Steve Blank

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

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)

• 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

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
  • Using Mechanical Turk for Customer Discovery – Joseph Williams
  • Using Mechanical Turk to interview 100 customer in 4 hours – Nick Soman
• 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
• Switch Video – produce an animated video
• Grumo Media – product demo videos
• Loose Keys – product videos as stories
• BreadnBeyond – Professional Explainer Video
• MotifMotion – animated videos for business
• Piehole.tv – product demo videos
• Explainify – product explaining videos
• Demoduck – explainer videos for business
• 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
• Thinkmojo – animated product videos
• 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

• Screenflow– screen recording and editing
• Snagit – screen capture
• Camtasia – screen recording and video editing
• Jing – screenshots and screencasts
• 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)

• 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
  • Mixpanel Analytics Tutorials
• 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

• 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
  • Part 1: Accounting for User Growth
  • Part 2: Accounting for Revenue Growth
  • Part 3: Cohorts and (revenue) LTV
  • Part 4: Cohorts and (engagement) LTV
  • Part 5: Depth of Engagement & Quality of Revenue
• 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
• 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
• 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
• UberConference – 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
  • Apache Projects listing
• Stack Overflow – questions and answers for programmers
• StackExchange – expert answers to your questions
  • Programmers StackExchange
  • AskPatents StackExchange
  • AnswersOnStartups
• 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
  • Then read Brad Felds article and the comments
• Great list of rapid prototyping tools here – dan harrelson
• Web Starter Kit – Google
• Web Fundamentals – Google
• 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
• Criticue.com – web designers get free feedback about their designs
• 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
• 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
  • Skylark – configurationlanguage used in Basel
  • Skylark – implemented in Go
• 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
• 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
  • 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
    • Broccoli – build tool for applications that run in the browser
    • Gulp – streaming Build system
  • 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
• 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
  • Rust Guide
  • Rust for Rubyists
  • Rust language tutorial – MIT
  • Rust on github
• 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
  • Programming Guide
    • Watchkit apps
  • Designing for the Apple Watch
    • UI Elements
    • Icon and Image Sizes
• Homekit
  • Intro to Homekit
• ResearchKit
  • Programming Guide
  • Code on GitHub
• Metal – Apple GPU API for iOS
  • Metal Programming Guide
  • Metal Framework
• tvOS
  • tvOS developer library
  • tvOS SDK and beta

Android Development

• Building your first Android App
  • Developer Registration
• 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
    • Distribution Options
  • Launch Checklist
  • Google Play Store Crawler – crawler for Apps data from the Google Play Store

Microsoft Development

• Windows Developers
  • Windows App development
  • Windows Game development
  • Windows IoT development
  • Windows Holographic Academy
  • Microsoft Edge (browser) development
    • EdgeTools
• 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
• 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
  • supporting code for the videos
• 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
  • PyTorch Documentation
  • PyTorch on Github
• 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
• 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
• Flashlight – Facebook machine learning library
• 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
  • Cunn – examples to train classifiers over ImageNet
• Yahoo Webscope – machine learning datasets
  • Yahoo newsfeed dataset – 1.5TBytes
  • Yahoo image datasets
• Apache Mahout – Random Decision Forest classifier
• BidData Suite
  • Overview – John Canny, Huasha Zhao
  • BIDMach – CPU and GPU-accelerated Machine Learning Library to build and use machine learning models
    • BidMach Wiki
  • BIDMat – CPU / GPU-accelerated matrix library for data mining
    • BidMat Wiki
• 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
  • Visualizations of SNAP networks
• 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
• 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
  • Great wandora tutorial

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
• 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
  • OpenALPR Github

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
• 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

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

• 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

Space/NASA Open Source

• Open NASA – 42,966 Data Sets – 449Code Repositories, 50APIs
  • Worldview – browse NASA Imagery
  • Darts – dynamics library for the modeling of robotic platforms, space vehicles, molecular dynamics
  • RCATS – Root cause analysis tool
• Kubos – open source RTOS flight software for nano satellites, pico satellites and cubesats
• ASCL.net – Astrophysics Source Code Library

