeylearn.com
- Introduction to Natural Language Processing – algorithmia.com
- Natural Language Processing Tutorial – vikparuchuri.com
- Natural Language Processing (almost) from Scratch – arxiv.org
- Deep Learning applied to NLP – arxiv.org
- Deep Learning for NLP (without Magic) – Richard Socher
- Glue – (General Language Understanding Evaluation) a single-number metric that summarizes language understanding
- SuperGlue – benchmark styled after GLUE with a new set of more difficult language understanding tasks
- Google BERT – the game changer for NLP!
- BERT – Github – Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers
- Bert explanation – Rani Horev
- Microsoft Multi-Task Deep Neural Network (MT-DNN)
- FastBert — A simple Deep Learning library for BERT Models
- SqueezeBERT – a faster BERT
- MobileBERT – thin version of BERT
- Open AI GPT-3 – autoregressive language model with 175 billion parameters
- WaveNet -generative model for raw audio
- Google T5 -Text-To-Text Transfer Transformer
- etcML – open source text analysis tool via machine learning algorithms
- StanfordNLP – great list of language processing tools
- coreNLP – open source natural language processing analysis tool
- StanfordParser – natural language parser grammatical structure of sentences
- GATE – general architecture for text engineering
- CNN for Text classification – using Tensorflow
- Movie Review Data – for sentiment-analysis experiments
- NLTK – Natural Language Toolkit build Python programs- interface to over 50 corpora and lexical resources
- Penn Treebank Project – annotates naturally-occuring text for linguistic structure
- NY Times Annotated Corpus – 1.8 million articles January 1, 1987 and June 19, 2007 with article metadata
- Google Wikilinks Corpus – 40 million total disambiguated mentions within over 10 million web pages
- Lemur Project – text analysis tools, and data resources for R&D of information retrieval and text mining software
- Indri – text search engine
- ClueWeb09 Corpus
- ClueWeb12 Corpus
- Cortical.io – Natural Language platform
- idibon – Natural Language platform
- Luminoso – Natural Language platform
- wit.ai – Natural Language platform
- TIMIT – Acoustic-Phonetic Continuous Speech Corpus
- wit.ai – natural language for developers
- soundhound – speech and music mobile app; “speech to meaning” API
- agnitio – voice biometrics, speaker identification compant; speaker id in a box
- Expect Labs – Advanced AI for voice driven user interfaces
- AlchemyAPI – 12 Semantic Text Analysis APIs Using Natural Language Processing
- Captricity – crowd guided machine Document Image Processing
Natural Language Generation
Social Mining
- Dataminr – focused on Twitter streaming I&W. limited to 14 day retro.
- Topsy – Twitter search, monitoring and analytics
- Social Crawlytics – user influencer and content marketing tool
- Metamind – deep-learning experts for sentiment
Cyber/Behavioral/Threats
- ZeroFox – harness social data to improve information security
- RedOwl – behavioral analytics security software
- harvest.ai – find and stop attacks on your data
- Area 1 Security – combat spear-fishing attacks in a clever way
- Hyperion Gray – mass fuzzing of the internet and darknet profiles
- Fireeye – Cybersecurity and malware prevention – machine learning for intrusion detection
- Digital Stakeout – real time threat intelligence platform
Geolocation
- GeoMesa open-source system that stores, indexes, and queries hundreds of billions of geospatial features in a distributed database (Accumulo)
- GeoWave leverages the scalability of a distributed key-value store for effective storage, retrieval, and analysis of massive geospatial datasets
- LocationTech – working group developing advanced location aware technologies
Physics Engines for games/robotics
- Graph Network Simulators – fluid dynamics using AI
- dm_control – DeepMind Python libraries/task suites for physics-based RL agents in articulated-body simulation
- Box2D – 2d physics engine for games
- Bullet – physics simulation engine
- ncollide – 2D & 3D collision library for the Rust language
- Chipmunk– 2D real-time rigid body physics engine
- Chrono:Engine – C++ simulation library
- Farseer – based on Box2D w/collision detection
- Havok – collision detection and physics engine
- Matter.js – JavaScript 2D rigid body physics engine for the web
- Metali – 3D physics engine
- Moby – multi-body dynamics simulation library written in C++
- Newton – life-like physics simulation library
- Open Dynamics Engine – library for simulating rigid body dynamics
- p2.js – JavaScript 2D physics library
- PhysX – Nvidia open source physics engine
- Physics Abstraction Layer (PAL) – unified interface to a number of different physics engines
- PhysicsJS – physics engine for javascript
- OpenTissue – algorithms and data structures for rapid development of interactive modeling and simulation
- Tokamak – real time physics engine
- TrueAxis – real time physics engine
- Proteus – A Python toolkit for toolkit for computational fluid and solid mechanics simulation
Simulation/Game AI Engines
- Stage –sophisticated simulation scenarios across massive gaming areas
- Artificial Contender – AI middleware for behavior-capture
- Cyntient AI – AI middleware
- DI-Guy – human simulation software
- Gameware – AI middleware, NavMesh generation, hierarchical pathfinding, and path following
- Masa Life – AI middleware, design how characters behave and how they interact with the world
- Rain – AI character engine – behavior creation, automatic navigation mesh generation, and animation control
- SimBionic – create intelligent behavior for games and simulations
- SpirOps – AI middleware for crowd simulations
- Kerbal – space program simulation
DARPA Open Source
- DARPA Open Catalog – curated list of DARPA-sponsored software, Wow – worth a look
DOD Funding Sources
Space/NASA Open Source
- Awesome Space – curated directory of space-related code, APIs, data
- Space Startup & Entrepreneurship Funding – funding sources for Space Startups
- Open NASA – 42,966 Data Sets – 449Code Repositories, 50APIs
- Starlink Coverage Map and another one here
- Kubos – open source RTOS flight software for nano satellites, pico satellites and cubesats
- ASCL.net – Astrophysics Source Code Library
- Uphere.space – real time prediction of satellites
- flightclub.io – Orbital Launch Simulator andTrajectory Visualisation Software
- space-search.io – visualization of satellites in orbit
- Orbitrack (paid mobile app) – AR and VR orbit visualization modes
- Lockheed Martin satellite constellation designer – free iOS app that lets you design satellite constellations.
Security
- Cheat Sheets – Open Web Application Security Project
- Small Business/Startup Internet Security guide
Cloud Services and Tools
- Web Hosting Tutorial
- Heroku – Ruby, Node.js, Clojure, Java cloud platform – Platform as a Service
- AppHarbor – Heroku for .net
- How Heroku Works
- CloudFoundry – deploy and scale apps in seconds- open source Platform as a Service
- Amazon Web Services – Amazon’s cloud solution – Infrastructure as a Service
- Amazon Web Services very basic primer
- AWS in plain english – great guide to all AWS services
- Amazon EC2 – virtual server hosting
- Amazon EC2 Container Registry – Docker container registry
- Amazon EC2 Container Service – Docker container mgmt.
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk – deploy web apps developed with Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker on Apache, Nginx, Passenger, and IIS
- AWS Lambda – pay as you go services
- Auto Scaling – scale your Amazon EC2 capacity up or down automatically
- Elastic Load Balancing – automatically distribute incoming app traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances
- Amazon VPC – provision a logically isolated section of AWS cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define.
- AWS Server Migration Service – Migrate your on premises workloads to AWS

- Amazon Polly – service that turns text into lifelike speech
Amazon Lex – service for building conversational interfaces using voice and text - Amazon Rekognition– service that makes it easy to add image analysis to your applications
- Amazon Machine Learning – create machine learning models without having to learn complex ML algorithms and technology
- Amazon EMR – run Hadoop framework across dynamically scalable Amazon EC2 instances
- Apache Spark on Amazon EMR – in-memory distributed compute engine that speeds analysis on large-scale data up to 100X engine
- Amazon S3
- Amazon CloudFront– content delivery network & streaming
- Amazon EBS
- Amazon Elastic File System
- Amazon Glacier
- AWS Import/Export Snowball
- AWS Storage Gateway
- Amazon Athena – interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using SQL.
- AWS Glue – managed ETL service
- AWS Data Pipeline
- Amazon Elasticsearch Service
- Amazon Kinesis
- Amazon Redshift
- Amazon QuickSight
- AWS Step Functions – coordinate the components of distributed applications and microservices using visual workflows
- Amazon API Gateway
- Amazon AppStream – – stream resource intensive applications and games from the cloud
- Amazon CloudSearch
- Amazon Elastic Transcoder
- Amazon FPS
- Amazon SES
- Amazon SNS
- Amazon SQS
- Amazon SWF
- Amazon WorkSpaces
- Amazon WorkDocs – secure enterprise storage and sharing service-Dropbox competitor
- Amazon WorkMail
- AWS Marketplace – – find and buy server software
- Google Cloud Platform – Google’s cloud solution
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- Compute – From virtual machines to a fully managed app development platform
- Compute Engine – – Google virtual machines in the cloud
- App Engine – – Googles version of a cloud solution
- Container Engine – run Docker containers on Google
- Container Registry – private Docker image storage on Google Cloud
- Cloud Functions – serverless platform for building event-based microservices
- Big Data
- Cloud Dataflow – batch & stream big data processing
- Cloud DataLab – interactive tool for large-scale data exploration, analysis, and visualization
- BigQuery – fully managed data warehouse for large-scale data analytics
- CloudDataproc – Managed Spark, Pig, Hive and Hadoop in the Cloud
- Cloud Datalab – interactive tool for large-scale data exploration, analysis, and visualization
- Cloud Pub/Sub – global service for real-time and reliable messaging and streaming data
- Genomics– efficiently process petabytes of genomic data
- Storage and Databases – Scalable, resilient, high performance object storage and databases for apps
- Google SQL – Googles version of MySQL in the cloud
- Cloud Storage – object storage service with global edge-caching
- Cloud Datastore – managed, NoSQL, schemaless database
- Cloud BigTable – SQL-like queries against multi-terabyte datasets
- Persistant Disk – block storage for the Google Cloud Platform.
- Machine Learning
- Cloud Machine Learning – Managed scalable machine learning platform
- Cloud Vision API – image analysis tools
- Cloud Speech API – speech tools convert audio to text recognizes over 80 languages
- Cloud Translate API – translate into thousands of language pairs
- Natural Language API – machine learning models in a REST API
- Networking – software-defined networking products on Google’s private fiber network.
- Cloud Virtual Network – Managed networking for your Cloud Platform resources
- Cloud Load Balancing – scalable load balancing on Google Cloud
- Cloud CDN – Low-latency content delivery using Google’s network
- Cloud Interconnect – Connect your infrastructure to Google’s network edge
- Cloud DNS – low-latency DNS serving from Google’s network
- Identity & Security – Control access and visibility to resources running protected by Google’s security model.
