Beginners 101: Start Your Startup

Become a Certified Women Owned Small Business - The Certified Woman Owned Small Business Program is a federal contracting support program through the U.S. Small Business Administration. Learn more about how to get certified.

Bplans - Looking for free plan examples? Check out our library of over 500 sample business plans.

Launchpad - Launchpad software helps organizations of all types to unlock their innovative capabilities.

Managing Small Business Startups

Strategyzer - A global standard used by millions of people in companies of all sizes. You can use the canvas to describe, design, challenge, and pivot your business model. It works in conjunction with the Value Proposition Canvas and other strategic management and execution tools and processes.

Wells Fargo Works for Small Business - Business Plan Center

Writing a Business Plan - A presentation on how to write a successful business plan.

Writing a Social Enterprise Business Plan

Box Notes - Box is an enterprise content management platform that solves simple and complex challenges, from sharing and accessing files on mobile devices to sophisticated business processes like data governance and retention.

Germ.io - Germ lets your team capture every great idea, brainstorm, and turn them into actionable project plans.

Javelin - All-in-one software for taking business ideas to Product/Market Fit.

Stache - Stache makes it quick and easy to collect and re-discover pages you find useful, interesting or inspiring, in a beautiful, visual and fully searchable library.

XMind - We are regarded as industry leaders in mind mapping and brainstorming software, focused solely on delivering great user experiences.

Nouncy - Nouncy is a startup by Startup Studio Nescio. We're building a free social media marketing tool to amplify your messages by letting people speak out for you online. A Nouncy campaign works like crowdfunding, but instead of money supporters contribute tweets and Facebook posts.

Pitch Pigeon - Easily create and send an effective launch email to over 200 tech blogs in just one click.

Gimlet - Gimlet Media is the award-winning narrative podcasting company that aims to help listeners better understand the world and each other. StartUp is a podcast about what it’s really like to get a business off the ground.

How to Start a Startup - Everything we know about how to start a startup, for free, from some of the world experts. How to Start a Startup is a series of video lectures, initially given at Stanford in Fall 2014.

Mixergy - Mixergy is where the ambitious learn from a mix of experienced mentors through interviews and courses.

The Complete Guide to Market Analysis - A blog outlining steps to market analysis and what you should look at before starting your business.

SBA Market Analysis - Before starting your business plan it is critical to research your industry, market, and competitors.

Federal Trade Commission Small Business - This site helps business owners avoid scams, protect their computers and networks, and keep their customers’ and employees’ data safe. If you own a business you’ll want to check it out!

Getting a Patent Without a Lawyer - Information on how to patent your idea or invention on your own.

United States Patent and Trademark Office - Everything you need to know about patents and trademarks. Information on if you should patent/trademark and how to do it.

Pricing Your Product - Article on how to determine the price for your product while taking into consideration the market, production, and more.

Pricing Guide - A step by step guide to determining the best price for your product or service.

SBA How To Price Your Product - Blog post by the U.S. Small Business Administration on how to determine your pricing, including a size up tool to help you assess how your business stacks up against the competition.

Aynax - Edit, print or download this professional invoice for free.

Free Invoice Generator - Invoice Generator lets you quickly make invoices with our attractive invoice template straight from your web browser. The invoices you make can be sent and paid online or downloaded with no signup necessary.

Invoice Home - Create and download professional PDF invoices in seconds with the invoice template gallery, send invoices via email, get paid by card.

Invoice To Me - Free invoice generator.

Slimvoice - Insanely simple invoicing. Seriously, try it right here.

Invoice.to - Free invoice generator.

Brainetree Payments - An all-in-one solution to accept, process, and split payments in your mobile app or online -- from small business to large enterprise.

Paymill - PAYMILL offers you an online payment service, which makes the transactions in your online shop easy. Discover the innovative payment system from PAYMILL.

Recurly - Recurly provides enterprise-class subscription billing management for thousands of businesses worldwide.

Stripe - Stripe is a suite of APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.

WePay - We're WePay. A leading payment services provider, offering online payment gateways and payment solutions designed to supercharge your growth.

Sites that charge a transaction fee and a certain percentage of amount received.

Chargebee - We get SaaS billing. All the nuts & bolts you need to manage subscriptions, recurring payments, invoicing and much more, with one elegant API layer. Give it a spin.

Google Wallet - The fast, easy, and free way to send money to friends and family.

PayPal - From everyday purchases to running a business, people around the world rely on us to pay and get paid.

Square - Square helps millions of sellers run their business- from secure credit card processing to point of sale solutions.

Venmo - Venmo is a free digital wallet that lets you make and share payments with friends. You can easily split the bill, cab fare, or much more.