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June 15th, 2011

13 free software tools to help you get started up

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Written by: Balaji
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We startup entrepreneurs don’t have a lot of money to spend. And we don’t need to compromise on the quality. Here are 13 tools to help you get started up.

  • Google Apps – Manage your mails, spreadsheets, calendar and documents. Free for smallĀ enterprisesĀ and for medium sized ones it costs about Rs.2000/employee
  • Insightly – Get started with your customer relationship (CRM)
  • Evernote – Manage your scrapbook and share ideas with your team
  • Writeboard – Manage and organize your thoughts & ideas and share them with others
  • Ta-da lists - Very simple and free Todo lists that you can share with your team
  • Dropbox – Your hard-disk online with ability to share files, photos and documents from Mac, Linux and Windows
  • Lemon POS – Open source Point of Sale terminal for retail businesses
  • OpenOffice – Very good replacement for Microsoft Office that is free and simple.
  • Mediawiki – Setup your internal wiki with a free and open-source Wiki engine that runs Wikipedia
  • WordPress – Open source and free blogging and CMS tool that runs thousands of great websites.
  • BitBucket – Managing your code development with a hosting solution for free
  • Google Analytics – Track who is coming to your website
  • Slide Share – Share presentation for free



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Balaji
+Balaji heads a consultancy firm - Agni Innovation Labs - that helps small businesses, law firms and political campaigners launch their brand successfully. The services include blogging, press releases, social media strategy development and email campaigning. Contact the author: balaji [at] theagni [dot] com for more details.