- Cloud IAM -Fine-grained access control and visibility for centrally managing cloud resources
- Cloud Resource Manager
- Cloud Security Scanner
- Monitoring
- Logging
- Management Tools – Monitoring, logging, and diagnostics
- Developer Tools – command-line interface tools
- Compute – From virtual machines to a fully managed app development platform
- Windows Azure – Microsoft Cloud Platform
- Scalr – cloud management tool
- mcrouter – facebook memcached protocol router for scaling memcached deployments
- Joyent – high performance cloud – Infrastructure as a Service
- Rackspace – Managed and cloud hosting- Infrastructure as a Service
- Linode – Linux SSD virtual servers in the cloud
- DotCloud – Build and deploy any application to the cloud
- Joppar– content mgmt for web & mobile apps
- Firehost – secure Cloud hosting
- Wowrack – managed Cloud hosting
- Bitnami – one-click Cloud hosting
- Enomaly – complete “cloud in a box” solution
- Wistia – video hosting for businesses
- AppDynamics – Cloud Performance Mgmt
- Epicnms – flexible data collection and plots
- Engine Yard – Ruby and PHP Cloud Hosting platform
- ServerPilot – hosting control panel for PHP developers using cloud servers
- DigitalOcean – inexpensive SSD cloud servers
- Netflix experience in moving from datacenter to cloud
Enterprise Data Center Operating Systems
- Why the data center needs an os – O’Reilly
- Scheduling on Large Clusters – Tiwari
- Open Container Initiative is working to standardize the input into these systems
- Docker – open platform for distributed applications for developers and sysadmins
- Docker Distribution – open source registry
- Docker Hub – Container Image Registry/Repository
- OneOps – Walmart open source cloud management and application lifecycle management platform
- CoreOS rkt
- LXC
- systemd-nspawn
- Storm – distributed realtime computation system on Mesos from twitter
- Heron – realtime, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine from Twitter, API compatible with Apache Storm
Container Orchestration System
- Kubernetes – Manage a cluster of Linux containers as a single system from Google
- Omega – Google flexible, scalable schedulers for large compute clusters
- Omega/Borg Overview – Wired
- Tectonic – commercial version of Kubernetes
- Google Container Engine (GKE) – (based on Kubernetes
- OpenAiautoscaler – batch-optimized scaling manager for Kubernetes
- Jenkins – open source automation server
- Docker Swarm
- Reef – library for data shuffle, group communication, aggregation, checkpointing, etc.
- Slurm – open-source workload manager designed for Linux clusters
- Mesos – distributed systems kernel up to 10,000 nodes
- Tutorial – anton lindstrom
- Mesos architecture paper – Hindman, Konwinski, Zaharia, et al
- Chronos – distributed and fault-tolerant scheduler on top of Mesos
- Aurora – a Mesos framework for long-running applications, services and cron jobs
- Marathon – cluster-wide init and control system for services in cgroups or Docker containers runs on top of Mesos
- Hadoop – running on Mesos
- Mesosphere DCOS
- Microsoft Azure Container Service based on Mesosphere DCOS and Docker Swarm
- Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS).
- Mesosphere – distributed systems for data centers
- YARN -Apache Hadoop NextGen MapReduce
- Zookeeper – centralized service for config, naming, distributed synchronization, group services
- Oozie – workflow scheduler for Hadoop
- Workflow Monitoring Tools
- Production Host OS
- Coreos – linux for massive server deployments – shared configuration and service discovery
- Red Hat Project Atomic
- Ubuntu Snappy
- Rancher OS
Orchestration Configuration
Data center orchestration and configuration management tools
- Puppet – configuration management system
- Chef – configuration management system
- Saltstack– cloud orchestration, server provisioning, configuration management
- Ansible – Redhat configuration management, app deployment
- Spinnaker – Google cloud continuous delivery
- CFEngine – IT infrastructure automation
- NixOS – Linux configuration management system
- Apache Nifi – dataflow system (directed graphs of data routing, transformation, and system mediation logic)
- Apache Flume – collect, aggregate and move large amounts of streaming event data
- Apache Camel – define routing and mediation rules
- Apache Kafka – high-throughput distributed messaging system
- Apache Taverna – design and execute workflows
- IBM Streams/DISTILLERY – platform for near-real-time streaming analytics
NoSQL Databases
- Mining Massive Data Sets – awesome tutorial/text free
- Intro to Hadoop and MapReduce – Udacity Free class
- Data Analysis class – Coursera free class
- NoSQL list – start here for a list
- Hadoop – distributed processing of large data sets across clusters
- Apache Pig – platform for creating MapReduce programs
- Apache Hive – data warehouse for Hadoop
- Apache HBase – distributed database modeled after Google’s BigTable
- Apache Phoenix – massively parallel database layer on top of Apache HBase
- Apache Spark – cluster computing framework
- Apache ZooKeeper – distributed configuration service, synchronization service, and naming registry
- Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) – Hosted Hadoop framework
- HortonWorks – enterprise Hadoop
- HortonWorks Sandbox – personal, portable Hadoop environment with a dozen Hadoop tutorials
- Neo4j – graph database
- Apache Accumulo – distributed key/value store based on Google’s BigTable design and is built on top of Apache Hadoop, Zookeeper, and Thrift
- Amazon RDS – Cloud Relational Database
- Amazon Kinesis – real-time processing of streaming data at massive scale
- Amazon DynamoDB – NoSQL hosted on Amazon Web Services
- Yelp/mrjob – run map reduce on AWS or Hadoop
- WebscaleSQL – Facebook open source MySQL for scale
- Cassandra – facebook open source scalable database no single point of failure
- Couchdb – document database
- Redis – data structure server
- MongoDb – NoSQL database
- Robo 3T - MongoDB GUI
- MemSQL – SQL in memory
- Rdbhost.com – browser SQL database hosting.Python/Javascript APIs
GPU-optimized relational and column-store databases/Graph Analytics
- Kinetica – GPU accelerated database
- GPUdb – GPU accelerated in-memory distributed database
- MapD – GPU database for interactive SQL querying and visualization of multi-billion record datasets
- Blazegraph – GPU accelerated graph analytics
- BlazingDB – GPU accelerated data warehouse
- PG-Strom – PostgreSQL extension for GPUs
Development Tools
- VirtualBox – x86 Virtualization
- Perl Object Environment – Perl framework for reactive systems, cooperative multitasking, and network applications
- Wireshark – network protocol analyzer
- Codeacademy Labs – program in Ruby, Python, and JavaScript online without downloading a code editor or IDE
- Koding – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform
- CircleCi – Continuous integration and deployment tool for web apps
- yUML – sketch uml diagrams.
- WebSequenceDiagrams –sketch sequence diagrams. automatic links to generated images
- Rietveld – asynchronous code reviews on changesets
- Fluid – turn webapps into Mac OS X apps
- TextMate – code and markup editor
- Coda – one-window web development app for the Mac
- Coderunner – Edit/run code in any programming language with a click
- SourceLair – cloud coding platform C, Python, Ruby and API
- WebBiscuits – framework for web apps for smartphones and tablets
- Best free programming books
- CodeAcademy – learn to code
- Webkit – build your own browser
- Webkit Tutorial – Paul Irish
- Appery – Cloud-based HTML5, jQuery Mobile & Hybrid Mobile App Builder for Android, iOS and Windows Phone
Project Management
Open-source software hosting
- Github – Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs
- Git Introduction – learn Github
- Git the Simple Guide – the basics
- Unfuddle – Git and subversion hosting
- Sourceforge – Free. For open-source projects
- JavaForge – free open source project hosting site
- Bitbucket – free cloud hosting for Git or Mecurial projects
- Sourcetree – free mac client for Git, Mercurial and SVN
- Mercurial – free, distributed source code control management system
- Aha! – product roadmap software
- AirFocus – prioritization and roadmapping tool
Source Version Control Software
- Perforce Helix – Connect teams, protect assets, and speed up your release cycles
- GIT – free open source version control system
- CVS (Concurrent Versions System) – free open source a version control system
- IBM/Rational Clearcase – Software Configuration Management
- Jira – Bug, Issue and classic Project tracking tool
- Apache Subversion – free open source software versioning and revision control system
Kanban and Scrum Tools
- Kanban versus Scrum – description
- Kanban Tools
- Kanban Tool – online, web-based, Kanban tool
- KanbanFlow – free Kanban tool
- Swift-Kanban – enterprise Kanban
- Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board
- LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development
- Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool
- CodeBeamer – Kanban and Scrum tool Application Lifecycle Management
- Nutcache – all-in-one collaborative project management
- Kanbanize – free Kanban software
- Scrum Tools
- TeamPulse -Scrum and Kanban
- RallyDev – Automates Agile / Scrum development
- YoDiz – agile/scrum tool, issue tracking
- VersionOne – agile product management and Scrum tool
- AgileScrumPro – Agile tool collaborative on an iPad
- Scrumy – project management tool loosely based off of Scrum
- OnTime Development Suite (and here) – provides bug tracking, scrum project management
- Acunote – Agile project management and Scrum
- Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.
- Basecamp– web-based project management and collaboration tool
- Confluence – Plan roadmaps, define product requirements, and centralize documentation
- Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool real time collaboration
- Wrike – combines project management, collaboration, discussion and document sharing
- Ansible – configuration mgmt, app deployment, continuos delivery
- Trello – team collaboration around “boards”
- Taskade – organization and collaboration tool for getting things done
- Workflowy – hierarchial task manager
- Asana – shared task list for your team
- Wunderlist – light accountability and planning
- Sqwiggle – all-hands meeting and updates
- Quip – team tasking
- Sprintly – agile collaborate>prioritize>create git integration
- Podio – collaborative project management
- Flow – collaborative task and project management
- Interstate – open project management
- Apollo – integrated project and contact management
- Rally – agile product management
- Blossom – lean product management
- BrightPod – product mgmt for marketing teams
- Trajectory – agile product mgmt, write and discuss user stories, bugs, and to-dos
- Clarizen – cloud project mgmt tool
- Webplanner – online collaborative project management application.
- ChiliProject – web based project management
- Exepron – cloud based project management
- ProofHub – web project mgmt & collaboration
- Kiln – Version control and code review
- PushPinPlanner – online real-time resource planning for agile teams
- DaPulse – cross company collaboration
- ProdPad – proj mgmt w/road mapping
- Producteev – web/mobile task mgmt
- ProcedureRock – create, procedures, instructions, guides, online help
- Managewith.us – Collaborative Task Manager
- ProcessPlan – task mgmt via email
- Redbooth -combines social networking and project management
- ProjectManager – project planner, time/expense tracking
- TeamCity – continuous integration/unit testing, code quality analysis, pre-tested commits, report on build problems
- Milestone Planner – planner for deadline/outcome driven environments
- 5pm – Online project management tool
- TimeBill – Replicon task management tool
- AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work
- GoPlan – collaborative project management
- Unfuddle –hosted project management solution for software teams
- Taskpoint – online project mgmt and collaboration
- Centroy – online project mgmt
- Do[Box] – project mgmt, save, resuse and share project models
- Projify – simplified project management
- Mavenlink – manage project communications, documents, schedules, budgets, payments
- NeuLexa – enterprise project mgmt
- ProcedureRock – operations and procedures mgmt
- Userlike – live chat software for websites
- Industrial Logic – Agile eLearning
- PMToolkit – project management templates
- Kanbanchi – dashboard/collaboration tool for Google Apps
- Sandglaz – online team collaboration
Product Roadmaps for Product Managers
- Wizeline – create product roadmaps
- Aha! – roadmapping software for product managers
- ProdPad – create product roadmaps
Bug/Issue Tracking
- Sentry – application monitoring and error tracking
- Bugherd – simple issue tracking for web developers
- Lighthouse – Issue Tracking Tool
- Sifter – hosted bug and issue tracking
- Toggle – time tracking tool
- Fogbugz -bug tracking, project mgmt, customer support
- Bontq – hosted bug tracking and project management needs
- WakaTime – Automatic time tracking for your text editor
- Intervals – time tracking and task management
- Preceden – simple way to make timelines for presentations
- RayGun – error tracking tool for software developers
- ClickTime – online timesheets
Web Server Stress Testing
- Google Page Speed – test your web page speed
- Httperf– HP Web Server Performance tool
- Siege – http load testing and benchmarking utility
- Jmeter – java-based server load testing
- Tourbus – ruby website load testing tool
Digital Asset Management
- MediaValet – for agencies, creatives, enterprise
- Celum – digital and video asset mgmt.
