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Tools and services for a lean startup

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What's your favorite #leanstartup vendor, tool, or service? What makes it possible for you to accelerate every day?

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  1. Dropbox

    Dropbox is the easiest way to store, sync, and, share files online.
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  2. Evernote

    Great tool for capturing and sharing thoughts.
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  3. Google Apps

    Google Apps

    Email, Chat, Docs for the startup
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  4. web2py

    web framework developed with Python language Easy learning, fast prototyping, safe development! Get things Done!
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  5. GitHub

    Git is an extremely fast, efficient, distributed version control system ideal for the collaborative development of software. GitHub is the best way to collaborate with others. Fork, send pull requests and manage all your public and private git repositories.
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  6. AgileZen

    AgileZen is a simple and flexible application that draws on ideas from lean manufacturing to provide a new way of thinking about project management. Rather than organizing tasks into a bunch of lists and trying to slice and dice your way through it, AgileZen lets you see and interact with your work visually.
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  7. Invoicera

    Invoicera is an online invoicing and time tracking software designed specifically to make invoicing a straightforward and uncomplicated process.
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  8. Skype

    Global, Multiplatform, and free voice and video communication tool.
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  9. Kanbanery

    Simple to use, powerful online team or personal kanban board with real-time updates.
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  10. Heroku

    Rails deployment made easy.
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  11. Wufoo

    Wufoo's HTML form builder helps you create contact forms, online surveys, and event registrations.
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  12. Tradeshift

    Tradeshift is the social network for businesses, free online invoicing & more.
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  13. VirtualBox

    VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use.
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  14. Frame Box

    Lightweight online tool for creating and sharing mockups (wireframes). Easy, fast and free in use.
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  15. Doodle

    Doodle helps scheduling meetings and other appointments.
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  16. JSFiddle

    jsFiddle provides an online environment where you can preselect/add popular JavaScript frameworks and test your code.
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  17. billfaster.com

    billfaster.com

    FREE invoicing, cash management, expense tracking system with automated accounting for start-ups and small businesses.
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  18. getBarista

    Continuous Deployment for python/Django apps
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  19. Assembla

    Use Assembla's bug tracking, software development, and project management tools for agile software development and team collaboration. Ticketing, Wikis, Git & Subversion Hosting for your projects
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  20. Trello

    Trello is probably the simplest thing in the world: it’s a web page where you make a bunch of lists. Each list contains cards. Each card is a thing that someone might want to work on. It’s just a list of lists, really. But the simplicity is deceptive: it turns out to be a super-powerful way to organize teams, projects, and, in fact, anything that needs a little organization.
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  21. Wordpress

    The king of all blogging platforms...it doubles up as startup website.
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  22. MailChimp

    Easy integration built in, intuitive Email Service Provider, initially free.
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  23. Scalr

    Tool to manage scaling servers in Amazon's cloud.
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  24. BitBucket

    Code hosting for Mercurial
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  25. Balsamiq Mockups

    Create software mockups in minutes
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  26. Pivotal Tracker

    Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration.
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  27. Chargify

    Recurring billing without the headaches
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  28. LucidChart

    Free Cloud-based drawing tool that replaces Visio and much easier to use!
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  29. Amazon Web Services

    Amazon's cloud solution
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  30. Unbounce

    Unbounce is the easiest way to create, publish & test promotion specific landing pages without the need for IT or developers.
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  31. Tender Support

    Great support tool for your lean startup.
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  32. Tungle.me

    Tungle.me is a scheduling application that syncs with your existing calendar. It helps you to: 1) Eliminate double-bookings, time zone mishaps and the back-and-forth of finding a time to meet. 2)Easily schedule meetings, inside or outside your organization. 3)Invite others to schedule with you, without having to sign up
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  33. OrangeHRM

    Open Source Human Resource Management that continues to improve every release (and it's free)
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  34. The Startup Toolkit

    Visually document your evolving business hypotheses. A quick place to write down what really matters about your startup, for founders in search of a business model.
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  35. Milestone Planner

