Link Collection Jan 2018 - Entrepreneurship

I've just bumped into a great colleague and after we finished our work business we started discussing some entrepreneurial stuff. And I was really wowed by some of the details I've learned.For example he tells me that you can now just open an American incorporated with a flat fee (kind of an all inclusive service to set up your internet business based in the U.S. - brought to us from the fabulous people of stripe). While I have not looked into the proposition and the processes in detail, I must say it sounds like a great idea. For entrepreneurs who just want to get started and work on their idea this sounds like a good and hassle free point to start.Another input from our little chat - which I cannot stress enough - is how amazed are we about the ways modern little companies make things work. People are located all over the globe and using clever technologies and clever cloud based tools people are seamlessly working together. A couple of links from my notes below:

• Proto.io a nice little Invision alternative i.e. a cloud based tool that lets you create user interfaces and wireframes. P.S. they have a cute blog as well.https://proto.io/
• Stripe Atlas - that is this all inclusive "inc" service I've mentioned above. A nice little service from the makers of one of the internet's favorite payment solutions (stripe).https://stripe.com/atlas
• If people are really interested in opening their new company then people may be thinking.. well an American "inc" may be too much - and I want to support my local European crowd. So even for this line of thinking there may be a solution: E-Estonia: The electronic citizenship product of Estonia.https://e-estonia.com/
• Then let's shift gears a bit: Say you've successfully launched your company and you have a fabulous idea. Now it's time to crack on - push down the gas pedal as my boss said. So you may want to hire experts / expert workers to help with your project. So here is an easy to use portal to hire freelance workers:https://www.upwork.com/
• Even using such a platform may be too much work. Maybe you just want to talk about your thing and not deal with individual people & freelancers. So even for that our beloved internet built a solution: Yeeply. You tell them what you want and they take care who to hire when and so on.https://en.yeeply.com/
• And if you would be in the engineering / development business of apps or digital solutions you may need a lot of developer tools. One interesting proposition is the startup Gradle.https://gradle.org/

Note: I've frequently written about services for entrepreneurs - i.e. see this post here.