- Canto Cumulus – digital asset mgmt
- Brandworkz – share marketing content, create and edit artwork, collaborate
- ThirdLight – digital asset mgmt
- Bynder – digital asset mgmt and image bank
- WebDam – cloud digital asset mgmt
- FileCamp – SaaS media asset mgmt
- Cloudinary – cloud based image mgmt
- PicturePark – enterprise digital asset mgmt
- IntelligenceBank – brand and digital asset mgmt
- DAM Guru – digital asset mgmt free community
Cryptography
- Worldwide List of Crypto products – Bruce Schneier
Localization
- Applingua – iOS, OSX and Android app localization
- Onesky – apps and websites translated
- ICanLocalize – website and app translation and localization
- SmoothLocalize -automatic iOS app localization
Self Created Products Selling Sites
- Gumroad – sell your digital products directly to your audience
- Etsy – buy and sell all things handmade
- Amazon 3D printing store
- Cafepress – buy and sell T-shirts, Personalized Gifts, Unique Mugs, Posters & More
- Zazzle – buy and sell T-shirts, Personalized Gifts, and more
- Folksy – buy and sell handmade gifts and crafts
- RedBubble – art gallery & community
- Storenvy – buy and sell goods and brands that inspire
- Blurb – publish books
Credit Cards/Billing/Subscription Management/E-Store
- Credit Cards/Payments
- Square – accept credit cards from ipad/iphone/android
- Stripe – accept credit cards on the web
- Amazon Payments – login and pay with Amazon
- CCBill – merchant services & credit card payments
- GoCardless -accept direct debit payments
- Balanced – Payments processing, escrow & payouts API
- BancBox – Payments service platform
- Paypal – the standard for payment
- BillMeLater – PayPal service that lets you buy now and pay later
- Paypal Payments Pro – accept debt and credit cards on your website
- WePay – payment API for platforms
- E-Junkie – shopping cart plug-in for downloads and tangible goods
- SendOwl – add a “Buy” button to your website
- 2Checkout – accept payments globally; credit cards, paypal, debt cards
- ShopLocket – ecommerce solution for hardware makers
- Zombaio – billing for adult entertainment
- Billpro – “high risk” merchant account & credit card processing
- Braintree – online credit card merchant processing
- FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors
- Venmo – make and share payments on your phone
- Bitcoin/Crypto Currencies
- WTF is Blockchain? – Ozy
- Curated list of Blockchain resources
- What is an Initial Coin Offering? – Bob Mason
- Balaji S. Srinivasan — Thoughts on Tokens
- Fred Wilson — ICOs and VCs here, Ethereum in 25 minutes, Polychain
- Joel Menegro — Fat Protocols
- Nick Tomaino — Cryptoeconomics 101 , Some Blockchain Reading, Tokens, Tokens and More Tokens
- Fred Ehrsam — The dApp Developer Stack
- Albert Wenger — Crypto Tokens and the Coming Age of Protocol Innovation
- Chris Dixon posts and podcasts — Crypto Tokens: A Breakthrough in Open Network Design, podcast with Vitalik Buterin, podcast with Olaf Carlson-Wee
- Regulatory discussions — Coincenter
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bitcoin.org – Official Bitcoin website
- Categories of Bitcoin apps – Chris Dixon
- The Bitcoin Application Stack – Joel Monegro
- Bitcoin Mining – tutorial
- Bitcoin Block Chain – tutorial
- Bitcoin Developers Guide -tutorial
- Ethereal – Blockchain app platform – like Bitcoin w/o the arguments
- Counterparty – financial tools built with Bitcoin
- Coingate – cryptocurrency payment company
- coinbuzz.com – Bitcoin news
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coinbase.com – Bitcoin Payment processor
- Chain.com – enterprise Bitcoin infrastructure
- Toshi – open source Bitcoin node
- OpenBazaar – decentrailized peer-to-peer marketplace for trading with anyone with Bitcoin
- Lazooz – crypto currency for real-time ride sharing
- bitpay.com – Bitcoin Payment processor
- WeUseCoins– accept Bitcoins as payment
- Stellar – decentralized protocol for sending and receiving money in any pair of currencies
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bitpay.com – Bitcoin Payment processor
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Coinmarketcap – Crypto-Currency Market Capitalizations
- Coincenter – public policy issues on Bitcoin
- Billing/Invoicing
- QuickBooks Invoice Generator
- Tilt – collect money from a group or on your site
- Aria – online billing platform
- Vindicia – on demand billing and fraud management
- CheddarGetter – online recurring billing
- Ballpark – online invoicing, time tracking
- Chargify – Recurring billing without the headaches
- Chargebee – subscription & reoccurring billing
- Recurly – Subscription billing
- Billfaster – cloud invoicing and accounting
- Inv24 – online invoicing and accounting software
- HealPay – Collections made easy
- Fraud Detection
- SiftScience – machine learning based fraud detection
- ThreatMetrix – context-based authentication
- socure – identity fraud detection
- feedzai – fraud detection that learns
- Brighterion – fraud and data breech protection
- Subscription Services
- Memberful – sell memberships to your audience
- ChartMogul – subscription analytics and revenue reporting
- Cloudware City – online app store for subscription services
- argebee – subscription & reoccurring billing
- Recurly – Subscription billing
- Spreedly – sell subscriptions on your site. signup, upgrade, trial pricing
- Zuora – online subscription management
- Online Store and Marketplace Creation
- Shopify – create an online store
- BigCommerce – ecommerce software & shopping cart
- Yahoo Small Business – hosted ecomerce website
- Volusion – shopping cart software, ecommerce & hosting
- Lemonstand – cloud eCommerce platform for stores that do over 6 figures in sales
- WooCommerce – free commerce toolkit for wordpress
- Nearme – create your own branded marketplace
- Bizwebs – create an online store
- Shoprocket – sell on a website, blog or Facebook Page using a single line of code
- Estoreify – create your own online store in just 5 minutes
- Selz – sell on Facebook, WordPress, from any website w/PayPal
- IndieMade – Create an artist website with a store, blog, galleries
- BigCartel – shopping cart for artists, designers, bands, record labels, jewelry, crafters
- SquareSpace – build a website with commerce
- EStoreApp – a webstore in 5 minutes
- PinnacleCart – shopping cart software, ecommerce & hosting
- CoreCommerce – online store & shopping cart software
- Fortune3 – shopping cart software, ecommerce & hosting
- EKMPowershop – create an online store using templates
- Paddle – create an online store for games, apps and content
- Retargeting – trigger live and email responses based on consumer behavior in online stores
- Donations
- Paypal Donate – use Paypal to accept donations on your site
- Postmaster – Integrate package shipping, tracking and notification into your app
Customer Support/Feedback/Engagement
- Nirror – live support/watch playback of customer actions on your site
- Conversica – AI software for marketing, virtual sales assistant
- Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site
- GetSatisfaction – conversations between companies / customers
- Triibe – incentive-based customer service
- HelpJuice – knowledge base to scale customer support and collaboration between teams
- Zendesk – web help software
- Raaft – customer retention feedback
- Wise.io – machine learning for customer success
- Rollio – CRM now listens via Natural Language Processing
- Drift - Chat widget for websites
- Clickdesk – Help desk, live chat, social toolbar
- Zopim – real time customer support/live chat
- HelpScout – simple setup, easy integration, help desk software
- Desk – from Salesforce, easy and simple; email/social/chat/phone
- SnapEngage – live chat integrates with your apps
- Freshdesk – completely unique never seen before web help software
- Olark – live customer chat and customer loyalty
- LiveChat – live customer chat, archives of conversations
- Groove – simple online Help Desk
- VisitorEngage – behavioral-based feedback button, surveys & website notifications
- Assistly – Support customers by Web, email, chat, and social networks
- Vision Helpdesk – Support for multiple companies from one place
- OneDesk – ideation to delivery and support issues, tickets, tasks
- HappyFox – collate, categorize and respond to all requests
- CustomerSure – online customer service, feedback into retention
- HelpSpot – Helpdesk software
- Webengage – engagement; website survey, feedback and notification tool
- SupportBee – help customers via email, robust ticketing
- JitBit – Help desk ticketing system, cloud and on premises versions
- HelpRace – helpdesk, knowledge base and a feedback community in one platform
- NetHelpDesk – Exchange sync, Smartphone apps
Testimonials/Social Reviews
- PostKudos – collect customer testimonials
- Yotpo – social reviews for eCommerce
- Kayako – Help desk
- UserVoice – turn customer feedback into action
- Kampyle – turn customer feedback into sales and relationships
Recruiting Tools
- JobVite – recruiting software, applicant tracking
- Zoho Recruit – applicant tracking
- Resumator – applicant tracking and social recruiting
- RecruiterBox – recruitment software, applicant tracking
- ActiveInterview – Video interviewing
- JobPage – applicant tracking and social recruiting
- Zartis – social recruiting
- HiringThing -online recruiting
- Workable – recruitment and applicant tracking
- RecruitmentWorx – online recruitment and tracking
- OneRecruit – free applicant tracking
- GroupTalent – hire short term help/or freelance
- Giggrabbers – hire freelancers, start crowdfunding
- MasterBranch – show off your skills
- VidCruiter – video interview software
- LinkedIn – the uber connector
Password Managers
- Dashlane – password manager and digital wallet
- 1password – password manager
- LastPass – password manager
- passwordsafe – password manager
- Meldium – password manager with single sign-on to apps
- KeeperSecurity – password vault and online file storage
Password API’s
- Authy – add two-factor authentication to your sites
- Userbin – add two-factor authentication to your sites
Misc Office Help
- Slack – team communication
- FounderPhone - Send and receive texts and calls directly in Slack
- Airtable - cloudspreadsheet – poor mans CRM to track sales funnel
- Amazon Workspaces – desktop computing service in the cloud
- SharedDesks – Coworking and Office Space
- PivotDesk – host or look for a coworking space
- Pingboard – employee directory software
- StartupAdmin – outsourced Exec Asst, HR, Office Mgmt, & Bookkepping
- Coworking WIki
- Google Apps – cloud mail server, calendar, docs, etc.
Phone Systems
- Grasshopper – virtual phone system
- Hoiio – business communications apps
- Ringio – cloud phone system
- 8×8 – voice, video, chat, contact center in the cloud
- ActivePBX – cloud unified phone system
- RingCentral – cloud based phone system
- Freedom Voice and FreedomIQ – $3.95 800 #’s, hosted VoIP telephony
Accounting/Payroll
- InDinero – easy business finance software
- Brex – free Business cash account and credit cards
- ZenPayroll – delightful employee payroll software
- Sheets – free time card calculator
- WagePoint – online payroll for small businesses
- Freshbooks – cloud accounting and invoicing
- Gusto – payroll software for accountants
- Autotax – eFile IRS 1099 forms
- Expensify – billing, expenses, receipts
- BambooHR – Employee Records, Benefit Information, Payroll Data, etc.
