2. Lean LaunchPad Videos Click Here

3. Founding/Running Startup Advice Click Here

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Getting Started

Lists of Tools from Others

Groups

Blogging Platforms

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

Website Bounce Reduction

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

“How Big is the Market?” Tools

“How Do I Contact Customers?” Tools

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
• Qualaroo – target surveys, boost signups, increase usage
• Fieldboom – create forms, surveys, and quizzes
• Remesh – truth discovery platform
• Userinput.io – get user feedback on your projects
• Pollfish – Create online/mobile app surveys
• Survata – Consumer feedback for any business decision
• Instantly – audiences and insight tools for businesses
• SimpleSurvey – free online survey creator
• Wufoo – create contact forms, online surveys and event registrations
• Vizir – free online questionnaires
• Typeform – forms/survey builder great U/I
• Formstack – Online Form Builder
• Formcrafts – free online form builder
• Awesomeforms – website forms
• AYTM – Ask Your Target Market
• Ethnio – Recruit real people from your website for user research
• Poplytics – online surveys and analytics
• SurveyMonkey–  granddaddy of on-line surveys
• SurveyMoz – free on-line surveys
• FormTitan – customized email notifications, customized triggers, flow & conditions
• QuestionPro – on surveys, plus templates
• SnapSurveys – online and mobile surveys
• PickFu – Instant Market feedback A/B testing, polls
• SurveyGizmo – free version, survey creation and data integration tools
• 123ContactForm – create HTML forms and surveys
• SmartSurvey – UK’s leading survey tool, complies with the Data Protection Act
• FormAssembly – Create order forms, service requests or registration forms and collect payment securely
• FluidSurvey – web/mobile/tablet surveys
• SogoSurvey -web surveys w/analytics
• PollDaddy – from the makers of WordPress, powerful reporting & filtering
• SuperSimpleSurvey – survey creator, branching, mobile ready
• SurveyNuts – Free survey-maker/online questionnaire creation tool
• Insitez – Online customer feedback that boost conversions
• Polltango – create online polls

Product Launch Tools/Landing Pages

• Great Landing Page Tutorial – ConversionXL
• LaunchRock – Create a viral “coming soon” landing page
• Prefinery– Beta and Launch Mgmt software
• LaunchEffect – WordPress Landing pages for viral launches
• Ooomf – iPhone app store build/push/launch
• Unbounce – create, publish & test promotion specific landing pages
• Instapage – create a free landing page
• KickoffLabs -product landing pages
• LaunchGator – create a viral landing page
• Lander – create a landing page in minutes
• Ion – create landing pages that convert
• Clickthroo – landing pages with split-test, segment, personalization
• WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages

Product Demo Videos

Screencasting Software

• Camtasia – screen recording and video editing
• Jing – screenshots and screencasts
• SnapzProX – mac screen capture software
• ScreenFlow – mac screen capture and effects
• Screencastify – screen video recording for Chrome
• Snagit– Chrome plugin/downloadable, they also build a ton of other software (500 person company in Michigan)
• ClipChamp – online video editor

Streaming Video Marketplace

• Periscope – live streaming video
• Meerkat –  live stream video
• Streamium – Stream live video directly to your viewers and get paid in bitcoin
• Findstringers – global freelance marketplace
• Twitch –

Traditional Media

On-Line Advertising Platforms (SEO)

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
• 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
• 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

Mobile App Store Customer Analytics / Ad Platform

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

Reddit

GrowthHacking

Social 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

Transactional Email

Email Sender Reputation

Sender Score – reputation mgmt for email senders

Email Testing

• Litmus – email previews and email analytics
• Glockapps – spam testing tools for email
• MailTester – test the spamyneess of your email

Social Acquisition

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

Gamification

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

Loyalty Programs

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

Collaboration

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

Personal Cloud Storage

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

On-line Q&A / Development Communities

User On-boarding

• UserOnboard – how web apps handle their signup experiences
• AppCues – on boarding academy

