Essential Apps for Startup Founders or Entrepreneurs

Mubeen Mackie
Thiken
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5 min readMay 2, 2017
Mobile Apps

In a chaotic and a rapidly changing business environment, having a sharp and an organized life has become a necessity for any founder or entrepreneur.

But, for promising entrepreneurs trying to get their businesses off the ground against the odds is no easy. Well, there’s a bright side for it, there are growing number of reasonable, innovative apps that are available to fight against those odds. From managing finances and scheduling meetings there’s an endless collection of mobile apps available in the market

Here are some of our top picks for mobile apps that can assist a founder or an entrepreneur to increase their productivity indefinitely!

Sit back, relax and sip your favorite cup of coffee and read through the list of apps that could make your life easy peasy!!!!!!

1. Evernote

Designed to make sure you can accomplish multiple tasks in a single app. Evernote can act as a digital notebook for anything and everything. From keeping track of your expenses, managing your calendar, to creating slideshow presentations, to planning your next trip, and to create, share and discuss with the people who help get your work done. Moreover, you can even develop your projects faster and let multiple participants work on different aspects. Evernote is a must have app for any founder or entrepreneur.

2. Product Hunt

When you are a startup business validation of your ideas is very important. Product Hunt is the app for it. You can submit your products/ideas which are listed in a linear format by day. The site includes a comments system and a voting system similar. The products with the most votes rise to the top of each day’s list. If your products/ideas have an extensive number of votes and positive comments you will know that you can go ahead and develop your products/ideas.

3. Pocket

When you are a startup founder or an entrepreneur, time becomes a luxury that you can’t afford at times. You know every second you spend counts for something valuable. Let’s say you saw an interesting article, video any other web content and you are super busy at the moment and you wanna save it for later viewing, Pocket, is the app for you. You can directly save the content you want to watch or read later on to Pocket. And you don’t even need an Internet connection to view them later because they are directly saved onto the Pocket app. If you are quite busy to read this very article due to an unexpected meeting, you better pocket it for a later time!

4. Slack

If you are starting a business and you are looking for a software to help you with internal communication Slack is your go to software. Once titled the ‘email killer’, Slack will allow you and your co-workers to communicate with each other easily. Apart from the basic feature such as sharing and editing documents, images, videos, Slack allows you and your employees to integrate into the workflow, the tools, and services you already use including Google Drive, Salesforce, Dropbox, Asana, Twitter, Zendesk, and etc..

5. Workflow

Like we mentioned earlier when you are a startup founder or an entrepreneur time management is a crucial element. Managing workflow is the base of using time effectively is very important to the success of your business. Workflow is designed to offer organized and custom workflows, the app can automate just about anything you would want. With the Workflow app, you’re able to customize your phone so you can avoid tasks that are a waste of time. Also with the Workflow app, you could also get directions to the nearest coffee shop in a tap, book an Uber in advance, get a reminder of your next calendar event, create a button to give your mom a quick call, get all of the images on a web page and so much more.

6. Lastpass

Say bye bye to all those sticky notes with your passwords scrawled on them as the solution is here. 1Password allows you to collect all those codes in one safe place online. The app keeps all your passwords and important information protected behind a single Master Password. It has extensions or plug-ins for all the major browsers, and can securely store other things, like credit cards, bank accounts, and licenses. You can save all the entries from a web page form, so you can remember answers to security questions or other information.

If you think we forgot to highlight an app that you use, let us know in the comments!

At the meantime, now that you know that these amazing apps are existing tryout these awesome apps and make your business productive…

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Mubeen Mackie
Thiken
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