- Harvest – online time tracking
- ezClocker – small business employee time tracking
- Xobni – Outlook plugin to search
- Think-Cell – Powerpoint (windows) plug-in for advanced charting
- QuoteRoller – create, deliver and negotiate proposals online
- WordsRU – proofreading and editing service
- iProsh – manage your office and workspace online
- RescueTime – time mgmt software, work/life balance
- Boomerang – scheduled sending and email reminders for gmail
- TradeAbility – free tool from UPS – estimate costs and duty fees and international shipping restrictions
- Freemind – free mind-mapping software
- FoxOMS – resource mgmt and scheduling for film, TV and creative businesses
- FindStringers – freelance journalism marketplace
Outsourcing/Freelance Help
- Amazon Mechanical Turk – set up any task and get answers
- MTurk wiki – explanation of mechanical turk
- Turking tips – useful tips to start
- Turkopticon – avoid shady employers
- MTurk Crowd – mechanical turk forum
- MTurk Forum – mechanical turk forum
- Turker Nation – mechanical turk reddit channel
- Owork – find/hire freelancers
- SkillsHive – become a/hire freelancer online
- Upwork – hire low-cost international engineering talent
- Gigster – hire a quality developer
- Freelancer – outsourcing for small business
- VWorker – find/hire freelancers
- GroupTalent – developers and designers on demand
- BusinessTalentGroup – consultants and executives on demand
- Tongal – get creative work -TV commercials, social videos, music videos, branded entertainment on demand
- Handy – outsource home cleaning, Ikea assembly, handyman
- TaskRabbit – outsource errands and skilled tasks
- Medicast – house call doctors on demand
Chips/Hardware Resources/Tools
- Hackaday – “the” blog for hardware hackers
- The Periodic Table of Hardware Engineering
- The essential guide to Electronics in Shenzhen – Bunnie Labs
- Ultimate Guide to Bootstrapping Hardware Startups – Adam Benzion
- Who Invests in Hardware Startups? – Bolt
- Illustrated Guide to Hardware Product Development: – Bolt
- Illustrated Guide to Hardware Product Development: Part
- Hardware Incubators/Accelerators
- LemnosLabs – best hardware incubator in San Francisco
- Dragon Innovation – works with entrepreneurs to launch hardware products and scale their companies
- Hax Accelerator – hardware incubator/accelerator in Shenzhen, China
- Flextronics Lab IX -accelerator invests in seed stage startups that have beta or functional prototypes, and a well-developed business plan
- Innoconn – Foxconn mobile incubator in Beijing
- Y combinator for hardware
- Highway1 – hardware accelerator in San Francisco
- Springboard – techstars style hardware accelerator in London
- R/GA – techstars style hardware accelerator in New York
- ZahnCenter – hardware incubator in New York
- Bolt – seed stage hardware fund in Boston and San Francisco
- Hardware Crowdfunding
- Crowdsupply – crowd funding for physical stuff
- HWTrek – crowdfunding platform and community for hardware
- Microyza – crowdfunding for Science Research grants
- RISC-V– an open instruction-set architecture
- RISC-V tools– on github
- Chisel – open source hardware construction language for writing Scala programs that generate hardware
- MCL86 – 8088/8086 implemented in a Xlinix FPGA
Robotics/Drones
- ROS – Robot Operating System – open source framework for writing robot software
- Artoo – Ruby micro-framework for robotics based on sinatra
- Gazebo – 3d Robot simulation software
- MRPT – Mobile robotics C++ libraries
- OpenPilot – Open Source UAV autopilot
- Paparazzi – open-source hardware and software autopilot for fixedwing & multicopters
- DIYDrones – community for amateur UAV’s
- QGroundControl – open source UAV ground control operator station
- DroneDeploy – outsourced drones
- Navio+ – raspberry pi autopilot
- Dronebase – Get imagery & video via drone
- Prandtl – physics-based CAD for drones
Software Defined Radio (SR)
- HackRF SDR Tutorial – great intro to SDR
- Guide to Software Defined Radio – LuaRadio
- Software Defined Radio Basic Tutorial – Schuyler St. Leger at Desert Code Camp
- GNU Radio – open source software defined radio
- GqrxSDR – open source SDR built on GNU Radio
- GRSatellites – GNU Satellite telemetry decoders built on GNU Radio
- NooElec – $20 USB RTL-SDR Receiver R820T2 tuner 25MHz-1750MHz
- HDSDR – freeware Software Defined Radio (SDR) for Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10.
- HDSDR on OSX – freeware Software Defined Radio (SDR) for Mac OS X
- ETTUS Research – hardware for software defined radio
- HackRF – software defined radio 10 MHz to 6 GHz
- HackRF One – software defined radio half-duplex transceiver, 1 MHz – 6 GHz
- rad10 – SDR half-duplex transceiver, 50 MHz – 4 GHz works with HackRF
- OsmoSDR – Software based small form-factor inexpensive Software Defined Radio
- LimeSDR – open source SDR
- Nuanced – USB 3.0 software defined radio 300MHz – 3.8GHz
- FUNCube dongle – software defined radio 150kHz to 1.9GHz
- BladeRf x40 – low-cost USB 3.0 Software Defined Radio
- Ethos Research – software defined radio development platforms
- SDR Showdown – HackRF vs bladeRF vs USRP tutorial
- FlexRadio – software defined radio for ham operators
- LoRa Alliance – low power wide area network
- Sigfox – cellular tech for IoT
- Ingenu – dedicated IoT connection
- Beep Networks – real world data to the cloud
- RTL-SDR – news and projects blog
- GNURadioCompanion – a graphical tool for creating signal flow graphs and generating flow-graph source code
Audio
- AudioKit – audio synthesis, processing and analysis
- Essentia – open-source C++ library for audio analysis and audio-based music information retrieval
- Csound – a C-based audio programming language
- SuperCollider – environment and programming language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition
Contract Manufacturers/Startup Design/Prototype/Manufacturing Consultants/Helpers
- Macrofab – software platform view into a contract manufacturer
- Fusion PCB – hardware platform for Makers
- Jiga – contract CNC machining, 3D printing, and sheet metal parts
- PCH – product design, engineering/development, manufacturing, packaging, fulfillment, etc
- Proto Services – ISO 9001/2000 certified manufacturing in Silicon Valley
- The Build Shop – 3D printing and Laser cutting shop in LA
- Get it Made – CNC Machining in the UK
- MakeSimply – sourcing and manufacturing services
- Jatco – plastic molding and manufacturing in Silicon Valley
- Studio Fathom – Prototype Fabrication & Bridge-to-Production Services
- Fictiv – order 3D parts easily for hardware prototyping
- Dix Metals – provider of precision-cut, machine-ready blanks
- Tempo Automation – desktop pick and place robot automates surface mount assembly
- Dragon Innovation – works with startups to provide a clear from prototype through production with manufacturing expertise and trusted connections
- MakeSimply – idea to production, simplified – get MVPs, get products into production
Electronic Prototyping
- AIY Projects – Google AI hardware kits
- UP AI Edge – low cost AI hardware kits
- Lady Ada – embedded applications and kits
- Adafruit – embedded applications and kits
- Learn AdaFruit – AdaFruit Learning System
- Arduino – open source hardware platform
- Arduino products
- Machina – Aduino +OBD2
- TinyGPS – Arduino GPS/NMEA Parser
- Pinocchio – wireless Arduino- microcontroller with WiFi, mesh networking, and battery
- EspoTek Labrador – $29 All-in-one USB Oscilloscope, Signal Generator, Power Supply, Logic Analyzer and Multimeter
- Raspberry Pi – low cost credit-card sized computer boards
- Raspberry Pi 4
- Raspberry Pi Community
- Raspberry Pi App Store – apps & tools
- Raspberry Pi evaluation boards
- Raspberry Pi Zero – $5 computer
- Raspberry Pi Zero W – $10 Pi Zero + wireless LAN and Bluetooth connectivity
- Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
- Raspberry Pi 3 review and benchmarks – Jeff Geerling
- Nvida Jetson Nano – $89 AI development board
- Sony Spresense – ioT development, GPS, ARM Cortex uses Arduino IDE or NuttX SDK
- Other inexpensive ARM Boards
- OrangePi – $40 single-board Linux computer very similar to the Raspberry Pi
- Orange Pi 3 – $35 quad-core 1.8GHz CPU, 2GB DDR3 RAM
- Orange Pi R1 – $15 Quad-core 32-bit Cortex-A7
- OrangePi setup and benchmarks – Jeff Geerling
- 96boards – ARM prototyping
- 96Boards HiKey 960 – $240 4 ARM Cortex-A73 and 4 Cortex-A53 cores, 3GB RAM, 32GB flash, G71 GPU
- 96Boards Hikey 970 – $299 ARM Cortex-A73 MPCore4 @up to2.36GHz + ARM Mali-G72 MP12 GPU + 6GB RAM, 32GB flash
- BeagleBone – $89 linux computer
- BeagleBoneBlack – development platform
- PocketBeagle – $25 ARM Cortex A-8
- CHIP – $9 computer 1ghz cpu 4GB storage, wifi
- CHIP review – Job Vranish
- PocketCHIP – $49 CHIP+screen and battery
Rock Pi 4 Model B – $75 6-core 1.8 ghz ARM processor, 64bit dual channel 3200Mb/s LPDDR4
- Banana Pi M64 – $60 quad core 1.2 ghz ARM processor, 64bit dual channel 3200Mb/s LPDDR4
- MYIR MYS-6ULX – $25 ARM Cortex-A7 Processor
- LeMaker Banana Pi Pro – $50 ARM Cortex-A7 CPU, 1Gb RAM, Mali-400 MP2 GPU
- PINE64 Rock64 – $25 credit card size RK3328 Quad-Core ARM Cortex A53 64-Bit CPU
- Asus Tinker Board – $55 quad-core RK3288 processor, 2Gb RAM, ARM Mali-T764 GPU, Micro SD slot
- Marvell Espressobin –$80 ARM Cortex A53 quad-core processor, 2Gb RAM. SATA interface and Micro SD
- Vision Kit – alyprojects
- BBC micro:bit – $20 32-bit ARM Cortex, 5×5 LED matrix
- Sparkfun BBC micro:bit – $15 Nordic nRF51822ARM Cortex
- NanoPi NEO – $9.90 ARM 7
- ODORID – $50 64-bit quad-core single board computer
- Odroid C2 setup and benchmarks – Jeff Geerling
- OrangePi – $40 single-board Linux computer very similar to the Raspberry Pi
- Sparkfun – general components
- Snapdragon – Qualcomm
- Dragonboard410c -snapdragon development platform
- Spark – hackable wifi and cellular modules
- ARM
- Lattice FPGAs – low cost FPGA
- AVR 8-bit Microcontrollers – cheap and easy 8-bit and 32-bit Microcontrollers
- AVRdude – utility to download/upload/ROM and EEPROM contents of AVR microcontrollers
- Nordic – bluetooth programming platform
- Stak – OS for smart devices
- COSMOS – Ball Aerospace User Interface for Command and Control of Embedded Systems
- Electronics Stack Exchange Q&A site for electronics
- What’s a BOM (bill of material)? – Octopart
- More What’s a BOM – Octopart
- Bunnie Studios – Manufacturing tips
- FindChips – findprice, inventory and analytics for all chips
- Octopart – search engine for electronic parts
