Online Tools for Entrepreneurs

The How-To Entrepreneur’s Handbook

Funding:

http://www.ycombinator.com/

Y Combinator specializes in funding early stage startups.

http://www.sba.gov

Small Business Administration

Blogs - software

http://www.wordpress.org

Free Popular blogging software

http://www.typepad.com

Six Apart Blogging Software for Professonals

http://www.movabletype.com

Six Apart Blogging Software for Businesses – there is free version

Blogs – to read

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/

Seth Godin’s Blog – marketing blogger

Blogs – reader

http://www.google.com/reader

Google’s popular online blog reading software

Calendars – Online
http://www.google.com/calendar
Google’s popular online calendar software

Website - Browsing

http://www.firefox.com

Mozilla’s popular web browser.

Website - Hosting

http://www.godaddy.com

Cheap and easy domain name registration and hosting.

Website – Finding Developer and Designer

http://www.elance.com

Elance – online marketplace for developers and designers

http://contests.sitepoint.com/

Sitepoint’s corner dedicated to online marketplace for developers and designers

Website – Analysis and Visitor Tracking

http://www.sitemeter.com

SiteMeter - free and paid version to track up to the minute visitor activity

http://www.google.com/analytics

Free website analytics tool by Google.

Magazines

http://www.entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneur magazine

http://www.inc.com

Inc Magazine published (by Monsueto Ventures)

http://www.fastcompany.com

FastCompany Magazine (by Monsueto Ventures)

http://www.fortune.com

Fortune Magazine

http://www.forbes.com

Forbes Magazine

CRM

http://www.salesforce.com

SalesForce.com

http://www.infusion.com

Infusion CRM

Small Business Corners

http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/sb360/index?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd

Dell’s corner for small businesses

http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/hub.mspx

Microsoft Small Business Center

http://jumpup.intuit.com/

Intuit’s JumpUp – site for starting a business

Remotely Control Your PC

http://www.crossloop.com

The easiest way to connect and control your laptop or desktop from anywhere - FREE

http://www.logmein.com

Remote access your pc - free and paid versions are available

Newsletters

http://www.aweber.com

Online website for Newsletter and email management

Mailing List

http://www.srds.com

Standard Rate and Data Service

http://www.infousa.com

InfoUSA

E-Mail

http://www.thunderbird.com

Mozilla’s popular email software

PDF

http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

Free PDF creator software. Download and install it. Then you can convert any document into PDF instantly – either from your word, excel, websites.

Books

Books – best seller lists.

http://amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/3/ref=pd_ts_b_nav

Amazon.com’s top selling 100 books in Business and Investing category

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?CAT=914500&srt=S&z=y&cds2Pid=17801

Barnes & Noble’s top selling books in Business category

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/books/bestseller/200711besthardbusiness.html?_r=1&ref=bestsellers&oref=slogin

New York Times Hardcover Business Best Sellers

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/books/bestseller/200711bestpaperbusiness.html?ref=bestsellers

New York Times Paperback Business Best Sellers

Credit Cards

https://home.americanexpress.com/home/open.shtml

American Express Open

Tradeshows

http://www.tsw.com

Trade Show Week

Phone

http://www.talkswitch.com/

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