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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

Since we launched Startup Pirates, the Lean Startup Methodology and the Business Model Canvas are a huge part of our program. We consider these tools essential for any entrepreneur and we make sure our Pirates understand what they are and how they can apply them.

Now, we are taking it to a all new level. Today, we are happy to announce a new partner: LeanMonitor.

LeanMonitor is the most comprehensive and easy-to-use tool to implement Lean Startup principles step by step. With LeanMonitor our participants will have the chance to track their progress, their pivots, validate hypothesis, register the interviews they make and much more.

We are always looking for new ways to add value to our program and we believe LeanMonitor will definitely add lots of value to the program.