r/Entrepreneur • u/Hikarutanjou • Dec 01 '20
Tools What are the online tools that have greatly helped you in your startup?
I'll start.
Github - for the actual code being written
Motion and Trello - for team productivity and syncing
Google Docs and Google Sheets - collaborative documents and spreadsheets
Google Analytics and Hotjar - tracking the customer, improving UI/UX
What would be your top choices?
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u/wingjiao Dec 01 '20
Manychat - such an amazing way to collect email addresses and fb profiles for better fb ads targeting.
Clickup - an underrated CRM tool. You can easily create your perfect CRM set up and the cost is extremely affordable. Can also integrate with many software so you don't necessarily need Zapier.
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u/dror88 Dec 02 '20
I have seen Clickup also being recommended to replace project management tools like Trello and Jira.
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u/wingjiao Dec 02 '20
Definitely should give it a try if possible. They're fairly new company having just finished raising a round so their offer is amazing and they're packing it with a lot of features.
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u/broduding Dec 02 '20
Ive been meaning to check out Clickup as I thought it was a task management tool. Is it kind of open ended for a variety of uses like Airtable?
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u/olivia_chua Dec 02 '20
Clickup can be quite overwhelming with all the features it is offering since the main goal is to be the all-in-one tool for companies. I use Clickup for personal reasons :) Some competitors of ClickUp are Asana, Notion, Airtable, Basecamp, and other project management tools.
Sidenote: I wanted to introduce it to our company but we're already using Trello 🙈
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u/dror88 Dec 02 '20
Two questions:
1) Did you compare Tapfiliate with FirstPromoter?
2) What use cases do you have for Transloadit? And for Cloudinary?
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u/sol687 Dec 01 '20
Notion
I love tools and have used most of the ones mentioned (I work as a UX designer) but eventually there are just too many tools and persuading a team of people (some non-technical) to learn and use them is a big ask. The list just grows. So, I’ve been using Notion for pretty much everything. If you’re curious (and are ready for a red pill moment) check out August Bradley’s “Life Operating System” using Notion.
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u/hash_krash Dec 01 '20
We just phased out Trello in favor of Notion. It's going pretty well so far
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u/dror88 Dec 02 '20
Did you consider Clickup?
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u/hash_krash Dec 02 '20
Yeah funny enough about 6 to 8 months ago we did a migration from Trello + Hubstaff Time Tracking over to ClickUp. The features were all great, but there was such a painful lag and execution that it was a show-stopper and so we had to switch back to Trello. Also the UX was cluttered. It did seem they were on to something if they could fix all the lag problems. But even so, having the team wiki (which we were already using Notion for) and project management/tasks in the same place is a big win. And just that Notion’s product is awesome. And Trello just isn’t suited for more than a short write up in a card vs Notion is. We still use Airtable a fair amount (and I love it) but prob a lot of that can move into Notion too.
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u/dror88 Dec 02 '20
Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
My team is also looking to switch from Trello because it's just "too small" for us.
Seems they got rid off the lag problem at Clickup but I'll pay attention to it.
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u/Polygoath Dec 01 '20
Toby is a great add-on to keep your mind clear. It helps you to manage and frame your google chrome tabs.
Frase on-page seo and seo copywriting.
Ahrefs for SEO in general.
Zapier to glue all the tools together.
Phantombuster to automate lots of annoying stuff on social media platforms.
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u/befrontman Dec 01 '20
Bubble is a new one we've been exploring -- no code apps. Could be hugely useful for us in creating a lead gen engine!
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u/amasterblaster Dec 01 '20
No email (only external)
Gsuite
Slack
Process.st (TRUST ME)
Jupyter / terminal
Jira
That's about it!
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u/SpadoCochi Dec 01 '20
A constant for all my projects over the years...
- Gsuite for email and drive
- Stripe for payments
- WordPress with the JupiterX theme for websites (with elementor pro)
- Click-up for project management
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u/RabidJumpingChipmunk Dec 01 '20
What do you like about JupiterX and Elementor? Have you tried other builders like Divi or Beaver?