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 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

• Google Cloud Platform – Google’s cloud solution
  •  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
    • Stackdriver Overview
    • Error Reporting
    • Trace
    • Debugger
    • Deployment Manager
    • Cloud Console
    • Cloud Shell
    • Cloud Mobile App
    • Billing API
  • Developer Tools –  command-line interface tools
    • Cloud SDK
    • Deployment Manager
    • Cloud Source Repositories
    • Cloud Endpoints
    • Cloud Tools for Android Studio
    • Cloud Tools for IntelliJ
    • Google Plug In for EclipseCloud Test Lab

• 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
  • Rackspace Cloud Tools marketplace
• 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
  • Hue – import/export oozie workflows
  • Ambari – web app for monitoring and controlling hadoop
  • Lipstick – graphical depiction of Apache Pig workflow
• Production Host OS
  • Coreos – linux for massive server deployments – shared configuration and service discovery
  • Red Hat Project Atomic
  • Ubuntu Snappy
  • Rancher OS

Orchestration Configuration

• AWS CloudFormation
• Google Cloud Deployment Manager

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
  • Riak – NoSQL database implementing Amazon Dynamo
  • Dynomite – Netflix database cluster mgmt
• 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
• 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
• 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

• 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
  • Paymill – accept online payments on the web
  • 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

• bitcoin.org – Official Bitcoin website
  • Enter the block chain
  • 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
• 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
• bitpay.com – Bitcoin Payment processor
• Coinmarketcap – Crypto-Currency Market Capitalizations
• Coincenter – public policy issues on Bitcoin

• Billing/Invoicing
  • 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
• 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

• 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
  • Coworking Directory of spaces
• 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
• ZenPayroll – delightful employee payroll software
• 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
• 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
• Slack – team communication
• 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
  • Part 1 Ideation
  • Part 2 Design
  • Part 3 Engineering
  • Part 4 Validation
• 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
  • Ros 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
  • Raspberry Pi components
  • Arduino components
  • BeagleBones components
• 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
• Sony Spresense – ioT development, GPS, ARM Cortex uses Arduino IDE or NuttX SDK
• Other inexpensive ARM Boards
  • 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
  • 96Boards HiKey 960 – $240 4 ARM Cortex-A73 and 4 Cortex-A53 cores, 3GB RAM, 32GB flash, G71 GPU
  • Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
    • Raspberry Pi 3 review and benchmarks – Jeff Geerling
  • 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
    • Orange Pi R1 – $15 Quad-core 32-bit Cortex-A7
    • OrangePi setup and benchmarks – Jeff Geerling
  • CHIP – $9 computer 1ghz cpu 4GB storage, wifi
    •  CHIP review – Job Vranish
    • PocketCHIP – $49 CHIP+screen and battery
  • BeagleBone – $89 linux computer
    • BeagleBoneBlack – development platform
    • PocketBeagle – $25 ARM Cortex A-8
• Sparkfun –  general components
• Snapdragon – Qualcomm
  • Dragonboard410c -snapdragon development platform
• Spark – hackable wifi and cellular modules
  • Electron –  cellular development kit with a SIM card and data plan
  • Core – Wi-Fi development kit based on Texas Instrument’s CC3000
  • Photon – $19 Wi-Fi development kit for creating connected projects and products
• ARM
  • ARM evaluation boards
  • ARM community
• 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
  • How to make a Bill of Materials
  • Design for Manufacturing
  • Industrial design for Startups
  • Picking and maintaining a partner
• FindChips – findprice, inventory and analytics for all chips
• Octopart – search engine for electronic parts
  • What every hardware startup should know about parts
  • Component purchasing for manufacturing
• 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
  • 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

