Product Launches
Product Hunt
- Zappy for macOS — Zapier's fast, free screen capture tool for remote teams
- Lockdown Language Exchange — Book native speakers to practice a language during lockdown
- Hims Anonymous Support Groups — Together we can feel a little bit better.
- I Miss The Office — An office noise generator
- CryptoHack — A fun platform for learning cryptography
- OnMail — New email service where you're in control
- Tuned — A new app for couples, by Facebook.
- Email Workflows by Salesflare 💌 — Sequences, drips & onboarding emails from PH's favorite CRM
- VCV Pages — Bot-generated job posts with video applications
- Fireflies AI: Microsoft Teams Meetings — Get notes, transcripts, & search microsoft teams meetings
- Shoppable Quizzes by involve.me — Guide your customers to the perfect product automatically 🎯
- Wiza 2.0 — Create email lists from LinkedIn, then reach out at scale.
- Remote Developer Salary Explorer — Compare how much it costs to hire remote engineers globally
- Social Games in Slack — Polly brings your WFH team together with interactive games
- Learn From Home — Free online resources for product managers
- Transnote Beta — Make and share video notes by timestamps
- Ampliz SalesBuddy and PeopleFinder — B2B Intelligence to personalize prospecting during Lockdown
- Airtable + Bannerbear — Auto generate images using Airtable
- GraphicOne App — Visual knowledge hub for better investment decisions
- One Soft Landing — Hire one of the 1000+ people recently laid off
Launching Next
- Spike Secure Video Meetings : Video Conferencing. Secure. Simple. Free. Open.
- #AtHomeStreams: Find live events to enjoy while stuck at home
- Orsolo 3.0: Organize projects with all the tools an individual needs
- PDF Reader: PDF editor designed for all the ways you work
- Pixel True: 300+ Illustrations, icons and Lottie animations
- Take Care: Measure wellbeing. Get personalized self-care practices.
- Zenkit To Do: Organize, plan, and collaborate with To Do
- Terrible horrible no good very bad ideas: A newsletter of startup ideas and data to back them up
- Wildcard Money: Make your money last until pay day
- BottomUp Skills: Online learning platform for innovators, product creators, and creatives.
BetaPage
- inboxAds → Monetize your newsletter campaigns with dynamic native ads.
- Ari Coach → Know what to eat for your workout goals
- PinRSS → Pinrss will automatically find the RSS feed associated with a website during web surfing.
- AppClues Studio → AppClues Studio is the custom mobile app development and USA design company.
- SeminarDesk → Smart seminar software. All-in-1 solution to manage events, venues, online registration, and more.
- InfluX → InfluX is an Instagram growth service, management, anaysis and automation tool.
- SEOeShop → Rank your Website TOP for any Keyword
- Rowshare → RowShare provides table templates to centralize and simplify manual processes.
- LifeMetrics → Daily questions to gain psychological insight
- Centsibly → Analyze your spending and set financial goals
- Trill → Trill is no BS mindfulness. Meditation, motivation, sleep, scream & other wild content.
- Cloudprobes → Cloudeprobes is a monitoring tool for checking the uptime and performance of your service.
- Emojise for iPadOS → Drag-and-drop Emoji Manager for your iPad
- SmartBots → SmartBots is a cohesive bot development platform.
- Zippy - Uber Clone App → White label uber clone script taxi booking app solution to start your own taxi business.
- Boardist → An easy-to-use workspace to store, manage and organize all the data.
- DEIP → The future of innovation
- Keka HR → Keka HR is an end to end employee experience platform with features like payroll & more.
- Jobwla → The Best Job Finder Website
- Glassbox → Custom workflow automation for teams using Ruby code
Beta List
- SimpleBlog – Publish blog posts from Word or Google docs
- Mytyteam – Dashboard for managing remote teams
- Peoplist – An easy way to create a shared Directory
- HyperDone – Kanban boards for productivity hackers and entrepreneurs
- Virtual Assembly – Directory of free remote events, courses and tools
- Upfront – Allows you to put a name & more to your transactional calls
- Coronavirus Tips New Tab – Do the five - Stop the spread of the coronavirus when you open a new tab
- Kraken – Manage risk, improve compliance, and scale your business
- Aasaan.ai – No Code Platform for building, training and deploying data classifiers
- LOVO Studio – AI Voice Creation Platform for Marketers, E-Learning, Audiobook, and more
Kickstarter: Technology
- PHONON SMB-01L Professional Monitoring Headphones
- The Last Chao
- The Chainless Bicycle
- The STEMBoT 2 Educational Robot
- Hyperx2 - High Capacity Super Fast Portable SSD Drive
- UV : ultraviolet flashlight powered by your smartphone
- Coaster&Co. keep your mug snug. Heated coasters.
