Chapter 8 — Useful Tools
This is a list of both free and paid products and services as well as blog articles that have helped me over the past few years. I’m constantly sharing these with my clients and other entrepreneurs and thought others could benefit too.
For Prototyping
On Growth:
10 actionable growth hacking tactics with proven results
How to grow blog email subscribers
How to get 6.2 million page views
How to get 100k subscribers in one week
When a consumer startup hit product market fit Mattan Griffel’s slide share on growth hacking
Going from idea to your first dollar and starting a business
How to start consulting I currently work as a consultant and think this article is perfect if you’re thinking of doing the same.
Talk by Noah Kagan and Tim Ferris
How to start a business: Noah Kagan again
How we built an commerce business from scratch and generated $922 in revenue in 3 days.
Entrepreneur’s Guide To Customer Development I share this guide with EVERYONE because it’s the quickest way to explain the process of customer development. You can buy it on amazon for $9.99 on kindle.
Learning to code (Free and Paid) I spent the last year or so learning how to code in my free time. It’s gotten me to the point where I can prototype my ideas and get early customers. These are some free and paid courses. My two favorites are Onemonth.com and Gorails.com.
OneMonth I love One Month because they break down each course into 15-minute videos. That way you can complete each course in one month pretty easily. They offer way more courses on coding, growth hacking, and content marketing.
Gorails For the price (19.99/month) and breadth of content you can’t get better than Gorails when learning Ruby on Rails. Chris has built a library of screen casts that will teach you how to build specific features and take you from beginner level to intermediate in no time.
Levelup Tutorials with over 750 course on coding
r/entrepreneur stories and “how to articles”
50k a month with lead gen guy here again
Tactics I used to grow my company to 50kmonth
How startups such as dropbox, airbnb, and groupon got their first users
So were now over 2 million a year in combined revenue
Here’s what set wordpress and lead generation can do
Drop shipping is still a viable business model
Building a startup 45 minutes a day while deployed in Iraq
Lists and databases of Free Tools
Growth Supply: A huge database of free startup tools
StartupStash: one of the top voted products on product hunt and a free list of tools
These two from R/Entrepreneur are some of my favorite!
A curated list of not very well known services Part 1
A curated list of not very well known services Part 2
Paid services for getting leads
Callboxinc (Philippines)
For time management / project management for your business:
I hope you guys find this helpful. E-mail me if you have any other useful things I should add to the list and I’ll update it. alex@kehaya.com
