- List of Startup Incubators
- FindTheBest Incubators
- A Quora list of Incubators
- Jobs in Startups
- Lunch with Entrepreneurs
- Techcofounder – find a technical cofounder
- Founder Dating – find a cofounder
Author: Abdullah Yahya
List of Crowdfunding Sites
- Kickstarter – crowdfunding
- Indiegogo – crowdfunding
- Rock The Post – crowd funding
- RocketHub – crowd funding, partner with A&E
- Appbackr – crowd funding for mobile apps
- Tindle – crowd funding for makers to sell their hardware
- Quirky – shared social inventor community
Crowdfunding Tips / Advice
List of Angels / Super Angels
- Venture Hacks Angel List – raise money with angel investors
- AngelList – connecting startups and angels
- Seed-Db – database of seed accelerators and their companies
- Gust – Platform for Startup Funding
- Guide to Super Angels – Chubby Brain
- Types of Angel Financing
- Angel Financing Tips and here
List of Coworking Spaces
- ShareDesk – find a workspace in your city
- Coworkify – find a workspace in your city
- NextSpace – coworking spaces across California
- FoundersDen – San Francisco workspace
- OpenDesks – find workspace/meeting places
- SandBoxSuites – SF Bay Area shared workspace
- RocketSpace – SF Bay Area shared workspace
- HackerDojo – community center in Mountain View
Open Company Stats / Data / API
- LendingClub – stats on funding and loans
- Prosper – Prosper funding data/API
- BBYOpen – Best Buy open product data/API
- EbayOdata – Ebay open data/API
- Yelp Academic Dataset – access 250 closest businesses for 30 universities for students
- Reuters/Thompson – API
- Yahoo – data for students/academics
- Uber – car cost of ownership
- Terapeak – ebay and Amazon data
Public or University library Resources:
- Standard & Poor’s Industry Surveys
- Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries, Gale Research
- Encyclopedia of American Industries, Gale Research
- Encyclopedia of Associations, Gale Research (find Trade Associations)
- Harris InfoSource Business Directory
- Lifestyle Market Analyst, SRDS – used for collecting psychographic data
Market Research Resources Online
- FindTheCompany – corporate and organization data
- IOS / Android Market Size – Installed base
- Crunchbase – tech company/people database
- Edsurge – educational software
- Alexa – competitive website info
- SimilarWeb – discover traffic for any web site
- Silicon Valley Bank Analytics
- Compete – see competitive website traffic
- ChangeDetection – know when any web page changes
- SEC EDGAR – research on public U.S. firms
- MarketReseach.com – Retailer of private market research reports
- ZapData.com – Dun & Bradstreet offers free statistical industry data
- Thomas – find any company in any industry
- BizStats.com – free business statistics and financial ratios
- SBDC – National Information Clearinghouse of the U.S. Small Business Administration
- Encyclopedia of Associations
- U.S. Bureau of the Census
- ESRI– Has free demographic data available by zip code
- EASI – estimated demographic statistics within a user-specified radii for any address
- Claritas – psychographic information and analysis of zip code areas
- Standard and Poors – Industry Surveys
- International Trade Statistics –
- NVCA – venture capital industry data
- PWC MoneyTree – more venture capital data
- Chemical Industry data
- FDA News – medical device and drug data/news
- Asymco – great market intelligence blog
List of Statistics
- Eurostat – European Statistics
- EEA – European Environment Agency
- OECD Stat Extracts
- United Nations Statistics
- The World Bank – finance
- International Monetary Fund – data and stats
- CIA World Factbook
List of Dataset Resources
- Amazon AWS – public crawl
- StartupCompass – benchmark your core business metrics
U.S. State/Federal Open Data
- List of open government/country data sites – Start Here
- Building Healthcare.gov
- FedStats – data from 100 U.S. Federal agencies
- Small Business Administration – Data – API here
- Federal Reserve – U.S. Industrial production data
- 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
- TexasConnect – Open Texas data
- SanFrancisco – Open San Francisco data
- New York City – Open NY data
Other Governments Open Data
- List of open government/country data sites – Start Here
- Data.UN – open United Nations Data
- DataPortal – Open data for the E.U.
- OpenData.gc – Open Canadian data
- Data.gov.UK – Open UK data
- ChineseGovt – Open China data
- DataOne – Open HongKong data
- Datos.gov – Open Columbian data
- Datos.gob.es – Open Spanish data
- Data.norge.nos – Open Norway data
- OpenAid – Open Swedish data
- OpenGovData.ru – Open Russian data
List of Market Research Tools
- Clipular – Camera for the web/great research clippings
- Business Research LaunchPad – start here
List of Outsourcing / Freelance Help Resources
- Amazon Mechanical Turk – set up any task and get answers
- Elance – find/hire freelancers
- SkillsHive – become a/hire freelancer online
- Odesk – hire low-cost international engineering talent
- Freelancer – outsourcing for small business
- VWorker – find/hire freelancers
- GroupTalent – developers and designers on demand
List of Miscellaneous Office Help Resources
- SharedDesks – Coworking and Office Space
- Google Apps – cloud mail server, calendar, docs, etc.
- Grasshopper – virtual phone system
- Hoiio – business communications apps
- Ringio – cloud phone system
- ActivePBX – cloud unified phone system
- Freedom Voice and FreedomIQ – $3.95 800 #’s, hosted VoIP telephony
- InDinero – easy business finance software
- ZenPayroll – delightful employee payroll software
- Freshbooks – cloud accounting and invoicing
- Autotax – eFile IRS 1099 forms
- Expensify – billing, expenses, receipts
- BambooHR – Employee Records, Benefit Information, Payroll Data, etc.
- Harvest – online time tracking
- Xobni – Outlook plugin to search
- QuoteRoller – create, deliver and negotiate proposals online
- WordsRU – proofreading and editing service