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There are many startup tools to help you with building, designing, marketing, operating and selling your product/company. The abundance is a blessing and a curse, but we’re here to make things easier with this ultimate shortlist of tools and resources that will make your entrepreneurial life better. Collaboration/Communication: — Best in Class Award: Slack – If you are still using email to communicate with your team, stop that. Slack is hands down the best way to communicate quickly in groups or 1:1, organize discussions by topic ( channels), and have everything in one place so it’s easy to find. It’s unbelievable how much time is freed up when you don’t have to craft an email for each quick sentence exchanged with your team. And of course it comes with a mobile app and integrates with a bunch of other apps that you’re probably already using. It also just rolled out voice and video calls for its premium users. Do you have to pay for this magic? Nope. Slack offers a freemium model, but the free tier will probably grant all your wishes.
Best for Team Video Conferencing: Google Hangouts – When it comes to video conferencing, this is a no-brainer if you’re using the Google Suite. It’s free and super easy to set up on Gmail. You still have to check with external parties before you schedule a Hangouts session though, as it may not work on computers that don’t have the G Suite enabled. Worth looking into: for easy conferencing and screensharing that works for most people/laptops; Google Drive, Dropbox and Box for all your document storage and sharing needs. Project Management: — Staff Pick: Trello – Use Trello and your programmers will love you. It offers the background remove service easiest and most collaborative way to organize, visualize, assign and monitor tasks as a team. It follows the Kaban list structure by letting you organize projects and tasks into boards (topics), which are made of lists (task-lists), which in turn are made of cards (tasks). While it’s great for project management, Trello’s multi-purpose: it also works for brainstorming, agenda planning, and any other list-based activities. To make things even better, it operates on a freemium model where the free tier provides all the functionalities a small team would need.
Bonus: it integrates with Slack. What more do you need from a project management tool? Runner-up: Asana – There’s a Trello camp and an Asana camp. While we already cast our ballot, Asana’s merits are definitely worthy of recognition. Like Trello, Asana is a very robust tool and also offers a freemium model. The structure, however, is not immediately as intuitive, so there’s a bit of a learning curve. On the plus side, Asana offers some more advanced organizational functionalities than Trello, making it a good pick for complex projects where you may need more rigorous tracking. Honorable mentions: Google Keep for personal planning; Basecamp for a well-designed alternative to Trello/Asana. Web tools: — Best for Bootstrappers: Balsamiq: If you’re a startup founder, scrappy is your middle name, and that’s what Balsamiq is. If you’re still in the early process of building your MVP or charting out new product features, Balsamiq allows you to make very quick wireframes and get feedback. It’s basically like whiteboarding, but on your laptop, so faster and easier to share.
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發表於 2022-10-23 18:19:52