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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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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 – Googledevelopers
  • QuickMVP – test your ideas
  • FoundersSuite – Startup Mgmt Software
  • Startup Failure Postmortems – CBinsights
  • The U.S. Digital Service Playbook – sheer and practical genius
    • Whitehouse/playbook – Github
    • The TechFAR Handbook – how to hack Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR)
    • GSA 18F – Digital Services Delivery
      • Cloud.gov – U.S. government cloud innovation platform
      • CSS coding style guide – 18F
      • API.data.gov – API key, analytics, and proxy solution for government web services
  • 600 Startup Pitchdecks – starthouse

Lists of Tools from Others

  • The Book of Secret Knowledge – Github
  • Awesome – Github
  • List of Applications – ArchLinux
  • Tools of the trade – startup tools from Hacker News
  • Libraries.io – open source libraries, modules and frameworks
  • HBS Startup Tribe Tools List – from Tom Eisenmann at HBS
  • NYU Startup Resources Library
  • StartupStash – Bram Kanstein
  • Harvard Innovation Lab
  • PBworks startup tools List
  • Startup Weekend tools list
  • Y Combinator Startup Library
  • Triple Crown Leadership Resources
  • Startup Resources
  • Lean Startup Tools and Services
  • Toolboard -web and startup tools
  • Startup Foundry tools list
  • Small Business tools list
  • Market research list
  • TopAlternatives – best tools for your website
  • Software Advice
  • 2start– 1000+ free
  • Tools of the Trade 2013
  • GetApp – business software reviews
  • AlternativeTo – alternatives to expensive software
  • AppMarketing Tools for developers
  • Public Data Sources

Groups

  • Startup Weekend – Launch a Startup in 54 hours
  • The Lean Startup Machine – Launch a Startup in 48 hours
  • Startup Monthly – Launch a Startup in a month
  • Startup Grind – community looking to be educated, and network with the smartest startup minds
  • Lean Startup Circle – Google Group for startup advice
  • Women 2.0 – Launch a startup for women
  • Meetup – Meet people you're interested in
  • Top Startup Conferences (North America)

Find a Co-Founder

  • FounderDating – premiere site for founders/co-founders
  • CoFoundersLab – find a co-founder in any city
  • YouNoodle – founder matching
  • CodeArmy – CTO's for Non-Tech Founders
  • FoundersNation – founders in Israel, London & NY
  • Stanford Business School Interns – hire a Stanford  Bus School intern cheap
  • AngelList – Angel List jobs board
  • Startup Weekend – Launch a Startup and meet a co-founder
  • Founder Strengths – Gallup Strengths Center
  • Meetup – go to a Meetup!
  • How to hire developers – mike greenfield

Developer Bootcamps

  • Programing Bootcamp Finder
  • DevPost – Follow hackathons around the work

Job Interviewing Tools

  • InterviewCake – resource for data structures and algorithms
  • HiredInTech's System Design Section –  guide for system design interview questions
  • Coderust –solutions in almost any programming language, with interactive diagrams
  • Reddit's How to Prepare for Tech Interviews – a benchmark for interview prep
  • Front End Interview Questions – exhaustive list of front-end questions
  • Leetcode – resource for algorithm and data structure questions

Tools from Steve: Lean Startup/Business Model Canvas/Customer Development Tools

  • Founders Workbook – A Checklist for the Startup Owners Manual
  • Over 500 presentations and videos (mine and my students class finals) on Slideshare
  • Harvard Business Review article on Lean here
  • My free online Lean LaunchPad class on Udacity is here.
    • All the Lectures and their subtitles can be download forfree here. Creative Commons license applies.
  • I also share all my syllabi, student presentations and my class lectures slides as well.
  • Educators Training Guide is here
  • Course for Educators is here
  • Teachable moments videos for the Lean Launchpad class here
  • How do Customer Discovery videos here
  • How to do Customer Discovery workbook here
  • Sample Lean LaunchPad Lecture slides and suggested syllabus here
  • Latest presentations posted click here
  • Latest student videos posted here
  • National Science Foundation presentations here
  • Stanford presentations, lectures and syllabus here
  • Berkeley presentations, lectures and syllabus here
  • Columbia 5-day presentations, lectures and syllabus here
  • Caltech 5-day presentations, lectures and syllabus here
  • Business Model Competition slides here
  • Some general customer development slides click here
  • National Science Foundation I-Corps presentations, lectures and syllabus click here
  • National Science Foundation/NCIIA I-Corps Faculty toolkit is here
  • LaunchPad Central – the standard for Bus Model Canvas/Customer Development progress for companies/incubators/accelerators
  • 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

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Create Websites Automagically

  • How to build a website – Ray Tan
  • Web Starter Kit – Google
  • Web Fundamentals – Google
  • Marvel – design, wireframe, collaborate
  • InVision – design, wireframe, collaborate
  • Edicy – Create a website
  • Webs – Create a free website
  • Strikingly – build mobile-optimized websites
  • Squarespace – build an exceptional website
  • Wix – free website builder
  • Pixpa – create portfolio website, online store, blog and client proofing
  • Moonfruit – free website/mobile builder
  • Pagelines – build a website with WordPress
  • Zozolo – start a website within Facebook
  • Plinqs -simple web page creation
  • GoogleSites – simple web host provider
    • Google tag manager – create and update tags for your website and mobile apps
  • Weebly – get a website up quickly with no tools
  • Yola – get a website up quickly with no tools
  • Render – simple cloud provider
  • Cloudinary– image and video cloud serving service
  • Algolia – custom search

Build Static-site blogs

  • StaticGen – list of static-site generators
  • Hugo – framework for building static-sites
  • Forestry – static-site content management system integrates into Cloudinary
  • Jekyll – build static sites
  • VuePres – static-site generator
  • HeXo – static-site generator
  • GitBook – static-site generator for documentation
  • MiddleMan – static-site generator for documentation
  • Pelican – static-site generator

Blogging Platforms

  • WordPress– king of blogging platforms…doubles as startup website
    • WPEngine – wordpress hosting
  • Tumblr – another blogging platform
  • Disqus – Comments Platform
  • Livefrye – alternate to Disqus

Website Bounce Reduction

  • BounceExchange –drive conversions and leads on a website
  • Optimonk –monetize abandoning website traffic
  • EarnCoupon – give customers discounts for liking your site

"How Big is the Market?" Tools

  • Google Trends– what are the search trends for key items
  • Google Insights – breaks down the search data by location
  • Facebook ads – check out the total available market

"How Do I Contact Customers?" Tools

  • LinkedIn Alumni – awesome way to contact school alumni
  • Data.Com – find business connections
  • Art of Emails – prewritten sales templates
  • RelateIQ – relationship intelligence
  • Toutapp – sales email tracking, templates and analytics
  • Rapportive – find Linkedin profies inside of Gmail
  • Sende.rs –caller ID for email
  • Connect6 – Chrome extension for people discovery
  • Hoovers – phone and email contacts for sale
  • Harrisinfo – sales leads for sale
  • InfoUSA – email lists for sale
  • ThomasNet – find any company

Surveys/Forms/Focus Groups

  • Google Consumer Surveys – online market research
  • Zoomerang – Free basic version, surveys polls, 150+ templates
  • Qualtrics – cloud-based survey, free account a complete game changer – incredibly well built and powerful
    • Qualtrics Wiki – Joseph Williams
  • Amazon Mechanical Turk – you can set up a question and get answers
    • 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
  • BreadnBeyond – Professional Explainer Video
  • MotifMotion – animated videos for business
  • Explainify – product explaining videos
  • Demoduck –explainer videos for business
  • Levitate– video production for businesses
  • VideoBrewery – curated marketplace of freelancers and studios to craft custom video content
  • Sandwich Video – tech demo vidoes
  • FireStarter – animated product videos
  • LessFilms – explainer videos that increase conversions
  • SimpleStoryVideos – tell the right story to your customers
  • Kasara – animated and live action explainer videos
  • PandaMotion – animated and live action explainer videos
  • NobleDigital– Video Ad Campaigns to drive traffic to your site
  • 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

  • Camtasia – screen recording and video editing
  • Jing– screenshots and screencasts
  • 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

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On-Line Advertising Platforms (SEO)

  • Google Ads
  • Google Keywords Tool
    • Google Adwords Keyword Planner – search for new keywords or ad group
    • Google Market Finder – find the right adwords globally
    • Google Trends – what are people searching for?
    • Google Corrolate – find searches that correlate with real world data
    • Ubersuggest – keyword suggestion tool/google suggest scraper
    • Google Adwords Editor – manage large AdWords accounts
    • Think with Google – awesome channel tutorial to online purchases by market
  • LinkedIn Ads
  • Facebook Ads
    • Facebook PowerEditor – bulk ad creation and mgmt tool – works only in Chrome
    • DriftRock – facebook ad tools
    • Qwaya – Facebook ad tools
    • AdExpresso – Optimize Facebook ads
  • Bing & Yahoo Ads
  • Biddable – Self serve advertising bidding platform

Competitive Online Adword/PPC Analysis

  • SEMRush – SEO and campaign management tool
  • SimilarWeb – discover traffic for any web site or mobile app
  • Thalamus -comprehensive research database of advertising vendors
  • Alexa – competitive website info
  • KeywordEye – generate keywords
  • Spyfu – download competitors keywords and ads
  • BuzzStream – link building and digital PR
  • Market Samurai – SEO Keyword Analysis Tool
  • WordStream – competitive adword analysis
  • K-Meta – find competitive adwords keywords
  • Moz – keywords, links and on-page metrics

