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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 Getting Started Why the Lean Startup Changes Everything – Harvard Business Review The Lean LaunchPad Online C lass – FREE Y Combinator Startup School My free online Lean LaunchPad class on Udacity is here . All the Lectures and their subtitles can be downloaded for free here . Creative Commons license applies. All the Lectures and their subtitles can be downloaded for free here . Creative Commons license applies. Course for Educators is here How to Build a Web Startup – Lean Launchpad Edition How to Build a Web App – isomoprhic web app boilerplate project (Node.js + Reactjs stack) YCombinator Startup Playbook – Sam Altman How to Create a $1M Web Business – Noah Kagan Web Fundamentals – Google developers QuickMVP – test your ideas FoundersSuite – Startup Mgmt Software Startup Failure Postmortems – CBinsights The U.S. Digital Service Playbook – sheer and practical genius Whitehouse/playbook – Github The TechFAR Handbook – how to hack Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) Whitehouse/playbook – Github The TechFAR Handbook – how to hack Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) 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 Triple Crown Leadership Resources Startup Resources Lean Startup Tools and Services Startup Foundry tools list Small Business tools list Market research list Software Advice Tools of the Trade 2013 GetApp – business software reviews AlternativeTo – alternatives to expensive software AppMarketing Tools for developers Public Data Sources Startup Weekend – Launch a Startup in 54 hours Startup Monthly – Launch a Startup in a month Startup Grind – community looking to be educated, and network with the smartest startup minds 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 I also share all my syllabi, student presentations and my class lectures slides as well. Educators Training Guide 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 LaunchPad Central – the standard for Bus Model Canvas/Customer Development progress for companies/incubators/accelerators Business Model Canvas Business Model Canvas – free downloadable Canvas Tutorial on how to use the Canvas – Alex Cowan Business Model Designer – a web Canvas tool Business Model marketplace – Vizologi Mural.ly – allows distributed teams to practice Lean -Visual collaboration for creative people Canvasizer – create and edit a canvas Customer Development Product/Market Fit: the Value Proposition Canvas – Alex Osterwalder Testing Product/Market Fit: Value Proposition Canvas – Alex Osterwalder ConfirmKit – user research platform for teams and product people How to do Customer Discovery – SWNext Customer Interview Templates – Lean Startup Circle Foundersuite – software and templates for startup founders Customer Archetype/Persona template – wireframes Mapovate – map your customer journey Customer Discovery Checklist The Phases of Customer Discovery 0:28 Before Leaving the Building Pre-Planning Contacts 4:24 Customer Interview Dry Runs 0:49 Discovery is For Founders 1:30 Pass/Fail Experiments 1:32 Outside the Building Being Aggressive 1:29 Conducting a Customer Interview 1:30 Letting the Customer Interview Flow 1:37 Seizing the Opportunity and Market Type 2:50 Finding Patterns 1:50 Looking for Insights 0:58 Returning to the Building Finding Early Evangelists 1:17 Communicating Your Discoveries 2:12 How to Do Customer Discovery Interviews Conducting Customer Discovery Interviews 9:59 Founder Stories Stanford E-Corner – the motherlode of founder interviews FounderLy – Matthew Wise Website Domain Names NameSmith – Business Name generator Domainr – domain name search GoDaddy – domain names, web hosting NameCheap – cheap domain names DomainNameBrain – domain name generator & availability Create Websites Automagically How to build a website – Ray Tan Web Fundamentals – Google Marvel – design, wireframe, collaborate Miro – design, wireframe, collaborate Edicy – Create a 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 GoogleSites – simple web host provider Google tag manager – create and update tags for your website and mobile apps 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 TinaCMS – 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 WPEngine – wordpress hosting Tumblr – another blogging platform Disqus – Comments Platform Website Bounce Reduction Wunderkind – AI-powered performance marketing solutio 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 Art of Emails – prewritten sales templates RelateIQ – relationship intelligence LinkedIn Sales Solutions – find Linkedin profiles inside of Gmail Sende.rs – caller ID for email Hoovers – phone and email contacts for sale DataAxle USA – 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 Amazon Mechanical Turk – you can set up a question and get answers Using Mechanical Turk to interview 100 customer in 4 hours – Nick Soman Using Mechanical Turk to interview 100 customer in 4 hours – Nick Soman Qualaroo – target surveys, boost signups, increase usage Remesh – truth discovery platform Userinput.io – get user feedback on your projects Pollfish – Create online/mobile app surveys Upwave – Consumer feedback for any business decision Instantly – audiences and insight tools for businesses Peoplelytics – online survey creator Wufoo – create contact forms, online surveys and event registrations Typeform – forms/survey builder great U/I Formstack – Online Form Builder Formcrafts – free online form builder AYTM – Ask Your Target Market Ethnio – Recruit real people from your website for user research 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 Alchemer – 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 SogoSurvey -web surveys w/analytics Crowd Signal – quickly create surveys and polls Suncake – Free survey-maker/online questionnaire creation tool Informizely – Online customer feedback that boost conversions 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 Unbounce – create, publish & test promotion specific landing pages Instapage – create a free landing page KickoffLabs -product landing pages Ion – create landing pages that convert 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 Whatfix – create interactive web guides Apptamin – App videos and websites Grumo Media – product demo videos Loose Keys – product videos as stories BreadnBeyond – Professional Explainer Video MotifMotion – animated videos for business Piehole.tv – product demo videos Explainify – product explaining videos Demoduck – explainer videos for business Levitate – video production for businesses 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 NobleDigital – Video Ad Campaigns to drive traffic to your site Thinkmojo – animated product videos Epipheo Studios – animated product videos How to roll you own – Grumomedia Tongal – get creative work -TV commercials, social videos, music videos, branded entertainment Wistia – professional video hosting and analytics Screencasting Software Screenflow – screen recording and editing Camtasia – screen recording and video editing Screen-o-Matic – cloud recording 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 On-Line Advertising Platforms (SEO) 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? 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 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? 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 Facebook Ads DriftRock – facebook ad tools Qwaya – Facebook ad tools AdExpresso – Optimize Facebook ads DriftRock – facebook ad tools Qwaya – Facebook ad tools AdExpresso – Optimize Facebook ads Microsoft Advertsing 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 Spyfu – download competitors keywords and ads BuzzStream – link building and digital PR WordStream – competitive adword analysis 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 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 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 DoubleClick Floodlight – now owned by Googel Kissmetrics – actionable analytics MetricStory – Google analytics automatically delivered QuantcastMeasure – measure reach, traffic, frequency, demographics, interests/lifestyle, etc Comscore – ad agency/enterprise analytics AdobeAnalytics – ex Omniture Amazon Analytics – cross–platform mobile analytics reporting service for your app or game FacebookDomainInsights – provides developers and Page owners with metrics about their content HeapAnalytics – captures user action Clicks, taps, swipes, form submissions, page views and lets you measure it GetClicky – real-time web analytics Grafana – Beautiful metric & analytic dashboards for time series and metrics InfluxDB – the platform for time series data Leadlander – marketing automation