Wireframing Tools

• Read this UX tutorial first – Alan Wells
• Great list of rapid prototyping tools here – dan harrelson
• Web Starter Kit – Google
• Web Fundamentals – Google
• Figma  – team design of product mockups
• POP – Prototyping on paper for mobile phones – awesome
• Keynotopia – use PowerPoint/Keynote to create web/mobile apps – Cool!
• Lean Design – design using HTML5-editor and automatically convert it to XHTML/CSS
• Saas – CSS Extension Language
• Balsamiq– rapid wireframing tool. software mockups in minutes
  • Napkee – export Balsamiq Mockups to HTML/CSS/JS and Adobe Flex 3 at a click of a button
• Justinmind – mac/pc mobile and web highly interactive prototypes
• 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

Website/Browser Testing

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
• Google Web Fonts – open API of 613 web fonts
• Subtle Patterns – free tileable textured patterns
• Lensicle – editable royalty free stock photos
• iStock Photos – Royalty Free stock photos and images
• Canstockphoto – Royalty Free stock photos and images
  • Fotosearch – royalty-free stock photography, clip-art, and illustrations
• Fotolia – images, vectors and videos- pay as you go or subscription
• 123RF – 19 million stock photos
• GoGraph – flexible royalty free stock photography, vectors, illustrations, graphics, and stock footage
• ColorSchemeDesigner – find complementary colors
• Image Color Picker –
• ColourLovers – share colors, palettes, and patterns
• Meteor – open source platform for building web apps
• ThemeForest – site templates cheap
• Scraster– Record screen and webcam. Simple editing. Perfect for screencasts or user studies
• Microsoft WebMatrix – Web server, database, and ASP.NET and PHP
• AppMakr – Mobile Ap Creator create quick mobile apps
• EditMe – create collaborative websites
• Dropr – share your portfolio online
• GooglePageSpeed – optimize your web pages
• Launchbit – online web site class for novices
• Zencoder – online video converting/encoding/transcoding service
• Google: HTML, CSS and Javascript from the Ground Up
• Appointlet – add a scheduler to your web site
• Krita – Photoshop Alternative
• Pixelmator – Photoshop Alternative for Mac and iPad