Social Media Advertising

  • Captiv8 – social media mgmt platform – connect brands to advertisers
  • Atlas – Facebook's cross platform solution
  • Adaptly – twitter and facebook advertising platform
  • MarinSoftware – online advertising platform
  • Adroll – retargeting and display advertising
  • Kenshoo – predictive marketing
  • Adstage – manage google, bing, facebook, twitter & linked in Ads
  • Followerwonk – Twitter analytics, online segmentation

Search Engine Optimization and Tools

  • How Does Google Adwords Work?
  • Great SEO Programmers Tutorial
  • Great tutorial on the conversion funnel – andrew chen
  • Ad Contrarian – Grumpy old ad guy with great insights
  • SEOBook Tools – Free SEO tools
  • SEO Tools: The Complete List
  • SEO Digger  –Find the top ten keywords ranking to your websites
  • Clickable – Pay per click management
  • WooRank – SEO optimization tool
  • Moz – SEO Software Tools and Resources
  • Majestic – SEO Backlink checker and site explorer
  • Ahrefs – SEO tool, backlinks and keyword analysis
  • MoonSearch – SEO tool, backlinks and keyword analysis
  • SearchEngineLand – News about Search Marketing

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SEO and Analytics Tutorials

  • Startup Metrics for Pirates – read this before you spend time elsewhere
  • 16 Startup Metrics – Andreesen Horowitz
    • 16 more startup Metrics – – Andreesen Horowitz
  • Cohort and Churn analysis spreadsheet & tutorial – Christoph Janz
  • Beginners Guide to Conversion Rate Optimization – Sean Ellis
  • SaaS Metrics Tutorial – worth reading as well
  • The Noob Guide to Online Marketing – great graphic and tutorial
  • Analytics review – mixpanel vs kissmetric vs google analytics review
  • Analytics Academy – lessons to teach you analytics
  • Analytics blog – good analytics tutorials
  • Andrew Chen's Essays – great web customer acquisition tutorials

Online Ad Fraud Tools

  • Forensiq – fight online ad fraud
  • SimilarWeb – website traffic and mobile app analytics
  • WhiteOps – Digital ad fraud detection

Web/Social Customer Analytics Tools

  • Google Analytics – web analytics and optimizer from the borg
    • DoubleClick Floodlight – now owned by Googel
  • Kissmetrics – actionable analytics
  • MetricStory – Google analytics automatically delivered
  • QuantcastMeasuremeasure 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
  • FacebookDomainInsightsprovides 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

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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

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  • 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

SocialAcquisition

  • Woobox – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social sweepstakes and coupons

Gamification

  • Bunchball – gamification for user engagement and loyalty
  • Hoopla – motivate employees, increase sales productivity
  • Badgeville – gamification platform
  • Gigya – social plugins, gamification
  • Spinify -leaderboards using your own data to motivate teams

Loyalty Programs

  • RewardStream – loyalty, customer referral
  • 500Friends –customer loyalty program for ecommerce
  • NextBee – customer referral and loyalty programs
  • BigDoor – gamified loyalty and reward programs
  • UrbanAirship – push marketing for mobile

Collaboration

  • TeamViewer– remote support, remote access, online collaboration
  • Pastebin – store and share text snippets online
  • Collect – collect and manage client documents
  • Hipchat – private group chat & IM for business and teams
  • Yammer – private social network for companies
  • Google Apps Email, Chat, Docs
  • LibreOffice – free wordprocessor, spreadsheet, drawing, presentation, pdf maker and database office suite
  • Skype– free voice and video communication tool
  • Fuzebox – web/mobile online conferencing
  • Dialpad Meetings – online conference with visual icons
  • ProfiConf – HD video conference in a browser
  • Typewithme – document collaboration tool
  • Unison – group communication to send group emails as well as SMS messages
  • Google Hangouts – Googles uber Skype
  • Evernote – remember everything
  • Campfire – team collaboration
  • RealTimeBoard – online whiteboard & collaboration tool
  • Wikispaces – wikis for everyone
  • Slideshare – share Powerpoints and docs with customers
  • Join.me – free screen sharing
  • Ning – Create your own social network
  • Doodle – online group scheduling
  • Freeconferencecall.com Free conference calls – awesome!
  • Speek – easy to setup conference calls, file sharing
  • Syncpad – real time mobile collaborative whiteboard
  • Piktochart – make infographics
  • Stormboard– online brainstorming and collaboration
  • Meldium– access all your apps with one click

Personal Cloud Storage

  • Dropbox free store, sync, and, share files online.
  • Tresorit – secure dropbox alternative
  • Google Drive – cloud storage and file backup
  • iCloud – Apple store everything in the cloud
  • OneDrive – Microsoft store everything in the cloud
  • Box – online file sharing

On-line Q&A / Development Communities

  • Apache Software Foundation – open-source software projects
    • 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
  • Figma  – team design of product mockups
  • POP – Prototyping on paper for mobile phones – awesome
  • Keynotopia – use PowerPoint/Keynote to create web/mobile apps – Cool!
  • Lean Design– design using HTML5-editor and automatically convert it to XHTML/CSS
  • Saas – CSS Extension Language
  • Balsamiq– rapid wireframing tool. software mockups in minutes
    • Napkee – export Balsamiq Mockups to HTML/CSS/JS and Adobe Flex 3 at a click of a button
  • Justinmind – mac/pc mobile and web highly interactive prototypes
    • JustinMind UserNote – get user feedback/test usability
  • Figma – collaborative interface design tool
  • Heflo– business process modeling
  • FluidU/I – mobile prototypes for IOS
  • Briefs – mac prototyping tool for iOS
  • Flinto–  web prototyping tool for iOS and Android from your screen designs
  • Invision – web and mobile iOS and android prototyping & collaboration tools for design
  • Proto.io– web prototyping tool for iOS and Android
  • Solidify – web prototyping clickable mobile prototypes
  • Axure – mac/pc wireframe software & mockup tool
  • Irise – wireframes and prototypes. Inline requirements management. Real-time collaboration
  • Protoshare – web prototyping tools for web & mobile wireframing
  • Pidoco – online wire framing
  • AppCooker – iOS mockup, wireframe or prototype
  • Draw.io – draw diagrams online
  • Moqups – HTML5 App used to create wireframes, mockups or UI concepts
  • MxGraph – client side JavaScript diagramming library
  • Sketch – professional digital design for the mac
  • Pencil– Firefox add-on to do GUI prototyping and simple sketching
  • Lumzy – quick mockup creation and prototyping
  • CSS Hat – Turn Photoshop layers into CSS3
  • Mockflow – online/offline, extensible wireframing tool w/design library
  • OmniGraffle – it's been around before the web even existed
  • Wirify – turn any webpage into a wireframe
  • LucidChart Cloud-based drawing tool
  • LucidPress – Cloud-based create and print digital documents
  • Cacoo – free online drawing tool
  • HotGloo – Online Wireframing Tool
  • Mocksup – Share your web site mockups
  • Mockingbird – Mock it up and share web site wireframes
  • Creately – online diagraming and collaboration
  • Gliffy – Online Diagraming
  • Keynotopia – wireframing + high fidelity (pixel perfect) prototyping tool
  • Free Wireframe templates for iPhone, iPad and Web
  • Wireframing Tutorial

Markdown – text to HTML Text Style editor

  • Markdown –John Gruber's original markdown syntax
  • Mastering Markdown – github
  • CommonMark – strongly specified, highly compatible implementation of Markdown
  • BabelMark2 – tool for comparing the output of various implementations of John Gruber's markdown syntax
  • MDtest – Michael Fortin's test suite for Markdown implementations
  • Mou – markdown editor for Mac
  • Markdown editors for Windows
  • Marked – provides a preview of your Markdown as you work in a text editor
  • Dillinger – free online markdown editor that syncs with Dropbox, Google Drive and Github.

Web Drawing Libraries

  • Paperjs – vector graphics scripting framework runs on HTML5 Canvas
  • Processingjs – vector graphics scripting framework runs on HTML5 Canvas
  • Verb -Javascript CAD Library for manipulating NURB surfaces on the web
  • CGAL – Computational Geometry Algorithms Library – gold standard for geometric libraries

Web Screen Scraping Tools

  • Import.io – screen scraper and crawler – free

Word Cloud Generators

  • Taxedo – word cloud with styles
  • WordMosaic – create word cloud inside your own symbol/picture
  • Yippy – create world cloud for your blog-generates html and matches blog style
  • Worldle – word cloud generator
  • Worditout – word cloud generator
  • VocabGrabber – word cloud plus visual thesaurus – really useful

Website Usability Testing /Heatmaps/Mouse Tracking

  • Usertesting – $39 live users testing your site – cheap
  • ProdThink – test a feature before you code it
  • YouEye – usability testing with webcam eye tracking
  • Validately – Test a feature before you write code
  • LuckyOrange – affordable usability testing, heat maps, polls, visitor map
  • Experimently – heat maps, A/B testing experiments
  • Nelio A/B Testing – WordPress conversion optimization. Test headlines, posts, pages, widgets, themes, heatmaps
  • Crowdsourced Testing – just like it sounds
  • SessionCam – session replay, heat maps, conversion funnels
  • FiveSecondTest – fine-tune landing pages
  • TryMyUI– watch videos of users using your site
  • FeedbackArmy – $20 website usability testing
  • WhatUsersDo – UK live usability testing
  • Clicktale – watch live clicks and browsing, optimize usability
  • Usabilla – Micro usability tests
  • OptimalWorkshop – tool suite for remote user research
  • Clickheat – heat map of a website (where do users click)
  • Mouseflow – attention heatmaps, mouse tracking and video playback
  • Clixpy – tracks users clicks and browsing
  • Openhallway – lets you remotely record user test scenarios
  • InspectLet – Usability testing/Heat Maps and screen capture
  • UsabilityTools – discover user needs, increase conversion rates
  • ReviewbyOthers – get reviews of your website, blog, etc.
  • LookTracker – eye tracking maps
  • Omniconvert –A/B tests, personalizations and advanced segmentation