analytics Segment.io – analytics API Wordtracker – find the best keywords and links Serpico – monitor your competition, backlinks & rankings WhatRunsWhere – locate and assess competitors ads and copy Chart.io – easy analytics for business data Mixpanel – real-time event tracking Mixpanel Analytics Tutorials Mixpanel Analytics Tutorials DigMyData – analytics dashboard for sales, email, social and ad marketing Crazyegg – visualize analytics Mint – site analytics Piwik – open source web analytics Visistat – web analytics measure marketing campaigns DbFace – SQL database application builder build no coding PHP or any frontend html, css Webtrends – analytics and segments Chartbeat – website analytics for doers Kontagent – user analytics for the social and mobile web Forsee – web, mobile, social, contact center analytics Woopra – real time customer and visitor analytics StatsMix – track and display internal & web metrics Keylines – amazing email visualization tool (Palantir for the rest of us) Ducksboard – very cool way to measure any online metrics Dasheroo – Business dashboards done right Cyfe – monitor social media, analytics, marketing, sales, support Mention – media and social monitoring Geckoboard – widget-driven business dashboard Grappster – dashboard for your cloud apps Leftronic – dashboard for real-time analytics Ubiq – data into dashboards PirateMetrics – track acquisition, activation, retention, referral, and revenue Recon.io – Twitter brand monitoring WhosTalkin – Social Media Search tool Diffbot – identify and extract from any web page (stealth search engine!) Kumu – track, visualize and leverage relationships IoT (Internet of Things) Analytics Tellient – the only analytics platform built specifically for the IoT First Analytics – predict time-to-failure for industrial equipment or solve complex optimization problems involving industrial IoT Uptake – IoT and data analytics company SEO for Mobile Apps MobileDevHQ – app store optimization made simple SearchManSEO – mobile SEO for IOS apps AppCodes – iOS app store optimization AppStoreRankings – mobile SEO and keyword optimization IOS SEO Tutorials – excellent primer Fuisz -makes video interactive Mobile App Store Customer Analytics / Ad Platform Amazon Mobile Analytics Amazon Simple Notification Service Amazon Mobile Analytics Google Analytics – for Mobile App Annie – Apple/Google/Amazon app store analytics Appfigures – mobile analytics and sales data HeapAnalytics – captures user action Clicks, taps, swipes, form submissions, page views and lets you measure it Mopapp – mobile analytics, sales data, rankings Distimo – Apple/Google/Amazon app store analytics Xylogics – search engine for Apple/Google/Amazon app store Apptrace – app store intelligence Swrve – Customer Loyalty, Retention, and Engagement Across Channels AskingPoint – mobile analytics with polling Flurry – mobile app analytics and traffic acquisition AppsFlyer – mobile app tracking & Attribution analytics TestFlight – IOS analytics in beta testing on the fly Apsalar – mobile apps analytics & ads Count.ly – multiplatform mobile analytics KeenIO – analytics as an API Capptain – mobile analytics + push TapStream – Marketing analytics for apps UrbanAirship – mobile engagement Crittercism – mobile app intelligence Social Listening Datarank – social listening and analytics tools Bottlenose – social listening for stream data Dataminr – transforms Twitter stream and other public datasets into actionable signals Trendspotrr – transforms social media into action DataSift – human data intelligence Salesforce Radian6 – social media monitoring platform for marketers Brand24 – social media monitoring and analytics Mobile App Location / Ad Platform / Misc Placed – location based analytics for mobile apps & websites Burstly – mobile app monetization tools Yozio – campaign tracking & viral optimization for mobile apps Tapjoy – mobile app turnkey ad platform Appbackr – market, sell and distribute your apps Chartboost – make money with mobile games Google AdMob – monitize and promote your mobile games Vungle – integrate video ads into your apps Online Marketing Suites HubSpot – online marketing and web analytics system Eloqua – marketing automation Pardot – marketing automation for multi-touch sales Silverpop – end to end marketing automation AgileCRM – CRM, Sales & marketing automation HipCricket – mobile marketing platform Infusionsoft – small business CRM and marketing automation software Performable – personable web analytics/lifecycle marketing Custora – customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value Zoho – free/cheap web customer relationship mgmt software Sharebird – Sales enablement software Highrise – small business CRM Pipedrive – sales pipeline management Zferral – affiliate and referral marketing on the web Genoo – marketing automation software Act-on – marketing automation suite Wishpond – social media marketing Intercom – CRM and web messaging tool for web apps Salestrakr – low cost CRM OntraPort – small business CRM, email management, list segmentation, marketing automation, billing, easy website building InviteBox – referral program platform Crowdtap – Influencer Marketing platform Helloworld – promotions, loyalty, mobile, live events, analytics Scaledrone – service for pushing messages to browsers Retargeting.biz – retargeting and marketing automation for commerce Content Marketing Tools ScoopIt – publishing by curation Roojoom – turn content into leads SnapApp – Content Marketing platform Milkwhale – Design Infographics Reddit – forums to which its users post How to use Reddit for Marketing – tutorial by Nick Hershey 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 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 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 Email Spam Check – another mail testing tool 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 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 Litmus – email previews and email analytics Glockapps – spam testing tools for email MailTester – test the spamyneess of your email Social Acquisition Woobox – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social sweepstakes and coupons 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 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 Apache Projects listing Stack Overflow – questions and answers for programmers StackExchange – expert answers to your questions Programmers StackExchange AskPatents StackExchange AnswersOnStartups Programmers StackExchange AskPatents StackExchange AnswersOnStartups Social Source Commons Q&A/tools for non-profit programmers Social Source blog – blog 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Skylark – configurationlanguage used in Basel Skylark – implemented in Go PHP CakePHP – a PHP open source framework CodeIgniter – open source rapid development framework for building dynamic web sites Symfony – another PHP framework Silex – PHP web micro framework based on Symofony2 Zend – yet another PHP framework Slim – PHP web Micro-framework PHP Tutorial and PHP Manual and Freaks 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 Silex – PHP web micro framework based on Symofony2 Zend – yet another PHP framework Slim – PHP web Micro-framework PHP Tutorial and PHP Manual and Freaks Python Top 15 Python Libraries for Data Science – KDnuggets WSGI tutorials (Web Server Gateway Interface) Django – high-level Python framework NumbaPro – high performance python with nvidia cuda acceleration Pycharm – Python/Django Integrated Dev Environment Fabric – django deployment tool Numpy – core library for scientific computing with Python Scipy – functions that operate on numpy arrays Twisted – implement custom network apps, event-driven networking engine written in Python Tornado – Python web framework and asynchronous networking library Web2py – Pythonweb framework Bobo – light-weight framework to create WSGI web applications for python Bottle – lightweight WSGI micro web-framework for Python CherryPy – minimalist Python web framework Flask – microframework for Python based on Werkzeug, Jinja 2 Pyramid -microframework for Python itty-bitty – itty-bitty Python web framework web.py – web framework for Python WheezyWeb – lightweight, high performance, high concurrency WSGI web framework 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 Scipy – functions that operate on numpy arrays Twisted – implement custom network apps, event-driven networking engine written in Python Tornado – Python web framework and asynchronous networking library Web2py – Pythonweb framework Bobo – light-weight framework to create WSGI web applications for python Bottle – lightweight WSGI micro web-framework for Python CherryPy – minimalist Python web framework Flask – microframework for Python based on