Startup Guide
Disclaimer: The resources here are for information only and should not be considered as financial advice.
Crowdfunding Platforms
- Republic
- WeFunder
- Fundable
- Kickstarter: reward based crowfunding
- Indiegogo: reward based crowfunding
- How to Launch a successful campaign?
- The essential guide to crowdfunding
Funding
- Doom Room Fund: fund student start-ups
- CapitalAnt: fund emerging disruptive tech
- AngelList
- Blackfin: European Fintech VC fund
- MedStartr Venture Fund
- HelloSkip (funding assistance)
Angle Funding Platform
Tech/Blockchain Projects
- CoinMarketCap: ICO Calendar / Upcoming ICO List
- CrytoTotEm
- TopICOList
- ProductHunt (best new products in tech)
News and Information
YouTube Channels
- Skip (funding infromation)
Video Production
- Canva where you can use video and slides templates.
- Biteable where you can use their animated slides template for free
- Screencast-o-matic: You can record and edit your video with various effects
- OBS Studio: open source
- IBM Cloud: for text voicing
- Zoom, where you can record videos while sharing the slides sharing.
- Video editors on desktop: Photos in Windows; iMovie for Ma OS X
Business Sales
Mind map - collaboration in design
- Figma: Web design
- Mindmester: Mind mapping for ideas
- Canva: collaboration slides, videos, posters, etc.
Talent Recruiting Platforms
- Built in NYC : Startsups and jobs in NYC
- Linkedin: Professional network
- ZipRecruiter: Job posting site
- Upwork: Independent pro
- Fiverr: Freelance services for your business
- Substack: A place for independent writing
- Handshake: Job posting site to recruit college students
Team Work
Presentation
- Canva: digital designs
- Gamma: PPT like doc
- Powtoon
- IA Presenter
- AIPPT
Management and Marketing
- Pexels: free photos, images, and videos
- Foap: tailor-made visual content
- Editing: Grammarly, WordTune, QuillBot, AI21Studio
- Translation: Deepl
- Create and Add Calendar Link in Gmail
Outsourcing
AI assistance
- ChatGPT: AI-assisted text chat
- DALL.E: AI-assisted text to image
- Perplexity.ai: Top article summary
- Copy.aI: Copy editing
- SiteKick.ai: Landing page creation
- WordTune: New way to spice up writing
- Murf.ai: Real people’s voices
- Magic Eraser: remove unwanted things
- Browse.ai: Extract and monitor data from any website
- CrAIyon: AI image generator from text
- Texti.app: AI that lives in your browser to boost content quality
- Huemint: Color palette generator
- Sembly.ai: AI team assistant in meetings (take note, generate script)
- AssemblyAI: transcribe and understand speech
- Autodraw: schematic illustration of your thinking
- Poised: Communication coach
- SuperMeme: Turn text into memos using AI
- ImgLarger: enhance and upscale images
Entrepreneur Training
Entrepreneurship Events or Funding
Government and Private Grants
- SBIR and STRR, Tutorial
- Council for Inclusive Innovation (CI2)
- 7(j) Management and Technical Assistance Program
- SBA Mentor-Protégé Program
- Restaurant Revitalization Fund
- SBIR program
- STTR program
- NASE Growth Grants Program
- Nav’s Small Business Grant
- IdeaCafe Small Business Grant Program
- the Halstead Grant
- The International Rescue Committee (IRC)
- Richland County COVID-19 Small Business Relief Grant
- Power Forward Small Business Grant
- Sephora Accelerate
- Grow by Invoice2go
- Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge
- Patagonia’s Corporate Grants Program
- Grand challenges
- eBay Up & Running Grants
- Texas Skills for Small Business Employers program
- Startup founders in New York
- Massachusetts Regional
- STEP program
- John Templeton Foundation
- Walmart’s grant programs
- Wells Fargo
- Amber Grant Foundation
- Cartier Women’s Initiative
- Veteran Small Business Award
- veteran assistance programs
- FedEx Small Business Grant Contest
- Visa Everywhere Initiative
- REAP program
- The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Funding Programs
- PHXbizGrants
- Alibaba Foundation
- Alibaba Entrepreneur Fund
Business Legal Matters
Logo and Website Design
Business Name Generator
Social Media Management
- Later: Instagram marketing platform and more
- Facebook Creator Studio:
- YouTube Studio
- Facebook Small Business Grants Program
- TikTok Back to Business Program
Contactless Payments
- Paypal – order your business QR code
- Apple Pay – how to use guide
- Android Pay – Google Pay; Samsung Pay
Audio Tools
- Audacity: Free, open source, cross-platform audio software
- Voice to text generator: Ttsdemo (demo) Text2audio
- Notevibes Oddcast Vocalware (text to voice)
- Sitpal (voice robot) Voice Generator Text to Speech Robot
- Text to voice generator: Google Doc Voice Tying
Business Tax
Books
- The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant, by Eric Jorgenson, Liberty Publishing (2022)
- Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone, by Satya Nadella, Greg Shaw, Shridhar Solanki, etc.
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
- The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success, by Darren Hardy, Manjul Publishing (2021)