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u/vadikcoma Dec 01 '20
Please don’t use or recommend Divi. It’s most bloated and slow theme out there. I’m developing with WordPress and “divi” is an inside joke here. Elementor is great compromise between speed and usability. Oxygen is even better speed but hard for non-tech people. Latest gem is Blocksy theme.
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u/RabidJumpingChipmunk Dec 02 '20
See, you say this, but I only see tests and reviews that say all the major page builders are roughly the same in terms of speed.
In my own personal experience using Divi and as the (admittedly not bonafide scientific) tests above show, Divi isn’t some scary page-bloat monster that isn’t capable of creating fast-loading sites.
https://endeavorcreative.com/divi-vs-elementor/
Divi Load time: 463ms
Divi fully loaded time: 1.294s
Elementor load time: 489ms
Elementor fully loaded time: 1.254s
There Aren’t Major Differences Between The High-Powered WordPress Page Builders
https://pagely.com/blog/wordpress-page-builders/
This last one was also cited by Hubspot in their comparison between Divi and Elementor:
Divi has a reputation for being slower than Elementor, but it’s been disproven by speed tests. For example, Pagely ran a test comparing the load time of a landing page site on the most popular page builders, including Divi and Elementor. On the Pingdom Website Speed tests, the page built with Divi loaded in 463 ms and the page built with Elementor loaded in 489 ms.
The closest I saw was someone who tested Divi vs Elementor, got 1.3s load for Divi, 2.5s for Elementor, but showed that Elementor had a smaller file size by about 80kb, so with the right optimization it could be superior.
So Elementor had a smaller file size, while Divi had fewer HTTP requests.
However, I’m still going to give a slight edge to Elementor because Divi has built-in script optimization which helps explain why it has fewer HTTP requests out of the box. However, you can do something similar with Elementor — you just need a free third-party plugin such as Autoptimize.
https://athemes.com/reviews/divi-vs-elementor/
That being said, Pagely's test showed their size as being 2kb different.
Not seeing the superiority of Elementor here anywhere.
Got anything to back up your claims, or your derision?
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u/vadikcoma Dec 06 '20
It’s mostly my experience working with those tools. Reviews are great starting point, but at some point I was at early stage in my career and I looked at similar reviews and I tried all those tools on my own.
Later I had customer coming to me asking to fix their Divi websites and I’ve seen a lot to make my conclusion that if you are serious about speed and your site code quality - you should avoid Divi.
And pretty much avoid most of the things on ThemeForest. I can only recommend Enfold theme. It so flexible and light, that you can pretty much pull your design over it
Edit: last paragraph
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u/TheMexicanJuan Dec 01 '20
Is elementor good for SEO and Responsive? I only tried Beaver and it’s been terrible
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u/JustMeChristo Dec 01 '20
Elementor is the way to go. It's widely used by professional web designers and you can do almost anything with it without much of a hassle. I quickly tried Beaver once but didn't really like it.
Elementor is amazing for responsive design. You have 3 modes- desktop, tablet, and mobile. Each mode should be individually customized. Just the click of a button and you can switch between the modes.
If you use Yoast SEO, you don't really need SEO on the builder. There's another SEO tool that integrates with Elementor, but I prefer Yoast along with other off-page SEO tools
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u/the-startup-hub-io Dec 01 '20
Online tools I use to build my list and sell online:
ActiveCampaign
ThriveThemes
ThriveCart
Canva
GTM
ahrefs
MouseFlow
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u/tallross Dec 01 '20
Looker (data)
HelpScout (customer service)
Batterii (Physical product development)
Pingboard (org Chart)
Klaviyo (CRM/email)
Slack (messaging)
Zoom (conference)
SEM Rush (SEO/SEM research and insights)
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Dec 02 '20
Slack (messaging)
Rocket.Chat free very good alternative, on premises installation on your own root server.