Werkzeug, Jinja 2 Pyramid -microframework for Python itty-bitty – itty-bitty Python web framework web.py – web framework for Python WheezyWeb – lightweight, high performance, high concurrency WSGI web framework Ruby Ruby on Rails – open source framework for Ruby Capistrano – Rails deployment tool NewRelic – manage and tune website performance for Rails Cuba – web micro-framework for Ruby Rack – Ruby Webserver interface EventMachine – simple event-processing library for Ruby programs Ruby on Rails Tutorial – Michael Hartl Ruby on Rails Guides – great tutorials RailsCasts – Ruby on Rails Screencasts Why’s (Poignant) Gude to Ruby – intro to Ruby with chunky bacon Tech*if*er0*urs – blog on roadmap for learning rails HelloRuby – teach kids how to learn Ruby RubyWizardry – another teach kids how to learn Ruby Sinatra – Ruby web microframework Padrino – web micro-framework for Ruby Ruby on Rails – open source framework for Ruby Capistrano – Rails deployment tool NewRelic – manage and tune website performance for Rails Cuba – web micro-framework for Ruby Rack – Ruby Webserver interface EventMachine – simple event-processing library for Ruby programs Ruby on Rails Tutorial – Michael Hartl Ruby on Rails Guides – great tutorials RailsCasts – Ruby on Rails Screencasts Why’s (Poignant) Gude to Ruby – intro to Ruby with chunky bacon Tech*if*er0*urs – blog on roadmap for learning rails HelloRuby – teach kids how to learn Ruby RubyWizardry – another teach kids how to learn Ruby Capistrano – Rails deployment tool NewRelic – manage and tune website performance for Rails Cuba – web micro-framework for Ruby Rack – Ruby Webserver interface EventMachine – simple event-processing library for Ruby programs Ruby on Rails Tutorial – Michael Hartl Ruby on Rails Guides – great tutorials RailsCasts – Ruby on Rails Screencasts Why’s (Poignant) Gude to Ruby – intro to Ruby with chunky bacon Tech*if*er0*urs – blog on roadmap for learning rails HelloRuby – teach kids how to learn Ruby RubyWizardry – another teach kids how to learn Ruby Sinatra – Ruby web microframework Padrino – web micro-framework for Ruby 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 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 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 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 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 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 Learn Clojure – clojure tutorial Adobe ColdFusion AdobeColdFusion – application server offers to build and deploy web and mobile applications 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 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 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 Rust for Rubyists Rust language tutorial – MIT 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 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 Push Notifications 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 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 Xcdode Overview iOS Developer Library iOS Simulator – prototype and test builds of your app Internationalization and Localization Cryptographic Services iCloud For Developers CloudKit – stores structured app and user data in iCloud 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 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 Programming Guide Watchkit apps Designing for the Apple Watch UI Elements Icon and Image Sizes Icon and Image Sizes Homekit Intro to Homekit Intro to Homekit ResearchKit Programming Guide Code on GitHub Programming Guide Metal – Apple GPU API for iOS Metal Programming Guide Metal Framework Metal Programming Guide Metal Framework tvOS tvOS developer library tvOS SDK and beta tvOS developer library tvOS SDK and beta Android Development Building your first Android App Developer Registration 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 Intro to Android IntelliJ IDEA – Foundation for Android Studio Development Workflow 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 Google Play Services Distribution Distribution Options 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 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 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 All Azure Products Azure Virtual Machines – cloud Linux and Windows virtual machines Azure App Service – cloud platform to build web and mobile apps Azure SQL database – cloud database as a service for app developers Azure DocumentDB – NoSQL service for distributed apps Azure storage – non-relational data storage including Blob Storage, Table Storage, Queue Storage, and Files in the cloud Azure HDInsight – managed Apache Hadoop, Spark, R, HBase, and Storm cloud service ASP.Net – Microsoft official site ASP.NetMVC – model view controller Microsoft site Machine Learning/Deep Learning/Data Science Machine Learning Tutorials Amazon Machine Learning University What I Learned From 200 Machine Learning Tools – Chip Huyen Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2018 – fast.ai Introducing Pytorch – 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 supporting code for the videos Hackers Guide to Neural Networks – Andrej Karpathy Recurrent 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 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) 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 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 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 capabilities deprecated and will be shut down on April 30, 2018 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 Tensorflow Tutorials (tensorflow.org) Introduction to TensorFlow — CPU vs GPU (medium.com/@erikhallstrm) TensorFlow: A primer (metaflow.fr) TensorFlow Fold – dynamic computation graps TensorFlow Research Cloud – Access to Google’s Cloud TPUs SyntaxNet – most accurate Natural Language parser TF Learn (aka Scikit Flow) – simplified interface for TensorFlow Cloud Machine Learning Services – neural net-based ML service Cloud Machine Learning Engine – managed service to build machine learning models Cloud Jobs – job search and discovery for the talent industry Cloud Video Intelligence – videos searchable/discoverable, by extracting metadata with a REST API Cloud Vision API – Image classifier in an REST API Cloud Speech API – Speech recognizer, convert audio to text Cloud Natural Language API – extract information, understand sentiment in text documents, news blogs Cloud Translation API – translate an arbitrary string into any supported language Google Prediction API – provides pattern-matching and machine learning capabilities deprecated and will be shut down on April 30, 2018 Cloud Machine Learning Engine – managed service to build machine learning models Cloud Jobs – job search and discovery for the talent industry Cloud Video Intelligence – videos searchable/discoverable, by extracting metadata with a REST API Cloud Vision API – Image classifier in an REST API Cloud Speech API – Speech recognizer, convert audio to text Cloud Natural Language API – extract information, understand sentiment in text documents, news blogs Cloud Translation API – translate an arbitrary string into any supported language Google Prediction API – provides pattern-matching and machine learning capabilities deprecated and will be shut down on April 30, 2018 PyTorch – deep-learning framework from Facebook PyTorch Tutorials – pytorch.org A Gentle Intro to PyTorch – gaurav.im Tutorial: Deep Learning in PyTorch – iamtrask.github.io PyTorch Examples – github.com/jcjohnson PyTorch Tutorial – github.com/MorvanZhou PyTorch Tutorial for Deep Learning Researchers – github.com/yunjey 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 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 Azure Machine Learning Tutorial – microsoft start guide to R for Azure Machine Learning – 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 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 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 Cunn – examples to train classifiers over ImageNet Yahoo Webscope – machine learning datasets Yahoo newsfeed dataset – 1.5TBytes Yahoo image 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 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 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-convnet 2: 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 CUDA toolkit – NVIDIA intro to CUDA programming – NVIDIA cuDNN – GPU-accelerated library of primitives for deep neural networks cuda-convnet 2: 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 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 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 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 Visualizations of SNAP networks SparkBeyond – predictive