Phone/SMS Cloud Apps

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

Photo/Video Analysis Tools

Voice Analysis Tools

Learning to Code

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

Reverse-Engineering Tools

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

Application Frameworks

• Bento – everything you need to know about web development
• BlackDuck – open source security and license mgmt
• Really Helpful Guide to technology choices – Danny Boice
• Web Application Frameworks – start here
• Comparison of Web Application Frameworks – continue here
• Visual Basic, PHP, Rails, Node.js next? – Andrew Chen
• Libraries.io – open source libraries, modules and frameworks
• Bazel – Build and test software of any size
  • Skylark – configurationlanguage used in Basel
  • Skylark – implemented in Go
• PHP
• Python
  • Top 15 Python Libraries for Data Science – KDnuggets
  • WSGI tutorials (Web Server Gateway Interface)
  • Django – high-level Python framework
  • NumbaPro – high performance python with nvidia cuda acceleration
  • Pycharm – Python/Django Integrated Dev Environment
  • Fabric – django deployment tool
  • Numpy – core library for scientific computing with Python
    • Scipy – functions that operate on numpy arrays
  • Twisted – implement custom network apps, event-driven networking engine written in Python
  • Tornado – Python web framework and asynchronous networking library
  • Web2py – Pythonweb framework
  • Bobo – light-weight framework to create WSGI web applications for python
  • Bottle – lightweight WSGI micro web-framework for Python
  • CherryPy – minimalist Python web framework
  • Flask – microframework for Python based on Werkzeug, Jinja 2
  • Pyramid -microframework for Python
  • itty-bitty – itty-bitty Python web framework
  • web.py – web framework for Python
  • WheezyWeb – lightweight, high performance, high concurrency WSGI web framework
• Ruby
• JavaScript/JScript
  • Node.js –  event-driven I/O server-side JavaScript environment based on V8
    • 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
  • Cappuccino – JS development framework
  • Turf – JavaScript library for spatial analysis
  • Grunt – Javascript task runner
    • Broccoli – build tool for applications that run in the browser
    • Gulp – streaming Build system
  • JSFiddle – preselect/add JavaScript frameworks and test your code
  • React.js – Javascript library for building user interfaces
    • Relay – Facebook framework provides data-fetching functionality for React apps
  • Breeze.js – rich data management for Javascript clients
  • Knockout.js – dynamic UI’s with Model-View-Model pattern
  • Mithril – client-side Javascript Framework
  • Ember.js – Javascript library for creating ambitious web applications
  • Handlebars – build semantic templates
  • Modernizr – javascript library with feature detection for HTML5/CSS3
  • SWFObject – embed Flash with one Javascript file
  • Baseline for front end developers – good summary
• Clojure – dynamic programming language, compiles directly to java virtual machine bytecode
• Adobe ColdFusion
  • AdobeColdFusion – application server offers to build and deploy web and mobile applications
• The Go Programming Language
• Electron – Build cross platform desktop apps with web technologies
  • PhotonKit – beautiful Electron apps using simple HTML and CSS
• Apache Thrift – cross-language services dev between C++, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, Erlang, Perl, Haskell, C#, Cocoa, JavaScript, Node.js, Smalltalk, OCaml and Delphi and others
• Polymer – web components
• Parse – cloud-based app development framework
• Drupal – open source content management platform
• Firebug – edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page
• Fiddler – Debug web traffic from any Windows-based PC, Mac or Linux system, and mobile devices
• Joomla – another open source content management system
• Learn to Code – Stanford Computer Science classes – free
• Rust – systems programming language
• 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

Android Development

Microsoft Development

Machine Learning/Deep Learning/Data Science

Machine Learning Tutorials

Machine Learning Tools

• Torch – scientific computing framework with wide support for machine learning algorithms – from Facebook
• Yahoo Webscope – machine learning 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
  • BIDMat – CPU / GPU-accelerated matrix library for data mining
• Java Libraries
• NVIDIA CUDA – parallel computing platform and programming model
• cuBLAS: GPU-accelerated version of the complete standard BLAS library
• MATLAB: Easy-to-use HPC language integrating computation, visualization, and programming
  • Deepmat – Matlab Code for Restricted/Deep Boltzmann Machines and Autoencoders
  • DeepLearningToolbox – Deep Belief Nets, Stacked Autoencoders, Convolutional Neural Nets, Convolutional Autoencoders and vanilla Neural Nets
  • ConvNet – Convolutional Neural Networks for Matlab
• cxxnet: Neural network toolkit
• ConvNetjs – Javascript library for training Deep Learning models (mainly Neural Networks) in your browser
• SigOpt – tunes machine learning algorithms with Bayesian optimization
• Probabilistic Programming for Advancing Machine Learning (PPAML)
• 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
• 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

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

Autonomous Vehicles

Speech Recognition

Computer Vision/Image Recognition/Facial recognition/biometrics

• OpenImages – Google 9million image dataset annotated URL’s over 6000 categories
• Caletch 101 – Pictures of objects belonging to 101 categories. About 40 to 800 images per category
• Great paper – Fast, Accurate Detection of 100,000 Object Classes on a Single Machine
• Clarifai -Machine Intelligence API for mobile devices
• Torch/fbcunn – examples to train classifiers over ImageNet
• Pixy – Open source vision system, connects to Arduino
• Camfind – Image Recognition API
• Sirius – open source Speech and Vision Based Intelligent Personal Assistant
• vision.ai – real-time vision servers and clusters
  • VMX – real-time object detection and recognition system
• Kitware – open source image and video retrieval platforms
  • KWIVER – support for Kitware –
• MotionDSP – GPU, realtime video enhancement and forensics
• Blogs
• 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