- LUMI
- Roqos Core: Cybersecurity, VPN & Cellular Backup Internet
- IYOKI Light Switch Covers - Compatible with Philips Hue
Show Hacker News
- FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned
- Paragon (YC W20) – Visually Build API Workflows
- A Showcase of OpenType Features
- Zappy, a fast, free screen capture tool for macOS from Zapier
- Ilograph – Interactive System Diagrams
- Deepfence ThreatMapper – A powerful vulnerability scanner
- Wikipedia over DNS
- CovidWatch – Real Time Coronavirus Tracker with Trend Analysis and News
- Podurama Podcast Player for Web, Windows10, macOS, iOS(beta)
- Sass-link – an easy way to compile sass in the browser
- Proof of concept server-configuration application
- WorkDNA – Attract engineers by showing off your engineering culture
- Rust Implementation of Conway's Game of Life
- Edlyft (YC W20) – Paid Support Program for CS College Students
- A curated list of Open Source projects for a sustainable world
- DCPM – Docker Compose Package Manager
- A collection of graph classification methods (kernels, deep learning)
- Immuniweb implemented NIST SP 800-52 2 in their free SSL server test
- Get a Hand LA
- A curated set of colour combinations
Startup News
Medium: Startups
- The MVP Experiment Canvas
- How to Under-complicate Your Product (and Save Money)
- ‘Uncorked’ Understands the Value of Black Business — Which Is All Too Rare
- Coding is Not Everything
- A Complete Marketing Plan for the Photography Studio I Just Got Beautiful Portraits From
- What It’s Like To Run A Venture Capital Fund With Actor Will Smith
- 49 Marketing Blogs That Helped Me Become a Content Writer
- Pick-Up Your Startup
- I Did the Best Job of My Career — Then I Got Fired
- The Siren’s Lure — A Starbucks Influencer Marketing Case Study
StartupNation
- WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: Venture Capital and Angel Funds During COVID-19 (Episode 28)
- How to Turn Your Side Hustle Into a Six-Figure Business
- 3 Critical Elements to Successfully Lead a Remote Team
- WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: Take Your Business Mobile (Episode 27)
- Apply for Federal COVID-19 Support Now or Risk Missing Out, Business Strategy Expert Says
- In Crisis, What Should Entrepreneurs Make Free(mium)?
- Free Resources for Understanding COVID-19 Financing Options
- WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: Fear of Failure During COVID-19 (Episode 26)
- 10 Tools to Kickstart Your Freelance Operation
- COVID Disaster Loans vs. Paycheck Protection Program Loans
Starter Story
- How I Started A $12K/Month Aftermarket Vehicle Accessories
- How We Started A $2.8M/Year Renegade Museum Tours Company
- How I Launched A $2.5K/Month Landing Page Builder
- How I Started A $9K/Month WordPress Templates Business
- How I Launched A $2K/Month Solution That Holds Shirt Sleeves
- On Starting A Film, TV & Media Production Company
- How I Started A $13K/Month Fitness-Focused Marketing Consulting Business
- How We Started A $2.4K/Month Sex Toys For Men Store
- How I Started A $40K/Month Commercial Litter Cleaning Service
- How I Started A $5.4K/Month Organic, Natural And Plant-Based Skincare Company
Entrepreneur
- 8 Steps to Webinar Success
- Utilizing Media to Create New Opportunities For Your Business
- 'Technology Is More Broken Than Ever': Centercode CEO Luke Freiler on Creating More Meaningful Tech
- Bernie Sanders Ends 2020 Presidential Bid
- Twitter Chief Jack Dorsey Donates $1 Billion to COVID-19 Fight
- How AI Is Helping in the Fight Against COVID-19
- A Venture Capitalist Shares 6 Ways Startups Can Prepare for the Unexpected
- How to Run a 6-Figure Freelance Business in 20 Hours a Week
- Your Setbacks During COVID-19 Will Fuel Your Success Tomorrow
- How to Establish Marketing Authority in a Niche Industry
WECAN
- Mobile Mysteries: How to Build an App for Your Business
- Can You Build Your Business During the COVID-19 Lockdown?
- How to Identify Risks in Business
- Fighting for Life: Succeeding in the Healthcare Industry
- What Does the Pandemic Prove About Your Current Processes?
- Being a Responsible Employer
- Emergency Services Fleet Management
- Don’t Make These Mistakes When Bringing a New Product to Market
- Top Tips for Technological Start Up Success
- 3 Marketing Tips from Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood
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Older articles
- Top Indian Startups: The Complete List (2020 Update)
- How to Start a Business with No Money - I DID IT with Only $41!