- ComponentSearch – search 300 million data sheets by part number
- SandSquid – magic! automated parts finder from a bill of material
- DesignSparkMechanical – free mechanical design software
- IEC Common Data Dictionary – reference for component properties
- Building your first Printed Circuit Boards (PCB’s) – Particle
- Printed Circuit Boards (PCB’s) printers
- Argentum – desktop PCB printer
- Voltera – desktop PCB printer
- FirePick Delta – desktop pick-and-place robot
- Printed Circuit Boards (PCB’s) assembly/manufacturing
- DirtyPCBs – cheap PCBs
- Seeed PCBs – cheap PCBs
- PCB Assembly Services – USA supplier
- GoldPhoenix – PCB manufacturing, design service
- PCBcart – PCB manufacturing, assembly service
- TempoAutomation – electronics manufacturing as a service
- Variscite – system on module manufacturer
- Myro – prototype PCB’s and PCB assembly
- PCB Unlimited – PCB manufacturing house
- PCB Assembly Express – PCB prototypes, short runs and contract manufacturing
- CircuitHub – PCB’s from prototype to manufacturing production with one click
- SanFrancisco Circuits – PCB fab
- Bay Area Circuits – Printed Circuit Board manufacturing
- Worthington Assembly – U.S. PCB manufacturing does SMT’s
- Sierra Circuits – Printed circuit board manufacturing and assembly
- Pentalogix – Quick turn printed circuit board manufacturing
- PCBPool – low cost PCB boards in Europe
- Eurocircuits – Online PCB board in Europe
- Screaming Circuits – Printed Circuit Board Assembly House
- OSH Park – community circuit board design
- Advanced Circuits – one day printed circuit boards
- Sunstone – Printed Circuit Boards
- Squick – low cost and fast circuit manufacturing
- PCB Design Tools
- SnapEDA – PCB design tool w/downloadable parts library
- BoldPort – Python script that creates an SVG from JSON files, and creates Gerber and Excellon files for manufacturing
- DesignSparkPCB -free PCB design software
- Altium– PCB Design Tools
- Eagle – CadSoft schematic capture PCB design tool
- Upverter – collaborative circuit design
- Hardware Product Canvas – hardware building block tool
- circuits.io – free circuit editor/pcb layout in your browser (by Autodesk)
- CircuitMaker – free EDA tool from Altium
- KiCad – schematic capture and PCB layout
- Fritzing – PCB and parts library
- PCBWeb – free PCB design software
- Scheme-it – free online schematic drawing/sharing app (part of Digikey)
- Integrated Design Environment (IDE)
- PSoC Creator -hardware/firmware editing, compiling, debugging of PSoC 3/4, 4 BLE, PRoC BLE, PSoC 5LP and FM0+ systems
- STM32Cube – IDE for STM32
- SW4STM32 – free system workbench for STM32: free IDE on Windows, Linux and OS X
- Circuit Simulation Tools
- CircuitLabs – schematic editor and circuit simulator
- Yosys – open source Verilog synthesis suite
- arachne – open source Place and route tool for FPGAs
- PartSim – online SPICE circuit simulator
- LTSPICE4 – free analog SPICE simulator
- ADS – design automation software for RF, microwave, high speed digital, and power electronics
- EasyEDA – circuit simulation, PCB design, Electronic circuit design online for free
- DoCircuits – schematic editor and circuit simulator
- CEDAR – logic simulator
- Quiet – circuit simulator with GUI
- CiruitMod – circuit simulator
- Falstad – In browser circuit simulator
- ELN – minecraft mod for in-game circuit simulation
- Ansys HFSS – electromagnetic (EM) simulation software for wireless and RF
- Ansys SIwave – design platform for power integrity, signal integrity and EMI analysis of IC packages and PCBs
- Power Supply Design Tools
- LTpowerCAD II – power supply design tool
- HardwareHacker – DIY Basic projects
- Hacked Gadgets – DIY Tech
- HackersCatalog – technical bookstore
- Hackaday,io – hardware projects
- Hackaday.com – hardware blog
- Teensy – USB development board
- Hopper – OSX and Linux disassembler
- Binwalk – firmware analysis tool
- Intel Edison – computer board w/atom processor, wifi, open source tools
- LittleBits – DIY electronics for prototypes and learning
- CircuitStickers – peel and stick electronics. great for kids 1st projects
- DangerousPrototype – open source hardware projects
- Fritzing – opensource hardware community
- Beagle Board – Open. ARM. Low cost, low power, open hardware expandible computer running latest Ubuntu and Android.
- Saleae – Low cost logic analyzer
- Hardware Debugging and monitoring tools
- Microsemi (Actel) smartfusion: A low power development board full of peripherals and an FPGA chip
- FPGA Wiki – Hamsterworks
- FPGA Development Boards Review – Joel Williams
Electronics Component Suppliers
- Digikey
- Mouser
- Newark
- Future
- Arrow
- Avnet
- Allied
- Sure
- ExpressTechnology – new and obsolete components
- DowkeyMicrowave – RF Switches
- Microchip – great source of micro controllers and analog semis
- SemiconductorStore – wireless, video and embedded semi’s
- Baskville– if you need parts in New Zealand
- TI, Cypress, and Analog devices microcontrollers and IC’s
Manufacturing Resources
- Digikey – Electronic components distributor that offers products including semiconductors, passives and interconnects.
- Custom Circuit Boards – Printed circuit board manufacturer (USA) for prototype and production quantities
- Alibaba.com
- GlobalSources.com
- Sourcing in China
- Sourcing Blog
- Smart China Sourcing
- SupplyBetter – find contract manufacturer for custom mechanical parts, by analyzing CAD drawings
3D Printers
- 3d Printer guide – hubs
- 3D printer features/price Comparison
- 3D Printer Price Comparison –
- Prusa 3D Printers –
- daVinci 3D Printers – XYZ Corp
- Dremel Idea Printer –
- makerbot – Replicator2 3d printer
- Thingiverse – 3d designs for makerbot
- HyRel3D – affordable
- LulzBot – open source 3D printers
- Robox – Reliable home 3d printing
- Printrbot – low cost 3d printer kits and assembled
- Afinia – H-Series 3d printer easiest setup and ease of use
- 3D Systems – Cube and CubeX 3D printers
- Stratasys – Idea Series 3D printer
- Stratasys Mojo -serious desktop 3d printer
- Formlabs– Form1 3D printer
- Ultimaker – 3d printer kit – fastest
- Voxel8 -3D electronics printing
- Ember – 3D printer from Autodesk
- BigRep – Full Scale 3D printer
Building information modeling
- Autodesk Revit – BIM solutions
- FreeCAD – opensource parametric 3d CAD modeler
- CadQuery -python library for building parametric 3D CAD models
- Vectorworks – 2/3D CAD and BIM solution
- SketchUp – Google 3D modeling
- BIMx – sharing hypermodels
- BIMcloud – BIM in the Cloud
- AllPlan – EU BIM software
- OpenBIM – home of Open BIM collaboration via the IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) file format
Low cost 3D/CAM Software
- OpenSCAD – opensource Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller
- SolidCode/SolidPython – python frontend for solid modelling that compiles to OpenSCAD
- TinkerCAD – great 3D CAD software for beginners
- SolveSpace – opensource parametric 3d CAD program
- FreeCAD – opensource parametric 3d CAD modeler
- Fusion360 – autodesk 3D modeller – free for students, educators, and academic institution
- ImplicitCAD – Open-Source, Programmatic CAD
- CadQuery -python library for building parametric 3D CAD models
- Verb – CAD Library for the web
- Deskproto
- VisualMILL
- madCAM
- MeshCAM
- Mayka
- CADCrowd – find freelancers for 3D design & CAD modeling
- GrabCAD – community and workbench for
- GrabCAD model library – open source CAD files available for different software like Solid Works, SolidEdge, Autodesk
- Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting – awesome
3D Printing Services
- Hubs – order custom parts
- Spark– Autodesks open and free 3D printing platform
- NIH 3D Print Exchange – biomedical 3d printable files and resources
- Thingiverse– – biggest repository of free 3D printable files
- Redeye – 3d printing service – autodesk files
- Sculpteo – 3d printing service
- Shapeways – 3d marketplace and community
- 3-D Prototype Design – 3D professional parts printing
- RepRap – open source 3D Printing
- MakerGear – homebrew 3D Printing
- i.materialize – 3D parts printing service
- SolidConcepts – 3D parts printing service w/custom finishing
- Ponoco – 3D printing, laser cutting service, buy/sell/community
- Sunglass.io – apps to share and collaborate around 3D content
- On3DPrinting – good 3D news blog
- Hubs – on demand 3D manufacturing
- 3DPrintBoard – forum for 3D printing
- Google+ 3D printing community
- Reddit 3D printing news
Custom Machine Parts/Industrial Supplies
- othermill – desktop mill
- eMachineShop – machine custom parts online
- onlinemachinist – more custom parts online
- Protolabs – custom CNC machined parts and injection molded parts
- Hackerspaces –
- TechShop – Bay Area and Raleigh N.C. open machine shop, ClubWorkshop – Denver
- Instructables – shared maker community
- Quirky – shared social inventor community
- McMaster-Carr – 480,000 parts of hardware heaven
- W.W. Grainger – Industrial supplies
- Fastenal – more industrial supplies
- Octopart – search engine for electronic parts
- FandFIndustrial – family-run industrial tool and supply company
3D Software
CubeSats / Nanosatellites
- NASA SmallSat Workshop – read first
- NASA CubeSat 101 – read second
- CubeSatShop – one-stop shop – Structures, ADCS, Modules, etc. for Cubesats
- AWS Ground Station – Amazon
- Azure Orbital – Microsoft Ground Station
- Great survey of on-board space computers – Narayan Prasad
- Modules for micro and nano sats – Space Inventors
- Computer, sensors & actuators for cubesats – CubeSpace
- High Performance Computing – Xiphos
- Computers, Antennas, Power, reaction wheels– Spacetech
- Platforms, transmitters, computers, batteries, solar arrays – IMT
- Avionics, radios, crypto, computers– Innoflight
- SatSearch – global marketplace for space industry
- SatNOGS – open source ground station
- Kubos – space grade operating system
- Cubesat Thrusters – satsearch
- NASA Cubesat Challenge – competition for the developments of cubesats to fly to the Moon
- SpaceflightInc – cubesat and small satellite launch
- Spire – using cubesats for weather and maritime data
- PlanetLabs – using nanosats for imagery
- Cubesat.org – collaboration of over 40 universities, high schools, and private firms developing picosatellites
Small Spacecraft Platforms
- Adcole MAGICBus – 50 kg – 180 kg Satellite Platform, communications encryption, propulsive capability
- Nautilus (Nemo-150) bus – up to 70 kg in payload mass and has an envelope of 600 x 600 x 600 mm.