analytics Revolution R – statistic programming language Kaggle – competitions, predictive analysis, tutorials CrowdAnalytix – Crowdsourced analytics DrivenData – crowdsourced statistical model for difficult predictive social problems MLcomp – compare machine learning programs across various datasets for multiple problem domains Dato – build intelligent apps fast with the power of Dato’s machine learning platform Z3 Theorem Prover – open source Sirius – open source intelligent personal assistant, image/speech Pachyderm – containerized data analytics PredictionIO – an open-source machine learning server – create predictive engines for production environments (Spark, HBase, and Spray) Datameer – end-to-end big data analytics application purpose-built for HadoopInSpread – sophisticated analysis even if you’re not a data scientist Yhathq – predictive models and data-science in a box Palantir – large scale data fusion analytics and visualization Data Robot – nontraditional consulting firm that gets clients up and running quickly and makes them self-sufficient with predictive modeling platform (R, Python, Hadoop, Spark) Popily – go from spreadsheets to discoveries while you grab a cup of coffee Deep Learning/Machine Learning/Data Science Blogs Another word for it – Patrick Durusau Another word for it – Patrick Durusau Data Science/Big Data Analytics / Log Management Anaconda – enterprise data science platform – 200 data science Python libraries rStudio – professional software for R 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 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 vision library SimpleVC – open source computer vision Python library FastCV – Qualcomm computer vision library for ARM Scikit – open source image processing in Python PhaseStretchTransform – Jalali Labs at UCLA ImageNet – easily accessible image database for researchers organized according to the WordNet hierarchy ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Contest – largest academic challenge in computer vision 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 VMX – real-time object detection and recognition system Kitware – open source image and video retrieval platforms KWIVER – support for Kitware – 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 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 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 SCfaceDB Landmarks – facial recognition landmarks CMU Multi-pie – Face database Facenet – A Unified Embedding for Face Recognition and Clustering Yale Face database B – 16128 images of 28 human subjects under 9 poses and 64 illumination conditions Adience – 26,580 images, 2,284 individuals, classified for 8 age groups, gender and FaceScrub – A Dataset With Over 100,000 Face Images of 530 People LFW3D and Adience3D sets Indian Movie Face database (IMFDB) -unconstrained face database consisting of 34512 images of 100 Indian actors Labeled Wikipedia Faces (LWF) – 8.5k faces for about 1.5k identities 10k US Adult Faces Database – 10,168 natural face photographs Denver Intensity of Spontaneous Facial Action (DISFA) Database stereo videos of 27 adults BU-3DFE Database (Static Data) – 100 subjects with 2,500 facial expression models. BU-4DFE Database (Dynamic Data) – 606 3D facial expression sequences captured from 101 subjects, with a total of approximately 60,600 frame models. BP4D-Spontanous Database – 41 participants (Each participant is associated with 8 tasks. DMCSv1 Database – 3D Face and Hand Scans CAFE – The Child Affective Face Set- 1200 photographs 100 children 2-8) making 7 different facial expressions UFI – Unconstrained Facial Images – images extracted from photographs of the Czech News Agency Text Analysis Tools/Natural Language Platforms A Primer on Neural Network Models for Natural Language Processing – Yoav Goldberg The Definitive Guide to Natural Language Processing – monkeylearn.com Introduction to Natural Language Processing – algorithmia.com Natural Language Processing Tutorial – vikparuchuri.com Natural Language Processing (almost) from Scratch – arxiv.org Deep Learning applied to NLP – arxiv.org Deep Learning for NLP (without Magic) – Richard Socher Glue – (General Language Understanding Evaluation) a single-number metric that summarizes language understanding SuperGlue – benchmark styled after GLUE with a new set of more difficult language understanding tasks Google BERT – the game changer for NLP! BERT – Github – Bidirectional E ncoder R epresentations from T ransformers 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 BERT – Github – Bidirectional E ncoder R epresentations from T ransformers 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 G PT-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 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 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 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 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 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 Guide to different government acquisitions programs Resource in Silicon Valley that helps startups get SBIR funds 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 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. 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 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 p rimer AWS in plain english – great guide to all AWS services Amazon Web Services very basic p rimer 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 Amazon Polly – service that turns text into lifelike speech Amazon Lex – service for building conversational interfaces using voice and text Amazon Rekognition – service that makes it easy to add image analysis to your applications Amazon Machine Learning – create machine learning models without having to learn complex ML algorithms and technology Amazon EMR – run Hadoop framework across dynamically scalable Amazon EC2 instances Apache Spark on Amazon EMR – in-memory distributed compute engine that speeds analysis on large-scale data up to 100X engine Amazon CloudFront – content delivery network & streaming Amazon Elastic File System AWS Import/Export Snowball AWS Storage Gateway AWS Database Migration Service Amazon DynamoDB Amazon ElastiCache Amazon Redshift AWS Direct Connect Elastic Load Balancing Amazon Route 53 AWS CodePipeline AWS Command Line Tool Amazon CloudWatch AWS CloudFormation AWS Command Line Tool AWS Management Console AWS Service Catalog Trusted Advisor AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) AWS Certificate Manager AWS Directory Service Amazon Inspector AWS Key Management Service Amazon Athena – interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using SQL. AWS Glue – managed ETL service AWS Data Pipeline Amazon Elasticsearch Service Amazon Redshift Amazon QuickSight Amazon Lumberyard Amazon API Gateway AWS Device Farm Amazon Mobile Analytics AWS Step Functions – coordinate the components of distributed applications and microservices using visual workflows Amazon API Gateway Amazon AppStream – – stream resource intensive applications and games from the cloud Amazon CloudSearch Amazon Elastic Transcoder Amazon WorkSpaces Amazon WorkDocs – secure enterprise storage and sharing service-Dropbox competitor Amazon WorkMail AWS Marketplac e – – find and buy server software Google Cloud Platform – Google’s cloud solution Compute – From virtual machines to a fully managed app development platform Compute Engine – – Google virtual machines in the cloud App Engine – – Googles version of a cloud solution Container Engine – run Docker containers on Google Container Registry – private Docker image storage on Google Cloud Cloud Functions – serverless platform for building event-based microservices Big Data Cloud Dataflow – batch & stream big data processing Cloud DataLab – interactive tool for large-scale data exploration, analysis, and visualization BigQuery – fully managed data warehouse for large-scale data analytics CloudDataproc – Managed Spark, Pig, Hive and Hadoop in the Cloud Cloud Datalab – interactive tool for large-scale data exploration, analysis, and visualization Cloud Pub/Sub – global service for real-time and reliable messaging and streaming data Genomics – efficiently process petabytes of genomic data Storage and Databases – Scalable, resilient, high performance object storage and databases for apps Google SQL – Googles version of MySQL in the cloud Cloud Storage – object storage service with global edge-caching Cloud Datastore – managed, NoSQL, schemaless database Cloud BigTable – SQL-like queries against multi-terabyte datasets Persistant Disk – block storage for the Google Cloud Platform. Machine Learning Cloud Machine Learning – Managed scalable machine learning platform Cloud Vision API – image analysis