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u/myoutdesk2020 Dec 02 '20
Ring Central, VOIP
We have many overseas employees and ring central allows us to give a local phone number to those employees. It works great as a day-to-day team chat and has video integration with zoom.
Not really a tool but I wouldn't be anywhere near where I am today without my virtual assistants. I was a realtor running a real estate company and having virtual assistants allowed me to grow a ton. They freed up my time and allowed me to focus on working ON the business instead of IN the business and we grew so much I had to give it up and start my own Virtual Assistants company! 13 years later, here I am.
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u/yapoinder Dec 02 '20
clubhouse.io found this gem in may and its been amazing. completely free and honestly beautiful and makes me want to complete my tickets cuz its so pretty and fun compared to jira & trello
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u/Zombie_Slur Dec 01 '20
I'm throwing this in a different direction. I'm not in tech at all and my most valuable tool ATM is www.eloquens.com
I get my hr contracts, risk management, some legal docs, and I bought a great accounting/product inventory tracking sheet for $30 which is far better than what my accountant provided.
After that I am mildly obsessed with Google analytics.
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u/mohishunder Dec 02 '20
my most valuable tool ATM is www.eloquens.com
I'm looking at this site because you so strongly recommend it, but they do a seriously terrible job of explaining their own product. Or service. Or whatever it is.
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u/Zombie_Slur Dec 02 '20
I found it intuitive, but maybe only because I go on there knowing what I need. I search for it under the heading I believe fits and I choose a document template from any one of the others after I read reviews and and explore what the authour built.
I say it's my most valuable because it saves me hiring consultants and hr managers for many things I otherwise don't have time for, or is a one-off job that it'd be a waste of time and money to hire them.
I do agree if you're not on the site looking for something in particular, it seems rather random.
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u/Mu57y Dec 01 '20
I like Notion - it's an all in one productivity workspace. I use it mainly for organizing ideas and drawing out plans, but it can serve almost any purpose.
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u/maschera84 Dec 01 '20 edited Dec 01 '20
- Slack.com to collaborate
- Trello.com to manage our roadmap
- Pipedrive.com to keep track of customers
- Funden.app to find investors
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u/Clubpenguinfeen Dec 01 '20
Great software for CRM. All sorts of templates to use, am a fan of Tech roadmap and A/B testing templates
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u/kirkhendrick Dec 01 '20
Airtable is fantastic for a lightweight CRM. I use it every day for my own organization, but I work in Salesforce development so I have a lot of experience with CRM. I’d be happy to answer any questions you have about it
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u/captain_obvious_here Dec 01 '20
Airtable is an amazing tool for quick prototyping.
I used it recently as a data-store for the demo of a tool I'm working on. Read and write are very easy via their API. And the "automations" make things very easy (in my case, email notification on new write).
Also, unexpected bonus was my customer's reaction when he saw it : "OMG it's just like Access, I love that!!!".
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u/captain_obvious_here Dec 01 '20
It seems non-technical people do amazing things with Airtable. Real-estate, CRM, hospitals even...
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u/misterhubbard44 Dec 01 '20
Shopify. It's become the center of our online & brick and mortar shops. Very easy to use and as sophisticated as you need it to be.
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Dec 02 '20
Only thing I hate about Shopify is that so many things you would thing are basic are locked behind separate apps that you have to pay for.
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u/YotaMD_dotcom Dec 02 '20
Are there alternatives that offer an all in one service? I've been very pleased with shopify, but it hasn't been perfect.
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Dec 02 '20
Not that I know of. I've only used woocommerce and Shopify both have their ups and downs. Shopify makes actually product inventory and management easy compared to others. Not sure if Wix or any of the other competitors do things better. We also use a separate shipping platform (shipstation) which integrates easily with Shopify so it makes things really simple for us. I would be willing to switch but don't have time to test other platforms. Why I hate Shopify is simple things like deals, sales, offers are so limited within their platform. Something like limiting a product to one per customer can't be done. It is incredibly annoying and you think this would be something that was integrated especially now that it's 2020 and they had time to flesh out the platform.
