Sep 22, 2018
StartupResources.io — Issue #129
Hey, is that you again, reading these words? I guess that means it’s Friday again. Wow, that week went by fast!
Let’s dig into this week’s batch of tools and resources.
Sponsor of the week 🏷
CrankWheel | Screen sharing for sales — crankwheel.com
Up your sales game using this free screen sharing tool that is tailor-made for sales professionals. Act now to get 25 meetings a month, free for life!
Tool of the week
Redash | Visualize your data — redash.io
This is pretty neat. Redash can connect to tons of different types of data sources, e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and many others. It then lets you query, visualize and share your data dashboards. Looks great for internal product dashboards, usage metrics, etc. Free one-month trial, then starts at $49/month.
Tools discovered recently
Simple Analytics | Simple, privacy-friendly analytics — simpleanalytics.io
This is kind of neat for our day and age. A simple analytics solution that doesn’t track your users and thus doesn’t require any opt-ins or such. $9/month after a 7-day trial.
FontDatabase
Lets you find fonts by filling in the blanks: “I want a font more _____ than _____.” Generates some interesting results.
FontForge | Open source font editor — fontforge.github.io
Need to get creative with some fonts? FontForge is completely free and open-source.
Content Genius | Content ideas generator — genie.contentfly.co
Comes up with unique article topics, when you need a bit of help, that are based on keyword and competitor research. $5 per suggestion.
Telemonetize | Monetize your Telegram channel/supergroup — www.telemonetize.com
Running a Telegram channel or group? You might want to take a look at this.
Resources discovered recently
SaaS 1000 | List of the Top SaaS Companies
This can be useful for lead generation, competitive analysis, recruiting, etc.
Slack Chat Groups | 2000 communities — standuply.com
Please don’t go spamming, but to find a good community for discussions and feedback, this is great. 2000 communities in the following categories: IT, Product, Marketing, Hardware, Finance, Local, Miscellaneous.
Articles for this week
My magic response to “Hey, can I pick your brain?” — www.indiehackers.com
This is one of my favorite tips that I’ve read recently, and something I started practicing immediately, as I tend to get quite a lot more requests for picking my brain over coffee than I can comfortably handle.
What the heck is Product-led Growth? — www.slideshare.net
It’s a slide deck, not an article, but interesting nonetheless. Product-led growth is a term that I just heard, that describes how many companies today are thinking about growth (including CrankWheel): Make a useful product, let folks use it for free, and only try to convert them to paying customers once they’re using it quite a lot.
How to teach yourself hard things
On the personal development front comes an interesting article that lays out the formula for how to teach yourself difficult skills of the type that you can practice deliberately. In the startup space, these skills encompass writing, programming, public speaking, etc.
Keyword Research: The Complete Beginner’s Guide For 2018 — bloggingwizard.com
It’s an in-depth guide starting from the basics on, you guessed it, keyword research.
99 B2B SaaS Growth Hacks to Try Today — www.saasgrowthhacker.com
Most of these are also applicable to other industries than B2B SaaS. If you need some ideas for how to grow your business, run through the list and see if you don’t find at least a couple that could work.
That’s it for this issue
Thought experiment for you: If you had to pick just one task/bit of a project to work on for all of next week, and you could just pause all the other noise while you did it, what would it be?
Second thought experiment for you: What would happen if you just committed to working on that one task for a significant chunk of next week, and mostly paused all the other noise while you did so? Turn off notifications, check email just a couple times a day, etc.? I bet you things wouldn’t fall apart, and you’d make significant progress.
If you try this, let me know how it goes 🤓
Cheers,
Jói
P.S. Make sure to check out our wonderful sponsor, CrankWheel. I really had to twist their founder’s arm to get the sponsorship, which was tough because twisting your own arm is harder than it sounds.
