Resources

This page will get you up to speed with your team come the day of the event. There are many cheap or free amazing resources available out there in cyberspace. To get your new project started the quickest way you will need to be on the same page as the rest of your team when it comes to the base software needs of any company. Click away and learn!

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Legal:

Startup Lawyer
My HighTech Startup
Startup Weekend – Legal

Dev tools:

Rails deployment and hosting: Heroku
Git and Subversion Hosting: Unfuddle
Web development Environment: Aptana
WordPress deployment and hosting: http://page.ly
Wireframing: http://iplotz.com
Chrome Developer Tools – http://www.chromium.org/devtools
Google Apps
Text Editor – http://macromates.com/
Online Business Plans: http://fundinguniverse.com
Business Plan Competitions: http://istart.org

Hosting:

Wowrack
Media Temple
Amazon Web Services

Project Management Tools:

Pivotal Tracker
PBWorks

Corporate Support Programs worth checking out:

BizSpark – Click here for an invite from SW (http://startupweekend.org/bizspark)
Pay Pal X – PayPal’s developer support program
AT&T Developer Program – Any questions for any platform, go here.

Promoting more female entrepreneurs:

Women 2.0
Girls in Technology

Looking for useful tools?

Check out this SW startup: Cloudomatic
Invoicing – FreshBooks
Wiki & collaboration – PBWorks
Telephony & SMS services – Twilio
Outsourcing – oDesk
Banking – SVB
Web bookmarking tool – Delicious
Followup Reminder – FollowUp
Gmail Add-on – Rapportive
File Sharing – Dropbox

Have a look at our list of startup incubators around the world