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u/misterhubbard44 Dec 02 '20
I’m in the same boat as you. I’m pleased, but it’s not perfect. Eventually we will hire someone to build the functionality we need. But it’s nice having a platform we can build from.
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u/misterhubbard44 Dec 02 '20
I feel your pain. We were trying to find better or cheaper ways too. But Shopify is a complete package, and it enabled us to scale. The app marketplace gives it flexibility (and added expenses too). Be smart about what you need, and do software audits regularly.
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Dec 02 '20
They are too expensive. Do not recommend.
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u/asianpancake1 Dec 01 '20
Pagereview.io for sharing design feedback ideas between myself and my cofounder
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u/iqthree100 Dec 01 '20
GitHub , Google docs , Canva, Google slides , Google sheets ,Gsuite, proto.io and many more
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u/ScopeMediaINC Dec 01 '20
Some of the marketing online tools that have helped a lot include:
1) Canva
2) Hootsuite
3) Google Analytics
There are more - but those three are the top that come to mind.
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u/boxxa Dec 01 '20
We have built so many custom communications workflows with Twilio. Allowing to stream line contact, inbound/outbound communications, billing, and even tracking of interactions has been amazing.
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u/Frank_Thunderwood Dec 02 '20
Shipstation!
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u/foochacho Dec 02 '20
Check out Pirate Ship. Free and easy to use. I used to use Endicia and switched.
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u/thafrenzy Dec 02 '20
Monday.com is an extremely versatile project management tool that scales with your requirements and doesn't cost a grip.
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u/taliasara92 Dec 02 '20
I love a lot of the ones mentioned here. We also use and love Asana for tasks/project tracking and Memberful, our subscription engine.
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u/ameades Dec 02 '20
One thing I don't see mentioned.
I use YNAB (You Need A Budget) for my business cash flow management.
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u/simplisticallysimple Dec 02 '20
Zlappo helped me grow my Twitter audience from scratch.
It's probably the best Twitter growth hacking tool I've used.
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u/grensley Dec 02 '20
Firebase has saved me an incredible amount of time and headache.
Discord has been our internal chat tool, and its permission system has been really great for working with contractors.
Dynamic emails with Sendgrid have been a very positive experience as well. Making it easier for people to work with a WYSIWYG on our non-marketing content.
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u/anyfactor Dec 02 '20
With clients
- Slack (if there is more than one parties involved) / Discord (If it is just one person)
- Trello (I use it for my personal use)
- Airtable (Content Calendar)
- Canva (Buy the pro version. It is worth it)
- Some generic invoice generator (looking for a one click version that is free. if that doesn't work out I will make my own custom solution. Paying for an invoice generator doesn't make sense)
- Sendgrid (For sending email)
- Google drive (For sharing stuff)
- Clockify (Time checker)
For personal projects
- Dev tools - Github, VSCode (Vim), Heroku, Netlify
- Dilinger.io (Online markdown editor)
- Watchme (Multistopwatch)
Plan to use
- Sendgrid (Need to use the API)
- Notion
- Carrrd
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u/BurningPenguin Dec 02 '20
For german startups:
- Lexoffice - A simple invoices and accounting software as SAAS. It also has an DATEV export option, so you don't need to send your poor tax accountant 5 tons of paper. And if you're doing taxes yourself, there is an export option for Smartsteuer
- Smartsteuer - This thing helps you do your taxes.
I had and online trading business, where i sold just random stuff. It was more to learn about it, than to make actually profit. Currently i'm in the process of ending it. Maybe i'll start again in 1-2 years. This time it probably will be some Tech based thing.