- AAC Clyde Space – EPIC platforms from 1U to 12U
- Berlin Space Technologies LEOS-30 small spacecraft platforms
- GomSpace – 1,2,3 and 6U platforms
- NanoAvionics – nano and CubeSats
- Open Cosmos – 3, 6, 12U and smallsat platforms
- Tyvak – 6, 12U and microsat platforms
- UTIAS SFL – Satellite Platforms
- Endurosat – Cubesat Platforms
- German Orbital Systems – CubeSats and microsatellite components
- GomSpace – 1, 2, 3, 6U Platforms
- Gumush Aerospace & Defense – N-ART BUS 3U platform and components
- Ingegneria – IMT 3U Cubesat Platform
- Open Cosmos – 3/6/12U cubists
- Satrevolution – SOWA/STORK 2/4U CubeSats
- Sputnix – Cubesat platforms
- Surrey – Cubesats/microsatellites
- Dawn Aerospace – CubeSat propulsion
- Nanosystem components and subsystems– SpaceManiac
- CubeSats modules, ground stations – WarpSpace
- Modules, power, structures, computers – Pumpkinspace
- PocketQube – small cubesat off the shelf
- CubesatKit – cube-sat off the shelf
- Computer, propulsion, sensors for CubeSats – Hyperion
Life Science Resources
Thepeutics
- Overview of Preclinical drug development –Celine Halioua
- Product/Market fit in Life Sciences – Celine Halioua
- Ideation in Biotech – Celine Halioua
- Drug Type Primers – Celine Halioua
- Picking the Type of Drug -Celine Halioua
- Picking the Disease to Treat –
- Basics of FDA regulations for drugs – Celine Halioua
- The IND – Investigative New Drug Application -Celine Halioua
- Phase 1 Clinical Trials Basics / Clinical Pharmacology – Celine Halioua
Shared Lab Space/Incubators/Wet Labs for Biotech Startups
- MBC (née QB3)
- JLabs
- StartX
- IndieBio
- Bonneville Labs
- OTRADI
- BioLabs San Diego
- Bio, Tech, and Beyond (BTNB)
- JLABS San Diego
- University Lab Partners
- Murrieta Genomics
- BioLabs at The Lundquist Institute
- Hatch
- CalState LABioSpace
- Lab Launch
- Momentum Biosciences
- Pasadena Bio Collaborative Incubator
- BATTS Incubator Labs
- Texas Medical Center
Medical Device Resources – Stanford Biodesign
- Biodesign – book website
- Needs Finding
- Needs Screening
- Intellectual Property
- Reimbursement basics
- Reimbursement strategy
- CPT Codes – coding/billing info
- CPT Code FAQ’s
- Regulatory Basics
- Clinical Strategy
Medical Device Resources – General
- Global Burden of Disease – thank you Bill Gates
- FDA Medical Device Regulatory Page
- FDA Device Curriculum Case Studies
- Medical Device Glossary
- MDD – Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry site
- QMed – equipment suppliers for med device companies
- OECD Market Size Data
- Great Lifesciences blog – Bruce Booth, Atlas Ventures
- JayCaplan– another great Lifesciences blog
- Great 3d Protein Structure tutorial
Synthetic Biology
- Registry of Standard Biological Parts – IGEM
- LabGenius –
- SynbiCITE – UK national synthetic biology site
Digital Health
- RockHealth – Digital Healthcare Incubator
- FDA Draft Guidance for Mobile Health Devices
- Guide to FDA Approval for Digital Health – RockHealth
- Partnering with Hospitals for Pilots – RockHealth
- RockHealth Presentations
- Health IT and HIPAA
- HHS Guidance on HIPAA
- Free Health & Medical Courses – OEDB
- AddGene – a better way to share plasmids
- Genomics API Browser – sample application designed to demonstrate the capabilities of the Global Alliance for Genomics and HealthAPI
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Market Research Tools
- Clipular – Camera for the web/great research clippings
- Business Research LaunchPad – start here
- WaybackMachine – archive of web pages from 1996 to today
- archive.org – digital library of old books, recordings, etc.
- ChangeDetection – automatically know when any web page changes
Private “pay for market research” firms
- CBInsights – best overall startup/vc data
- DataMarketplace
- WindowsAzure – Data Marketplace
- Gartner, Forrestor, Yankee – IT
- Frost & Sullivan – mulitple industries
- NPD – entertainment
- IMSHealth – health care
- MedMix – lifesciences
- CMR – chemical
- API – petroleum industry
Datasets
- Amazon AWS – public crawl
- StartupCompass – benchmark your core business metrics
- Stanford Large Network Dataset
- Open Building Footprints – Microsoft
U.S. State/Canada/Federal Open Data
- List of open government/country data sites – Start Here
- U.S. Census Bureau – Data
- U.S. Census Bureau – API’s
- Code.gov – Access U.S. gov’t open source code
- USASpending – official US Gov’t site on where the money goes
- U.S. government Web Service & XML Data – Start Here as well
- USCommonSense – US Open data portal
- Analytics.usa.gov – the US Gov’ts web traffic
- National Science Foundation – data mine any NSF award, person or institution
- Building Healthcare.gov
- FedStats – data from 100 U.S. Federal agencies
- Federal Reserve – U.S. economic data
- Small Business Administration – Data – API here
- USDA Economic Research Service – lots of agricultural data
- Medicare Data – hospitals, physicians, nursing homes, dialysis, suppliers,etc
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) – air, water, climate, etc.
- FDA.gov med device tracking here
- National Archives – everything the U.S. govt has in print
- Federal Reserve – U.S. Industrial production data
- Landsat – open data program description
- SunLight Labs – Open U.S. Federal and State data
- Data.gov – Open U.S. Federal data
- PewResearch Center – Internet & American Life
- Data.ca.gov – Open California data
- California Health and Human Services
- TexasConnect – Open Texas data
- SanFrancisco – Open San Francisco data
- New York City – Open NY data
- IQuantNY – best website ever on what you can do with open data!
- NYC Taxi data – NY taxi trips
- Los Angeles – Open LA data
- Seattle – open Seattle data
- King County Washington – open data
- Chicago – Open Chicago data
- Baltimore – open data
- Austin – open data
- D.C. – Washington D.C. open data
- New Orleans – open data
- Philadelphia open data
- Tulsa, OK – open data
- South Bend, IN – open data
- Louisville/Jefferson County, KY – open data
- Oakland, – open data
- West Sacramento, CA – open data
- Honolulu, HI – open data
- Sacramento, CA (City Manager Policy) – open data
- Pittsburgh, PA– open data
- Williamsville, NY – open data
- Hartford, CT – open data
- Boston, MA
- Nashville, TN
- Kansas City, MO
- Jackson, MI – open data
- Canada – open data
- Edmonton – open data
- Vancouver – open data
- Toronto
- Windsor
- Ottawa
- British Columbia
- Education Policies – state by state
Solar & Renewables Open Data
- DSIRE – Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Energy Efficiency
- SEPA – Solar Electric Power Association
- SEIA – Solar Energy Industries Association
- ASES – American Solar Energy Society
- NCAR – Climate data sets
- Reegle – Clean energy open portal
- EnergyStar – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) program
- Clean Energy – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) program
- DOE Wind Program – U.S. Dept of Energy
- DOE Solar Program – U.S. Dept of Energy
- DOE Efficiency & Renewables Program – U.S. Dept of Energy
- DOE Alternate Fuels Program -U.S. Dept of Energy
- DOE Green Power Network – U.S. Dept of Energy
- Weather data – 2100 locations
Other Governments Open Data
- List of open government/country data sites – Start Here
- Data.UN – open United Nations Data
- DataPortal – Open data for the E.U.
- OpenData.gc – Open Canadian data
- Data.gov.UK – Open UK data
- Singaporedata.gov – Open Singapore data
- ChineseGovt – Open China data
- ItalyOpen – Open Italian data
- Helsinki Developer Portal – Open Helsinki data
- DataOne – Open HongKong data
- Datos.gov – Open Columbian data
- Datos.gob.es – Open Spanish data
- Data.norge.nos – Open Norway data
- OpenAid – Open Swedish data
- OpenGovData.ru – Open Russian data
- DataBC – Open British Columbia, Canada data
- OpenGovernmentVienna – open Vienna data
- BerlinOpenData – open Berlin data
- TorontoOpenData – open Toronto data
- Enigma – Public data browser
Research Data
- Databib – research data repository
- Datacite – research data repository
- Figshare – research data repository
- Reddit Datasets – research data repository
- Datahub -CKN tool for managing and publishing collections of data
- CERN Open Data – do your own search for the Higgs Boson
Statistics
- Eurostat – European Statistics
- Knoema – free data/stats
- EEA – European Environment Agency
- OECD Stat Extracts
- United Nations Statistics
- The World Bank – finance
- International Monetary Fund – data and stats
- Statista – market data/statistic portal
Open Company Data/Stats/API
- LendingClub – stats on funding and loans
- Prosper – Prosper funding data/API
- BBYOpen – Best Buy open product data/API
- EbayOdata – Ebay open data/API
- Yelp Academic Dataset – access 250 closest businesses for 30 universities for students
- Reuters/Thompson – content API
- New York Times – content API
- The Guardian – content API
- Yahoo – data for students/academics
- Uber – car cost of ownershipFindtheCompany: BestIncomeStatements – compare company income statements
- FindtheCompany: BestIPOs – compare company IPOs
- FindtheData – general data
Open Mapping
- Remix – open data transit planning
- General Transit Feed Specification – common format for public transportation schedules & GIS
- OpenStreetMap – free open source map data
- OrdnanceSurvey – UK open mapping data
- Mapzen – open source mapping tools
- Tangram – hackable mapping engine, real-time rendering of 2D and 3D maps
- Vector tiles – generate real-time renderings of map data
- Valhalla Routing Service – integrate routing and navigation into a web or mobile application
- Mapbox – design & publish maps
- Mapnik – geospatial visualization & processing
- TileStache – Python app that serves up map tiles based on rendered geographic data
- PostGIS – spatial database extender for PostgreSQL
- USGSMaps – maps & imagery
- USGS_EROS_Ortho – orthorectified digital aerial photographs and satellite imagery
- Mobile Atlas Creator – create offline atlases for GPS handhelds and cell phone apps
- TopoMaps – USGS maps on iPhone
Genomic/BioMed Data
- Ensemble – Genome browser
- 1000 Genomes – Ensembl v73 databases contain the majority of the 1000 genomes phase1 variants
- Jim Watsons DNA sequence
- CRCNS – computational neuroscience data sets
Public or University library Resources:
- Standard & Poor’s Industry Surveys
- Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries, Gale Research
- Encyclopedia of American Industries, Gale Research
- Encyclopedia of Associations, Gale Research (find Trade Associations)
- Harris InfoSource Business Directory
- Lifestyle Market Analyst, SRDS – used for collecting psychographic data
Market Research Resources Online
- U.S. Clusters – find local clusters of innovation
- FindTheCompany – corporate and organization data
- IOS / Android Market Size – Installed base
- Crunchbase – tech company/people database
- Edsurge – educational software
- Facebook demographics – strategy labs
- ChangeDetection – know when any web page changes
- SEC EDGAR – research on public U.S. firms
- MarketReseach.com – Retailer of private market research reports
- ZapData.com – Dun & Bradstreet offers free statistical industry data
- Thomas – find any company in any industry
- BizStats.com – free business statistics and financial ratios
- SBDC – National Information Clearinghouse of the U.S. Small Business Administration
- Encyclopedia of Associations
- U.S. Bureau of the Census
- EASI – estimated demographic statistics within a user-specified radii for any address
- Claritas – psychographic information and analysis of zip code areas
- Standard and Poors – Industry Surveys
- International Trade Statistics –
- NVCA – venture capital industry data
- PWC MoneyTree – more venture capital data
- Chemical Industry data
- FDA News – medical device and drug data/news
- Asymco – great market intelligence blog
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Starting and Running a Startup Advice
Best Startup Advice
- CBInsights – best overall startup/vc data
- VentureHacks
- Encyclopedia of Startup advice in tweets – Peter Szymanski, Silicon Valley Counsel
- Fred WIlson MBA Mondays – worth reading through all of these
- Best of Y-Combinator Startup Advice
- Tom Eisenmann Platform & Networks – Harvard Business School
- Uber list of Startup Resources – Legal, Equity, etc. – Bottom Line Law Group
- 16 Startup Metrics – Andreesen Horowitz
- 16 more startup Metrics – – Andreesen Horowitz
Incorporating Your Company
- State by state incorporation advice – Harbor Compliance
- Clerky – incorporation and equity paperwork made easy
Entrepreneurship Reading List
- Books for Startups my favorite business books
- My class and presentation slides!