• 2016 3d Printer guide – 3dhubs
• 3D printer features/price Comparison
• 3D Printer Price Comparison –
• 3D Printer Comparison for 2015 – 3dForged
• Prusa i3 MK3 Kit – The Best 3D Printer for 2018
• daVinci 3D Printer – XYZ Corp $500 printer
• Dremel Idea Printer –
• makerbot – Replicator2 3d printer
  • Thingiverse – 3d designs for makerbot
• HyRel3D – affordable
• LulzBot – open source 3D printers
  • RepRap – Lulzbot open source 3d printer
  • Taz 4 – Open Source Hardware
• 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

• Spark– Autodesks open and free 3D printing platform
• NIH 3D Print Exchange – biomedical 3d printable files and resources
  • NIH biomedical 3D printable models
• 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
• 3DHubs – crowdsourced local 3D printing
• 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

• Blender – open source 3D Modeling
  • Renderman for Blender – Pixar Renderman

 

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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
  • Landsat 8 data
• 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
  • Swedish statistical 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

• Stanford Entrepreneurship Corner
• Techstars U Videos
• Cornell eClips

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

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
  • Employee Equity
  • Founder Dilution
  • Employee Equity Appreciation
  • Employee Equity Options
  • Employee Equity: Option “Strike Price”
  • Employee Equity: RSU’s (Restricted Stock Units)
  • Employee Equity: Vesting
  • Employee Equity: How Much?
• 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

• 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
  • Index
  • Accounting
  • The Income Statement – Profit & Loss
  • The Balance Sheet
  • Cash Flow Statement
  • Key Business Metrics
• 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

 

• Why SAAS Startups start with SMBs and end up in the enterprise– Tomasz Tunguz

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

 

 

 

 

 

China – Doing Business

• What’s the best way to do business in China? – Dan Harris
  • the legal basics
• 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
  • Minimum Capital requirements for a WFOE
  • WFOE Scope and here
• 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
  • Why China NDA agreements are not enough
  • How to make Chinese NDA agreements enforceable
• Filing Trademarks in China
  • How and Why to trademark in China
  • The changing China trademark laws
• 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
  • Github version
• 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

1. Lean LaunchPad Mentor Training UCSF

General Discussion

1. How Large Will You Scale? (03:03) TC UCB
2. What If You’re a Visionary? – Risks & Rewards (4:53) SL UCSF
3. Your Startup: Do You Want to Spend 3 to 4 Years Doing This? (5:14) TC UCSF
4. Don’t Let the MVP Limit Your Vision (03:40) TC UCB

Customer Discovery

1. “It Saved Us Several Years” (1:45) SL UCSF
2. Stop Telling Yourself What You Want to Believe (1.39) SL UCSF
3. Narrowing the Focus (1:21) SL UCSF
4. Why PI’s and Founders Need to Get Out of the Building (2:15) SL UCSF
5. “This Was the Best Outcome” (2:50) SL UCSF
6. Getting to the “Better Idea” Faster (3:59) SL UCSF
7. Insights on: Does Customer Development Work in Therapeutics? (6:11) UCSF
8. The Phases of Customer Discovery (0:37) CD

Before Leaving the Building

1. Pre-Planning Contacts (4:34) CD
2. Customer Interview Dry Runs (0:49) CD
3. Discovery is for Founders (1:30) CD
4. Pass/Fail Experiments (1:32) CD

Outside the Building

• Rules of Customer Interviews

1. Being Aggressive (1:29) CD
2. Conducting a Customer Interview (1:30) CD
3. Letting the Customer Interview Flow (1:37) CD
4. Sizing the Opportunity (2:50) CD
5. Finding Patterns (1:50) CD
6. Looking for Insights (0:58) CD

• Early Mistakes to Avoid

1. Death by PowerPoint (1:42) CD
2. Death by Demo 1 (2:18) CD
3. Death by Demo 2 (1:45) CD
4. Understanding the Problem (3:22) CD
5. Multi-Person Interview (2:03) CD
6. Assuming You Know (1:56) CD
7. B-to-B to C (2:15) CD
8. Existing vs. New Markets (5:29) CD
9. Asking the Right Question (2:37) CD
10. Public Interviews (2:11) CD