Emotion Analytics

  • Affectiva – Test content for emotional engagement by facial analysis
  • Emotient – facial expression recognition software
  • Realeyes – measure peoples emotions via a webcam
  • Sension – use webcams as a visual interface for interacting with content

Mobile Usability Testing/Heatmaps/Build Tools

  • Amazon Mobile SDK– build mobile apps, mobile-optimized connectors to AWS data streaming, storage and database services
  • HeatData – heatmaps for Mobile website
  • Heatma.ps – Heatmaps for IOS apps
  • Clutch.io – A/B testing for Mobile Apps
  • Taplytics – A/B testing on IOS without app store updates
  • Apptimize – mobile A/B testing for iOS and Android
  • TestFlight – IOS beta testing on the fly
  • Elusivestars – mobile app testing for developers
  • Testin – cross platform automated app testing solutions
  • Pusher – hosted API for realtime mobile/web apps
  • PerfectoMobile – mobile app testing
  • MobiReady – testing tool evaluates website mobile-readiness
  • Compuware – test your website for "mobile ready"
  • Rigor – test/monitor performance of mobile apps/websites
  • W3C Mobile OK – test your website for mobile
  • Google Page Speed – test your mobile speed
  • AppMockUpTools – iPhone App Mockups
  • Bugclipper – plug n play bug reporting library  capture screen shots, highlight issues & record screen activity
  • Appery – Cloud-based HTML5, jQuery Mobile & Hybrid Mobile App Builder for Android, iOS and Windows Phone

Website A/B and Landing Page Testing

  • A/B Testing Tutorial – read first
  • Landing Page Tutorial
  • Fivesecondtest – Landing page optimization
  • Subintent – A/B testing + page optimization for best conversion rates
  • VisualWebSiteOptimizer– A/B testing (split tests)
  • Optimizely – A/B testing (split tests) made easy
  • Evan'sAwesomeA/B Tools – evan miller
  • How not to run A/B testing -evan miller
  • Silverback – usability testing for designers and developers
  • FeedbackArmy – web usability testing
  • 37Signals Advice on A/B testing
  • UsersThink – get feedback on your landing page

Website/Browser Testing

  • Sauce Labs  –cross-browser testing in the cloud
  • Browerstack – test websites across all browser w/debugging tools
  • CrossBrowserTesting – pick an OS, pick a browser, pick a website
  • RainforestQA – QA as a service
  • Testling– cross browser testing
  • Browershots – free  browser testing makes screenshots in different os's and browsers
  • 99Tests – Crowdsourced software testing
  • BetaList – get beta testers online

Website Performance Testing

  • NewRelic – manage and tune website performance for Rails
  • DareBoost – Test, Analyze and Optimize your website
  • WebPageTest – website speed test from multiple locations around the world
  • Google Pagespeed – performance recommendations
  • PingDom – uptime and user monitoring
  • Super Monitoring – uptime and basic website functions monitoring
  • SpeedCurve – front-end performance benchmarking
  • Monitive – site uptime monitoring
  • Monitor – free website monitoring
  • Webmon – website monitoring and escalation

Website Designers

  • 99 Designs – marketplace for crowdsourced graphic design
  • IconFinder – great way to find free graphic icons on the web
  • FindIcons – 400,000+ icons on the web
  • xScope – measure, align and inspect on-screen graphics and layouts
  • Scoutzle – curated community for the best mobile designers

Website Design Tools

  • Builtwith – tells you which technologies a website uses
  • Twitter Bootstrap – Twitter toolkit for development of slick, intuitive webapps and sites
    • Bootsnip– – free HTML snippets for Bootstrap
    • WrapBootstrap – Themes for Bootstrap
    • Bootswatch – More themes for Bootstrap
    • Buttons for Bootstrap
    • StartBootstrap – free HTML templates for Bootstrap
    • iBootstrap – gallery of free code snippets and resources
    • BootstrapZero – bootstrap themes
  • Google Web Fonts – open API of 613 web fonts
    • Google Font Pairs – how to mix fonts and finding ideal pairings
  • Subtle Patterns – free tileable textured patterns
  • Lensicle – editable royalty free stock photos
  • iStock Photos – Royalty Free stock photos and images
  • Canstockphoto – Royalty Free stock photos and images
    • Fotosearch – royalty-free stock photography, clip-art, and illustrations
  • Fotolia – images, vectors and videos- pay as you go or subscription
  • 123RF – 19 million stock photos
  • GoGraph – flexible royalty free stock photography, vectors, illustrations, graphics, and stock footage
  • ColorSchemeDesigner – find complementary colors
  • Image Color Picker
  • ColourLovers – share colors, palettes, and patterns
  • Meteor– open source platform for building web apps
  • ThemeForest – site templates cheap
  • Scraster– Record screen and webcam. Simple editing. Perfect for screencasts or user studies
  • Microsoft WebMatrix – Web server, database, and ASP.NET and PHP
  • AppMakr – Mobile Ap Creator create quick mobile apps
  • EditMe  –create collaborative websites
  • Dropr – share your portfolio online
  • GooglePageSpeed – optimize your web pages
  • Launchbit – online web site class for novices
  • Zencoder – online video converting/encoding/transcoding service
  • Google: HTML, CSS and Javascript from the Ground Up
  • Appointlet – add a scheduler to your web site
  • Krita – Photoshop Alternative
  • Pixelmator – Photoshop Alternative for Mac and iPad

Phone/SMS Cloud Apps

  • Twilio – add mobile and sms to your app
  • Tropo – Cloud API for adding voice and sms to your app
  • Callfire – add voice and sms to your app
  • Voxeo – voice recognition and IVR to your app
  • Jajah -telephony api
  • PlumVoice– IVR Systems

Photo/Video Analysis Tools

  • Introduction to digital video – great tutorial
  • Tracker – way cool video analysis tool
  • EXIF Viewer – view image metadata
  • ExifTool – view image metadata
  • FotoForensics – view image metadata plus Error Level Analysis

Voice Analysis Tools

  • BeyondVerbal – Emotions analytics
  • Nemesysco – voice analysis
  • OperaVox – voice analysis
  • Lyrebird – create a digital copy of any voice

Learning to Code

  • Programming Languages and Tools compared – Hyperpolyglot
  • Learn a programming language in minutes – adam bard
  • Apple iOS (Apple's operating system for their phones and tablets) to build games or apps in the App Store:Swift, Objective C
  • Web games or apps: Django
  • Websites: python, ruby, java. You can think of these as foundational languages, especially Java
    • HTML/CSS: this is how a website sets up its visual look and feel, color, information organization, etc.
    • SQL: how data in databases gets constructed and accessed
  • How to Choose a Programming Language – Treehouse
  • Codeacademy – learn to code online for free
  • An Hour of Code – code.org
  • Computer Science 101 – Stanford self-paced class

Reverse-Engineering Tools

  • Ghidra – NSA open-source reverse engineering tool
  • IDA Pro / HexRays– disassembler with debugger and plugin programming environment
  • JEB – disassembly, decompilation, debugging, and analysis of code and document files
  • BinaryNinja– reverse engineering platform
  • Hopper – Disassembler for MacOs and Linux
  • Radare– Disassembler
  • Binja– Binary Ninja plugin to decompile binaries using RetDec API
  • Retdec – retargetable machine-code decompiler based on LLVM

Application Frameworks

  • Bento – everything you need to know about web development
  • BlackDuck – open source security and license mgmt
  • Really Helpful Guide to technology choices – Danny Boice
  • Web Application Frameworks – start here
  • Comparison of Web Application Frameworks – continue here
  • Visual Basic, PHP, Rails, Node.js next? – Andrew Chen
  • Libraries.io– open source libraries, modules and frameworks
  • Bazel – Build and test software of any size
    • 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 andPHP Manual  andFreaks
  • 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 – teachkids how to learn Ruby
      • RubyWizardry – another teachkids 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

