Steve Blank’s Tools for Entrepreneurs

You might know Steve Blank as the author of “The Four Steps to the Epiphany” and “The Startup Owners’ Manual”, both recommended reading for anyone thinking about starting their own business. But few of you might know that he is actually less into making tons of money out of his every thought and very much into sharing all kinds of info.

He has, therefore, put together a dedicated part of his website precisely for that purpose. It is basically a repository of links to absolutely everything related to things that entrepreneurs might need along their journey that quite frankly makes me wonder 2 things:

1. Is he trying to compete with Google as a search engine for entrepreneurs? and

2. Why do I even bother trying to create my own repo?

Anyway, visit him here: https://steveblank.com/tools-and-blogs-for-entrepreneurs/ but come back for more great other obscure resources that he hasn’t found out about (yet!)

Cheers!

Storytelling and UX prototyping resource by SAP

SAP has released an incredibly useful little tool to quickly create user experience prototypes, storyboards, pitching structures and pretty much anything else you can imagine that requires a bit of storytelling.

It is a kit that you can download for free and print yourself. It comes “pre-loaded” with different characters, objects and scenarios that you can mix and match to create your own story fast and collaboratively.

But don’t just believe me, see it in action for yourselves!

You can read more about it and download it for free here:  https://experience.sap.com/designservices/approach/scenes

Stats for all!

Stats

I only know a handful of people who genuinely get excited about statistics, but a lot of starting a business relies precisely on that.

If you truly think about it you need to gather data at every stage, and then some more! So, perhaps us entrepreneurs should all get more familiar with our statistical analysis tools.

For this purpose, I found the personal website of David Lane, a Stats and Management Professor at Rice University, with lots of info, tutorials and tools on statistics, with a mix from the quite easy to understand to the straightforward super complicated, but it’s up to you how you use it:

http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/

Enjoy!

Answer the public

An incredible useful tool for marketers, aspiring entrepreneurs, researchers (or anyone who is curious in general, really) wishing to explore what kind of questions people are typing on Google and Bing for an specific topic or keyword.

It is great for market research and insights that can inform anything from idea generation through to customer service!

http://answerthepublic.com/