Facial Recognition / Biometrics

• FVC-ongoing – automated evaluation system developed to evaluate biometric algorithms
• FERET – large database of facial images
• SCface – Surveillance Cameras Face Database
• 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

Natural Language Generation

Social Mining

• Dataminr – focused on Twitter streaming I&W.  limited to 14 day retro.
• Topsy – Twitter search, monitoring and analytics
• Social Crawlytics – user influencer and content marketing tool
• Metamind – deep-learning experts for sentiment

Cyber/Behavioral/Threats

• ZeroFox – harness social data to improve information security
• RedOwl – behavioral analytics security software
• harvest.ai – find and stop attacks on your data
• Area 1 Security – combat spear-fishing attacks in a clever way
• Hyperion Gray – mass fuzzing of the internet and darknet profiles
• Fireeye – Cybersecurity and malware prevention – machine learning for intrusion detection
• Digital Stakeout – real time threat intelligence platform

Geolocation

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

Physics Engines for games/robotics

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

Simulation/Game AI Engines

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

DARPA Open Source

DOD Funding Sources

Space/NASA Open Source

Security

Cloud Services and Tools

• •  Compute – From virtual machines to a fully managed app development platform
    • 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
  • Machine Learning
  • Networking – software-defined networking products on Google’s private fiber network.
    • Cloud Virtual Network – Managed networking for your Cloud Platform resources
    • Cloud Load Balancing – scalable load balancing on Google Cloud
    • Cloud CDN – Low-latency content delivery using Google’s network
    • Cloud Interconnect – Connect your infrastructure to Google’s network edge
    • Cloud DNS – low-latency DNS serving from Google’s network
  • Identity & Security – Control access and visibility to resources running protected by Google’s security model.
    • Cloud IAM -Fine-grained access control and visibility for centrally managing cloud resources
    • Cloud Resource Manager
    • Cloud Security Scanner
    • Monitoring
    • Logging
  • Management Tools – Monitoring, logging, and diagnostics
  • Developer Tools –  command-line interface tools

• Windows Azure – Microsoft Cloud Platform
• Scalr – cloud management tool
• mcrouter – facebook memcached protocol router for scaling memcached deployments
• Joyent – high performance cloud – Infrastructure as a Service

• Rackspace – Managed and cloud hosting- Infrastructure as a Service
• 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

Container Orchestration System

• Kubernetes – Manage a cluster of Linux containers as a single system from Google
• Jenkins – open source automation server
• Docker Swarm
• Reef – library for data shuffle, group communication, aggregation, checkpointing, etc.
• Slurm – open-source workload manager designed for Linux clusters
• Mesos – distributed systems kernel up to 10,000 nodes
• Mesosphere DCOS
• Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS).
  • Mesosphere – distributed systems for data centers
  • YARN -Apache Hadoop NextGen MapReduce
  • Zookeeper – centralized service for config, naming, distributed synchronization, group services
  • Oozie – workflow scheduler for Hadoop
• Workflow Monitoring Tools
  • Hue – import/export oozie workflows
  • Ambari – web app for monitoring and controlling hadoop
  • Lipstick – graphical depiction of Apache Pig workflow
• Production Host OS

Orchestration Configuration

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

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
• 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
• 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

Kanban and Scrum Tools

• Kanban versus Scrum – description
• Kanban Tools
  • Kanban Tool – online, web-based, Kanban tool
  • KanbanFlow – free Kanban tool
  • Swift-Kanban – enterprise Kanban
  • Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board
  • LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development
  • Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool
  • CodeBeamer – Kanban and Scrum tool Application Lifecycle Management
  • Nutcache – all-in-one collaborative project management
  • Kanbanize – free Kanban software
• Scrum Tools
• 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