tools Cloud Speech API – speech tools convert audio to text recognizes over 80 languages Cloud Translate API – translate into thousands of language pairs Natural Language API – machine learning models in a REST API Networking – software-defined networking products on Google’s private fiber network. Cloud Virtual Network – Managed networking for your Cloud Platform resources Cloud Load Balancing – scalable load balancing on Google Cloud Cloud CDN – Low-latency content delivery using Google’s network Cloud Interconnect – Connect your infrastructure to Google’s network edge Cloud DNS – low-latency DNS serving from Google’s network Identity & Security – Control access and visibility to resources running protected by Google’s security model. Cloud IAM -Fine-grained access control and visibility for centrally managing cloud resources Cloud Resource Manager Cloud Security Scanner Monitoring Logging Management Tools – Monitoring, logging, and diagnostics Stackdriver Overview Error Reporting Trace Debugger Deployment Manager Cloud Console Cloud Shell Cloud Mobile App Billing API Developer Tools – command-line interface tools Cloud SDK Deployment Manager Cloud Source Repositories Cloud Endpoints Cloud Tools for Android Studio Cloud Tools for IntelliJ Google Plug In for Eclipse Cloud Test Lab 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 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 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. 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 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 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 Cloud IAM -Fine-grained access control and visibility for centrally managing cloud resources Cloud Resource Manager Cloud Security Scanner Management Tools – Monitoring, logging, and diagnostics Stackdriver Overview Error Reporting Trace Debugger Deployment Manager Cloud Console Cloud Shell Cloud Mobile App Billing API Stackdriver Overview Error Reporting Deployment Manager Cloud Mobile App Developer Tools – command-line interface tools Cloud SDK Deployment Manager Cloud Source Repositories Cloud Endpoints Cloud Tools for Android Studio Cloud Tools for IntelliJ Google Plug In for Eclipse Cloud Test Lab Deployment Manager Cloud Source Repositories Cloud Endpoints Cloud Tools for Android Studio Cloud Tools for IntelliJ Google Plug In for Eclipse Cloud Test Lab Windows Azure – Microsoft Cloud Platform Scalr – cloud management tool mcrouter – facebook memcached protocol router for scaling memcached deployments Joyent – high performance cloud – Infrastructure as a Service Rackspace – Managed and cloud hosting- Infrastructure as a Service Rackspace Cloud Tools marketplace 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 Docker Distribution – open source registry Docker Hub – Container Image Registry/Repository OneOps – Walmart open source cloud management and application lifecycle management platform 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Coreos – linux for massive server deployments – shared configuration and service discovery Red Hat Project Atomic Orchestration Configuration AWS CloudFormation Google Cloud Deployment Manager Data center orchestration and configuration management tools Puppet – configuration management system Chef – configuration management system Saltstack – cloud orchestration, server provisioning, configuration management Ansible – Redhat configuration management, app deployment Spinnaker – Google cloud continuous delivery CFEngine – IT infrastructure automation NixOS – Linux configuration management system Apache Nifi – dataflow system (directed graphs of data routing, transformation, and system mediation logic) Apache Flume – collect, aggregate and move large amounts of streaming event data Apache Camel – define routing and mediation rules

Apache Kafka – high-throughput distributed messaging system Apache Taverna – design and execute workflows IBM Streams/DISTILLERY – platform for near-real-time streaming analytics NoSQL Databases Mining Massive Data Sets – awesome tutorial/text free Intro to Hadoop and MapReduce – Udacity Free class Data Analysis class – Coursera free class NoSQL list – start here for a list Hadoop – distributed processing of large data sets across clusters Apache Pig – platform for creating MapReduce programs Apache Hive – data warehouse for Hadoop Apache HBase – distributed database modeled after Google’s BigTable Apache Phoenix – massively parallel database layer on top of Apache HBase Apache Spark – cluster computing framework Apache ZooKeeper – distributed configuration service, synchronization service, and naming registry Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) – Hosted Hadoop framework HortonWorks – enterprise Hadoop HortonWorks Sandbox – personal, portable Hadoop environment with a dozen Hadoop tutorials 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 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 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 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 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 SourceLair – cloud coding platform C, Python, Ruby and API WebBiscuits – framework for web apps for smartphones and tablets Best free programming books CodeAcademy – learn to code Webkit – build your own browser Webkit Tutorial – Paul Irish 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 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 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. 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 Asset Management MediaValet – for agencies, creatives, enterprise Celum – digital and video asset mgmt. Canto Cumulus – digital asset mgmt Brandworkz – share marketing content, create and edit artwork, collaborate ThirdLight – digital asset mgmt Bynder – digital asset mgmt and image bank WebDam – cloud digital asset mgmt FileCamp – SaaS media asset mgmt Cloudinary – cloud based image mgmt PicturePark – enterprise digital asset mgmt IntelligenceBank – brand and digital asset mgmt DAM Guru – digital asset mgmt free community Worldwide List of Crypto products – Bruce Schneier 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 FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors Venmo – make and share payments on your phone 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 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 FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors Venmo – make and share payments on your phone Bitcoin/ Crypto Currencies WTF is Blockchain ? – Ozy Curated list of Blockchain resources What is an Initial Coin Offering ? – Bob Mason Balaji S. Srinivasan — Thoughts on Tokens Fred Wilson — ICOs and VCs here , Ethereum in 25 minutes , Polychain Joel Menegro — Fat Protocols Nick Tomaino — Cryptoeconomics 101 , Some Blockchain Reading , Tokens, Tokens and More Tokens Fred Ehrsam — The dApp Developer Stack Albert Wenger — Crypto Tokens and the Coming Age of Protocol Innovation Chris Dixon posts and podcasts — Crypto Tokens: A Breakthrough in Open Network Design , podcast with Vitalik Buterin , podcast with Olaf Carlson-Wee Regulatory discussions — Coincenter WTF is Blockchain ? – Ozy Curated list of Blockchain resources What is an Initial Coin Offering ? – Bob Mason Balaji S. Srinivasan — Thoughts on Tokens Fred Wilson — ICOs and VCs here , Ethereum in 25 minutes , Polychain Joel Menegro — Fat Protocols Nick Tomaino — Cryptoeconomics 101 , Some Blockchain Reading , Tokens, Tokens and More Tokens Fred Ehrsam — The dApp Developer Stack Albert Wenger — Crypto Tokens and the Coming Age of Protocol Innovation Chris Dixon posts and podcasts — Crypto Tokens: A Breakthrough in Open Network Design , podcast with Vitalik Buterin , podcast with Olaf Carlson-Wee Regulatory discussions — Coincenter bitcoin.org – Official Bitcoin website Enter the block chain Categories of Bitcoin apps – Chris Dixon The Bitcoin Application Stack – Joel Monegro Bitcoin Mining – tutorial Bitcoin Block Chain – tutorial Bitcoin Developers Guide -tutorial Enter the block chain Categories of Bitcoin apps – Chris Dixon The Bitcoin Application Stack – Joel Monegro Bitcoin Mining – tutorial Bitcoin Block Chain – tutorial Bitcoin Developers Guide -tutorial Ethereal – Blockchain app platform – like Bitcoin w/o the arguments Counterparty – financial tools built with Bitcoin Coingate – cryptocurrency payment company coinbuzz.com – Bitcoin news coinbase.com – Bitcoin Payment processor Chain.com – enterprise Bitcoin infrastructure Toshi – open source Bitcoin node OpenBazaar – decentrailized peer-to-peer marketplace for trading with anyone with Bitcoin Lazooz – crypto currency for real-time ride sharing bitpay.com – Bitcoin Payment processor WeUseCoins – accept Bitcoins as payment Stellar – decentralized protocol for sending and receiving money in any pair of currencies bitpay.com – Bitcoin Payment processor Coinmarketcap – Crypto-Currency Market Capitalizations Coincenter – public policy issues on Bitcoin Billing/Invoicing 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Coworking Directory of spaces Google Apps – cloud mail server, calendar, docs, etc. 