The Science of Small Wins
Here's the latest in the world of startups. You'll learn how to start your own company, acquire customers, and find success.
Start here with our guide on how to start a startup.
Chances are, your SaaS business is built around a product that makes processes faster and more efficient. And thanks to companies like yours, many of the formerly time-consuming activities of business strategy have become faster and more efficient.
So why aren’t you using their tools to grow your own business?
From customer service to email analytics, these twelve tools will give you the competitive edge you need to really distinguish yourself from your competitors.
Every field has “that guy.” Everyone in the industry knows of them and their work. Many secretly try to emulate them — or flat out copy them. They are the person crushing it. They are the person your boss wishes they could have hired instead of you.
If you’re doing marketing for a startup company, that guy is Noah Kagan. Noah was employee #30 at Facebook and helped grow Mint.com into the personal finance juggernaut it is today. He is founder at AppSumo, which offers discounts on tools to grow businesses and websites. He’s built things you use every day.
And he probably has your email address.
Trying to start a business is never easy. Being an entrepreneur means sticking your neck — and wallet — on the line for a product you believe in. It won’t be cheap. There will be plenty of costs, some you’ve never expected. Thankfully, there are free tools to start a business available online.
We’ve compiled this list of free tools to start a business. Many of them we used here to help build iDoneThis. Others we wish had existed when we started.
Building a business will be one of the hardest things you ever do. But thankfully there are these free tools get you started building the business you’ve always dreamed of.
The founders at SimpleReach knew they were on to something. Everything seemed to be in place.
Great product, great team, great market.
There was just one problem.
“Like most B2B companies we just took the approach of ‘build it and they will come’. But that’s just not the case,” said Eric Lubow, CTO and Co-Founder at SimpleReach.
Or as their CEO Edward Kim put it on Twitter: “One of the biggest lessons I learned the hard way – great product is cost of entry, but sales determines whether you win or lose.”
At my elementary school, there was one particular day of the year that every kid looked forward to. Kids loved it, lost their freaking minds over it actually.
It was better than field day, better than snow days. One time we actually had a snow day on this day and everyone was furious.
It was called Junior Entrepreneur Day.
We’re excited to present to you: the launch of emojis for iDoneThis! It’s a fun way to record your accomplishments and share with your team how you’re feeling.
To give it a try, just type a colon and then start typing a word, like :pizza: 
. If an autocomplete menu shows up, then we have it. Bread-and-butter emojis like smileys of different kinds work as well. 
We heard your complaints about the old autocomplete.
We fixed all of those problems in the latest revamp of autocomplete! Now it’s just plain easier to use.
We’re super excited to announce that we’ve integrated iDoneThis with Zapier.
Zapier, makes it easy to connect two apps together. Have you ever wanted your Google Calendar meetings to show up automatically in iDoneThis? Zapier makes it super simple.
This means that the 400+ tools that Zapier integrates with are now available to you to integrate with iDoneThis, tools like Trello, Google Calendar, Dropbox, Evernote and more.
To get you started, we’ve created a few zap templates for you to use:
Note: to use this zaps, you’ll need to create a Zapier account.
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We’re excited to announce that we’ve made iDoneThis better for your phone and tablet. When you pull up idonethis.com on your phone’s web browser, you’ll now get an iDoneThis that’s specifically tailored for your screen size.
Now it’s much easier to read what your team is getting done and enter your dones on the go, from your phone.
To have the app-like experience of launching iDoneThis from your home screen with a single tap, just add iDoneThis to your home screen. It won’t take more than 30 seconds to set up—just choose the directions for your device below.
Add to Home Screen for iPhone / iPad
We’re excited to announce that we’ve built Goals for iDoneThis. It’s a simple way to plan your day.
To take it for a spin, just start your done with open and closed brackets–”[]“–and we’ll turn that into a goal with a checkbox that you can check off. Try this goal for today:
[] take the goals feature for a spin!
It works on the web, over email, and with any of our integrations.