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Machine Learning Tutorials

  • Amazon Machine Learning University
  • What I Learned From 200 Machine Learning Tools – Chip Huyen
  • Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2018 – fast.ai
    • Introducing Pytorch – fast.ai
  • 10 Free Machine Learning books – KDnuggets
  • Top 10 Machine Learning algorithms for beginners – KDnuggets
  • 30 Machines Learning Cheat Sheets – KDnuggets
  • Machine Learning is Fun! – medium.com/@ageitgey
  • Machine Learning Crash Course: Part I, Part II, Part III – Machine Learning at Berkeley
  • Intro to Machine Learning Theory and Applications: A Visual Tutorial with Examples – toptal.com-
  • A Gentle Guide to Machine Learning – monkeylearn.com
  • Which machine learning algorithm should I use? – sas.com
  • Artificial Intelligence Primer – David Kelnar
  • Machine Learning Primer – Andreessen Horowitz
  • Neural Network Zoo – Great taxonomy
  • https://github.com/rushter/data-science-blogs – github
  • Best Hardware for Machine Learning/Deep Learning – Tim Dettmers
  • Top 10 data mining algorithms explained – Raymond Li
  • Machine Learning for developers – tutorial – Mike de Waard
  • Comparison of Theano Caffe, Neon and Torch –Bahrampour, Ramakrishnan, Schott, & Shah
  • Stanford Deep Learning Tutorial
  • Machine Learning – Andrew Ng/Coursera
  • Neural Nets Demystified – great videos from lumiverse
  • Yet another Neural Nets Demystified – Welch Labs
    • 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
  • OpenAI
    • OpenAI API – an API for accessing new AI models developed by OpenAI
    • Microscope – collection of visualizations of layer and neuron of important vision models
    • Gym -toolkit for developing and comparing reinforcement learning algorithms
    • Baseline – implementations of reinforcement learning algorithms
    • GPT-3 – autoregressive language model with 175 billion parameters
      • OpenAI Beta
  • 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 capabilitiesdeprecated 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
  • Acme – DeepMind framework for distributed reinforcement learning
  • Apache MxNet – library for deep learning
  • Theano –  Python numerical computation library to evaluate math expressions involving multi-dimensional arrays
    • Pylearn2 – machine learning library built on Theano
    • Keras – machine learning library built on Theano
    • Theano Deep Learning Tutorial
  • Caffe: deep learning framework for convolutional neural network algorithms from UC Berkeley
    • DIY Deep Learning for Vision with Caffe – presentation
    • Caffe documentation – tutorial
    • Caffe2 – framework for machine learning products
    • IntelCaffe – fork for Intel Xeon processors
  • Salesforce Einstein Vision – deep learning to automatically recognize images w/API to build AI-enabled apps.
  • IBM / Apache SystemML – machine learning language written in Java;algorithm customizability, execution modes in, Standalone, Hadoop Batch, and Spark Batch, automatic optimization
  • Baidu/Paddle –Parallel Distributed Deep Learning toolkit
  • LICO – Lenovo Intelligent Computing Orchestration
  • ClusterOne – run deep learning experiments at scale
  • DeepBench – deep learning benchmark from Baidu
  • OpenAI Gym – toolkit for developing and comparing reinforcement learning algorithms
  • XGboost – scalable and portable gradient boosting
  • Torch – scientific computing framework with wide support for machine learning algorithms – from Facebook
    • 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 socialproblems
  • 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

machine intelligence

machine learning skills

Data Science/Big Data Analytics / Log Management

  • Anaconda – enterprise data science platform – 200 data science Python libraries
  • rStudio – professional software for R
  • Logit.io – Hosted ELK as a Service
  • OpenRefine – data cleaning and exploring for large data sets
  • Apache Airflow – author workflows as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) of tasks
  • H20 – implementations of the most popular statistical and machine learning algorithms
  • Splunk  – log mgmt searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data
  • Sumo Logic  – log analytics platform
  • Loggly  – mine log data in real time
  • ElasticLogstash  – open-source log management
  • RapidMiner – analytics platform, data mining, machine learning
  • DataRPM – machine analytics for big data
  • Metamind – deep learning for the enterprise
  • Wandora – knowledge management application
    • Great wandora tutorial

Autonomous Vehicles

  • Traffic Agent Motion Data Set – Lyft Prediction dataset

Speech Recognition

  • Wav2letter++ – Facebook speech recognition engine
  • Deepspeech – Mozilla speech recognition engine

Computer Vision/Image Recognition/Facial recognition/biometrics

  • 2019 Guide to Human Pose Estimation with Deep Learning
  • EfficientNet – computer vision model generated using neural architecture search
  • Deepfake Detection – Facebook Challenge
  • Nanonets – Machine learning API
  • PCL – Point Cloud open source 2D/3D image and point cloud processing Library
  • OpenCV –open source computer visionlibrary
  • 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

AI market

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 BERTthe game changer for NLP!
    • BERT – Github – Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers
    • Bert explanation – Rani Horev
    • Microsoft Multi-Task Deep Neural Network (MT-DNN)
    • FastBert — A simple Deep Learning library for BERT Models
    • SqueezeBERT – a faster BERT
    • MobileBERT – thin version of BERT
  • Open AI GPT-3 – autoregressive language model with 175 billion parameters
  • WaveNet -generative model for raw audio
  • Google T5 -Text-To-Text Transfer Transformer
  • etcML – open source text analysis tool via machine learning algorithms
  • StanfordNLP – great list of language processing tools
    • coreNLP – open source natural language processing analysis tool
    • StanfordParser – natural language parser grammatical structure of sentences
  • GATE – general architecture for text engineering
  • CNN for Text classification – using Tensorflow
  • Movie Review Data – for sentiment-analysis experiments
  • NLTK – Natural Language Toolkit build Python programs- interface to over 50 corpora and lexical resources
  • Penn Treebank Project – annotates naturally-occuring text for linguistic structure
    • NY Times Annotated Corpus – 1.8 million articles January 1, 1987 and June 19, 2007 with article metadata
  • Google Wikilinks Corpus – 40 million total disambiguated mentions within over 10 million web pages
  • Lemur Project – text analysis tools, and data resources for R&D of information retrieval and text mining software
    • Indri – text search engine
    • ClueWeb09 Corpus
    • ClueWeb12 Corpus
  • Cortical.io – Natural Language platform
  • idibon – Natural Language platform
  • Luminoso – Natural Language platform
  • wit.ai – Natural Language platform
  • TIMIT – Acoustic-Phonetic Continuous Speech Corpus
  • wit.ai – natural language for developers
  • soundhound – speech and music mobile app; "speech to meaning" API
  • agnitio – voice biometrics, speaker identification compant; speaker id in a box
  • Expect Labs – Advanced AI for voice driven user interfaces
  • AlchemyAPI – 12 Semantic Text Analysis APIs Using Natural Language Processing
  • Captricity – crowd guided machine Document Image Processing

Natural Language Generation

  • Arria NLG PLC
  • AX Semantics
  • Yseop
  • Simplenlg
  • NaturalOWL

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

cybersecurity

Geolocation

  • GeoMesa open-source system that stores, indexes, and queries hundreds of billions of geospatial features in a distributed database (Accumulo)
  • GeoWave leverages the scalability of a distributed key-value store for effective storage, retrieval, and analysis of massive geospatial datasets
  • LocationTech – working group developing advanced location aware technologies

Physics Engines for games/robotics

  • Graph Network Simulators – fluid dynamics using AI
  • dm_control – DeepMind Python libraries/task suites for physics-based RL agents in articulated-body simulation
  • Box2D – 2d physics engine for games
  • Bullet –physics simulation engine
  • ncollide  – 2D & 3D collision library for the Rust language
  • Chipmunk– 2D real-time rigid body physics engine
  • Chrono:Engine – C++ simulation library
  • Farseer – based on Box2D w/collision detection
  • Havok – collision detection and physics engine
  • Matter.js – JavaScript 2D rigid body physics engine for the web
  • Metali – 3D physics engine
  • Moby – multi-body dynamics simulation library written in C++
  • Newton – life-like physics simulation library
  • Open Dynamics Engine – library for simulating rigid body dynamics
  • p2.js – JavaScript 2D physics library
  • PhysX– Nvidia open source physics engine
  • Physics Abstraction Layer (PAL) – unified interface to a number of different physics engines
  • PhysicsJS – physics engine for javascript
  • OpenTissue – algorithms and data structures for rapid development of interactive modeling and simulation
  • Tokamak – real time physics engine
  • TrueAxis –real time physics engine
  • Proteus – A Python toolkit for toolkit for computational fluid and solid mechanics simulation

Simulation/Game AI Engines

  • Stage –sophisticated simulation scenarios across massive gaming areas
  • Artificial Contender – AI middleware for behavior-capture
  • Cyntient AI – AI middleware
  • DI-Guy – human simulation software
  • Gameware – AI middleware, NavMesh generation, hierarchical pathfinding, and path following
  • Masa Life – AI middleware, design how characters behave and how they interact with the world
  • Rain – AI character engine – behavior creation, automatic navigation mesh generation, and animation control
  • SimBionic – create intelligent behavior for games and simulations
  • SpirOps – AI middleware for crowd simulations
  • Kerbal – space program simulation

DARPA Open Source

  • DARPA Open Catalog –curated list of DARPA-sponsored software, Wow – worth a look

DOD Funding Sources

Space/NASA Open Source

  • Awesome Space  – curated directory of space-related code, APIs, data
  • Space Startup & Entrepreneurship Funding – funding sources for Space Startups
  • Open NASA  – 42,966 Data Sets – 449 Code Repositories, 50 APIs
    • Worldview – browse NASA Imagery
    • Darts – dynamics library for the modeling of robotic platforms, space vehicles, molecular dynamics
    • RCATS – Root cause analysis tool
  • Starlink Coverage Map and another one here
  • Kubos  – open source RTOS flight software for nano satellites, pico satellites and cubesats
  • ASCL.net – Astrophysics Source Code Library
  • Uphere.space – real time prediction of satellites
  • flightclub.io – Orbital Launch Simulator andTrajectory Visualisation Software
  • space-search.io– visualization of satellites in orbit
  • Orbitrack (paid mobile app) – AR and VR orbit visualization modes
  • Lockheed Martin satellite constellation designer –  free iOS app that lets you design satellite constellations.