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 ezClocker – small business employee 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 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 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 Part 1 Ideation 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 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 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 RISC-V tools – on github Chisel – open source hardware construction language for writing Scala programs that generate hardware MCL86 – 8088/8086 implemented in a Xlinix FPGA Robotics/Drones ROS – Robot Operating System – open source framework for writing robot software Ros Software Artoo – Ruby micro-framework for robotics based on sinatra Gazebo – 3d Robot simulation software MRPT – Mobile robotics C++ libraries OpenPilot – Open Source UAV autopilot Paparazzi – open-source hardware and software autopilot for fixedwing & multicopters DIYDrones – community for amateur UAV’s QGroundControl – open source UAV ground control operator station DroneDeploy – outsourced drones Navio+ – raspberry pi autopilot Dronebase – Get imagery & video via drone Prandtl – physics-based CAD for drones Software Defined Radio (SR) HackRF SDR Tutorial – great intro to SDR 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 GqrxSDR – open source SDR built on GNU Radio GRSatellites – GNU Satellite telemetry decoders built on GNU Radio NooElec – $20 USB RTL-SDR Receiver R820T2 tuner 25MHz-1750MHz HDSDR – freeware Software Defined Radio (SDR) for Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10. HDSDR on OSX – freeware Software Defined Radio (SDR) for Mac OS X ETTUS Research – hardware for software defined radio HackRF – software defined radio 10 MHz to 6 GHz HackRF One – software defined radio half-duplex transceiver, 1 MHz – 6 G Hz rad10 – SDR half-duplex transceiver, 50 MHz – 4 G Hz works with HackRF HackRF One – software defined radio half-duplex transceiver, 1 MHz – 6 G Hz rad10 – SDR half-duplex transceiver, 50 MHz – 4 G Hz works with HackRF OsmoSDR – Software based small form-factor inexpensive Software Defined Radio LimeSDR – open source SDR Nuanced – USB 3.0 software defined radio 300MHz – 3.8GHz FUNCube dongle – software defined radio 150kHz to 1.9GHz BladeRf x40 – low-cost USB 3.0 Software Defined Radio Ethos Research – software defined radio development platforms SDR Showdown – HackRF vs bladeRF vs USRP tutorial FlexRadio – software defined radio for ham operators LoRa Alliance – low power wide area network Sigfox – cellular tech for IoT Ingenu – dedicated IoT connection Beep Networks – real world data to the cloud RTL-SDR – news and projects blog GNURadioCompanion – a graphical tool for creating signal flow graphs and generating flow-graph source code 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 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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 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 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 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 MPCore 4 @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 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 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 MPCore 4 @up to2.36GHz + ARM Mali-G72 MP12 GPU + 6GB RAM, 32GB flash 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 MPCore 4 @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 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 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. 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Custom Circuit Boards – Printed circuit board manufacturer (USA) for prototype and production quantities GlobalSources.com Sourcing in China Smart China Sourcing SupplyBetter – find contract manufacturer for custom mechanical parts, by analyzing CAD drawings 3d Printer guide – hubs 3D printer features/price Comparison 3D Printer Price Comparison – Prusa 3D Printers – daVinci 3D Printers – XYZ Corp Dremel Idea Printer – makerbot – Replicator2 3d printer Thingiverse – 3d designs for makerbot Thingiverse – 3d designs for makerbot HyRel3D – affordable LulzBot – open source 3D printers RepRap – Lulzbot open source 3d printer Taz 4 – Open Source Hardware 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 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 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 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 GrabCAD model library – open source CAD files available for different software like Solid Works, SolidEdge, Autodesk Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting – awesome 3D Printing Services Hubs – order custom parts Spark – Autodesks open and free 3D printing platform NIH 3D Print Exchange – biomedical 3d printable files and resources NIH biomedical 3D printable models 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 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 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. 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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 Kansas City, MO Jackson, MI – open data Canada – open data Edmonton – open data Vancouver – open data British Columbia Education Policies – state by state Solar & Renewables Open Data DSIRE – Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Energy Efficiency SEPA – Solar Electric Power Association SEIA – Solar Energy Industries Association ASES – American Solar Energy Society NCAR – Climate data sets Reegle – Clean energy open portal EnergyStar – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) program Clean Energy – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) program DOE Wind Program – U.S. Dept of Energy DOE Solar Program – U.S. Dept of Energy DOE Efficiency & Renewables Program – U.S. Dept of Energy DOE Alternate Fuels Program -U.S. Dept of Energy DOE Green Power Network – U.S. Dept of Energy Weather data – 2100 locations Other Governments Open Data List of open government/country data sites – Start Here Data.UN – open United Nations Data DataPortal – Open data for the E.U. OpenData.gc – Open Canadian data Data.gov.UK – Open UK data Singaporedata.gov – Open Singapore data ChineseGovt – Open China data ItalyOpen – Open Italian data Helsinki Developer Portal – Open Helsinki data DataOne – Open HongKong data Datos.gov – Open Columbian data Datos.gob.es – Open Spanish data Data.norge.nos – Open Norway data OpenAid – Open Swedish data Swedish statistical data 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 Databib – research data repository Datacite – research data repository Figshare – research data repository Reddit Datasets – research data repository Datahub -CKN tool for managing and publishing collections of data CERN Open Data – do your own search for the Higgs Boson 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 ownership FindtheCompany: BestIncomeStatements – compare company income statements FindtheCompany: BestIPOs – compare company IPOs FindtheData – general data Remix – open data transit planning General Transit Feed Specification – common format for public transportation schedules & GIS 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 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 USGS_EROS_Ortho – orthorectified digital aerial photographs and satellite imagery Mobile Atlas Creator – create offline atlases for GPS handhelds and cell phone apps TopoMaps – USGS maps on iPhone Genomic/BioMed Data Ensemble – Genome browser 1000 Genomes – Ensembl v73 databases contain the majority of the 1000 genomes phase1 variants Jim Watsons DNA sequence CRCNS – computational neuroscience data sets Public or University library Resources : Standard & Poor’s Industry Surveys Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries , Gale Research Encyclopedia of American Industries , Gale Research Encyclopedia of Associations , Gale Research (find Trade Associations) Harris InfoSource Business Directory Lifestyle Market Analyst, SRDS – used for collecting psychographic data Market Research Resources Online U.S. Clusters – find local clusters of innovation FindTheCompany – corporate and organization data IOS / Android Market Size – Installed base Crunchbase – tech company/people database Edsurge – educational software Facebook demographics – strategy labs ChangeDetection – know when any