- Media Planning and Buying Calculators
- SRDS Media Buyers info – advertising rates and data
List of Screencasting Tools
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Screenflow– screen recording and editing
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Snagit – screen capture
- Camtasia – screen recording and video editing
- Jing – screenshots and screencasts
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Screen-o-Matic – cloud recording
- SnapzProX – mac screen capture software
- ScreenFlow – mac screen capture and effects
- Parleys.com – Synch video + slide
List of Product Demo Video Tools & Services
- VideoScribe – create awesome animated videos
- DunkTank – create product demo videos
- MyBrainshark – online and mobile videos
- Apptamin – App videos and websites
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Switch Video – produce an animated video
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Grumo Media – product demo videos
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Loose Keys – product videos as stories
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Piehole.tv – product demo videos
- Explainify – product explaining videos
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Thinkmojo – animated product videos
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Epipheo Studios – animated product videos
- How to roll you own – Grumomedia
- Amazon Elastic Transcoder – video transcoding in the cloud
List of Product Launch / Landing Page Services
- LaunchRock – Create a viral “coming soon” landing page
- LaunchSoon – create a 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
- Atmio – mobile landing pages
- Lander – create a landing page in minutes
- Ion – create landing pages that convert
Survey Tools
- Google Consumer Surveys
- SurveyAnyPlace
- Qualtrics – cloud-based survey, free account a complete game changer – incredibly well built and powerful
- Qualtrics Wiki – Joseph Williams
- Amazon Mechanical Turk – you can set up a question and get answers
- Using Mechanical Turk for Customer Discovery – Joseph Williams
- Qualaroo – target surveys, boost signups, increase usage
- KissInsights – survey visitors while they surf your site
- Wufoo – create contact forms, online surveys and event registrations
- AYTM – Ask Your Target Market
- Ethnio – Recruit real people from your website for user research
- Poplytics – online surveys and analytics
- AskYourTargetMarket – market research surveys
- SurveyMonkey– granddaddy of on-line surveys
- SurveyMoz – free on-line surveys
- 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
- 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
- PollDaddy – from the makers of WordPress, powerful reporting & filtering
Tools for Finding Customer Contacts
- LinkedIn Alumni – awesome way to contact school alumni
- Data.Com – find business connections
- Rapportive – find contacts inside of Gmail
- Hoovers – phone and email contacts for sale
- Harrisinfo – sales leads for sale
- InfoUSA – email lists for sale
- ThomasNet – find any company
Tools for Determining Market Size / Demand
- Google Trends – what are the search trends for key items
- Google Insights – breaks down the search data by location
- Facebook ads – check out the total available market
- Google Keyword Tool – how many searches done per month on any keyword phrase
Find a Co-founder for Your Startup
- FounderDating – premiere site for founders/co-founders
- CoFoundersLab – find a co-founder in any city
- Stanford Business School Interns – hire a Stanford Bus School intern cheap
- YouNoodle – founder matching
- FoundersHookUp – Invite-only find a co-founder
- Foundrs – co-founder equity calculator
- How to hire developers – mike greenfield
- Startup Weekend – Launch a Startup and meet a co-founder
- Meetup – go to a Meetup!
- PartnerUp– small business site to find partners, business opportunities, real estate, etc.
- Angel List – Angel List jobs board
Startup Groups
- Lean Startup Circle – Google Group for startup advice
- LUXr – Lean UX residency
- Women 2.0 – Launch a startup for women
- Meetup – Meet people you’re interested in
- Top Startup Conferences (North America)
- Startup Weekend– Launch a Startup in 54 hours
- Startup Weekend Next – 5 weeks to build a startup for <$300
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Startup America Partnership – access to Relationships, Opportunities and Knowledge
- The Lean Startup Machine – Launch a Startup in 48 hours
- Startup Monthly – Launch a Startup in a month
- Startup Grind – community looking to be educated, and network with the smartest startup minds
Most Popular Web Hosting Decisions of Y-Combinator Companies (2011)
Web Host: Amazon
Email Host: Google
DNS Host: Other/Self-Hosted (followed by Amazon)
Registrar: GoDaddy
SSL Issuer: GeoTrust
Certificate Type: Star
For a complete breakdown, visit http://jpf.github.io/domain-profiler/ycombinator.html