Entrepreneurship Online
Startups Data
- Mattermark – quantifying company growth for startup investors
- Compass – Turn data into actionable insights
- AngelList – connecting startups and angels
Coworking Spaces
- ShareDesk – find a workspace in your city
- Coworkify – find a workspace in your city
- NextSpace – coworking spaces across California
- FoundersDen – San Francisco workspace
- OpenDesks – find workspace/meeting places
- SandBoxSuites – SF Bay Area shared workspace
- RocketSpace – SF Bay Area shared workspace
- HackerDojo – community center in Mountain View
Angel/SuperAngel Investors
- Venture Hacks Angel List – raise money with angel investors
- AngelList – connecting startups and angels
- Seed-Db – database of seed accelerators and their companies
- Gust – Platform for Startup Funding
- Guide to Super Angels – Chubby Brain
- Types of Angel Financing
- Angel Financing Tips and here
Corporate vc’s
- 117 most active corporate VC’s – CB Insights
VC’s Focused on Commercializing University Technology
- M34 Capital – in Berkeley
- Osage Partners – in Princeton
- IP Group – in the UK
- Allied Minds – in Boston
Crowdfunding
- Kickstarter – crowdfunding
- Indiegogo – crowdfunding
- Rock The Post – crowd funding
- RocketHub – crowd funding, partner with A&E
- Appbackr – crowd funding for mobile apps
- Tindle – crowd funding for makers to sell their hardware
- Quirky – shared social inventor community
Incubator List/ Startup Jobs
- List of Startup Incubators
- FindTheBest Incubators
- A Quora list of Incubators
- Lunch with Entrepreneurs
- Techcofounder – find a technical cofounder
- Founder Dating – find a cofounder
Advice on Raising Startup Capital
- The founders guide to understanding investors – Anuj Abrol
- What every founder should know about liquidity – steve blank
- The optimal seed round strategy – tom tunguz
- How much should I raise in an Angel Round in 2015 – calacanis
- The “Doubling Model” for Fundraising – Fred Wilson
- Raising Capital 2016 – Sam Altman Y Combinator
- Raising Capital 2014 – Andreesen Horowitz
- A Guide to Seed Fundraising – Geoff Ralston
- Seed Fund performance – pevcbanker
- LinkedIn’s SeriesB Pitch – Reid Hoffman
- How VC’s Calculate Return on Investment – Fred Wilson
- FindtheBest Venture Capital
- Startup Valuation Advice – Mark Suster May 2011
- Fundraising 101 Checklist – Walker
- Pitching a VC – Mark Suster Advice
- How VC’s Evaluate Startups – Thomvest Ventures
- Seed Stage Valuation Guide – Jordan Cooper
- Guide to Venture Debt – Bessemer
- Alternate Funding Ideas – Business Insider
- VentureFundio – let your data do your pitching
Cap Tables / Valuation
- Cap Table Template – Fred Wilson
- Cap tables 101 – capshare
- How to make a cap table – venture hacks
- Captable.io – startup cap table mgmt
- Founder Ownership at Exit – blossom street ventures
- 2014 Valuation advice – AndreessenHorowitz
- eShares – Cab table management
- Eqvista – Cab table management
- Convertible Notes – Funders Club
- CapTable.io – set up your companies cap table
- Awesome Valuation/Equity Calculator – ownyourventure
- TrueEquity – Cap Table Mgmt software
- Capography – Cap Table Mgmt software too
- Simple CapTable calculator – David Miller
- How VC’s Calculate Valuation – Mark Suster
- StartupCompass – benchmark your core business metrics
Venture Capital Financing
- MoneyTree – PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Fenwick and West – Venture Financing
- NVCA – National Venture Capital Association
- Venture Capital Survey – San Jose Mercury News
Boilerplate Venture Funding Documents
- YCombinator Seed Round Documents
- National Venture Capital Association – model legal documents
- Fenwick Seed Forms
- Seed Round Convertible Debt Terms – Fenwick and West
- Gunderson Forms
- Cooley Forms
- Orick’s Legal Documents for Startups – priceless
- Y Combinator SAFE (“Simple Agreement for Future Equity”)
- YCombinator – SAFE (simple agreement for future equity)
- YCombinator Standard Series A Term Sheet
Term Sheets
- Simple Term Sheet tutorial
- Scott Walker Advice on Termsheet Provisions
- Six Documents You will See When Raising Venture Capital – Ali Rahimtula
- Orrick, Herrington Term Sheet Generator
- Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet – WSGR
- Docracy -Free Legal Documents
- ScottEdWalker – this legal blog is gold for a startup
- TLDRLegal – software licences explained
Building/Managing Your Board
- Building an Effective Board – Kauffman Foundation (PDF)
- What makes a great independent board member? – Mark Suster
- Why board meetings suck Part 1 – steve blank
- Why board meetings suck Part 2 – steve blank
- LaunchPad Central – share Bus Model Canvas/Customer Development progress
- Seederboard – startup reporting dashboard
- Don’t Give Away Your Board Seats – steve blank
Intellectual Property Advice
- Patents – U.S. Patent Office
- Trademarks – U.S. Patent Office
- Intellectual Property in the “Real World”– Antone Johnson
- “Nuts and Bolts” of Intellectual Property – Antone Johnson
- Intellectual Property for Startups – Mashtag
- Intellectual Property Basics – great tutorials from Bryce Pilz of Univ of Michigan
- Trademark University – Gerben Law
Founder Equity Issues
- Guide to Startup Stock Options – Matt Cooper
- New hire offer spreadsheet – Matt Cooper
- How to evaluate a startups offer of a stock grant – Matt Cooper
- Existing employee stock grant calculator – Matt Cooper
- Fred Wilson Advice and spreadsheet
- The Right Way to Grant Equity – Andy Rachleff Wealthfront
- Foundrs – co-founder equity calculator
- Intro to Stock and Options – David Weekly
- Intro to Secondary Sales – Riz Virk
- Types of Startup Stock – Gunderson Dettmer
- Stock Plan Forms – free forms from Clerky
- Options Pools – Tom Tunguz
- Startup Founder Equity Stakes – Tom Tunguz
- Startup VP Eng & VP Product compensation – Tom Tunguz
- An Engineers Guide to Stock Options – Alex Maccaw
- Venture Hacks equity section
- Dilution – Mark Suster
- Advice on equity fairness – Joel Spolsky
- Awesome Valuation/Equity Calculator – OwnYourVenture
- Splitting the Founders Pie – Frank Demmler
- ScottEdWalker – this legal blog is gold for a startup
- TruEquity Mgmt Tool – cap table management, free for founders
- Valuation on Revenue – Bill Gurley Above the Crowd
- Startup Salary & Equity – Wealthfront
Executive / Advisory Board Compensation
- Board of Directors Compensation – fred wilson
- The Funded Standard Advisor Template
- Advisor Equity – Quroa
- Advisor Equity for 500 Startups companies – Quora
- Everything you ever wanted to know about advisors Part 1 – Venture Hacks
- Everything you ever wanted to know about advisors Part 2 Compensation – Venture Hacks
- Should Your Startup have an Advisory Board – Mark Suster Upfront Ventures
- Comp Study – Executive Compensation Website– unbelievably useful
- SaaS Sales Team Compensation – Philippe Botteri, Bessemer Venture Partners
Public Relations (PR) For Tech Companies
- The Best PR Advice You Never Heard – Caryn Marooney
- Tech Reporters Contact Info – Conrad Egusa’s gift to us all
- Beginners Guide to PR
- Should Startups Announce their Funding – Marc Suster
- Should Startups target Tech Blogs? – Marc Suster
- 7 steps to get press coverage – Leo Widrich
- How to get media coverage – Leo Widrich
- ExpertiseFinder – sign up
- GlobalExperts – sign up
- Smedian – Medium writers platform
- ContentRow – Link Bait title ideas
- MentionMap – track and analyze mentions
- Awario – track and analyze mentions
Finance 101 for Entrepreneurs
- MBA Mondays – Fred Wilson’s Tutorials
- How to Read a Financial Report, and here – Merrill Lynch
Metrics/Benchmarks/Growth
- Great go-to-market strategy – Guy Turner
- Startup Growth Calculator – Trevor Blackwell
- Key founder/startup metrics – Tom Tunguz
- Key metrics for Saas startups – Tom Tunguz
- Building Saas startups Top Down or Bottom up? -Tom Tunguz
- Measuring Bookings, MRR, Revenue and Cash- Tom Tunguz
- The Illusions of Product/Market Fit for SaaS companies – Brad Feld
- Rule of 40% for a Healthy SaaS Company – Brad Feld
- The fundamental unit of SaaS growth -Tomasz Tunguz
- Modeling SaaS startup growth – Tomasz Tunguz
- The SaaS adventure – Neeraj Agrawal
- SAAS Revenue Models part 1 – David Skok Matrix Partners
- SAAS Revenue Models part 2- David Skok Matrix Partners
- SAAS Infographic– David Skok Matrix Partners
Web/Mobile/Marketplace Revenue Models
- Startup Growth Calculator – Trevor Blackwell – awesome
- Inside sales metrics – Tom Tunguz
- Web/Mobile Revenue Models – Fred Wilson
- Optimal Platform Pricing Strategies – Bill Gurley
- Dangers of Lifetime Value formula- Bill Gurley
- Advertising Revenue Models – Fred Wilson
- Subscription Revenue Models – Fred Wilson
- Peer to Peer Revenue Models – Fred Wilson
- Transaction Processing Revenue Models – Fred Wilson
- Licensing Revenue Models – Fred Wilson
- Mobile Revenue Models – Fred Wilson
- Gaming Revenue Models – Fred Wilson
- Tech Acquisitions, cost per user – Brightside
- Tech Acquisitions, cost per user versus total users – Brightside
Burn Rate/Balance Sheet
- Burn Rates: How Much? – Fred Wilson
- Saas Startup Balance Sheets: cash & debt by year
Product Pricing 101 for Entrepreneurs
- Product Pricing Wiki Page – great links to pricing models
- How to design Web Pricing Pages – from Smashing Magazine
- Royalty calculators – Arthur Lipper
- 250 Great SaaS Pricing pages – Benjamin Crandall
- What Influences Daily and Monthly Active Users (DAU/MAU) – Andrew Chen
- How to determine your advertising CPM rates – Andrew Chen
- How to solve the “cold start” problem for social products – Andrew Chen
- Design social products with 3 feedback loops – Andrew Chen
- Growing user signups with data and analytical thinking – Andrew Chen
- Pricing in SaaS-enabled marketplaces – Tomasz Tunguz
Channel Partners
- Using Channel Partners – 1st Round Review
Getting Acquired
- Trends in Startup Acquisitions – Tom Tunguz
Lawyers/Legal
- Orick’s Legal Documents for Startups – priceless
- Walker Law: Tips for Entrepreneurs
- Top Ten Legal Mistakes for Entrepreneurs
- Startup Law 101 – George Grellas
- Yoichiro “Yokum” Taku – Startup Company Lawyer
- Startup Law Blog – Davis Wright Tremaine, Joe Wallin
- Orrick – Startup Legal Tool Kit
- Goodwin, Proctor – Founders Workbench
- Law & Disorder: ARS Technica Legal Blog
- Likelihood of Confusion-trademark, copyright and Internet Law
- Technology & Marketing Law Blog
- American Bar Association Best Legal Blogs
- Music Law – one of the best legal blogs period. Read all of it.
