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Ideafeed most recently launched using a couple different landing pages as a way for us to better understand our users and what they want. When looking for a way to do this best we found alot of different services out there and one really stood out to us and our peers as the number one option. That was www.KickoffLabs.com. 

KickoffLabs makes it easy for non-technical starters to get something out there on the web that you can be proud of. If you take a look at www.ideafeed.io you will see all that you can do with this great service. You can use a template or you can jump into the html/css yourself and mess around with everything. It makes controlling your message much easier. 

Don't let me forget the support, KickoffLabs has had some of the best support I have ever experienced using a new product. If I ever have a problem they get back to me in a timely manner, and they are extremely friendly as well. I couldn't imagine a better experience. 

They do a great job of helping you connect your site to other apps like Mail Chimp or Google Analytics so you can manage your site even further.

Blogpost by: Inês Santos Silva - Co-Founder of Startup Pirates

These days there are great tools out there for early stage entrepreneurs and more mature ones. I know it’s very hard to find the right flow, to find the right combination of products that will make you and your startup run smoothly. In an attempt to help you with that, here are a few tools that I personally advise you to use:

1. KickoffLabs

If you are an aspiring entrepreneur and you have one or a few ideas to test, this is a great tool to get started. Create a landing page, share it with the world and see if you have a business.

2. Lean Monitor

You are just starting, you have an idea and you are creating your first Business Model. Lean Monitor is the right tool to get you through the different phases of the Business Model Canvas, facilitates the Customer Development process and helps you structure the validation of your hypothesis. I highly recommend this tool to all aspiring entrepreneurs.

3. Blossom.io

The ideal collaboration and organization tool for startups that want to ship fast. Blossom.io helps you structure the crucial areas of your company and make sure that everyone knows what is hapenning and is aligned in terms of priorities and goals. Some very cool companies like Buffer, YCombinator and SeedCamp use Blossom.io.

4. Podio

At Startup Pirates we’ve been using Podio since the very beginning. Most of the time our team works remotely. We travel often, we work with Startup Pirates organizers from all around the world and Podio makes it easy to share with everyone what is happening, discuss ideas, make decisions.

5. iDoneThis

Everyday, before leaving the office I fill in my iDoneThis list with everything I’ve done during that day, from meetings to skype call, from blog posts to clients outreach and so on. It’s a great tool to make sure you are focus on your goals and don’t get too distracted with the urgencies of everyday. It can also be used by teams.

6. Buffer

When you have an early-stage startup, it’s very difficult to keep a constant flow of facebook posts and tweets in your social network profiles. There are a dozen more important and urgent things to do. Buffer makes this all process much easier. Fill your buffer with news, interesting articles and other cool stuff and Buffer will keep your social networks updated and your clients and followers happy.

Do you have any more tools to recommend?

Blogpost by: Inês Santos Silva - Co-Founder of Startup Pirates

The following is a great guest post from Audrey Cu. Audrey runs Business Operations for LaunchBit, an ad network for email. When she"s taken off the various hats that she wears at LaunchBit, she is an avid USC Trojan …

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