    Web-based approach to planning for deadline or outcome driven environments. Very visual and easy to use. Works via mobile web too.
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  36. Hootsuite

    Twitter Management.
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  37. UserVoice

    Uservoice communities are the easiest way to turn customer feedback into action
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  38. Mikogo

    Mikogo is an easy-to-use cross-platform desktop sharing tool, ideal for web conferencing, online meetings or remote support.
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  39. Unfuddle

    Unfuddle is a secure, hosted project management solution for software development teams. Source control, files, time tracking, milestones, tickets, messages...
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  40. Kodingen

    Kodingen is a cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, database administration program, and collaboration platform. It includes web based access to file systems and web based FTP and SVN.
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  41. WebSequenceDiagrams

    Simplest tool available for quickly sketching out clean sequence diagrams. No login necessary and automatically generates links pointing to generated images.
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  42. KnowledgeTree

    Open Source Online Document Management and Workflow Management
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  43. Toktumi Unlimited Virtual PBX

    Create a big company image at a small business price with Toktumi Unlimited hosted PBX phone service.
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  44. Campaign Monitor

    Email marketing software built for designers and their clients to run successful email campaigns.
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  45. Trac

    wiki, SCM, and bug/feature tacking all in on.
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  46. PressDoc

    Write, edit and publish your press releases, share them with the world and get engaged like no other in your business!
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  47. Swift-Kanban

    Swift-Kanban is a simple, light-weight, yet extremely powerful web-based tool which helps you in visualize your work, smooth the flow and deliver value! Works great for collocated and distributed teams who want to use Kanban to improve continuously and deliver quality.
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  48. Loopfuse

    Marketing automation platform - they have a free version
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  49. Kanban Tool

    Visualize your workflow with kanban board. Use sticky notes to organize your work. Improve productivity with Kanban method!
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  50. TeamCity

    Quick setup, out of the box continuous integration and unit testing, code quality analysis, pre-tested commits, early reporting on build problems.
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  51. RallyDev

    Automates Agile / Scrum development allowing end users and developers real-time tracking status all the way to the Minimal Viable Product (MVP)...and its free.
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  52. Kanban Pad

    "Nice and lean" online Kanban tool. It's free, and no signup required. Just start using it!
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  53. Freeconferencecall.com

    Free conference calls are simple and easy to use, requiring only a name and an e-mail address to receive an instant account. What's the catch?
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  54. Cloudware City

    The online app store for subscription services - with the bolt on Cloudware Authentication API to add subscription access to your site, hassle free!
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  55. Athenz

    A tool for discovering your customer and developing an innovative business model. Features: business model prototyping, experiment journal, idea generation.
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  56. Linode

    A VPS hosting company built upon one simple premise: provide the best possible tools and services to those that know what they need — better hosting.
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  57. SugarSync

    SugarSync's online backup, file sync and sharing service makes it easy to stay connected. Get secure cloud storage for all your files — documents, music, photos, and videos.
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  58. visual.ly

    Create, Share, Explore Great Visualizations.
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  59. Kred | We all have Kred somewhere

    Kred is a completely transparent influence scoring system that focuses on community engagement and social connections.
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  60. 99 Designs

    99designs is a marketplace for crowdsourced graphic design
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  61. 5pm

    Online project management tool
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  62. Sauce Labs

    Sauce OnDemand, cross-browser testing in the cloud, enables pain-free Continuous Deployment setup and operation.
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  63. Basecamp

    Basecamp is the leading web-based project management and collaboration tool. To-dos, files, messages, schedules, and milestones.
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  64. Banana Scrum

    A tool simple as Scrum itself. Online hosted and standalone versions available.
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  65. Lighthouse

    Excellent Issue Tracking Tool. Collaborate effortlessly on projects.
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  66. Spreedly

    The easiest way to sell subscriptions on your site. Allows users to signup, renew, upgrade, trial pricing with ease.
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  68. Freshbooks

    Send, track and collect payments quickly. Great for teams, freelancers and service providers.
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  69. LeanKit Kanban

    Great for visualizing work of product development or any value stream. Helps find waste and opportunities to improve. Makes it flow.
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  70. Google App Engine

