Below you will find a database of some of the best resources on the intraweb to help get your Startup Weekend business from concept to reality as soon as possible!
Customer Development
Eric Ries
Steve Blank
Keyword research
SEMrush*
Google Keywords
Wordtracker
Question/answer sites
Yahoo! Answers
Answer Bag
Quora
Askville*
Wiki Answers
Mailing lists/groups
Google Groups
Yahoo! Groups
Social networking
Facebook Fan Pages
Ning Communities
Customer service
Get Satisfaction
UserVoice
Slinkset
Traffic research
Quantcast
Compete
Local communities/events
Eventbrite
Meetup
BigTent
Search engines
Google
Technorati
Twitter
Wireframes
Balsamiq
Mockingbird
Adobe Photoshop*
Personal storage
Dropbox
Survey tools
Google Forms
Survey Monkey
Videos/presentations
GoAnimate*
YouTube
Prezi
SlideShare
Website Builders
Shopify
Weebly*
Yola*
Unbounce
Moonfruit*
Intuit Homestead*
PageLines*
Quantitative analytics
Google Analytics
Qualitative analytics
KISSinsights
Google Custom Search
Usability testing
FiveSecondTest
Userfly
ClickTale
UserTesting.com
TryMyUI
OpenHallway
Ads platforms
Google Adwords
Microsoft AdCenter
Facebook Ads
LinkedIn Ads
Forms/Surveys
Wufoo
Google Forms
Survey Monkey
Crowdsourcing
Mechanical Turk
CrowdFlower
Comments/Forums
Disqus
Vanilla*
Real-time chat
Meebo Me
Olark*
Moonfruit*
Chatterous
Payments
Kickstarter
Yola*
Weebly*
Paypal
Amazon Payments
Legal
Startup Lawyer
Docracy
Graphics/Images
Elance
iStockphoto
Icon Finder
99designs*
Email marketing
Mail Chimp*
Constant Contact*
iContact*
aWeber*
Social/Sharing
Facebook Like
Add This
ShareThis
Ning
Web Hosting
Name.com*
Bluehost*
StartLogic*
Dev tools:
Visual Studio – Free for BizSpark Members
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:
Windows Azure
FireHost
Wowrack
Media Temple
Amazon Web Services
Project Management Tools:
Pivotal Tracker
Kerika
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.