Security

  • Cheat Sheets – Open Web Application Security Project
  • Small Business/Startup Internet Security guide

Cloud Services and Tools

  • Web Hosting Tutorial
  • Heroku – Ruby, Node.js, Clojure, Java cloud platform – Platform as a Service
    • AppHarbor – Heroku for .net
    • How Heroku Works
  • CloudFoundry – deploy and scale apps in seconds- open source Platform as a Service
  • Amazon Web Services  –Amazon's cloud solution – Infrastructure as a Service
    • Amazon Web Services very basic primer
    • AWS in plain english – great guide to all AWS services
  • Amazon EC2 – virtual server hosting
  • Amazon EC2 Container Registry – Docker container registry
  • Amazon EC2 Container Service – Docker container mgmt.
  • AWS Elastic Beanstalk – deploy web apps developed with Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker on Apache, Nginx, Passenger, and IIS
  • AWS Lambda – pay as you go services
  • Auto Scaling – scale your Amazon EC2 capacity up or down automatically
  • Elastic Load Balancing – automatically distribute incoming app traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances
  • Amazon VPC – provision a logically isolated section of AWS cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define.
  • AWS Server Migration Service – Migrate your on premises workloads to AWS
  • 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
    • Developer Tools – command-line interface tools
  • 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

BessemerCloudscape

  • 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 Engineering Ecosystem

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 Kafkahigh-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
    • Robo 3T - MongoDB GUI
  • MemSQL – SQL in memory
  • Rdbhost.com  –browser SQL database hosting.Python/Javascript APIs

GPU-optimized relational and column-store databases/Graph Analytics

  • Kinetica – GPU accelerated database
  • GPUdb –GPU accelerated in-memory distributed database
  • MapD –GPU database for interactive SQL querying and visualization of multi-billion record datasets
  • Blazegraph – GPU accelerated graph analytics
  • BlazingDB –GPU accelerated data warehouse
  • PG-Strom – PostgreSQL extension for GPUs

Development Tools

  • VirtualBox – x86 Virtualization
  • Perl Object Environment – Perl framework for reactive systems, cooperative multitasking, and network applications
  • Wireshark –network protocol analyzer
  • Codeacademy Labs – program in Ruby, Python, and JavaScript online without downloading a code editor or IDE
  • Koding – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform
  • CircleCi – Continuous integration and deployment tool for web apps
  • yUML sketch uml diagrams.
  • WebSequenceDiagrams –sketch sequence diagrams. automatic links to generated images
  • Rietveld – asynchronous code reviews on changesets
  • Fluid – turn webapps into Mac OS X apps
  • TextMate – code and markup editor
  • Coda – one-window web development app for the Mac
  • Coderunner – Edit/run code in any programming language with a click
  • SourceLaircloud coding platform C, Python, Ruby and API
  • WebBiscuits – framework for web apps for smartphones and tablets
  • Best free programming books
  • CodeAcademy – learn to code
  • Webkit – build your own browser
    • Webkit Tutorial – Paul Irish
  • Appery – Cloud-based HTML5, jQuery Mobile & Hybrid Mobile App Builder for Android, iOS and Windows Phone

Project Management

Open-source software hosting

  • Github – Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs
    • Git Introduction – learn Github
    • Git the Simple Guide – the basics
    • Unfuddle – Git and subversion hosting
  • Sourceforge – Free. For open-source projects
  • JavaForge – free open source project hosting site
  • Bitbucket – free cloud hosting for Git or Mecurial projects
  • Sourcetree – free mac client for Git, Mercurial and SVN
  • Mercurial – free, distributed source code control management system
  • Aha! – product roadmap software
  • AirFocus – prioritization and roadmapping tool

Source Version Control Software

  • Perforce Helix – Connect teams, protect assets, and speed up your release cycles
  • GIT – free open source version control system
  • CVS (Concurrent Versions System) – free open source a version control system
  • IBM/Rational Clearcase –  Software Configuration Management
  • Jira – Bug, Issue and classic Project tracking tool
  • Apache Subversion– free open source software versioning and revision control system

Kanban and Scrum Tools

  • Kanban versus Scrum –description
  • Kanban Tools
    • Kanban Tool – online, web-based, Kanban tool
    • KanbanFlow – free Kanban tool
    • Swift-Kanban – enterprise Kanban
    • Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board
    • LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development
    • Kanban Pad – "Nice and lean" and free online Kanban tool
    • CodeBeamer – Kanban and Scrum tool Application Lifecycle Management
    • Nutcache – all-in-one collaborative project management
    • Kanbanize – free Kanban software
  • Scrum Tools
    • TeamPulse -Scrum and Kanban
    • RallyDev – Automates Agile / Scrum development
    • YoDiz – agile/scrum tool, issue tracking
    • VersionOne – agile product management and Scrum tool
    • AgileScrumPro – Agile tool collaborative on an iPad
    • Scrumy – project management tool loosely based off of Scrum
    • OnTime  Development Suite (and here) – provides bug tracking, scrum project management
    • Acunote – Agile project management and Scrum
    • Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.
  • Basecamp– web-based project management and collaboration tool
  • Confluence – Plan roadmaps, define product requirements, and centralize documentation
  • Pivotal Tracker  –Agile project management tool real time collaboration
  • Wrike  – combines project management, collaboration, discussion and document sharing
  • Ansible – configuration mgmt, app deployment, continuos delivery
  • Trello – team collaboration around "boards"
  • Taskade – organization and collaboration tool for getting things done
  • Workflowy – hierarchial task manager
  • Asana – shared task list for your team
  • Wunderlist – light accountability and planning
  • Sqwiggle – all-hands meeting and updates
  • Quip – team tasking
  • Sprintly – agile collaborate>prioritize>create git integration
  • Podio – collaborative project management
  • Flow – collaborative task and project management
  • Interstate – open project management
  • Apollo – integrated project and contact management
  • Rally – agile product management
  • Blossom – lean product management
  • BrightPod – product mgmt for marketing teams
  • Trajectory – agile product mgmt, write and discuss user stories, bugs, and to-dos
  • Clarizen – cloud project mgmt tool
  • Webplanner – online collaborative project management application.
  • ChiliProject – web based project management
  • Exepron – cloud based project management
  • ProofHub – web project mgmt & collaboration
  • Kiln – Version control and code review
  • PushPinPlanner – online real-time resource planning for agile teams
  • DaPulse – cross company collaboration
  • ProdPad – proj mgmt w/road mapping
  • Producteev – web/mobile task mgmt
  • ProcedureRock – create, procedures, instructions, guides, online help
  • Managewith.us – Collaborative Task Manager
  • ProcessPlan – task mgmt via email
  • Redbooth -combines social networking and project management
  • ProjectManager – project planner, time/expense tracking
  • TeamCity  –continuous integration/unit testing, code quality analysis, pre-tested commits, report on build problems
  • Milestone Planner  – planner for deadline/outcome driven environments
  • 5pm  –Online project management tool
  • TimeBill – Replicon task management tool
  • AgileZen  –project management visually see and interact with your work
  • GoPlan – collaborative project management
  • Unfuddle –hosted project management solution for software teams
  • Taskpoint – online project mgmt and collaboration
  • Centroy – online project mgmt
  • Do[Box] – project mgmt, save, resuse and share project models
  • Projify – simplified project management
  • Mavenlink – manage project communications, documents, schedules, budgets, payments
  • NeuLexa – enterprise project mgmt
  • ProcedureRock – operations and procedures mgmt
  • Userlike – live chat software for websites
  • Industrial Logic – Agile eLearning
  • PMToolkit – project management templates
  • Kanbanchi – dashboard/collaboration tool for Google Apps
  • Sandglaz – online team collaboration

Product Roadmaps for Product Managers

  • Wizeline – create product roadmaps
  • Aha! – roadmapping software for product managers
  • ProdPad – create product roadmaps

Bug/Issue Tracking

  • Sentry – application monitoring and error tracking
  • Bugherd – simple issue tracking for web developers
  • Lighthouse  –Issue Tracking Tool
  • Sifter – hosted bug and issue tracking
  • Toggle – time tracking tool
  • Fogbugz -bug tracking, project mgmt, customer support
  • Bontq  –hosted bug tracking and project management needs
  • WakaTime – Automatic time tracking for your text editor
  • Intervals – time tracking and task management
  • Preceden – simple way to make timelines for presentations
  • RayGun – error tracking tool for software developers
  • ClickTime – online timesheets

Web Server Stress Testing

  • Google Page Speed – test your web page speed
  • Httperf– HP Web Server Performance tool
  • Siege – http load testing and benchmarking utility
  • Jmeter – java-based server load testing
  • Tourbus – ruby website load testing tool

Digital AssetManagement

  • 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

Payments startups

  • 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

    • 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
  • 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
  • Coinmarketcap – Crypto-Currency Market Capitalizations

  • Coincenter – public policy issues on Bitcoin

  • Billing/Invoicing
    • QuickBooks Invoice Generator
    • Tilt – collect money from a group or on your site
    • Aria – online billing platform
    • Vindicia – on demand billing and fraud management
    • CheddarGetter – online recurring billing
    • Ballpark – online invoicing, time tracking
    • Chargify –Recurring billing without the headaches
    • Chargebee – subscription & reoccurring billing
    • Recurly – Subscription billing
    • Billfaster – cloud invoicing and accounting
    • Inv24 – online invoicing and accounting software
    • HealPay – Collections made easy

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  • Fraud Detection
    • SiftScience – machine learning based fraud detection
    • ThreatMetrix – context-based authentication
    • socure – identity fraud detection
    • feedzai – fraud detection that learns
    • Brighterion – fraud and data breech protection
  • Subscription Services
    • Memberful – sell memberships to your audience
    • ChartMogul – subscription analytics and revenue reporting
    • Cloudware City – online app store for subscription services
    • argebee – subscription & reoccurring billing
    • Recurly – Subscription billing
    • Spreedly – sell subscriptions on your site. signup, upgrade, trial pricing
    • Zuora – online subscription management
  • Online Store and Marketplace Creation
    • Shopify – create an online store
    • BigCommerce – ecommerce software & shopping cart
    • Yahoo Small Business – hosted ecomerce website
    • Volusion – shopping cart software, ecommerce & hosting
    • Lemonstand – cloud eCommerce platform for stores that do over 6 figures in sales
    • WooCommerce – free commerce toolkit for wordpress
    • Nearme – create your own branded marketplace
    • Bizwebs – create an online store
    • Shoprocket – sell on a website, blog or Facebook Page using a single line of code
    • Estoreify – create your own online store in just 5 minutes
    • Selz – sell on Facebook, WordPress, from any website w/PayPal
    • IndieMade – Create an artist website with a store, blog, galleries
    • BigCartel – shopping cart for artists, designers, bands, record labels, jewelry, crafters
    • SquareSpace – build a website with commerce
    • EStoreApp – a webstore in 5 minutes
    • PinnacleCart – shopping cart software, ecommerce & hosting
    • CoreCommerce – online store & shopping cart software
    • Fortune3 – shopping cart software, ecommerce & hosting
    • EKMPowershop – create an online store using templates
    • Paddle – create an online store for games, apps and content
    • Retargeting – trigger live and email responses based on consumer behavior in online stores
  • Donations
    • Paypal Donate – use Paypal to accept donations on your site
  • Postmaster – Integrate package shipping, tracking  and notification into your app

