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能显著提升创业者效率的工具有哪些?
What are the best productivity tools for entrepreneurs?
20,000 Web & Mobile Apps.
My cofounder and I have downloaded and used over 20,000 web and mobile apps over the past ~800 days. Here are some of our favorites, from the standpoint of being SAAS entrepreneurs/founders of LinkTexting - Create Text To Download Forms in Seconds.
Keep in mind as a founder, your mental clock cycles are worth a lot of money. You should not waste them on the normal distribution of tasks.
Keep in mind that most of these are just tools and knowing how to use them quickly requires practice, plenty of mistakes, and a willingness to fail.
My Number One Productivity Tool: Email tracking, scheduling, polls, and surveys for Gmail | Mixmax -
I use this product religiously and it has saved me a ridiculous amount of time as well added awesome color and personality to my emails with customers and business partners.
My Number One Landing Page Tool: I've made several hundred dollars a month in simple human SAAS services by using Landing Page Software for Better Marketing The crazy thing about this tool is the sheer number of functionalities and the speed with which I can make an industry grade landing page and website. IF YOU ARE AN ENTREPRENEUR, YOU MUST LEARN HOW TO USE THIS TOOL.
Non-technical Founders
In this post, I've focused on apps that I find useful both in freeing my mind of non-entrepreneurial tasks and/or speeding up the prototype to launch process and beyond. I also focus on apps that are highly abstracted for non-technical people like me. That being said, I think if you have no-one on your team that is technical in a startup, then you're at a severe disadvantage, similar to attending a gun fight with a knife.
Full Stack Startup- for the Technical Founders/Entrepreneurs.
If I was technical, I'd recommend looking toward building a full stack company: http://a16z.com/2015/01/22/the-f... as described by @chris dixon.
Why We Use/Review such a Dizzying Number of Apps.
We constantly strive for ways to be resourceful and study what new apps come out, their UX/UI, and try to understand if the founder knows anything about user behavior that we couldn't possibly dream up.
Decision Criteria for Most Productive.
Each tool has a hyper-specific function and not much outside of that. In other words, it must be for only one thing. If the use cases abound, then it loses points and becomes less productive.
Here We Go:
MailMatch
MailMatch helps you mine all your leads for useful social data. The tool is really powerful for finding bloggers in your funnel.
Visual Ping- Website change detection, monitoring and alerts
Allows you to monitor competitors' pages for changes. Pretty sweet for knowing if you need to make front-end wording or marketing changes. English isn't my first language so this one is particularly useful if my competitor is more skilled verbally than me.
SpyFu - Search Marketing Research & Reporting Tools
Couples well with the above tool, if you see the competitor funneling traffic into an A/B tested landing page, then you'll know that you should make appropriate copycat changes to your own site.
Ahrefs - Ahrefs Site Explorer & Backlink Checker
If a founder claims his site is huge, just check how many backlinks they have to their site. Success is generally proportional to backlink count for most products.
Profitwell- SaaS Metrics for Stripe. Absolutely Free.
Shows you a beautiful visualization of your metrics if you're an MRR related SAAS venture.
Zapier- The best apps. Better together.
If you're resourceful with zapier, you can build 10-30% of your apps on top of it as a non-technical person. My goodness, if you're non-technical and don't know about zapier, you need to go check it out immediately and test it out. Websites like Karmalytics can be built in minutes with a tool like zapier.
SpeedLancer-Super fast, high quality design, writing & data entry/research!
Like Freelancer, but the work gets done in 4 hours. Very useful.
Gmail and Facebook MenuTab- Amazing Mac, iPhone and iPad Apps
Amazingly useful for checking gmail with a hotkey from your mac menu bar app.