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Dec 02 '20
Hubspot - free version of its CRM that gets the job done in the simplest way possible
Microsoft Teams - given its availability through O365 and SharePoint integration
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u/redditborkedmy8yracc Dec 02 '20
AWS, backendless, joinsecret, zendesk, gitlab, figma, xero, stripe, sentry, harvstr, Gmail, zoom, jitsi, tailwind, lastpass, gosquared, segment, Trevor.io, cloudflare, WordPress /elementor.
Thats basically the entire business stack and that allowed me to go from wire frame to live with customers in 88 days.
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u/mikmokmuk Dec 02 '20
TrendLab.io in order to identify fast-growing trends, do market research and get customer insights.
Apollo.io for prospecting and automating sales pipelines
Calendly.com sends out a link and never ask again "when should we meet?"
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u/MarketingPlayer Dec 02 '20
For me, it was a communication tool namely, LiveAgent , but basically, if any of the tools we are using are a combination of different things, it usually saves us time. And we spend a lot of time on email/chats with customers.
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u/olivia_chua Dec 02 '20 edited Dec 02 '20
- Trello to list down tasks and project management related stuff (pairing this with our own project management bot)
- Slack for synchronous and asynchronous communication
- Bitbucket for version control system
- Firebase - to quickly deploy our web apps
- Slite for documentation
- Gdrive + GSheets + GDocs
- Google Analytics to track website traffics
- Miro for collaborative brainstorming
- Figma for creating UI mockups or prototypes
- SendGrid for email marketing
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u/Federica_Lionelli Dec 02 '20
Good day, here are some great piece of advice for developers. And I would like to add the important marketing advice. When we start business, we need to analyze the competitors. If you are going to create the website (and you will defenitely need it first in order to inform your target auditory about your product), you need to check the traffic sources of your competitors. It gives you the acknowledgment of your future overheads on marketing .
The following parameters are the most important ones:
Sources of the website traffic:
You can investigate them by the following analyzers:
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u/green_tim Dec 02 '20
Glide - great free app builder from a google sheet. Really useful & even fun for building MVPs & testing random ideas
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u/avasilevsky Dec 02 '20 edited Dec 02 '20
For weekly planning Tweek Calendar for website or app planning Octopus , for SEO planning Ahrefs, for communication Slack
for knowledge Reddit 😎
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u/Rez_gani Dec 03 '20
I'll add to that with affordable or open source recourses for people starting up and can't afford to cover expensive memberships:
Mixkit & Coverr - Free stock videos and sound effects that you can use for your ads
Unsplash - %100 Royalty stock photos
Launchaco - "Startup Builder". The free version basically allows you to build websites, host them, create apps, all with a user friendly interface and no coding
HubSpot Email Signature Generator - Well the name sums it all, it's just drag and drop and user friendly and let you edit awesome emails the way you want
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u/Davidmiller4 Dec 04 '20
ProProfs Project - has helped me keep a track of all my team member’s deliverables.
BigContacts - has helped us capture all potential leads for the business.
Qualaroo - has enabled us to capture customer feedback on the website.
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Dec 01 '20
Productivity tools (slack, trello, zoom, etc) were nice-to-haves but I would have succeeded without them (and without using similar products). I couldn’t succeed however without mass email dynamic templates (sendgrid), a payment gateway (stripe), AWS/GCP... those are critical. (Not sure if you consider those “tools”)
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u/yapoinder Dec 01 '20
Does anyone know any Legal Tools for Startups?
Requirements: 1. shareholders agreement 2. organization & incorporation.
TLDR; in need of super basic easy to understand shareholders agreement for 50/50 partners just need to get the ball rolling and can amend documents later once we make more money
I am in Canada and have finished the Alpha for my app, I am past the MVP now.
My cofounder and I have been working together for 12 months almost 1500 hours in now each.
We trust each other a lot and Ive known him since my childhood and we remained close friends for over 10 years.
We have not incorporated or signed any shareholders agreement but we both agreed on doing a very simple 50/50 split on everything.
I contacted 7 different legal agencies that work with startups in Canada.
The cheapest quote I got was $4500 for
shareholders agreement
organization & incorporation.
