- CAD
- Free Software for Startups - Fusion 360
- KiCad - PCBs and Schematics
- Project Management
- JIRA - Great SW project management tool - Free up to 10 users
- Basecamp - Great project management tool to use with distributed marketing teams
- Monday.com - Easy general project management tool
- UX/UI
- Figma - Do this after you have a good wireframes
- Balsamiq - Build quick wireframes you can test
- Canva - All things design related
- 7 Gestalt principles of visual perception - Cognitive psychology for UX
- Emotion design - Engineers and business executives are good at solving problems, but they seldom ask if it's the right problem
- Design Thinking - Coming up with an idea is easy. Coming up with the right one takes work
- Product Management
- Book - Product Roadmaps: Relaunched
- PRD - Product Requirements Document - Samples
- The PR/FAQ is a written, customer-centric document teams use when proposing a product idea in its early stages
- Good Product Manager, Bad Product Manager
- Customer Centered Innovation
- NIHITO - Nothing Important Happens In The Office
- Free Software Resources
- Fundraising
- SAFE - Great and easy investment vehicle for early stage companies
- Seed Deck Template
- Online Presence
- Shopify - Great for B2C companies
- Squarespace - Easy to use
- GoDaddy - Get your domains in order
- Gmail - We use this for email, calendar, and docs - I don't think you can beat this
- Legal
- LegalZoom - Form your company
- Startup Incorporation Handbook
- Slicing Pie - Fair startup equity calculator
- Carta - Get your cap table in order, this is why that matters
- General
- Book - The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
- Startup Plan, Budget & Cost Templates
- Mailchimp - Marketing Emails and Customer Management
Startup Resources
This is a list of resources that I compiled throughout my startup journey. I will add more as time permits. Last updated: December 5th, 2023