    Cloud based computing, free to get started
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  71. Box.net

    Box provides a secure, easy way for businesses to manage content, share large files and collaborate online from anywhere.
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  72. yUML

    Simplest tool available for quickly sketching out clean uml diagrams. No login necessary and allows embedding of the uml-generation DSL in the url.
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  73. Bontq

    Bontq is a hosted solution that can fit all your bug tracking and project management needs. It has been developed for two years and its team tried to find a perfect balance between speed and stability.
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  74. PrimoPDF

    This is an amazing piece of free software for PDF creation. The product is rock solid and their technical support is quick and friendly.
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  75. Compiere ERP

    Open Source ERP & CRM, scalable platform, grows with your business
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  76. Simplicant

    Hiring Made Simple Simplicant is a simple applicant tracking system for small and medium sized businesses... just like yours!
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  77. Batchbook

    Dead simple CRM & SFA. Integrates well with other lean startup tools
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  78. Harvest

    Time tracking and invoicing
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  79. Huddle

    A project management tool - free for limited project set and users
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  80. TeuxDeux

    Online to-do list application TeuxDeux handles your todo list in a minimal, dead-simple interface that looks and works a lot like a paper ...
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  81. softandGUI - UXToolbox

    Application Wireframing/Design and Prototyping solution. Quickly and effortlessly design, develop, prototype and document User Interfaces of new and existing applications.
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  82. BrixHQ

    BrixHQ makes online agile project management and collaboration easy and cost effective
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  83. smartQ - online Kanban app

    Online visual ticket board for workflow management and team collaboration based on Kanban.
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  84. tymr

    TYMR is a social network for creating, sharing and promote any type of events
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  85. Lean Canvas

    Business plans take too long to write, are seldom updated, and almost never read by others but documenting your hypotheses is key. Lean Canvas solves this problem using a 1-page business model.
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  86. Sendgrid

    Scalable email delivery for transactional email
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  87. KISSinsights

    Survey visitors while they are surfing your website. Product managers and marketers, stop saying “I wonder why…”
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  88. UserTesting.com – Low Cost Usability Testing

    Within seconds, representative users start recording themselves using your site. You quickly receive a video and written responses from users.
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  89. Experimently - Free Website Testing Software

    Visual A/B and Multivariate Testing Test anything: images, buttons, text, and CSS No need for a programmer or designer.
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  90. Rackspace

    Managed and cloud hosting along with fanatical support.
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  91. 42goals

    Helps to track time and work progress
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  92. ScrumPad

    An Agile project management tool that is pragmatic, and not limiting or prescriptive. Provides a complete collaborative product life-cycle (requirements to test to bug) management. The vision is to provide a platform for nurturing a project eco-system.
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  93. Wicked Start

    Launch your startup. Get a personalized startup checklist, community, and resources to set up, fund, and market your idea.
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  94. FreeAgent

    Online Accounting Software for Small Business and Freelancers
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  95. Odesk

    Offshore team recruitment.
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  96. Atlassian JIRA Studio

    Hosted and integrated source control, issue tracking, wiki, Agile planning, continuous builds, source code review.
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  97. crowdSPRING

    crowdSPRING is a crowdsourcing marketplace for graphic design, web design, industrial design and writing services
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  98. Vertical Response

    Email Marketing Made Easy.
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  99. Prefinery

    Outsource your beta invite process - you have more important things to work on.
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  100. Rietveld

    Free code review tool that allows asynchronous code reviews on change sets.
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  101. Dabbleboard

    Very simple white-board tool for collaborative online white-boarding. Has a built-in chat and voice client and can be used for free without an account.
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  102. TrixBox VOIP / Virtual PBX

    Easy to install, easy to use VOIP / Virtual PBX Solution that is Open source and still free!
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  103. AppMakr - Mobile Ap Creator

    Allows end users with no tech knowledge to create mobile aps in 30 minutes...and its free...wow!
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  104. Sococo's Team Space