Customer Support/Feedback/Engagement

  • Nirror – live support/watch playback of customer actions on your site
  • Conversica – AI software for marketing, virtual sales assistant
  • Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site
  • GetSatisfaction  – conversations between companies / customers
  • Triibe – incentive-based customer service
  • HelpJuice – knowledge base to scale customer support and collaboration between teams
  • Zendesk – web help software
  • Raaft – customer retention feedback
  • Wise.io – machine learning for customer success
  • Rollio – CRM now listens via Natural Language Processing
  • Drift  - Chat widget for websites
  • Clickdesk – Help desk, live chat, social toolbar
  • Zopim – real time customer support/live chat
  • HelpScout – simple setup, easy integration, help desk software
  • Desk – from Salesforce, easy and simple; email/social/chat/phone
  • SnapEngage – live chat integrates with your apps
  • Freshdesk – completely unique never seen before web help software
  • Olark – live customer chat and customer loyalty
  • LiveChat – live customer chat, archives of conversations
  • Groove – simple online Help Desk
  • VisitorEngage – behavioral-based feedback button, surveys & website notifications
  • Assistly – Support customers by Web, email, chat, and social networks
  • Vision Helpdesk – Support for multiple companies from one place
  • OneDesk – ideation to delivery and support issues, tickets, tasks
  • HappyFox – collate, categorize and respond to all requests
  • CustomerSure –  online customer service, feedback into retention
  • HelpSpot – Helpdesk software
  • Webengage – engagement; website survey, feedback and notification tool
  • SupportBee – help customers via email, robust ticketing
  • JitBit – Help desk ticketing system, cloud and on premises versions
  • HelpRace – helpdesk, knowledge base and a feedback community in one platform
  • NetHelpDesk – Exchange sync, Smartphone apps

Testimonials/Social Reviews

  • PostKudos – collect customer testimonials
  • Yotpo – social reviews for eCommerce
  • Kayako – Help desk
  • UserVoice  –turn customer feedback into action
  • Kampyle – turn customer feedback into sales and relationships

Recruiting Tools

  • JobVite – recruiting software, applicant tracking
  • Zoho Recruit – applicant tracking
  • Resumator – applicant tracking and social recruiting
  • RecruiterBox – recruitment software, applicant tracking
  • ActiveInterview – Video interviewing
  • JobPage – applicant tracking and social recruiting
  • Zartis – social recruiting
  • HiringThing -online recruiting
  • Workable – recruitment and applicant tracking
  • RecruitmentWorx – online recruitment and tracking
  • OneRecruit – free applicant tracking
  • GroupTalent – hire short term help/or freelance
  • Giggrabbers – hire freelancers, start crowdfunding
  • MasterBranch – show off your skills
  • VidCruiter – video interview software
  • LinkedIn – the uber connector

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Password Managers

  • Dashlane password manager and digital wallet
  • 1password – password manager
  • LastPass – password manager
  • passwordsafe – password manager
  • Meldium – password manager with single sign-on to apps
  • KeeperSecurity – password vault and online file storage

Password API's

  • Authy – add two-factor authentication to your sites
  • Userbin – add two-factor authentication to your sites

Misc Office Help

  • Slack – team communication
    • FounderPhone  - Send and receive texts and calls directly in Slack
  • Airtable  - cloudspreadsheet – poor mans CRM to track sales funnel
  • Amazon Workspaces desktop computing service in the cloud
  • SharedDesks – Coworking and Office Space
  • PivotDesk – host or look for a coworking space
  • Pingboard – employee directory software
  • StartupAdmin – outsourced Exec Asst, HR, Office Mgmt, & Bookkepping
  • Coworking WIki
    • 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
  • Brex – free Business cash account and credit cards
  • ZenPayroll – delightful employee payroll software
  • Sheets – free time card calculator
  • WagePoint – online payroll for small businesses
  • Freshbooks – cloud accounting and invoicing
  • Gusto – payroll software for accountants
  • Autotax – eFile IRS 1099 forms
  • Expensify – billing, expenses, receipts
  • BambooHR – Employee Records, Benefit Information, Payroll Data, etc.
  • Harvest – online time tracking
  • Xobni – Outlook plugin to search
  • Think-Cell – Powerpoint (windows) plug-in for advanced charting
  • QuoteRoller – create, deliver and negotiate proposals online
  • WordsRU – proofreading and editing service
  • iProsh – manage your office and workspace online
  • RescueTime – time mgmt software, work/life balance
  • Boomerang – scheduled sending and email reminders for gmail
  • TradeAbility – free tool from UPS – estimate costs and duty fees and international shipping restrictions
  • Freemind – free mind-mapping software
  • FoxOMS – resource mgmt and scheduling for film, TV and creative businesses
  • FindStringers – freelance journalism marketplace

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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 Tutorialgreat intro to SDR
  • Guide to Software Defined Radio – LuaRadio
  • Software Defined Radio Basic Tutorial – Schuyler St. Leger at Desert Code Camp
  • GNU Radio – open source software defined radio
    • GqrxSDR – open source SDR built on GNU Radio
    • GRSatellites – GNU Satellite telemetry decoders built on GNU Radio
  • NooElec – $20 USB RTL-SDR Receiver R820T2 tuner 25MHz-1750MHz
  • HDSDR –  freeware Software Defined Radio (SDR) for Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10.
  • HDSDR on OSX –freeware Software Defined Radio (SDR) for Mac OS X
  • ETTUS Research – hardware for software defined radio
  • HackRF – software defined radio 10 MHz to 6 GHz
    • HackRF One – software defined radio half-duplex transceiver, 1MHz – 6 GHz
    • rad10 – SDR half-duplex transceiver, 50MHz – 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 radio150kHz to 1.9GHz
  • BladeRf x40 – low-cost USB 3.0 Software Defined Radio
  • Ethos  Research – software defined radio development platforms
  • SDR Showdown – HackRF vs bladeRF vs USRP tutorial
  • FlexRadio – software defined radio for ham operators
  • LoRa Alliance – low power wide area network
  • Sigfox –  cellular tech for IoT
  • Ingenu – dedicated IoT connection
  • Beep Networks – real world data to the cloud
  • RTL-SDR – news and projects blog
  • GNURadioCompanion – a graphical tool for creating signal flow graphs and generating flow-graph source code

Audio

  • AudioKit – audio synthesis, processing and analysis
  • Essentia – open-source C++ library for audio analysis and audio-based music information retrieval
  • Csound – a C-based audio programming language
  • SuperCollider – environment and programming language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition

Contract Manufacturers/Startup Design/Prototype/Manufacturing Consultants/Helpers

  • Macrofab – software platform view into a contract manufacturer
  • Fusion PCB – hardware platform for Makers
  • Jiga – contract CNC machining, 3D printing, and sheet metal parts
  • PCH – product design, engineering/development, manufacturing, packaging,  fulfillment, etc
  • Proto Services – ISO 9001/2000 certified manufacturing in Silicon Valley
  • The Build Shop – 3D printing and Laser cutting shop in LA
  • Get it Made – CNC Machining in the UK
  • MakeSimply – sourcing and manufacturing services
  • Jatco – plastic molding and manufacturing in Silicon Valley
  • Studio Fathom– Prototype Fabrication & Bridge-to-Production Services
  • Fictiv – order 3D parts easily for hardware prototyping
  • Dix Metals – provider of precision-cut, machine-ready blanks
  • Tempo Automation – desktop pick and place robot automates surface mount assembly
  • Dragon Innovation – works with startups to provide a clear from prototype through production with manufacturing expertise and trusted connections
  • MakeSimply – idea to production, simplified – get MVPs, get products into production

Electronic Prototyping

  • AIY Projects – Google AI hardware kits
  • UP AI Edge – low cost AI hardware kits
  • Lady Ada – embedded applications and kits
  • Adafruit – embedded applications and kits
  • Learn AdaFruit – AdaFruit Learning System
    • 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
    • Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
      • Raspberry Pi 3 review and benchmarks – Jeff Geerling
  • Nvida Jetson Nano – $89 AI development board
  • Sony Spresense – ioT development, GPS, ARM Cortex uses Arduino IDE or NuttX SDK
  • Other inexpensive ARM Boards
    • OrangePi – $40 single-board Linux computer very similar to the Raspberry Pi
      • Orange Pi 3 – $35 quad-core 1.8GHz CPU, 2GB DDR3 RAM
      • Orange Pi R1 – $15 Quad-core 32-bit Cortex-A7
      • OrangePi setup and benchmarks – Jeff Geerling
    • 96boards – ARM prototyping
      • 96Boards HiKey 960 – $240 4 ARM Cortex-A73 and 4 Cortex-A53 cores, 3GB RAM, 32GB flash, G71 GPU
      • 96Boards Hikey 970 – $299 ARM Cortex-A73 MPCore4 @up to2.36GHz + ARM Mali-G72 MP12 GPU + 6GB RAM, 32GB flash
    • BeagleBone – $89 linux computer
      • BeagleBoneBlack – development platform
      • PocketBeagle – $25 ARM Cortex A-8
    • CHIP – $9 computer 1ghz cpu 4GB storage, wifi
      •  CHIP review – Job Vranish
      • PocketCHIP – $49 CHIP+screen and battery