Cryptography

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
  • WePay –  payment API for platforms
  • E-Junkie – shopping cart plug-in for downloads and tangible goods
  • SendOwl – add a “Buy” button to your website
  • 2Checkout – accept payments globally; credit cards, paypal, debt cards
  • ShopLocket – ecommerce solution for hardware makers
  • Zombaio – billing for adult entertainment
  • Billpro – “high risk” merchant account & credit card processing
  • Braintree – online credit card merchant processing
  • Paymill – accept online payments on the web
  • FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors
  • Venmo – make and share payments on your phone

• Bitcoin/Crypto Currencies

• Ethereal – Blockchain app platform – like Bitcoin w/o the arguments
• Counterparty – financial tools built with Bitcoin
• Coingate – cryptocurrency payment company
• coinbuzz.com – Bitcoin news
• Chain.com – enterprise Bitcoin infrastructure
• Toshi – open source Bitcoin node
• OpenBazaar – decentrailized peer-to-peer marketplace for trading with anyone with Bitcoin
• Lazooz – crypto currency for real-time ride sharing
• bitpay.com – Bitcoin Payment processor
• WeUseCoins– accept Bitcoins as payment
• Stellar – decentralized protocol for sending and receiving money in any pair of currencies
• Coincenter – public policy issues on Bitcoin

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

Password Managers

Password API’s

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

Misc Office Help

Phone Systems

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
• 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

Robotics/Drones

• ROS – Robot Operating System – open source framework for writing robot 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
• 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 GHz
  • rad10 – SDR half-duplex transceiver, 50 MHz – 4 GHz works with HackRF
• OsmoSDR – Software based small form-factor inexpensive Software Defined Radio
• LimeSDR – open source SDR
• Nuanced – USB 3.0 software defined radio 300MHz – 3.8GHz
• FUNCube dongle – software defined 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

Audio

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

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

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

Electronic Prototyping

• AIY Projects – Google AI hardware kits
• UP AI Edge – low cost AI hardware kits
• Lady Ada – embedded applications and kits
• Adafruit – embedded applications and kits
• Learn AdaFruit – AdaFruit Learning System
• Arduino – open source hardware platform
  • Arduino products
  • Machina – Aduino +OBD2
  • TinyGPS – Arduino GPS/NMEA Parser
  • Pinocchio – wireless Arduino- microcontroller with WiFi, mesh networking, and battery
  • EspoTek Labrador – $29 All-in-one USB Oscilloscope, Signal Generator, Power Supply, Logic Analyzer and Multimeter
• Raspberry Pi – low cost credit-card sized computer boards
• Nvida Jetson Nano – $89 AI development board
• Sony Spresense – ioT development, GPS, ARM Cortex uses Arduino IDE or NuttX SDK
• Other inexpensive ARM Boards
• Sparkfun –  general components
• Snapdragon – Qualcomm
• Spark – hackable wifi and cellular modules
  • Electron –  cellular development kit with a SIM card and data plan
  • Core – Wi-Fi development kit based on Texas Instrument’s CC3000
  • Photon – $19 Wi-Fi development kit for creating connected projects and products
• ARM
• Lattice FPGAs – low cost FPGA
• AVR 8-bit Microcontrollers – cheap and easy 8-bit and 32-bit Microcontrollers
  • AVRdude – utility to download/upload/ROM and EEPROM contents of AVR microcontrollers
• Nordic – bluetooth programming platform
• Stak – OS for smart devices
• COSMOS – Ball Aerospace User Interface for Command and Control of Embedded Systems

• Building your first Printed Circuit Boards (PCB’s)  – Particle
• Printed Circuit Boards (PCB’s) printers
•  Printed Circuit Boards (PCB’s) assembly/manufacturing 
• PCB Design Tools
• Integrated Design Environment (IDE)
  • PSoC Creator -hardware/firmware editing, compiling, debugging of PSoC 3/4, 4 BLE, PRoC BLE, PSoC 5LP and FM0+ systems
  • STM32Cube – IDE for STM32
  • SW4STM32 – free system workbench for STM32: free IDE on Windows, Linux and OS X