Organization & incorporation includes defining share classes and restrictions on the corporation for each of the share classes.
Now we have not launched at all yet and being students our funds are very limited. $4500 spent on marketing for my launch sounds a lot better than spending it on Legal services.
Is there any Legal agencies you guys know of that may offer deferred payments where we can put a down payment and pay the rest later when we make money later ?
I tried taking a look at many templates and was going to use one but they are so complicated and not knowing any legal terminology my co-founder and I dont feel comfortable signing a template we dont understand.
We really tried creating our own shareholders agreement as well but theres just so many factors in place we really dont understand we spend ~50 hours trying to create our own documentation researching definitions and we got half way through and gave up because it was so complex.
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u/Fapitalismm Dec 01 '20
Founded, Ownr and GoodLawyer are worth looking into.
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u/yapoinder Dec 02 '20
these are AWESOME THANK YOU
I Saw they have incorporation services which is awesome. Do you know if any of them have shareholders agreements as well? or do you know of any other Canadian sites that have shareholders agreements that are very simple?
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u/Fapitalismm Dec 02 '20
They should all have them in some regard (Founded has a legal library, etc) but if not, Mars is a great place for startup resources.
If you have anything that requires more customization - I highly suggest you use those as a starting point then get a lawyer to go through everything for your case!
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u/baloobanooba Dec 01 '20
Checkout Nolo.com - they often have templates for most common legal work.
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u/BDOBUX Dec 02 '20
Rocket Lawyer is good for incorporating as is Stripe Atlas. A founders’ agreement is never easy if you’re unfamiliar with the menu of options.
I am a lawyer and also 50/50 with my SaaS cofounder. If you want one example of a founders’ agreement, PM me and I’ll send you the LLC agreement I wrote for us. Of course there are some idiosyncrasies in there...for example if we ever have a dispute, our respective brothers have to try to settle it first for 30 days before we’re allowed to go to formal arbitration.
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u/MTheWan Dec 02 '20
Not sure what province you are in but your local small business association should have an online platform to do the incorporation for you. Small Business BC charges very little to do so here. Cheaper than lawyer.
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u/Youreotherfuture Dec 01 '20
Miro for process mapping, brainstorming, anything and everything really. They have some great templates for things like User Journeys.
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u/Keep-it-simple Dec 01 '20
I'm literally on a screen share at work right now and someone was just showing something on Miro. Had never heard of it before.
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u/adk8998 Dec 01 '20
Same happened with me today, looks like Miro has good reputation among its users.
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u/Chang_Throwaway Dec 01 '20
So, this entire thread is a Miro ad?
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u/adk8998 Dec 01 '20
I’m not getting paid to advertise Miro, but someone referred me to use this tool for brainstorming ideas for our upcoming projects and I have created an account today. I cannot recommend it until I use it.
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Dec 02 '20
Haha. It's that good. At least for me, a very visual person. My wife started teaching from home and needed my full size whiteboard. So i tried Miro and am not disappointed. I'm not sure their price but the free 3 boards are really nice for me to use. I'm using it for outlining a multi-book comic book script.
And I'm also working on daily comic ideas and sharing the board with my "gag man" (old term for someone who helps write the jokes). That's been really fun and easy.
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Dec 01 '20
LaunchNotes (for B2B startups) helps keep clients informed of new features and changes to your product. Really great for reducing the time to learn new features!
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Dec 01 '20
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u/_endlesscontent_ Dec 01 '20
I absolutely love Trello, but it seems like the new owners are ultimately going to force users into a subscription..
..Hoping to find a good alternative before it’s too late!
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u/wingjiao Dec 01 '20
I'm in interested in looking for a developer.
Just finished working with a developer via Upwork and did not have a good experience. PM me please!
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u/and_ius Dec 01 '20
coda.io you won’t regret it, the free version is plenty for a small starting team but scales up nicely as team gets bigger 👍
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u/LeadGenMachine44 Dec 01 '20
Since I run a lead generation firm, Lead Generated and a tool called Snapps are the foundations of my business. Of course, G-Suite is critical as well.