      Rock Pi 4 Model B – $75 6-core 1.8 ghz ARM processor, 64bit dual channel 3200Mb/s LPDDR4

    • Banana Pi M64 – $60  quad core 1.2 ghz ARM processor, 64bit dual channel 3200Mb/s LPDDR4
    • MYIR MYS-6ULX – $25 ARM Cortex-A7 Processor
    • LeMaker Banana Pi Pro – $50 ARM Cortex-A7 CPU, 1Gb RAM, Mali-400 MP2 GPU
    • PINE64 Rock64 – $25 credit card size RK3328 Quad-Core ARM Cortex A53 64-Bit CPU
    • Asus Tinker Board – $55 quad-core RK3288 processor, 2Gb RAM, ARM Mali-T764 GPU, Micro SD slot
    • Marvell Espressobin –$80 ARM Cortex A53 quad-core processor, 2Gb RAM. SATA interface and Micro SD
    • Vision Kit – alyprojects
    • BBC micro:bit –$20 32-bit ARM Cortex, 5×5 LED matrix
      • Sparkfun BBC micro:bit – $15 Nordic nRF51822ARM Cortex
    • NanoPi NEO – $9.90 ARM 7
    • ODORID – $50 64-bit quad-core single board computer
      • Odroid C2 setup and benchmarks – Jeff Geerling
  • Sparkfun –  general components
  • Snapdragon – Qualcomm
    • Dragonboard410c -snapdragon development platform
  • Spark – hackable wifi and cellular modules
    • Electroncellular 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 firstPrinted Circuit Boards (PCB's)Particle
  • Printed Circuit Boards (PCB's) printers
    • Argentum – desktop PCB printer
    • Voltera – desktop PCB printer
    • FirePick Delta – desktop pick-and-place robot
  • Printed Circuit Boards (PCB's) assembly/manufacturing
    • DirtyPCBs – cheap PCBs
    • Seeed PCBs – cheap PCBs
    • PCB Assembly Services – USA supplier
    • GoldPhoenix – PCB manufacturing, design service
    • PCBcart – PCB manufacturing, assembly service
    • TempoAutomation – electronics manufacturing as a service
    • Variscite – system on module manufacturer
    • Myro – prototype PCB's and PCB assembly
    • PCB Unlimited – PCB manufacturing house
    • PCB Assembly Express – PCB prototypes, short runs and contract manufacturing
    • CircuitHub – PCB's from prototype to manufacturing production with one click
    • SanFrancisco Circuits – PCB fab
    • Bay Area Circuits  – Printed Circuit Board manufacturing
    • Worthington Assembly – U.S. PCB manufacturing does SMT's
    • Sierra Circuits – Printed circuit board manufacturing and assembly
    • Pentalogix – Quick turn printed circuit board manufacturing
    • PCBPool – low cost PCB boards in Europe
    • Eurocircuits – Online PCB board in Europe
    • Screaming Circuits – Printed Circuit Board Assembly House
    • OSH Park – community circuit board design
    • Advanced Circuits  – one day printed circuit boards
    • Sunstone – Printed Circuit Boards
    • Squick – low cost and fast circuit manufacturing
  • PCB Design Tools
    • SnapEDA – PCB design tool w/downloadable parts library
    • BoldPort – Python script that creates an SVG from JSON files, and creates Gerber and Excellon files for manufacturing
    • DesignSparkPCB -free PCB design software
    • Altium– PCB Design Tools
    • Eagle – CadSoft schematic capture PCB design tool
    • Upverter – collaborative circuit design
    • Hardware Product Canvas –  hardware building block tool
    • circuits.io – free circuit editor/pcb layout in your browser (by Autodesk)
    • CircuitMaker – free EDA tool from Altium
    • KiCad – schematic capture and PCB layout
    • Fritzing – PCB and parts library
    • PCBWeb – free PCB design software
    • Scheme-it – free online schematic drawing/sharing app (part of Digikey)
  • Integrated Design Environment (IDE)
    • PSoC Creator -hardware/firmware editing, compiling, debugging of PSoC 3/4, 4 BLE, PRoC BLE, PSoC 5LP and FM0+ systems
    • STM32Cube – IDE for STM32
    • SW4STM32 – free system workbench for STM32: free IDE on Windows, Linux and OS X
  • Circuit Simulation Tools
    • CircuitLabs – schematic editor and circuit simulator
    • Yosys – open source Verilog synthesis suite
    • arachne – open source Place and route tool for FPGAs
    • PartSim – online SPICE circuit simulator
    • LTSPICE4 – free analog SPICE simulator
    • ADS –  design automation software for RF, microwave, high speed digital, and power electronics
    • EasyEDA – circuit simulation, PCB design, Electronic circuit design online for free
    • DoCircuits – schematic editor and circuit simulator
    • CEDAR – logic simulator
    • Quiet – circuit simulator with GUI
    • CiruitMod – circuit simulator
    • Falstad – In browser circuit simulator
    • ELN – minecraft mod for in-game circuit simulation
    • Ansys HFSS – electromagnetic (EM) simulation software for wireless and RF
    • Ansys SIwave – design platform for power integrity, signal integrity and EMI analysis of IC packages and PCBs
  • Power Supply Design Tools
    • LTpowerCAD II – power supply design tool
  • HardwareHacker – DIY Basic projects
  • Hacked Gadgets – DIY Tech
  • HackersCatalog – technical bookstore
  • Hackaday,io – hardware projects
  • Hackaday.com – hardware blog
  • Teensy – USB development board
  • Hopper – OSX and Linux disassembler
  • Binwalk – firmware analysis tool
  • Intel Edison – computer board w/atom processor, wifi, open source tools
  • LittleBits – DIY electronics for prototypes and learning
  • CircuitStickers – peel and stick electronics. great for kids 1st projects
  • DangerousPrototype – open source hardware projects
  • Fritzing  – opensource hardware community
  • Beagle Board  – Open. ARM. Low cost, low power, open hardware expandible computer running latest Ubuntu and Android.
  • Saleae  – Low cost logic analyzer
  • Hardware Debugging  and monitoring tools
  • Microsemi (Actel) smartfusion : A low power development board full of peripherals and an FPGA chip
  • FPGA Wiki – Hamsterworks
  • FPGA Development Boards Review – Joel Williams

Electronics Component Suppliers

  • Digikey
  • Mouser
  • Newark
  • Future
  • Arrow
  • Avnet
  • Allied
  • Sure
  • ExpressTechnology – new and obsolete components
  • DowkeyMicrowave – RF Switches
  • Microchip  – great source of micro controllers and analog semis
  • SemiconductorStore – wireless, video and embedded semi's
  • Baskville– if you need parts in New Zealand
  • TI,Cypress , and Analog devices  microcontrollers and IC's

Manufacturing Resources

  • Digikey – Electronic components distributor that offers products including semiconductors, passives and interconnects.
  • Custom Circuit Boards  – Printed circuit board manufacturer (USA) for prototype and production quantities
  • Alibaba.com
  • GlobalSources.com
  • Sourcing in China
  • Sourcing Blog
  • Smart China Sourcing
  • SupplyBetter – find contract manufacturer for custom mechanical parts, by analyzing CAD drawings

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3DPrinters

  • 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

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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
  • Hubs – on demand 3D manufacturing
  • 3DPrintBoard – forum for 3D printing
  • Google+ 3D printing community
  • Reddit 3D printing news

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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

CubeSats /  Nanosatellites

  • NASA SmallSat Workshop – read first
  • NASA CubeSat 101 – read second
  • CubeSatShop – one-stop shop – Structures, ADCS, Modules, etc. for Cubesats
  • AWS Ground Station – Amazon
  • Azure Orbital – Microsoft Ground Station
  • Great survey of on-board space computers – Narayan Prasad
  • Modules for micro and nano sats – Space Inventors
  • Computer, sensors & actuators for cubesats – CubeSpace
  • High Performance Computing – Xiphos
  • Computers, Antennas, Power, reaction wheels– Spacetech
  • Platforms, transmitters, computers, batteries, solar arrays – IMT
  • Avionics, radios, crypto, computers– Innoflight
  • SatSearch – global marketplace for space industry
  • SatNOGS – open source ground station
  • Kubos – space grade operating system
  • Cubesat Thrusters – satsearch
  • NASA Cubesat Challenge – competition for the developments of cubesats to fly to the Moon
  • SpaceflightInc – cubesat and small satellite launch
  • Spire – using cubesats for weather and maritime data
  • PlanetLabs – using nanosats for imagery
  • Cubesat.org – collaboration of over 40 universities, high schools, and private firms developing picosatellites

