Three Tools to help your Start-Up

Running a start-up is a hell of a lot of work. Sure, it is gratifying as you get to be the change you want to see in the world, and it can also be hugely lucrative but when you start out you generally have no resources. For one thing you need to convince somebody that your idea is good enough for them to work for equity until you manage to convince investors to give you some money. Even when you have that founding team the workload can be overwhelming. Thankfully, there are some digital tools to help you stay organised and automate some important processes. Here are three tools which will be indispensable to your start-up.

Slack

Slack is a cloud-based platform offering tools that help you collaborate. In just three years it has collected more than 2 million users. It allows you to create channels for messaging your team, so you waste much less time on e-mails.

You could have one channel called “finances” and another called “strategy” to which you add relevant members of your team. Within those channels, you can upload all sorts of documents. It is a great way of assigning tasks and keeping up to date with all aspects of your start-up.

 Trello

This is a web-based project management tool that has gathered 1.1 million daily active users and 14 million sign-ups within five years. Trello uses Kanban methodology in which a limited set of tasks have to be completed before starting a new task within a project.

Trello uses boards, lists, and cards to organise the tasks that must be done for you to complete a project. The Trello board will contain lists that you name and within which you add tasks. The tasks move up the list until completed.

It is particularly useful when managing software development projects or any design jobs but it can be used for almost any type of project management where there is a to-do list.

 Hunter

Hunter.io is an e-mail hunting tool which also works as a Google Chrome extension. With Hunter, you can find anyone’s e-mail address just by knowing their company domain.

If you’re looking for someone who works at Tesco and you know the domain is tesco.com, you input tesco.com and it will show you the e-mail addresses of everyone who has an e-mail address registered to Tesco’s domain.

That makes it easier to find the contact details of people relevant to your business. For example if you want to get in touch with somebody who is on LinkedIn but hasn’t posted their e-mail address you can easily find out their contact details through Hunter as you just need to know the domain name of their company’s e-mail addresses, then you will be able to recognise the name straight away when it shows up on Hunter.

 

All these tools are free so make sure you use them to help manage and grow your company.

By Dominic Luca

 

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