StartupResources.io Blog

In this syndicated post, Steve Blank reminds founders who've taken funding that they need to look for potential acquirers and lays out a strategy for doing this without obsessing about it. [read more]

Valentino Urbano's inspiring story of how he launched Free My Desktop on Product Hunt. [read more]

When you need to add a technologist to your founding team of domain experts, how do you go about finding the right person? [read more]

In this syndicated post, Steve Blank lays out everything you need to know about marketing communications. [read more]

Infographic about the tools your startup should probably use, and why. [read more]

In this quick and dirty guide, you get a simple set of steps you can take, if you fit a profile like many small businesses and startups, to become compliant enough with the GDPR to avoid fines, to treat your users fairly under the new regulation, and to work towards fuller compliance over time as the regulation gets interpreted and more best practices get established. [read more]

In honor of our issue #100, here are the 100 tools so far that made it to be tool of the week. [read more]

In this blog post, we'll focus on pitching in general, i.e. the art of promoting your startup through an in-person presentation, and on the type of material you would include in a pitch deck if you are pitching to attract investors. [read more]

We'll talk about sales in this second installment. My recent background is from my B2B SaaS startup CrankWheel, so this and the next installment will be significantly slanted to the type of sales and marketing you do for a startup like that, but many or most of the tools and approaches will be relevant for most types of startups. [read more]

I've been building a SaaS startup for a couple of years now, and one of the things I noticed after a few months of operation is that all those small subscriptions I had for various things needed for the operation of the startup really start to add up. We have enough revenue now that those subscriptions don't matter so much, but there was a time when they were a burden, particularly since we were bootstrapping. I got to thinking whether it would be possible to build a startup stack with $0 in monthly subscriptions, and after putting together a list of the various tools we've been using, and looking for replacements for some of them where you can avoid the monthly subscription, I figured that this would be quite doable. [read more]

9 Tactical Tips on how??to be #1 on Product Hunt all day Last Friday, my site StartupResources.io, a collection of categorized tools for Startups, rode the #1 spot all day on Product Hunt. It was a long and glorious day. I wanted to share with everyone how to be #1 on Product Hunt, so that others can be successful too. But first, here are some of my stats: Unique visitors Friday: 5200 (first day on Product Hunt) Saturday: 2655 Sunday: 1826 Monday: 3637 Tuesday: 1794 Wednesday: 1006 Mailing list [read more]