Small Spacecraft Platforms

  • Adcole MAGICBus – 50 kg – 180 kg Satellite Platform, communications encryption, propulsive capability
  • Nautilus (Nemo-150) bus – up to 70 kg in payload mass and has an envelope of 600 x 600 x 600 mm.
  • AAC Clyde Space– EPIC platforms from 1U to 12U
  • Berlin Space Technologies LEOS-30 small spacecraft platforms
  • GomSpace – 1,2,3 and 6U platforms
  • NanoAvionics– nano and CubeSats
  • Open Cosmos – 3, 6, 12U and smallsat platforms
  • Tyvak – 6, 12U and microsat platforms
  • UTIAS SFL – Satellite Platforms
  • Endurosat –Cubesat Platforms
  • German Orbital Systems – CubeSats and microsatellite components
  • GomSpace – 1, 2, 3, 6U Platforms
  • Gumush Aerospace & Defense –N-ART BUS 3U platform and components
  • Ingegneria – IMT 3U Cubesat Platform
  • Open Cosmos – 3/6/12U cubists
  • Satrevolution – SOWA/STORK 2/4U CubeSats
  • Sputnix – Cubesat platforms
  • Surrey – Cubesats/microsatellites
  • Dawn Aerospace – CubeSat propulsion
  • Nanosystem components and subsystems– SpaceManiac
  • CubeSats modules, ground stations – WarpSpace
  • Modules, power, structures, computers – Pumpkinspace
  • PocketQube – small cubesat off the shelf
  • CubesatKit – cube-sat off the shelf
  • Computer, propulsion, sensors for CubeSats – Hyperion

Life Science Resources

Thepeutics

  • Overview of Preclinical drug development –Celine Halioua
  • Product/Market fit in Life Sciences – Celine Halioua
  • Ideation in Biotech – Celine Halioua
  • Drug Type PrimersCeline Halioua
  • Picking the Type of Drug -Celine Halioua
  • Picking the Disease to Treat
  • Basics of FDA regulations for drugs – Celine Halioua
    • The IND – Investigative New Drug Application -Celine Halioua
    • Phase 1 Clinical Trials Basics / Clinical Pharmacology – Celine Halioua

Shared Lab Space/Incubators/Wet Labs for Biotech Startups

  • MBC (née QB3)
  • JLabs
  • StartX
  • IndieBio
  • Bonneville Labs
  • OTRADI
  • BioLabs San Diego
  • Bio, Tech, and Beyond (BTNB)
  • JLABS San Diego
  • University Lab Partners
  • Murrieta Genomics
  • BioLabs at The Lundquist Institute
  • Hatch
  • CalState LABioSpace
  • Lab Launch
  • Momentum Biosciences
  • Pasadena Bio Collaborative Incubator
  • BATTS Incubator Labs
  • Texas Medical Center

Medical Device Resources – Stanford Biodesign

  • Biodesign – book website
  • Needs Finding
  • Needs Screening
  • Intellectual Property
    • IP Strategy
  • Reimbursement basics
    • Reimbursement strategy
    • CPT Codes – coding/billing info
    • CPT Code FAQ's
  • Regulatory Basics
    • Understanding the FDA
    • Working with the FDA
    • First steps in the regulatory process
    • 510K versus a PMA
    • Investigational Device Exemption
  • Clinical Strategy

Medical Device Resources – General

med-devices

  • Global Burden of Disease – thank you Bill Gates
  • FDA Medical Device Regulatory Page
  • FDA Device Curriculum Case Studies
  • Medical Device Glossary
  • MDD – Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry site
  • QMed – equipment suppliers for med device companies
  • OECD Market Size Data
  • Great Lifesciences blog – Bruce Booth, Atlas Ventures
  • JayCaplan– another great Lifesciences blog
  • Great 3d Protein Structure tutorial

Synthetic Biology

  • Registry of Standard Biological Parts – IGEM
  • LabGenius
  • SynbiCITE – UK national synthetic biology site

Digital Health

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  • RockHealth – Digital Healthcare Incubator
  • FDA Draft Guidance for Mobile Health Devices
  • Guide to FDA Approval for Digital Health – RockHealth
  • Partnering with Hospitals for Pilots – RockHealth
  • RockHealth Presentations
  • Health IT and HIPAA
  • HHS Guidance on HIPAA
  • Free Health & Medical Courses – OEDB

mobile digital health

  • AddGene –a better way to share plasmids
  • Genomics API Browser – sample application designed to demonstrate the capabilities of the Global Alliance for Genomics and HealthAPI

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Market Research Tools

  • Clipular – Camera for the web/great research clippings
  • Business Research LaunchPad – start here
  • WaybackMachine – archive of web pages from 1996 to today
  • archive.org – digital library of old books, recordings, etc.
  • ChangeDetection – automatically know when any web page changes

Private "pay for market research" firms

  • CBInsights – best overall startup/vc data
  • DataMarketplace
  • WindowsAzure – Data Marketplace
  • Gartner, Forrestor, Yankee – IT
  • Frost & Sullivan – mulitple industries
  • NPD – entertainment
  • IMSHealth –  health care
  • MedMix – lifesciences
  • CMR – chemical
  • API – petroleum industry

Datasets

  • Amazon AWS – public crawl
  • StartupCompass – benchmark your core business metrics
  • Stanford Large Network Dataset
  • Open Building Footprints – Microsoft

U.S. State/Canada/Federal Open Data

  • List of open government/country data sites – Start Here
  • U.S. Census Bureau – Data
    • U.S. Census Bureau – API's
  • Code.gov – Access U.S. gov't open source code
  • USASpending – official US Gov't site on where the money goes
  • U.S. government Web Service & XML Data – Start Here as well
  • USCommonSense – US Open data portal
  • Analytics.usa.gov – the US Gov'ts web traffic
  • National Science Foundation –  data mine any NSF award, person or institution
  • Building Healthcare.gov
  • FedStats – data from 100 U.S. Federal agencies
  • Federal Reserve – U.S. economic data
  • Small Business Administration – Data – APIhere
  • 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
  • EnergyStarU.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) program
  • Clean EnergyU.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) program
  • DOE Wind Program – U.S. Dept of Energy
  • DOE Solar Program – U.S. Dept of Energy
  • DOEEfficiency & 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 -CKNtool 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 the1000 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 throughall 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 onCommercializing 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

Compensation

  • 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

  • Board of Directors Compensation – fred wilson
  • The Funded Standard Advisor Template
  • Advisor Equity – Quroa
  • Advisor Equity for 500 Startups companies – Quora
  • Everything you ever wanted to know about advisors Part 1 – Venture Hacks
  • Everything you ever wanted to know about advisors Part 2 Compensation – Venture Hacks
  • Should Your Startup have an Advisory Board – Mark Suster Upfront Ventures
  • Comp Study – Executive Compensation Website– unbelievably useful
  • SaaS Sales Team Compensation – Philippe Botteri, Bessemer Venture Partners

Public Relations (PR) For Tech Companies

  • The Best PR Advice You Never Heard – Caryn Marooney
  • Tech Reporters Contact Info – Conrad Egusa's gift to us all
  • Beginners Guide to PR
  • Should Startups Announce their Funding – Marc Suster
  • Should Startups target Tech Blogs? – Marc Suster
  • 7 steps to get press coverage – Leo Widrich
  • How to get media coverage – Leo Widrich
  • ExpertiseFinder – sign up
  • GlobalExperts – sign up
  • Smedian – Medium writers platform
  • ContentRow – Link Bait title ideas
  • MentionMap – track and analyze mentions
  • Awario – track and analyze mentions

Finance 101 for Entrepreneurs

  • MBA Mondays – Fred Wilson's Tutorials
    • 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 –

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

Saas vs. Enterprise Churn Rates

Saas vs. Enterprise Churn Rates

Getting Acquired

  • Trends in Startup Acquisitions – Tom Tunguz

Lawyers/Legal

  • Orick's Legal Documents for Startups – priceless
  • Walker Law: Tips for Entrepreneurs
  • Top Ten Legal Mistakes for Entrepreneurs
  • Startup Law 101 – George Grellas
  • Yoichiro "Yokum" Taku – Startup Company Lawyer
  • Startup Law Blog – Davis Wright Tremaine, Joe Wallin
  • Orrick – Startup Legal Tool Kit
  • Goodwin, Proctor – Founders Workbench
  • Law & Disorder: ARS Technica Legal Blog
  • Likelihood of Confusion-trademark, copyright and Internet Law
  • Technology & Marketing Law Blog
  • American Bar Association Best Legal Blogs
  • Music Law – one of the best legal blogs period. Read all of it.
  • FindtheBestLawyers – list of best lawyers

Fighting Patent Trolls

  • TrollingEffects – learn more about patent trolls
  • UnifiedPatents – patent micropool to fight patent trolls
  • ElectronicFrontierFoundation(EFF) – on patents

Corporate Innovation Programs

  • Shell's Game Changer program
  • Qualcomm Innovation program
  • P&G Connect & Develop – Open Innovation

List of Investment Platforms

  • Trusted Insight – Social marketplace for institutional investors
  • CapLinked – manage and close business transactions
  • SecondMarket – marketplace for alternate investment

Education Startups

Edtech investors

eduation software

  • Edsurge – the source for information about educational software
    • Edtech Index
    • Edtech Jobs
    • Edtech Events
  • Top VC's in Edtech – CBInsights
  • Best Map of Automated Learning Systems
    • eLearning Emergence
  • New Schools Education Tech Map

New Schools EdTech Map

  • K-12 Education VC Blog – Jennifer Carolan @ NewSchools
  • MOOCNews – education blog about MOOC's
  • Edsurge – the educational technology blog
  • K12Labs – STEM education projects & lesson plans
  • Google Classroom – tools for teachers
  • EdPuzzle – make any video your lesson
  • Drawp – classroom collaboration tool
  • Google Course Builder – open source MOOC education platform

ed tech mkt map Higher Ed tech landscape


q2 2015 ed tech startups

China – Doing Business

china ecosystem

  • 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

2015 china top100 brands

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

venture 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

Cannibis market

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 persistence!

Graphic Design for Govt Documents and User Interfaces

Source: https://steveblank.com/tools-and-blogs-for-entrepreneurs/

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