    Always-on, real time communication service in a virtual office interface. Includes IM chat, talk, multi screen share and embedded browser. Ideal for virtual / remote teams.
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  105. Quickker

    Create surveys, manage your respondents, collect, compare, and track responses. Brand your surveys and review them with a powerful analytics system. Find out what your staff, users and customers think.
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  106. Expensify

    Manages expenses, simple, quick, easy. BB, Android and iphone apps. Uploads photos of receipts. Multiple currency conversion. Really responsive customer service.
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  107. zscreen

    Massively flexible screen capture that's free. Upload to various online pic servers, auto create tinyurls. Works well with Balsamiq and Pivotal. Does the job.
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  108. whateyedo

    Want to organise your favourite web-sites more effectively on your home page? "whateyedo" creates a time saving personal gateway to the internet which will save you time and reduce your stress levels.
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  109. weebly

    Weebly is an easy, drag & drop tool for making websites, still has quite a bit of flexibility.
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  110. Pooling People

    Temporarily borrow & lend or permanently transfer employees directly among PoolingPeople.ca community members and without intermediary. Cuts down on idle time costs and recruitment fees.
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  111. Mocking Bird

    Wireframes on the fly! create and share wireframes online
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  112. SandGlaz

    A free and easy to use task management web app inspired by the Important-Urgent matrix. Manage your tasks from anywhere, share with anyone
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  113. Chromebook

    Chromebooks are built and optimized for the web, where you already spend most of your computing time. So you get a faster, simpler and more secure experience without all the headaches of ordinary computers.
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  114. Apptentive

    Easy in-app feedback for applications. Connect directly with your customers to find your product/market fit much faster and accelerate your growth.
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  115. Blitz

    Blitz makes load and performance testing of your web site, API, iPhone and Android and Facebook apps a fun sport. Instantly launch 1,000,000 users from around the world against your site to see if it can hold up.
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  116. unassumer

    Creates surveys or interviews to test your assumptions and provides feedback on market signal.
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  117. pbSmart Connections Email Marketing

    An affordable email marketing tool for start-ups and small businesses. Easy to use and starts at $10//month.
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  118. FiveSecondTest

    Optimize your landing pages through feedback from real users.
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  119. DBVu

    Centralised MySQL monitoring and server optimisation. Automated DBA type functionality, doesn't look at the data content, just the database configuration
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  120. Beanstalk

    Beanstalk allows designers and developers to store source code, track changes, and collaborate with their team through Git and Subversion version control.
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  121. Redmine

    Redmine is a flexible project management web application. Written using the Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database. Redmine is open source and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 (GPL). Some of the main features of Redmine are: Read more about Redmine features.
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  122. KickoffLabs - Stunning Launch Pages

    In 60 seconds you could have a viral launch landing page up for your business. Use it to find beta users, test ideas, or just grow your mailing list.
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  123. sprint.ly - Make beautiful products.

    Only $9 per seat Introductory beta pricing! "Sprint.ly is quite possibly the greatest tool added to my development stack since Git." - @jcinis "Finally a fluid and attractive way to empower your entire corporate team to improve your software." - @strebel "Sprint.ly is the manifestation of over a decade of frustration with how software is built."
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  124. inDinero - Track Your Money

    inDinero is the fastest growing way for business owners to manage their money. Our real-time dashboard makes small business accounting easy for everyone.
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  125. Assistly for shopify

    With Assistly, Shopify stores can set up and deliver efficient customer service in minutes, with zero-touch onboarding. Shopify retailers can simply click to install the free Assistly app, which will help them create a free Assistly account and then integrate Assistly with their online store automatically.
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  126. Lean Launch Lab

    I find myself telling this story to a lot of entrepreneurs I meet, mainly because it's probably the coolest thing that's ever happened to me. And I still wake up each morning and think I'm the luckiest guy ever.
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  127. On-demand SEO platform for start-ups & small businesses

    SearchEnabler is self serviced on-demand SEO platform which makes SEO easy, affordable & measurable for start-ups & small businesses. 30 days free trial followed by 15$ a month.
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  128. CMDB Cloud

