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The Startup Tech Stack 2024 I've spent the last week unpacking the best tools for startups to use throughout 2024. They include 👇 Row 1 👀 Product: Support in making products better Security / KYC: Customer onboarding and compliance Marketing: Website builders, data collecting and more Fintech / Insurance: Payment providers, expense management and insurance Row 2 🎯 Collaboration and project management tools HR: Employee onboarding and payroll Fundraising: Cap table management and investor reporting Analytics: Product analytics Row 3 🚀 Customer Service: Customer support Cloud: Cloud providers Sales: Closing deals faster Employee Benefits: Giving your team great benefits Brand: Design platforms Row 4 🏁 Productivity: Tools to save you time Data: Data & analytics CRM: Customer relationship management tools Automations: Automations for your startup Legal: Sign docs quickly 🛎 What to do next 1. Tag a founder who might find this useful! 2. Tag a founder and their company if we should include them next time! Enjoy!

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The Startup Tech Stack 2024 Earlier this week, I published the tech stack market map which included the platforms which enable startups to build and operate great companies on a daily basis. We have 20+ new platform additions which include  👇 Row 1 👀 Security / KYC: Customer onboarding and compliance Marketing: Website builders, data collecting and more Product: Support in building and designing great products Fintech / Insurance: Payment providers, expense management and insurance Row 2 🎯 HR: Employee onboarding and payroll Collaboration and project management tools Fundraising: Cap table management and investor reporting Analytics and Insights tools Row 3 🚀 Productivity: Tools to save you time CRM: Customer relationship management tool Data: Data & analytics Legal: Sign docs quickly Automations: Automations for your startup Row 4 🏁 Customer support platforms Cloud providers Sales: Closing deals faster Employee Benefits: Giving your team great benefits Brand: Design platforms 🛎 What to do next 1. Tag a founder who might find this useful! 2. Tag a founder and their company if we should include them next time! Next week, we'll be unpacking alternative platforms for startups - stay tuned!

Let’s be honest. Working for big enterprises is the pits most of the time. Those enterprise tech problems have a ton of money behind them, and plenty of problems at scale, but not a whole lot of passion behind it. Well, at least for me. Building the next version of a workforce chat app/ email doohickey just isn’t for me. I’ve tried to build these types of things for startups and I’m often left feeling unfulfilled. The deeper I get into tech and start ups, the more interesting I find the niche problems. These problems lead you to finding people with emotional connections to problems. I love the passion behind these conversations.

The Startup Tech Stack 2024 by Ollie Forsyth Huge startup tech map packed with ressources to build ventures from the ground up👇 Row 1 👀 Product: Support in making products better Security / KYC: Customer onboarding and compliance Marketing: Website builders, data collecting and more Fintech / Insurance: Payment providers, expense management and insurance Row 2 🎯 Collaboration and project management tools HR: Employee onboarding and payroll Fundraising: Cap table management and investor reporting Analytics: Product analytics Row 3 🚀 Customer Service: Customer support Cloud: Cloud providers Sales: Closing deals faster Employee Benefits: Giving your team great benefits Brand: Design platforms Row 4 🏁 Productivity: Tools to save you time Data: Data & analytics CRM: Customer relationship management tools Automations: Automations for your startup Legal: Sign docs quickly 🛎 What to do next 1. Tag a founder who might find this useful 2. Tag a company that you are missing #letsbuild #venturebuilding #startup #techstack #prototyping #mvp