- FindtheBestLawyers – list of best lawyers
Fighting Patent Trolls
- TrollingEffects – learn more about patent trolls
- UnifiedPatents – patent micropool to fight patent trolls
- ElectronicFrontierFoundation(EFF) – on patents
Corporate Innovation Programs
- Shell’s Game Changer program
- Qualcomm Innovation program
- P&G Connect & Develop – Open Innovation
List of Investment Platforms
- Trusted Insight – Social marketplace for institutional investors
- CapLinked – manage and close business transactions
- SecondMarket – marketplace for alternate investment
Education Startups
- Edsurge – the source for information about educational software
- Top VC’s in Edtech – CBInsights
- Best Map of Automated Learning Systems
- New Schools Education Tech Map
- K-12 Education VC Blog – Jennifer Carolan @ NewSchools
- MOOCNews – education blog about MOOC’s
- Edsurge – the educational technology blog
- K12Labs – STEM education projects & lesson plans
- Google Classroom – tools for teachers
- EdPuzzle – make any video your lesson
- Drawp – classroom collaboration tool
- Google Course Builder – open source MOOC education platform
China – Doing Business
- What’s the best way to do business in China? – Dan Harris
- Business Etiquette in China – Canada trade commission
- Manufacturing in China
- How to form a company in China – Dan Harris
- How to start a business in China: WFOE – Dan Harris
- How to start a business in China: Representative Company – Dan Harris
- How to start a business in China: Distributorship – Dan Harris
- Licensing your product in China
- Memos of Understanding in China – Dan Harris
- Non Disclosure Agreements (NDA) in China – Dan Harris
- Filing Trademarks in China
- Avoiding Chinese business scams
- China VC Database – Zero2IPO Group
- GreatFirewallofChina – find out whether your site is blocked in China
- Which VPNs to use in China – Comparitech
- Mongol – locate the great firewall routers
- Lantern – proxy tool for android
- GreenVPN – proxy tool for iOS
- Shadowsocks – a secure socks5 proxy
- Top 100 Chinese Brands – MillardBrown
China Blogs
- Sinocism – if you read anything about China subscribe to this
- ChinaLaw – great blog about legal issues of doing business in China
- TechInAsia – good China and other Asia coverage
- AllRoadsLeadtoChina – China business analysis
- GreatFire – online censorship in China
- China Internet Watch – covers China Internet Marketing and statistics
- MinistryOfTofu – China Social Justice
- ChinaFile – Asia Society
- ChinaBrief – Jamestown Foundation
- Sinosphere – New York Times
- Shanghiaiist – city blog
- WantChinaTimes – Taiwan’s view of the PRC
- Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
- Foreign Policy – Carnegie Endowment
- southseaconversation – South (China) Sea disputes
China Military Books/Blogs
- Chinese Air and Naval Power – blog
- Chinese Nuclear Forces 2013 – Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
- Chinese Aerospace Power – Andrew S. Erickson & Lyle J. Goldstein
- Peoples Liberation Army Navy: Combat Systems Technology, 1949-2010
- China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities—Background and Issues for Congress
Japan – Doing Business
- Doing a startup/business in Japan – Kalzumeus – Awesome post
- starting a business in Japan – Venture Japan
- setting up in Japan – Venture Japan
- Japanese distributors – Venture Japan
- direct sales in Japan – Venture Japan
- secrets of success – Venture Japan
- business meetings in Japan – Venture Japan
- Japanese business etiquette – Venture Japan
Must Read Blogs
- Best Blogs Every Entrepreneur should read
- Mentorphile – Steve Bayle a mentor, from the MIT Venture Mentoring Service
- Top VC Blog List
- Fred Wilson – A VC
- Marc Andreessen
- Paul Graham
- Hacker News
- Brad Feld
- Chris Dixon
- OnStartups-Dharmesh Shah
- Both Sides of the Table – Mark Suster
- 37signals
- Eric Ries – Startup Lessons Learned
- Venture Hacks and http://twitter.com/venturehacks
- Andrew Chen
- Dave McClure
- Venture Made Transparent
More to read
- Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson – Ask the VC
- Dharmesh Shah – On startups
- Josh Kopelman – Redeye VC
- David Hornik – VentureBlog
Lean LaunchPad Videos
This is the complete list of Launchpad Video clips created to date and sorted by topic:
Legend: | |
TC | Teaching Critigues |
SL | Student Learning |
CD | Customer Discovery series |
UCB | UC Berkeley LaunchPad Spring ’13 series |
UCSF | UCSF Life Science & Healthcare Launchpad Fall ‘2013 series |
Mentor Training
General Discussion
- How Large Will You Scale? (03:03) TC UCB
- What If You’re a Visionary? – Risks & Rewards (4:53) SL UCSF
- Your Startup: Do You Want to Spend 3 to 4 Years Doing This? (5:14) TC UCSF
- Don’t Let the MVP Limit Your Vision (03:40) TC UCB
Customer Discovery
- “It Saved Us Several Years” (1:45) SL UCSF
- Stop Telling Yourself What You Want to Believe (1.39) SL UCSF
- Narrowing the Focus (1:21) SL UCSF
- Why PI’s and Founders Need to Get Out of the Building (2:15) SL UCSF
- “This Was the Best Outcome” (2:50) SL UCSF
- Getting to the “Better Idea” Faster (3:59) SL UCSF
- Insights on: Does Customer Development Work in Therapeutics? (6:11) UCSF
- The Phases of Customer Discovery (0:37) CD
Before Leaving the Building
- Pre-Planning Contacts (4:34) CD
- Customer Interview Dry Runs (0:49) CD
- Discovery is for Founders (1:30) CD
- Pass/Fail Experiments (1:32) CD
Outside the Building
- Rules of Customer Interviews
- Being Aggressive (1:29) CD
- Conducting a Customer Interview (1:30) CD
- Letting the Customer Interview Flow (1:37) CD
- Sizing the Opportunity (2:50) CD
- Finding Patterns (1:50) CD
- Looking for Insights (0:58) CD
- Early Mistakes to Avoid
- Death by PowerPoint (1:42) CD
- Death by Demo 1 (2:18) CD
- Death by Demo 2 (1:45) CD
- Understanding the Problem (3:22) CD
- Multi-Person Interview (2:03) CD
- Assuming You Know (1:56) CD
- B-to-B to C (2:15) CD
- Existing vs. New Markets (5:29) CD
- Asking the Right Question (2:37) CD
- Public Interviews (2:11) CD
Understanding What the Customer Is Telling You
- Engaging the Customer (3:37) CD
- Customer Empathy (2:25) CD
- The Distracted Customer (3:12) CD
- Customers Lie (2:37)
- The User, the Buyer & the Saboteur (2:24) CD
Back in the Building
- Extracting Insight from Data (2:59) CD
- Pay Attention to Outliers (2:16) CD
- Getting the MVP Right (3:34) CD
- The “Other 85%” (2:32) CD
- Finding Early Evangelists (1:17) CD
- Communicating Your Discoveries (2:26) CD
Value Proposition
- Pivoting…or Groping for a Business Model? (02:37) TC UCB
- Seduced by Insufficient Data (02:34) TC UCB
Customer Relationships
- Insights on: Customer Relationships – Week 4 (12:00) UCSF
- Use Customers to Find More Customers (02:22) TC UCB
- Customer Conversion (03:22) TC UCB
Customer Segments
- Insights on: Customer Segments – Week 2 (12:43) UCSF
- Estimating Market Size (01:49) SL UCB
- Customer Workflow (02:10) SL UCB
- Customer Discovery / Customer Archetype (04:04) SL UCB
- Customer Archetypes; Hypotheses & Experiments (03:21) SL UCB
- Customer Segments & Customer Archetypes (03:47) SL UCB
- The Fog of Entrepreneurship (03:01) TC UCB
- At the Start, All Your Stakeholders Are Customers (02:32) TC UCB
- Square Pegs & Round Holes – Mira Medicine (4:33) TC UCSF
Channels
- Insights on: Channels – Week 3 (14:52) UCSF
- Framing the Experiment (02:27) TC UCB
- Distribution Channels: One Data Point Is Not a Test (02:37) TC UCB
Revenue Streams
- Value Based Pricing – “We Were Gobsmacked!” (6:43) SL UCSF
- Insights on: Revenue Streams – Week 5 (17:04) UCSF
- The Importance of Experiments (03:57) TC UCB
- Validating Product Pricing (03:55) TC UCB
Key Partners
- Insights on: Key Partners – Week 6 (17:08) UCSF
- Listen Carefully for Customer Discovery (03:20) TC UCB
- The Timing of Partnerships (03:46) TC UCB
Key Activities & Key Resources
- Insights on: Science Advisory Boards (4:53) UCSF
- Insights on: Resources, Activities & Costs (12:26) UCSF
- No Laundry Lists. Just Facts! (02:43) TC UCB
Final Video
- Accelerated Medical Diagnostics: Final Video (2:41) SL UCSF
- Knox: Final Video (2:17) SL UCSF
- Magnamosis: Final Video (2:51) SL UCSF
- Making Friends: Final Video (2:19) SL UCSF
- Mira Medicine: Final Video (2:23) SL UCSF
- ResultCare: Final Video (3:08) SL UCSF
- Tidepool.org: Final Video (3:48) SL UCSF
- Vitruvian Therapeutics: Final Video (8:34) SL UCSF
Final Presentations
- Knox: Final Presentation (8:33) SL UCSF
- Magnamosis: Final Presentation (10:19) SL UCSF
- Making Friends: Final Presentation (8:38) SL UCSF
- Mira Medicine: Final Presentation (9:26) SL UCSF
- ResultCare: Final Presentation (11:34) SL UCSF
- Tidepool.org: Final Presentation (16:45) SL UCSF
- Vitruvian Therapeutics: Final Presentation (8:34) SL UCSF
“Getting Your Story Straight” – David Riemer on Storytelling
- Story Narrative and Product Narrative (10:24) UCSF
- Story & Storytelling (4:35) UCSF
- The Power of Story (10:24) UCSF
- Story Structure (10:24) UCSF
- The Main Character (9:27) UCSF
- The Main Conflict (6:13) UCSF
- Story Challenges & Solutions (2:03) UCSF
- Telling a Great Story (13:16) UCSF
Misc
Some of the material I have created or use in my classes does not lend itself to blogs. It’s more reference material. Thus, these pages. I’ll add more as time goes on. See my slide/video links
- UC Berkeley, Haas Business School Customer Development: Spring 2011 MBA 295F syllabus
- Stanford University Engr 245 – The Lean Launchpad
- Class slides
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