- How to use conversational sales to acquire customers online
- What The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Means For Marketers
- 13 Amazing Free Chrome Extensions For SEO
- How to Make Your Podcast SEO Friendly
Investments
Techcrunch: Startup
- Talking venture, B2B and thesis-driven investment with Work-Bench’s Jon Lehr
- Twine aims to end social isolation with its video chat app for deep conversations
- France is officially working on ‘Stop Covid’ contact-tracing app
- Fintech’s uneven new reality has helped some startups, harmed others
- Thrive gives loans to students based on summer internships and job offers
- Founder worries increase as investors pump the brakes
- Apply today to be a TC Top Pick at Disrupt SF 2020
- Move fast, make things — UK fintech’s response to the coronavirus crisis continues
- Programmable fintech payments startup Sila raises $7.7M seed to wipe out ACH
- Visa backs open banking and compliance platform Railsbank
Entrepreneur – VentureBeat
- Tonkean raises $24 million to automate enterprise workflows
- Uber Eats for businesses launches globally amid remote working surge
- U.S. government memo: Zoom is taking security concerns seriously
- Automation: A game changer for SaaS companies (VB Live)
- Tyto Care raises $50 million to grow its telehealth examination and diagnostic platform
- Shippo raises $30 million to make shipping packages easier for ecommerce companies
- SourceDay raises $12.5 million for AI that predicts on-time delivery risk
- MixMode raises $4 million to help companies fight AI-driven cyberattacks
- Cato Networks raises $77 million for cloud security platform that protects remote workforces
- CyberMDX raises $20 million to protect connected medical devices with AI
Crunchbase
- Austin-Based Living Security Secures $5M To Make Cybersecurity Training More Fun
- Tonkean Closes $24M Series A To Automate Operations
- Swedish Logistics Tech Company Instabox Snags $39M In Financing, With Valuation At $109M
- Tyto Care Lands $50M To Provide Remote Medical Exams
- Shippo Raises $30M To Make Shipping ‘As Easy As Sending A Text Message’
- AlertMedia Closes $15M Series C As Pandemic Brings In New Clients
- SoFi Acquiring Galileo In $1.2B Deal, Resulting In A ‘4X’ Return For Investor Accel
- CircleCI Raises $100M Series E
- Glassbox Raises $40M For Online Customer Experience Tools
- SonderMind Raises $27M Series B For Mental Health Accessibility
ZDNet: Start-Ups
- Satellite IoT startup Myriota raises AU$28m in Series B funding round
- Tech startups are switching strategies as they try to weather the coronavirus storm
- AI for business: What's going wrong, and how to get it right
- Israel and Palestine: How software developer shortage could create common ground
- Microsoft: Here's why we're withdrawing our stake in facial-recognition startup AnyVision
- Brazilian startup develops rapid Covid19 test
- 'Faster than filling up with gas': These ultracapacitors will change electric cars, says startup
- Microsoft Teams just added new Outlook integration, chat updates and more
- Fintech Australia wants eligibility of R&D tax incentive to be expanded
- Austrade to refresh startup Landing Pad initiative in 2020
Tech.EU
- The Hack COVID-19 hackathon invites tech minds to help address the coronavirus pandemic
- Danish agritech startup Nordetect gets funding for on-the-spot chemical testing kit that measures farm fertility
- EU Commission and EIF launch ESCALAR, commit up to $1.2 billion to help scale high-potential European startups
- Russian-American edtech startup Mybuddy.ai gets $1.1 million for virtual language tutor for kids
- Israeli startup Cyolo emerges with $4.2 million seed funding for network security SaaS platform
- Tel Aviv-based telehealth startup Datos gets $7 million for automated patient care platform
- Finnish startup QuietOn raises €4.5 million for noise-cancelling earbuds already sold in 120 countries
- Swedish logistics tech company Instabox snags €36 million in financing, with valuation at €100 million
- How you can tell if an AI startup is bogus
- Medical security startup CyberMDX raises $20 million to help hospital IT operate safely and efficiently
EU-Startups
- How the Coronavirus crisis impacts startup & technology events in Europe
- Planetly nabs €5.2 million to help companies become climate neutral
- How do you keep your team motivated? (Sponsored)
- Swedish logistics tech startup Instabox snaps up €36 million
- Luminovo raises €2 million to reinvent electronic circuit board creation
- TOP 50: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space
- What not to do when expanding to the US and Canada (Sponsored)
- Valispace, the “Github for Hardware”, raises €2.2 million
- Mindler raises €8 million to increase access to mental health care across Europe
- Blossom Capital launches €4.6 million angel programme to back 20 startups
Podcasts
This Week In Startups
- E1043 News Roundtable Roy Bahat & Zach Coelius on how tech is helping, startup loans, VC funding