• Circuit Simulation Tools
  • CircuitLabs – schematic editor and circuit simulator
  • Yosys – open source Verilog synthesis suite
  • arachne – open source Place and route tool for FPGAs
  • PartSim – online SPICE circuit simulator
  • LTSPICE4 – free analog SPICE simulator
  • ADS –  design automation software for RF, microwave, high speed digital, and power electronics
  • EasyEDA – circuit simulation, PCB design, Electronic circuit design online for free
  • DoCircuits – schematic editor and circuit simulator
  • CEDAR – logic simulator
  • Quiet – circuit simulator with GUI
  • CiruitMod – circuit simulator
  • Falstad – In browser circuit simulator
  • ELN – minecraft mod for in-game circuit simulation
  • Ansys HFSS – electromagnetic (EM) simulation software for wireless and RF
  • Ansys SIwave – design platform for power integrity, signal integrity and EMI analysis of IC packages and PCBs
• Power Supply Design Tools
• HardwareHacker – DIY Basic projects
• Hacked Gadgets – DIY Tech
• HackersCatalog – technical bookstore
• Hackaday,io – hardware projects
• Hackaday.com – hardware blog
• Teensy – USB development board
• Hopper – OSX and Linux disassembler
• Binwalk – firmware analysis tool
• Intel Edison – computer board w/atom processor, wifi, open source tools
• LittleBits – DIY electronics for prototypes and learning
• CircuitStickers – peel and stick electronics. great for kids 1st projects
• DangerousPrototype – open source hardware projects
• Fritzing – opensource hardware community
• Beagle Board – Open. ARM. Low cost, low power, open hardware expandible computer running latest Ubuntu and Android.
• Saleae – Low cost logic analyzer
• Hardware Debugging and monitoring tools
• Microsemi (Actel) smartfusion: A low power development board full of peripherals and an FPGA chip
• FPGA Wiki – Hamsterworks
• FPGA Development Boards Review – Joel Williams

Electronics Component Suppliers

Manufacturing Resources

3D Printers

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

3D Printing Services

Custom Machine Parts/Industrial Supplies

3D Software

• Blender – open source 3D Modeling

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Market Research Tools

Private “pay for market research” firms

Datasets

U.S. State/Canada/Federal Open Data

• List of open government/country data sites – Start Here
• U.S. Census Bureau – Data
• Code.gov – Access U.S. gov’t open source code
• USASpending – official US Gov’t site on where the money goes
• U.S. government Web Service & XML Data – Start Here as well
• USCommonSense – US Open data portal
• Analytics.usa.gov – the US Gov’ts web traffic
• National Science Foundation –  data mine any NSF award, person or institution
• Building Healthcare.gov
• FedStats – data from 100 U.S. Federal agencies
• Federal Reserve – U.S. economic data
• Small Business Administration – Data – API here
• USDA Economic Research Service – lots of agricultural data
• Medicare Data – hospitals, physicians, nursing homes, dialysis, suppliers,etc
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) –  air, water, climate, etc.
• FDA.gov  med device tracking here
• National Archives – everything the U.S. govt has in print
• Federal Reserve – U.S. Industrial production data
• Landsat – open data program description
• SunLight Labs – Open U.S. Federal and State data
• Data.gov – Open U.S. Federal data
• PewResearch Center – Internet & American Life
• Data.ca.gov – Open California data
• California Health and Human Services
• TexasConnect – Open Texas data
• SanFrancisco – Open San Francisco data
• New York City – Open NY data
• Los Angeles – Open LA data
• Seattle – open Seattle data
• King County Washington – open data
• Chicago – Open Chicago data
• Baltimore – open data
• Austin – open data
• D.C. – Washington D.C. open data
• New Orleans – open data
• Philadelphia open data
• Tulsa, OK – open data
• South Bend, IN – open data
• Louisville/Jefferson County, KY – open data
• Oakland, – open data
• West Sacramento, CA – open data
• Honolulu, HI – open data
• Sacramento, CA (City Manager Policy) – open data
• Pittsburgh, PA– open data
• Williamsville, NY – open data
• Hartford, CT – open data
• Boston, MA 
• Nashville, TN 
• Kansas City, MO
• Jackson, MI – open data
• Canada – open data
• Edmonton – open data
• Vancouver – open data
• Toronto
• Windsor
• Ottawa
• British Columbia
• Education Policies – state by state