web page changes SEC EDGAR – research on public U.S. firms MarketReseach.com – Retailer of private market research reports ZapData.com – Dun & Bradstreet offers free statistical industry data Thomas – find any company in any industry BizStats.com – free business statistics and financial ratios SBDC – National Information Clearinghouse of the U.S. Small Business Administration Encyclopedia of Associations U.S. Bureau of the Census EASI – estimated demographic statistics within a user-specified radii for any address Claritas – psychographic information and analysis of zip code areas Standard and Poors – Industry Surveys International Trade Statistics – NVCA – venture capital industry data PWC MoneyTree – more venture capital data Chemical Industry data FDA News – medical device and drug data/news Asymco – great market intelligence blog Starting and Running a Startup Advice Best Startup Advice CBInsights – best overall startup/vc data Encyclopedia of Startup advice in tweets – Peter Szymanski, Silicon Valley Counsel Fred WIlson MBA Mondays – worth reading through all of these Best of Y-Combinator Startup Advice Tom Eisenmann Platform & Networks – Harvard Business School Uber list of Startup Resources – Legal, Equity, etc . – Bottom Line Law Group 16 Startup Metrics – Andreesen Horowitz 16 more startup Metrics – – Andreesen Horowitz 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 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 117 most active corporate VC’s – CB Insights VC’s Focused on Commercializing University Technology M34 Capital – in Berkeley Osage Partners – in Princeton IP Group – in the UK Allied Minds – in Boston 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 Incubator List/ Startup Jobs List of Startup Incubators FindTheBest Incubators A Quora list of Incubators Lunch with Entrepreneurs Techcofounder – find a technical cofounder Founder Dating – find a cofounder Advice on Raising Startup Capital The founders guide to understanding investors – Anuj Abrol What every founder should know about liquidity – steve blank The optimal seed round strategy – tom tunguz How much should I raise in an Angel Round in 2015 – calacanis The “Doubling Model” for Fundraising – Fred Wilson Raising Capital 2016 – Sam Altman Y Combinator Raising Capital 2014 – Andreesen Horowitz A Guide to Seed Fundraising – Geoff Ralston Seed Fund performance – pevcbanker LinkedIn’s SeriesB Pitch – Reid Hoffman How VC’s Calculate Return on Investment – Fred Wilson FindtheBest Venture Capital Startup Valuation Advice – Mark Suster May 2011 Fundraising 101 Checklist – Walker Pitching a VC – Mark Suster Advice How VC’s Evaluate Startups – Thomvest Ventures Seed Stage Valuation Guide – Jordan Cooper Guide to Venture Debt – Bessemer Alternate Funding Ideas – Business Insider VentureFundio – let your data do your pitching Cap Tables / Valuation Cap Table Template – Fred Wilson Cap Tables Pricing Follow-on Rounds Pricing Follow-on Rounds Cap tables 101 – capshare How to make a cap table – venture hacks Captable.io – startup cap table mgmt Founder Ownership at Exit – blossom street ventures 2014 Valuation advice – AndreessenHorowitz eShares – Cab table management Eqvista – Cab table management Convertible Notes – Funders Club CapTable.io – set up your companies cap table Awesome Valuation/Equity Calculator – ownyourventure TrueEquity – Cap Table Mgmt software Capography – Cap Table Mgmt software too Simple CapTable calculator – David Miller How VC’s Calculate Valuation – Mark Suster StartupCompass – benchmark your core business metrics Venture Capital Financing MoneyTree – PricewaterhouseCoopers Fenwick and West – Venture Financing NVCA – National Venture Capital Association Venture Capital Survey – San Jose Mercury News Boilerplate Venture Funding Documents YCombinator Seed Round Documents National Venture Capital Association – model legal documents Fenwick Seed Forms Seed Round Convertible Debt Terms – Fenwick and West Gunderson Forms Orick’s Legal Documents for Startups – priceless Y Combinator SAFE ( “Simple Agreement for Future Equity” ) YCombinator – SAFE (simple agreement for future equity) YCombinator Standard Series A Term Sheet Simple Term Sheet tutorial Scott Walker Advice on Termsheet Provisions Six Documents You will See When Raising Venture Capital – Ali Rahimtula Orrick, Herrington Term Sheet Generator Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet – WSGR Docracy -Free Legal Documents ScottEdWalker – this legal blog is gold for a startup TLDRLegal – software licences explained Building/Managing Your Board Building an Effective Board – Kauffman Foundation (PDF) What makes a great independent board member? – Mark Suster Why board meetings suck Part 1 – steve blank Why board meetings suck Part 2 – steve blank LaunchPad Central – share Bus Model Canvas/Customer Development progress Seederboard – startup reporting dashboard LaunchPad Central – share Bus Model Canvas/Customer Development progress Seederboard – startup reporting dashboard Don’t Give Away Your Board Seats – steve blank Intellectual Property Advice Patents – U.S. Patent Office Trademarks – U.S. Patent Office Intellectual Property in the “Real World” – Antone Johnson “Nuts and Bolts” of Intellectual Property – Antone Johnson Intellectual Property for Startups – Mashtag Intellectual Property Basics – great tutorials from Bryce Pilz of Univ of Michigan Trademark University – Gerben Law Founder Equity Issues Guide to Startup Stock Options – Matt Cooper New hire offer spreadsheet – Matt Cooper How to evaluate a startups offer of a stock grant – Matt Cooper Existing employee stock grant calculator – Matt Cooper 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 ? 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 The Income Statement – Profit & Loss The Balance Sheet Cash Flow Statement Key Business Metrics How to Read a Financial Report , and here – Merrill Lynch Metrics/Benchmarks/Growth Great go-to-market strategy – Guy Turner Startup Growth Calculator – Trevor Blackwell Key founder/startup metrics – Tom Tunguz Key metrics for Saas startups – Tom Tunguz Building Saas startups Top Down or Bottom up? -Tom Tunguz Measuring Bookings, MRR, Revenue and Cash- Tom Tunguz The Illusions of Product/Market Fit for SaaS companies – Brad Feld Rule of 40% for a Healthy SaaS Company – Brad Feld The fundamental unit of SaaS growth -Tomasz Tunguz Modeling SaaS startup growth – Tomasz Tunguz The SaaS adventure – Neeraj Agrawal Why SAAS Startups start with SMBs and end up in the enterprise – Tomasz Tunguz Saas vs. Enterprise Churn Rates SAAS Revenue Models part 1 – David Skok Matrix Partners SAAS Revenue Models part 2- David Skok Matrix Partners SAAS Infographic – David Skok Matrix Partners Web/Mobile/Marketplace Revenue Models Startup Growth Calculator – Trevor Blackwell – awesome Inside sales metrics – Tom Tunguz Web/Mobile Revenue Models – Fred Wilson Optimal Platform Pricing Strategies – Bill Gurley Dangers of Lifetime Value formula- Bill Gurley Advertising Revenue Models – Fred Wilson Subscription Revenue Models – Fred Wilson Peer to Peer Revenue Models – Fred Wilson Transaction Processing Revenue Models – Fred Wilson Licensing Revenue Models – Fred Wilson Mobile Revenue Models – Fred Wilson Gaming Revenue Models – Fred Wilson Tech Acquisitions, cost per user – Brightside Tech Acquisitions, cost per user versus total users – Brightside Burn Rate/Balance Sheet Burn Rates: How Much ? – Fred Wilson Saas Startup Balance Sheets : cash & debt by year Product Pricing 101 for Entrepreneurs Product Pricing Wiki Page – great links to pricing models How to design Web Pricing Pages – from Smashing Magazine Royalty calculators – Arthur Lipper 250 Great SaaS Pricing pages – Benjamin Crandall What Influences Daily and Monthly Active Users (DAU/MAU) – Andrew Chen How to determine your advertising CPM rates – Andrew Chen How to solve the “cold start” problem for social products – Andrew Chen Design social products with 3 feedback loops – Andrew Chen Growing user signups with data and analytical thinking – Andrew Chen Pricing in SaaS-enabled marketplaces – Tomasz Tunguz Channel Partners Using Channel Partners – 1st Round Review Getting Acquired Trends in Startup Acquisitions – Tom Tunguz 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 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 eLearning Emergence New Schools Education Tech 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 China – Doing Business What’s the best way to do business in China ? – Dan Harris the legal basics 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 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 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 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 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 