- E1042 Balaji Srinivasan on Recode incident, techlash history, potential COVID-19 endgames & more
- E40 "Angel" GGV's Jeff Richards on lessons from 2008 & Dot-com bust, down market valuations & more
- E1041: Eric Ries on tactics for founders in a downturn: extending runway, layoffs, silver linings
- Best TWiST insights from March 2020
Masters of Scale
- Special: Fast pivots for changing needs w/DonorsChoose Charles Best
- Special: Relief funding & crowdfunding in a crisis w/Karen Cahn of IFundWomen
- Special: Pay attention to crisis data, because it's the story of our times, says Nancy Lublin
- Special: Hourly workers are a ‘hero class’ w/Cue Ball’s Tony Tjan
- Special: First, be human – Thoughts on the crisis from Reid Hoffman
The Twenty Minute VC
- 20VC: Are VCs Still “Open For Business”, How VCs Attitude To Risk Has Changed & The 2 Most Valuable Assets To Founders Today with Fred Destin, Founding Partner @ Stride VC
- 20VC: Raising A $1.35Bn Fund I, The Emerging Secondary Opportunity For Early Stage Managers and Founders & What It Takes To Win The Best Growth Deals Today with Ravi Viswanathan, Founder & Managing Partner @ NewView Capital
- 20VC: The Framework to Scale A Team From 20 to 190 in 24 Months, How To Structure The Perfect Investor Updates & How To Create A Culture of Distributed Ownership with Radical Transparency with Jean-Charles Samulian, Co-Founder & CEO @ Alan
- 20VC: Howard Marks on How COVID-19 Impacts Our Economy, Liquidity and National Debt, Why The Theory of Falling Knives and Market Bottoms is Wrong & Why The Best Investors Are Fundamentally Unemotional
- 20VC: How To Solve The Chicken and Egg Problem in Marketplaces? How Important Is Differentiated Supply? How To Prevent Leakage? How to Create Marketplace Defensibility and more with Alyssa Ravasio, Founder & CEO @ Hipcamp
Startups For the Rest of Us
- Episode 491 | Hard Lessons Learned, Reaching High-Touch Prospects, Finding Advisors, and More Listener Questions
- Episode 490 | How Founders Should Be Thinking About the Current Crisis
- Episode 489.5 | It All Started 10 Years Ago Today
- Episode 489 | 15 Years to a SaaS Exit (Plus Why Forecasting is Crucial)
- Episode 488 | A Bluetick Progress Update from Mike Taber
My First Million
- #63 with Andrew Wilkinson - Buying cash-flowing internet companies, starting job boards and building no code projects
- #62 - Lambda School for Secretaries, Billionaire of The Week, Deepfakes & More
- #61 - How to Buy, Manage and Grow Cash-Flow Positive Businesses + Corona Virus Impact on the Economy
- #60 - YC Demo Day Startups #2, Importing Foreign Innovations & Collaborative Copywriting
- #59 - YC Demo Day Startups, Airbnb Survival & Teachable Acquisition
SubReddits
Reddit: Entrepreneur
- Wantrepreneur Wednesday! - (April 08, 2020)
- Has anyone risked everything and failed?
- 51 of the most commonly used headlines to grab readers' attention. hope it may help you get the inspiration you need to write your next article. (summary of an article found on Sumo)
- How to survive COVID-19 with minimum damage?
- A conversation I had with a landlord on a commercial property
- Banker here- Been working day and night on SBA PPP loans. AMA
- What adjustments have you made during quarantine that is setting you apart from your competition?
- Young entrepreneur with a business plan
- A very friendly man at the SBA Customer Service Center informed me it should take at least three weeks from the application date to receive any notification about your COVID-19 ECONOMIC INJURY DISASTER LOAN APPLICATION.
- What sites will allow me to sell an adult ebook
Reddit: SideProject
- Turn your already mobile-friendly website into a downloadable mobile app (maintaining same UI, speed, and functionality) for the Play Store/App Store!
- Wintermute - Find and initiate the best open source web applications
- Impression Tracker - track impressions on banners, articles, and entire web pages.
- How I built a successful SaaS product using microdata (step by step)
- Gemu Clock - Current ISO Week and Decimal time in a Web page
- Social Media App Created by 17 year old
- codefence.io - embeddable editor/compiler web component
- I created All Bad Cards - a new way to play Cards Against Humanity online while you're stuck at home!
- The Ins and Outs of Sustainability Measurement and Reporting in 2020
- Wesat.io - Invoicing app for small businesses
Reddit: Startups
- Official COVID-19 Resource List - Country > Region Specific
- Wednesday Social Club - Share What Events You Are Attending This Coming Week
- Running paid ads against a list of emails. I could need some suggestions.
- Advertising During COVID-19: Impacts
- How to get response to interviewing users?
- Try thinking about creating value before figuring out what the solution's gonna be
- Need to let go my first guy tomorrow, I feel bad.
- I have an idea for a new OS and the hardware running it. I could use advice.
- Is hiring freelance developers a viable option for startup?
- How to collect emails without funds for advertising?