StartupResources.io — Issue #123
Welcome to issue #123. Hopefully reading this newsletter every Friday is as easy as 1, 2, 3… if it’s not please let me know!
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Tool of the week
GoPinLeads | Local business leads from Google Maps
If you’re targeting local, bricks and mortar businesses, this app might just be your best friend. Very quickly extract all the information about businesses you are able to find on Google Maps, into a Google Spreadsheet. 50 credits per month for free, starts at $9/month after that (or $99/year for a special limited-time package they are advertising now).
Tools/resources discovered recently
Transistor | Podcast hosting and analytics — transistor.fm
Helps podcasters get more listeners with unlimited shows, multiple users, podcast analytics, and distribution on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Google Podcasts. Free trial, then $19/month and up.
Plasso Flexkit | Payment gateway sans coding — plasso.com
A payment gateway and accounts system (sign up, log in, access protected content, etc.) that requires only HTML to integrate onto your site, no other front-end or back-end code. Looks interesting, starts at $29/month plus card processing fees.
Pitchenvy | Gallery of startup pitch decks — www.pitchenvy.io
Looking for inspiration for your pitch deck? There is a ton of decks from startups old and new on this site.
Devy.io | Unlimited web development — devy.io
A productized service, similar to a couple of “unlimited” graphic design services I’ve posted recently, this one gives you unlimited web development (one request at a time) starting from $579/month.
Smallbiz.tools | Curated small business tools — smallbiz.tools
Nice curated directory of tools for small business in different categories.
UnusedCSS | Remove unused CSS — unused-css.com
Finds unused CSS styles, which if you remove them can help speed up your site. Free for a single site for one-time use for up to 100 pages.
Articles for this week
It doesn’t f$#%ing matter — medium.com
The central thesis of this inspiring article by Dan Norris is that a great product is what matters most when you go to market. I couldn’t agree more.
Y-Combinator’s Startup School — www.startupschool.org
This is Y-Combinator’s 10-week online course on how to start a startup. Quality stuff, and 100 of the companies who register by August 13th and complete the course will receive $10K.
Is It Time to Rethink Freemium? — www.appcues.com
This article challenges some of the conventional thinking about freemium vs. free trial vs. “get a demo”, with data. Most importantly, it seems that freemium is perhaps a better path to enterprise sales than the conventional wisdom would say.
The Facebook Update Nobody is Talking About: Reverse Engineer Your Ads! — www.einsteinmarketer.com
Facebook’s latest update means we can see all of our competitors ads and campaigns. This post teaches techniques to take advantage of that.
100+ ways to promote your blog posts — www.indiehackers.com
Some great suggestions you can add to your content promotion checklist.
That’s it for this issue
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Cheers,
Jói
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