The Tech Stack For Startups I've spent the last few months unpacking the best tools for startups to use throughout 2024. They include 👇 Row 1 👀 Security / KYC: Customer onboarding and compliance Marketing: Website builders, data collecting and more Product: Support in building and designing great products Fintech / Insurance: Payment providers, expense management and insurance Row 2 🎯 HR: Employee onboarding and payroll Collaboration and project management tools Fundraising: Cap table management and investor reporting Analytics and Insights tools Row 3 🚀 Productivity: Tools to save you time CRM: Customer relationship management tool Data: Data & analytics Legal: Sign docs quickly Automations: Automations for your startup Row 4 🏁 Customer support platforms Cloud providers Sales: Closing deals faster Employee Benefits: Giving your team great benefits Brand: Design platforms 🛎 What to do next 1. Tag a founder who might find this useful! 2. Tag a founder and their company we should include next time! Access hundreds of platforms including a full pricing breakdown of each service and $1M in free discounts 👉 https://lnkd.in/eUm_D_e2

Exciting news today with the pre-seed funding announcement! A big thank you to Adam Kocik and Jakub Zimola at J&T Ventures, as well as Jan Krahulik and Petr Sima at DEPO Ventures, for believing in our team and vision at Finlay! The recruitment industry is at a turning point. While many tools address some pain points for recruiters and small-scale SaaS users, the $500 billion global recruitment market—including agencies, in-house hiring, tools, and body shops—is ready for a major shift. 🚀 We envision a future where humans and AI recruitment agents work seamlessly together—or even autonomously. Imagine a platform powered by machine learning, analyzing billions of candidate data points across countless platforms. A tool with minimal UI—one where you simply define the role or budget, and it takes care of the rest. Like booking an Uber, the process should focus on the result, not micromanaging every detail. Finlay can already deliver this at a fraction of an agency’s cost, with access to a vastly broader talent pool, and ensure candidates not only land the right roles but thrive in them long-term; it’s a win for everyone. There’s a fit for every individual—not just for desk jobs but also in fields like farming, tourism, or cross-border opportunities. Talent exists everywhere, and our mission is to connect people to possibilities without the unnecessary friction. Thanks Vestbee for the article ☺️ https://lnkd.in/ebKGifBM

🌟 Attention Startups! 🌟 We’re looking to partner with 10 innovative startups from various industries. In exchange for free data-driven insights and financial management services, we’re eager to build our portfolio and support your growth. If you’re interested in this opportunity or know someone who might be, please drop us a message or tag them below! Let’s create success together! 🚀 #SMEbusiness #SME #startup #cashflow #finance #data #businessanalyst

Howdy finds people like no one else. ✅ Here’s a brief case study featuring Swyft Filings, an incorporation service that automates the business filing process for entrepreneurs. Problem: Swyft Filings was dissatisfied with their global contracting provider's code quality and overall results. Solution: Swyft Filings partnered with Howdy to build a permanent, high-quality dev team that could meet their long-term needs. Result: The experienced Howdy team significantly improved the site architecture and cleaned up a backlog of code to fit operational standards. “[Howdy developers] possess a deep understanding of our business and serve as an additional set of resources, contributing to the management and enhancement of our team.” - Lee Pointer, Head of Engineering, Swyft Filings Follow the link below for a full case study with more details. #Tech #Startups #Entrepreneurs

Last week I met with a founding team that was developing a "Can Do" software platform. What I mean by this is that as they described their platform to me, they ticked off the many functions they claimed it "can do" when fully developed. This is not uncommon for software platforms, which often "can do" a lot of things and potentially solve multiple problems. In my experience, having a Swiss Army Knife technology is more often a curse than a blessing for early stage companies. The incremental cost of adding an additional functionality is often minimal and the flexibility becomes part of the sales proposition. If the software can solve more user problems and make it relevant to more markets, how can that be a bad thing? Won't a larger TAM make it more appealing to investors? The problem, in a word, is "focus." Trying to solve too many problems and go after too many markets simultaneously is often biting off more than most early stage companies can chew. An early stage startup is by definition resource constrained. Even if the cost of adding functionality is minimal, deploying it in a new vertical creates new sales, marketing and support costs. By trying to do everything at once, startups end up failing to do anything especially well or worse. The best startups identify at most a handful of markets and customer pain points that they want to go after and focus relentlessly on being best in class in those markets. That becomes the foundation that allows for future expansion into new verticals and uses cases.