Solar & Renewables Open Data

Other Governments Open Data

Research Data

Statistics

Open Company Data/Stats/API

Open Mapping

Genomic/BioMed Data

Public or University library Resources:

Market Research Resources Online

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Starting and Running a Startup Advice

Best Startup Advice

Incorporating Your Company

Entrepreneurship Reading List

Entrepreneurship Online

Startups Data

• Mattermark – quantifying company growth for startup investors
• Compass – Turn data into actionable insights
• AngelList – connecting startups and angels

Coworking Spaces

Angel/SuperAngel Investors

Corporate vc’s

VC’s Focused on Commercializing University Technology

Crowdfunding

Founder Equity Issues

Executive / Advisory Board Compensation

Public Relations (PR) For Tech Companies

Finance 101 for Entrepreneurs

Metrics/Benchmarks/Growth

Getting Acquired

Lawyers/Legal

Fighting Patent Trolls

Corporate Innovation Programs

List of Investment Platforms

China – Doing Business

China Blogs

China Military Books/Blogs

Japan – Doing Business

Must Read Blogs

More to read

Lean LaunchPad Videos

This is the complete list of Launchpad Video clips created to date and sorted by topic:

Mentor Training

1. Lean LaunchPad Mentor Training UCSF

General Discussion

1. How Large Will You Scale? (03:03) TC UCB
2. What If You’re a Visionary? – Risks & Rewards (4:53) SL UCSF
3. Your Startup: Do You Want to Spend 3 to 4 Years Doing This? (5:14) TC UCSF
4. Don’t Let the MVP Limit Your Vision (03:40) TC UCB

Customer Discovery

1. “It Saved Us Several Years” (1:45) SL UCSF
2. Stop Telling Yourself What You Want to Believe (1.39) SL UCSF
3. Narrowing the Focus (1:21) SL UCSF
4. Why PI’s and Founders Need to Get Out of the Building (2:15) SL UCSF
5. “This Was the Best Outcome” (2:50) SL UCSF
6. Getting to the “Better Idea” Faster (3:59) SL UCSF
7. Insights on: Does Customer Development Work in Therapeutics? (6:11) UCSF
8. The Phases of Customer Discovery (0:37) CD

Before Leaving the Building

1. Pre-Planning Contacts (4:34) CD
2. Customer Interview Dry Runs (0:49) CD
3. Discovery is for Founders (1:30) CD
4. Pass/Fail Experiments (1:32) CD

Outside the Building

• Rules of Customer Interviews

1. Being Aggressive (1:29) CD
2. Conducting a Customer Interview (1:30) CD
3. Letting the Customer Interview Flow (1:37) CD
4. Sizing the Opportunity (2:50) CD
5. Finding Patterns (1:50) CD
6. Looking for Insights (0:58) CD

1. Death by PowerPoint (1:42) CD
2. Death by Demo 1 (2:18) CD
3. Death by Demo 2 (1:45) CD
4. Understanding the Problem (3:22) CD
5. Multi-Person Interview (2:03) CD
6. Assuming You Know (1:56) CD
7. B-to-B to C (2:15) CD
8. Existing vs. New Markets (5:29) CD
9. Asking the Right Question (2:37) CD
10. Public Interviews (2:11) CD

Understanding What the Customer Is Telling You

1. Engaging the Customer (3:37) CD
2. Customer Empathy (2:25) CD
3. The Distracted Customer (3:12) CD
4. Customers Lie (2:37)
5. The User, the Buyer & the Saboteur (2:24) CD