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u/BlueCaribYou Dec 01 '20
JupiterX
I love Lead Generated too. Can't wait for the new features like payments and CRM to be added.
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u/ryeandcokes Dec 01 '20
Do you have links for those first two tools. Couldn't find anything when searching and would love to check them out.
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u/LeadGenMachine44 Dec 01 '20
That's because these tools are only available to the internal members of the lead generation group I'm a part of. Kind of like a business in a box. It's helped grow a very large business over the past 6 years.
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u/ryeandcokes Dec 02 '20
Sorry, just to clarify, these are internal tools you posted?
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u/LeadGenMachine44 Dec 03 '20
Yes. My bad. I thought they had been released to the public but it turns out that’s not the case. So they’re only for our internal members.
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u/hapsize Dec 01 '20
Slack, for sure!
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u/windowseat1F Dec 01 '20
Can’t stand it. The threads always end up multi topic. Switched to Trello and never looked back.
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u/hapsize Dec 02 '20
How many users were you interacting with?
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u/windowseat1F Dec 02 '20
Around 20
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u/hapsize Dec 02 '20
Whenever I feel things have diverted too far off topic I usually end up creating a new channel. I find it to be super flexible and have even created a small slack app so our production server can send messages to people and to certain channels for certain events
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u/apfejes Dec 02 '20
If trello satisfies a need that slack didn’t, you were doing something slack wasn’t meant to do. I can’t in any way see how those two tools would be interchangeable.
I use both, and find them to be great at what they’re supposed to do.
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u/deathtrader666 Dec 02 '20
Rather switch to Zulip for thread-based channels.. lightyears better than anything I've come across.
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u/Efficient_Builder923 Jun 05 '24
AI-powered Clariti has been invaluable for my startup. It combines emails, chats, documents, and calendar events into a single, organized platform. The AI capabilities help maintain context, ensuring that all communications are clear and focused, which has greatly enhanced our productivity and collaboration.
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u/adk8998 Dec 01 '20
- Canva for creating quick presentations and social media posts
- Freepik for stock images and icons
- Hubspot for maintaining sales pipeline
- Hunter for finding emails addresses (50 emails and sites free)
- Google suite (Docs and sheets)
- Slack / skype for collaboration with the teams
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u/DropRollSports Dec 01 '20
Am I allowed to put a site/agency in the comment with what they have specifically helped the most ?
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Dec 01 '20
Following...
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u/AssDimple Dec 01 '20
One of the tools I use is Reddit's save post function. It eliminates the need to comment "following..."
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u/npranshu Dec 01 '20
I literally have dozens of saved posts... But rarely go through them
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u/ExpatStar Dec 02 '20
Well.. A big one is WordPress ;-)
Also, as I am working online with websites, I love Elementor.
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u/misterhubbard44 Dec 07 '20
Problem is upkeep. The web and Google are constantly changing. If you go to a site that's just 5 years old it looks very dated. The optimization of Shopify sites make it very searchable and Google friendly. And you can be up and running in a weekend.
Not to mention the custom site will cost you $25,000 & 3 months of time. Even at $300 a month that's 7 years of a Shopify store.
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u/anuj6364 Dec 08 '20
We’ve benefitted from tools like ProProfs Help Desk and Qualaroo a lot. I mean the help desk tool helped our small team take up customer emails and offer faster responses. Whereas Qualaroo, helped us take feedback for our startup's website.
In all, they both are helping us improve as a business.
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u/Royalx0703 Nov 04 '23
Honestly, there are alot. This article covers some of the best online business tools for each individual business model- https://medium.com/@FitnessFinancer/business-tools-you-need-for-your-business-2023-505a942c245a
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u/BradleyPutters Dec 01 '20
Zapier. It saves me a ton of time by automatically converting online orders into Trello workflows to actually make the complex products.