Understanding What the Customer Is Telling You

1. Engaging the Customer (3:37) CD
2. Customer Empathy (2:25) CD
3. The Distracted Customer (3:12) CD
4. Customers Lie (2:37)
5. The User, the Buyer & the Saboteur (2:24) CD

Back in the Building

1. Extracting Insight from Data (2:59) CD
2. Pay Attention to Outliers (2:16) CD
3. Getting the MVP Right (3:34) CD
4. The “Other 85%” (2:32) CD
5. Finding Early Evangelists (1:17) CD
6. Communicating Your Discoveries (2:26) CD

Value Proposition

1. Pivoting…or Groping for a Business Model? (02:37) TC UCB
2. Seduced by Insufficient Data (02:34) TC UCB

Customer Relationships

1. Insights on: Customer Relationships – Week 4 (12:00) UCSF
2. Use Customers to Find More Customers (02:22) TC UCB
3. Customer Conversion (03:22) TC UCB

Customer Segments

1. Insights on: Customer Segments – Week 2 (12:43) UCSF
2. Estimating Market Size (01:49) SL UCB
3. Customer Workflow (02:10) SL UCB
4. Customer Discovery / Customer Archetype (04:04) SL UCB
5. Customer Archetypes; Hypotheses & Experiments (03:21) SL UCB
6. Customer Segments & Customer Archetypes (03:47) SL UCB
7. The Fog of Entrepreneurship (03:01) TC UCB
8. At the Start, All Your Stakeholders Are Customers (02:32) TC UCB
9. Square Pegs & Round Holes – Mira Medicine (4:33) TC UCSF

Channels

1. Insights on: Channels – Week 3 (14:52) UCSF
2. Framing the Experiment (02:27) TC UCB
3. Distribution Channels: One Data Point Is Not a Test (02:37) TC UCB

Revenue Streams

1. Value Based Pricing – “We Were Gobsmacked!” (6:43) SL UCSF
2. Insights on: Revenue Streams – Week 5 (17:04) UCSF
3. The Importance of Experiments (03:57) TC UCB
4. Validating Product Pricing (03:55) TC UCB

Key Partners

1. Insights on: Key Partners – Week 6 (17:08) UCSF
2. Listen Carefully for Customer Discovery (03:20) TC UCB
3. The Timing of Partnerships (03:46) TC UCB

Key Activities & Key Resources

1. Insights on: Science Advisory Boards (4:53) UCSF
2. Insights on: Resources, Activities & Costs (12:26) UCSF
3. No Laundry Lists. Just Facts! (02:43) TC UCB

Final Video

1. Accelerated Medical Diagnostics: Final Video (2:41) SL UCSF
2. Knox: Final Video (2:17) SL UCSF
3. Magnamosis: Final Video (2:51) SL UCSF
4. Making Friends: Final Video (2:19) SL UCSF
5. Mira Medicine: Final Video (2:23) SL UCSF
6. ResultCare: Final Video (3:08) SL UCSF
7. Tidepool.org: Final Video (3:48) SL UCSF
8. Vitruvian Therapeutics: Final Video (8:34) SL UCSF

Final Presentations

1. Knox: Final Presentation (8:33) SL UCSF
2. Magnamosis: Final Presentation (10:19) SL UCSF
3. Making Friends: Final Presentation (8:38) SL UCSF
4. Mira Medicine: Final Presentation (9:26) SL UCSF
5. ResultCare: Final Presentation (11:34) SL UCSF
6. Tidepool.org: Final Presentation (16:45) SL UCSF
7. Vitruvian Therapeutics: Final Presentation (8:34) SL UCSF

“Getting Your Story Straight” – David Riemer on Storytelling

1. Story Narrative and Product Narrative (10:24) UCSF
2. Story & Storytelling (4:35) UCSF
3. The Power of Story (10:24) UCSF
4. Story Structure (10:24) UCSF
5. The Main Character (9:27) UCSF
6. The Main Conflict (6:13) UCSF
7. Story Challenges & Solutions (2:03) UCSF
8. 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

Tenacity If you’ve gotten this far, here is a visual representation of tenacity and persistenc