Looking for a template for your pitch deck? Free stock photo? What investors to talk to? Legal document templates? A google search is often your friend, but it can be hard to cut through the clutter and find the most relevant resources. To help you out and hopefully save you a few bucks along the way we have compiled this list of our favourite free resources out there.
Photo editing/design
- Unsplash (free high-resolution photos)
- Pixabay (free quality images, vectors, and art illustrations)
- Piktochart (easy-to-use infographic maker)
- Canva (simple graphic design software)
- Pixlr (online image editing tool, a light version of Photoshop)
Legal documents (Sweden focused)
Fundraising
Budget/accounting
Growth marketing & Sales
Blogs & newsletters
- Exponential View is a highly-cited newsletter read by more than 20,000 industry insiders. Exponential technologies, artificial intelligence (AI), self-driving cars, dominant platforms, business, the future. (Weekly by Azeem Azhar (azeem).
- Series F is a weekly newsletter sent out every Sunday bringing you the future of venture capital. (Curated by Neil S W Murray)
- Intercom books worth reading. Intercom books have helped over 100,000 readers with everything from customer support to product management.
- Essays on growth, tech, and startups. Provided by Andrew Chen, Head of Rider Growth at Uber.
- Thinking about Startups. Editor: Hampus Jakobsson.
- Newsletter curated by Benedict Evans, at Andreessen Horowitz.
Theis is a selection of resources that we love and use. Check out more tools for startups on The Hub. Got a great resource that is free to use for startups that we should know about? Please let us know in the comments below.
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