Startup Resources - 🛠 Treasure chest of templates

🛠 Tools

My favorite product management templates

Not mine - Lenny Rachitsky's. This is a treasure trove of his product management templates. 

An amazing resource if you're building products.

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Creator Hub

Collections of tools for creators to build and manage their creations. Nicely organized by what you are creating (newsletters, podcasts, music, publishing etc).

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Short.io - Branded URL Shortner

If you've ever wanted your own free custom domain short links - instead of using Bitly, check out this tool. Up to 3 free custom domains and enough links to keep you going for a while.

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Fonts Ninja

Want to know what fonts are used on any web page? Easy - click the extension in Chrome and there you go. Hover over the text you're interested in and it'll tell you what it is, size, spacing and color.

Surprised I haven't shared this Chrome extension before - I use it a lot. And it's free.

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🏆 Sponsor

The Email School 5-day workshop: How to Build a Brilliant Newsletter

Email is one of the best ways to reach customers in our isolated world but how do we make it as effective as possible?

It’s not magic, it’s science. Join The Email School workshop this fall and learn how to build, send and grow a newsletter that people love. First twenty beta students receive 50% off the standard price.

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🤓 Articles

Startup Mistakes: First-Hand Lessons from 80+ Failed Startups

The team at Failory interviewed a bunch of founders whose projects had failed and captured the data in this article. Interesting reading and food for thought.

My main takeaway - there's a lot of ways to fail 🤦

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The Definitive Guide On How To Ask For Referrals

One of the most powerful ways to get new clients is for your existing ones to rave about how great you are. 

Instead of leaving that to chance, you can encourage referrals. This guide will give you ideas how to do it.

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Beyond Text Searching: a Marketer’s Guide to Voice and Visual Search Optimization

Is voice search going to be a big thing for your business? It's probably something to start thinking about and trying to make it more accessible via voice.

This article isn't a nuts and bolts "how to" but it's a good starting point.

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📢 Classifieds

😢 The awkward end bit