    Keep track of your IT services, dependencies and people with a powerful CMDB framework and a serious social networking twist!
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  129. Kickstarter

    Great for easily collecting money and testing a concept
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  130. Megaventory - Online Inventory Management

    Megaventory can help you organize your business inventory and order management using just a web-browser. Using Megaventory is really easy and trully affordable.
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  131. Django

    Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
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  132. BizSpark

    Free access to current, full-featured Microsoft software development tools & platform technologies, including Azure hours & production licenses, for early stage startups.
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  133. Drupal

    Open source CMS.
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  134. Flask

    Flask is a microframework for Python based on Werkzeug, Jinja 2 and good intentions. And before you ask: It's BSD licensed!
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  135. vtiger CRM

    Free and 100% Open Source
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  136. EditMe

    The easiest way to create collaborative websites. Combine the learning of everyone on the team and improve the way work gets done. Write content and code right in your web browser.
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  137. VersionOne

    VersionOne's agile tools are designed from the ground up to support leading-edge development methodologies such as Lean, Scrum, XP, Kanban, and DSDM.
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  138. Magento E-Commerce Platform

    Magento is an eCommerce software platform. Open Source and Free - very function and feature rich.
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  139. Liferay Enterprise Portal & Collaboration

    Open Source Portal, Publishing, Content and Collaboration
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  140. Webex

    WebEx offers collaboration solutions for online meetings, remote support, and webinars and online events.
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  141. Hubspot

    Inbound Online Marketing to get more website visitors and leads in search engines (SEO), blogs, social media.
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  142. Rdbhost.com

    SQL database hosting, accessible over http from your server or from the browser. Python and Javascript APIs supported.
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  143. devZing

    Commercial Bugzilla, Subversion and MantisBT Hosting
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  144. WebFaction

    Hosting for an agile web, affordable and risk-free. The 24x7 support team is one of the friendliest and most knowledgeable out there.
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  145. Wilogo Logo design

    The simple aim of Wilogo is to help companies quickly create a corporate logo. From design to realisation, Wilogo can produce high quality designs by having more than 20000 designers at their disposal.
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  146. Mockup Tiger

    Build mockups and wireframes quickly using mockuptiger
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  147. WORKetc

    CRM + Project management + Billing software integrated into one app for business. Free 14 day trial.
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  148. Rynga VOIP calling service

    Rynga provides you with the cheapest international calling rates available
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  149. Justinmind Prototyper

    Justinmind designs solutions to create advanced prototypes and high-fidelity simulations of mobile and Web Apps, so entrepreneurs can experience how their new applications really work before coding.
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  150. The Resumator

    Take the hassle out of hiring with intuitive applicant tracking and social recruiting tools anyone can use. Try our Web-based hiring software today.
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  151. JobPage

    JobPage is the social recruiting tool designed for small, medium and large companies who are recruiting for technical and marketing roles.
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  152. Startupers

    The startup jobs board for people who are enthusiastic about StartUps. Any company with a stated mission of invading Sweden can't be all that bad!
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  153. Project Bubble

    Project Bubble is an online project management and invoicing tool that is easy-to-use and includes time-tracking, collaboration, reporting and more. Try it for free!
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  154. Survey.io

    Get started with customer development for free by creating your own initial customer development survey.
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  155. Persona cheat sheet

    A persona is a narrative that describes the person your product will be used by. It can be a valuable tool, one where the act of creating it has as much value as the artifact you will creating.
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  156. Verify

    Verify is easiest way to collect and analyze user feedback. Verify enables you to quickly upload any screenshot or image and gather user feedback on your concept testing. Verify turns a screenshot into an interactive user test which reveals powerful insights about user behavior on your website.
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  157. ABtests.com

    abtests.com help people test their web sites/applications and share that knowledge with others, making everyone smarter in the process.
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  158. WOLF Frameworks

    Build custom online database applications the easy way!
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  159. CollateBox

    CollateBox is a FREE online service that lets you easily collect, share and act on your data lists (Lotus, Excel or Google Docs files).
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  160. Zartis: Social Recruitment

    Recruitment software for the social media age
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