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 WantChina Times – Taiwan’s view of the PRC Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy Foreign Policy – Carnegie Endowment southseaconversation – South (China) Sea disputes China Military Books/Blogs Chinese Air and Naval Power – blog Chinese Nuclear Forces 2013 – Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Chinese Aerospace Power – Andrew S. Erickson & Lyle J. Goldstein Peoples Liberation Army Navy : Combat Systems Technology, 1949-2010 China Naval Modernization : Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities—Background and Issues for Congress Japan – Doing Business Doing a startup/business in Japan – Kalzumeus – Awesome post starting a business in Japan – Venture Japan setting up in Japan – Venture Japan Japanese distributors – Venture Japan direct sales in Japan – Venture Japan secrets of success – Venture Japan business meetings in Japan – Venture Japan Japanese business etiquette – Venture Japan Must Read Blogs Best Blogs Every Entrepreneur should read Mentorphile – Steve Bayle a mentor, from the MIT Venture Mentoring Service Top VC Blog List Fred Wilson – A VC Marc Andreessen OnStartups-Dharmesh Shah Both Sides of the Table – Mark Suster Eric Ries – Startup Lessons Learned Venture Hacks and http://twitter.com/venturehacks Venture Made Transparent Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson – Ask the VC Dharmesh Shah – On startups Josh Kopelman – Redeye VC David Hornik – VentureBlog Lean LaunchPad Videos This is the complete list of Launchpad Video clips created to date and sorted by topic: Mentor Training Lean LaunchPad Mentor Training UCSF General Discussion How Large Will You Scale? (03:03) TC UCB What If You’re a Visionary? – Risks & Rewards (4:53) SL UCSF Your Startup: Do You Want to Spend 3 to 4 Years Doing This? (5:14) TC UCSF Don’t Let the MVP Limit Your Vision (03:40) TC UCB Customer Discovery “It Saved Us Several Years ” (1:45) SL UCSF Stop Telling Yourself What You Want to Believe (1.39) SL UCSF Narrowing the Focus (1:21) SL UCSF Why PI’s and Founders Need to Get Out of the Building (2:15) SL UCSF “This Was the Best Outcome” (2:50) SL UCSF Getting to the “Better Idea” Faster (3:59) SL UCSF Insights on: Does Customer Development Work in Therapeutics? (6:11) UCSF The Phases of Customer Discovery (0:37) CD Before Leaving the Building Pre-Planning Contacts (4:34) CD Customer Interview Dry Runs (0:49) CD Discovery is for Founders (1:30) CD Pass/Fail Experiments (1:32) CD Outside the Building Rules of Customer Interviews Being Aggressive (1:29) CD Conducting a Customer Interview (1:30) CD Letting the Customer Interview Flow (1:37) CD Sizing the Opportunity (2:50) CD Finding Patterns (1:50) CD Looking for Insights (0:58) CD Early Mistakes to Avoid Death by PowerPoint (1:42) CD Death by Demo 1 (2:18) CD Death by Demo 2 (1:45) CD Understanding the Problem (3:22) CD Multi-Person Interview (2:03) CD Assuming You Know (1:56) CD B-to-B to C (2:15) CD Existing vs. New Markets (5:29) CD Asking the Right Question (2:37) CD Public Interviews (2:11) CD Understanding What the Customer Is Telling You Engaging the Customer (3:37) CD Customer Empathy (2:25) CD The Distracted Customer (3:12) CD Customers Lie (2:37) The User, the Buyer & the Saboteur (2:24) CD Back in the Building Extracting Insight from Data (2:59) CD Pay Attention to Outliers (2:16) CD Getting the MVP Right (3:34) CD The “Other 85%” (2:32) CD Finding Early Evangelists (1:17) CD Communicating Your Discoveries (2:26) CD Value Proposition Pivoting…or Groping for a Business Model? (02:37) TC UCB Seduced by Insufficient Data (02:34) TC UCB Customer Relationships Insights on: Customer Relationships – Week 4 (12:00) UCSF Use Customers to Find More Customers (02:22) TC UCB Customer Conversion (03:22) TC UCB Customer Segments Insights on: Customer Segments – Week 2 (12:43) UCSF Estimating Market Size (01:49) SL UCB Customer Workflow (02:10) SL UCB Customer Discovery / Customer Archetype (04:04) SL UCB Customer Archetypes; Hypotheses & Experiments (03:21) SL UCB Customer Segments & Customer Archetypes (03:47) SL UCB The Fog of Entrepreneurship (03:01) TC UCB At the Start, All Your Stakeholders Are Customers (02:32) TC UCB Square Pegs & Round Holes – Mira Medicine (4:33) TC UCSF Insights on: Channels – Week 3 (14:52) UCSF Framing the Experiment (02:27) TC UCB Distribution Channels: One Data Point Is Not a Test (02:37) TC UCB Revenue Streams Value Based Pricing – “We Were Gobsmacked!” (6:43) SL UCSF Insights on: Revenue Streams – Week 5 (17:04) UCSF The Importance of Experiments (03:57) TC UCB Validating Product Pricing (03:55) TC UCB Insights on: Key Partners – Week 6 (17:08) UCSF Listen Carefully for Customer Discovery (03:20) TC UCB The Timing of Partnerships (03:46) TC UCB Key Activities & Key Resources Insights on: Science Advisory Boards (4:53) UCSF Insights on: Resources, Activities & Costs (12:26) UCSF No Laundry Lists. Just Facts! (02:43) TC UCB Accelerated Medical Diagnostics: Final Video (2:41) SL UCSF Knox: Final Video (2:17) SL UCSF Magnamosis: Final Video (2:51) SL UCSF Making Friends: Final Video (2:19) SL UCSF Mira Medicine: Final Video (2:23) SL UCSF ResultCare: Final Video (3:08) SL UCSF Tidepool.org: Final Video (3:48) SL UCSF Vitruvian Therapeutics: Final Video (8:34) SL UCSF Final Presentations Knox: Final Presentation (8:33) SL UCSF Magnamosis: Final Presentation (10:19) SL UCSF Making Friends: Final Presentation (8:38) SL UCSF Mira Medicine: Final Presentation (9:26) SL UCSF ResultCare: Final Presentation (11:34) SL UCSF Tidepool.org: Final Presentation (16:45) SL UCSF Vitruvian Therapeutics: Final Presentation (8:34) SL UCSF “Getting Your Story Straight” – David Riemer on Storytelling Story Narrative and Product Narrative (10:24) UCSF Story & Storytelling (4:35) UCSF The Power of Story (10:24) UCSF Story Structure (10:24) UCSF The Main Character (9:27) UCSF The Main Conflict (6:13) UCSF Story Challenges & Solutions (2:03) UCSF Telling a Great Story (13:16) UCSF Some of the material I have created or use in my classes does not lend itself to blogs. 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Meet Resulticks Totally integrated, built and proven to scale, Resulticks brings together a powerful audience data platform , true Omnichannel Marketing orchestration, and advanced analytics in one intuitive, flexible solution that delivers measurable business results through individualized, real-time communications. sbrewingcompany , on July 28, 2023 at 12:54 am said: Steve Blank’s compilation of tools and blogs for entrepreneurs is an invaluable resource! The comprehensive list covers everything an aspiring entrepreneur needs, from ideation to execution. I appreciate how he curates various sources, making it easier for us to access valuable insights and advice. This compilation is a true gem for anyone looking to navigate the entrepreneurial journey successfully. Thank you, Steve Blank! Loading... Reply Steve Blank’s compilation of tools and blogs for entrepreneurs is an invaluable resource! The comprehensive list covers everything an aspiring entrepreneur needs, from ideation to execution. I appreciate how he curates various sources, making it easier for us to access valuable insights and advice. This compilation is a true gem for anyone looking to navigate the entrepreneurial journey successfully. Thank you, Steve Blank! Anonymous , on May 21, 2024 at 6:55 am said: Great list. Consider adding a section under email marketing for platforms that offer all email types (blast/bulk, auto/drip, transactional, rss-to-email), like ActiveCampaign and BigMailer.io because managing bulk and transactional email in separate platforms is not ideal setup for any startups (more like legacy setup). The trend for some years has been to manage all email in a single platform. Loading... Reply Great list. Consider adding a section under email marketing for platforms that offer all email types (blast/bulk, auto/drip, transactional, rss-to-email), like ActiveCampaign and BigMailer.io because managing bulk and transactional email in separate platforms is not ideal setup for any startups (more like legacy setup). The trend for some years has been to manage all email in a single platform. Anonymous , on September 18, 2024 at 4:21 am said: Impressive list of startup tools! From Lean Startup principles to cloud computing resources, this compilation is a goldmine for entrepreneurs. Thanks for sharing such a comprehensive and valuable resource! Loading... Reply Impressive list of startup tools! From Lean Startup principles to cloud computing resources, this compilation is a goldmine for entrepreneurs. Thanks for sharing such a comprehensive and valuable resource! 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