Back in the Building

1. Extracting Insight from Data (2:59) CD
2. Pay Attention to Outliers (2:16) CD
3. Getting the MVP Right (3:34) CD
4. The “Other 85%” (2:32) CD
5. Finding Early Evangelists (1:17) CD
6. Communicating Your Discoveries (2:26) CD

Value Proposition

1. Pivoting…or Groping for a Business Model? (02:37) TC UCB
2. Seduced by Insufficient Data (02:34) TC UCB

Customer Relationships

1. Insights on: Customer Relationships – Week 4 (12:00) UCSF
2. Use Customers to Find More Customers (02:22) TC UCB
3. Customer Conversion (03:22) TC UCB

Customer Segments

1. Insights on: Customer Segments – Week 2 (12:43) UCSF
2. Estimating Market Size (01:49) SL UCB
3. Customer Workflow (02:10) SL UCB
4. Customer Discovery / Customer Archetype (04:04) SL UCB
5. Customer Archetypes; Hypotheses & Experiments (03:21) SL UCB
6. Customer Segments & Customer Archetypes (03:47) SL UCB
7. The Fog of Entrepreneurship (03:01) TC UCB
8. At the Start, All Your Stakeholders Are Customers (02:32) TC UCB
9. Square Pegs & Round Holes – Mira Medicine (4:33) TC UCSF

Channels

1. Insights on: Channels – Week 3 (14:52) UCSF
2. Framing the Experiment (02:27) TC UCB
3. Distribution Channels: One Data Point Is Not a Test (02:37) TC UCB

Revenue Streams

1. Value Based Pricing – “We Were Gobsmacked!” (6:43) SL UCSF
2. Insights on: Revenue Streams – Week 5 (17:04) UCSF
3. The Importance of Experiments (03:57) TC UCB
4. Validating Product Pricing (03:55) TC UCB

Key Partners

1. Insights on: Key Partners – Week 6 (17:08) UCSF
2. Listen Carefully for Customer Discovery (03:20) TC UCB
3. The Timing of Partnerships (03:46) TC UCB

Key Activities & Key Resources

1. Insights on: Science Advisory Boards (4:53) UCSF
2. Insights on: Resources, Activities & Costs (12:26) UCSF
3. No Laundry Lists. Just Facts! (02:43) TC UCB

Final Video

1. Accelerated Medical Diagnostics: Final Video (2:41) SL UCSF
2. Knox: Final Video (2:17) SL UCSF
3. Magnamosis: Final Video (2:51) SL UCSF
4. Making Friends: Final Video (2:19) SL UCSF
5. Mira Medicine: Final Video (2:23) SL UCSF
6. ResultCare: Final Video (3:08) SL UCSF
7. Tidepool.org: Final Video (3:48) SL UCSF
8. Vitruvian Therapeutics: Final Video (8:34) SL UCSF

Final Presentations

1. Knox: Final Presentation (8:33) SL UCSF
2. Magnamosis: Final Presentation (10:19) SL UCSF
3. Making Friends: Final Presentation (8:38) SL UCSF
4. Mira Medicine: Final Presentation (9:26) SL UCSF
5. ResultCare: Final Presentation (11:34) SL UCSF
6. Tidepool.org: Final Presentation (16:45) SL UCSF
7. Vitruvian Therapeutics: Final Presentation (8:34) SL UCSF

“Getting Your Story Straight” – David Riemer on Storytelling

1. Story Narrative and Product Narrative (10:24) UCSF
2. Story & Storytelling (4:35) UCSF
3. The Power of Story (10:24) UCSF
4. Story Structure (10:24) UCSF
5. The Main Character (9:27) UCSF
6. The Main Conflict (6:13) UCSF
7. Story Challenges & Solutions (2:03) UCSF
8. Telling a Great Story (13:16) UCSF

Misc

Some of the material I have created or use in my classes does not lend itself to blogs. It’s more reference material. Thus, these pages.  I’ll add more as time goes on. See my slide/video links

Tenacity If you’ve gotten this far, here is a visual representation of tenacity and persistence!