Lean Startup Bundle for SXSW

The Bundle

• Twilio
• Pivotal Tracker
• Eric Ries's The Lean Startup Book
• Postmark
• StartupWeekend
• Geckoboard
• HipChat
• Ask your target market
• Pandaform
• Hacker Monthly
• launchbit
• Ginzametrics
• Feefighters
• Kissmetrics
• Crazyegg
• Slidedeck
• SauceLabs
• Chargify
• uTest
• Lessaccounting
• Snapengage
• Uservoice
• 99designs
• Batchbook
• Textingly
• Infochimps
• WP Engine
• Server Density
• Running Lean
• Venture Hacks
• Udemy
• Trada
• Andrew Chen & Sean Ellis ebooks
• Zencoder

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• Twilio

  Build powerful voice and SMS apps

  <a href="http://www.twilio.com/">Twilio</a> is the easiest way to add voice and SMS capabilities to your applications.

  Simple API, works with any platform: PHP, Ruby, Python, .NET, Java and more.

  Use Twilio for lead generation, alerts and notifications, flexible call routing, order status, simple conference calling, group messaging and automated reminders.

  

  What you get

  Valid for new customers and existing customers who have yet to upgrade to a full account.

  New customers can sign up for a free account and get a $30 developer credit.

  Receive an additional $50 credit when upgrading to a full account using your AppSumo promo code.

  Finer Details

  <b>No payment required</b>, but a valid credit card and billing address must be provided.

• Pivotal Tracker

  Build better software, faster.

  Collaborative, lightweight project management tool, brought to you by the experts in agile software development.

  Increase Visibility and Collaboration

  Bring everyone, even distributed teams into the same virtual room. Enable a more efficient way to agree on priorities and stay aligned with the entire team.

  Deliver on Customer Feedback

  Get the right product to the market sooner, based on continuous feedback and prioritization. Respond to changing needs and new requirements easily.

  Plan Based on Realistic Estimates

  Stay on target with Tracker's continuous, automatic prediction of milestone completion dates, based on your team's performance.

  Transform How You Build Software

  Supercharge your agile teams with focused, real time collaboration. Accelerate agile adoption with a simple, proven process

  

  What you get

  $108 credit towards any new paid subscription, for any paid plan.

  All new users get a 60 day free trial automatically
  

  Finer Details

  No payment required, but a valid credit card must be provided.
  Subscriptions can be cancelled at any time, but there are no refunds for charges already incurred.
  Codes expire in 3 months

• Eric Ries's The Lean Startup Book

  Get the first copies of Eric Ries's new book: The Lean Startup. (reg. $30)

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  This is all-new material, and that those who buy the bundle will be among the first to get it. You'll be geting a hard-back book in the mail! Free Shipping worldwide.

  This is the ultimate resource for your lean startup. Comes out September 2011.

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• Postmark

  Email delivery experts for your Startup

  You're building an app, set up a local SMTP server, and start firing emails at it. What you DON'T do is know know if they those emails are bouncing, making it to the Inbox or failing altogether. Don't worry, it's not your fault. You shouldn't have to worry about this stuff, it's an entire industry on its own. With Postmark, we provide the peace of mind and expert insights to help you know your valuable messages are being received. Setup in seconds with SMTP or one of their ready-made libraries

  

  What you get

  You get 25 000 credits ( worth 25 000 emails sent)

  Finer Details

  New users only.

• StartupWeekend

  1 ticket to Any Startup Weekend event world-wide

  What is Startup Weekend?
  54-hour events where developers, coders, designers, marketers, product managers and startup enthusiasts come together to share ideas, form teams, build products, and create startups!

  

  What you get

  1 free ticket to any startup weekend bundle

• Geckoboard

  Your Business in real time

  Web analytics, CRM, support, infrastructure, project management, sales... all in one place.
  Geckoboard is a hosted, real-time status board serving up the indicators that matter to you.

  Geckoboard is a status board for your business's vital signs. See web analytics, CRM, support, infrastructure, project management, sales... all in one place.

  Because it's a web service Geckoboard is available anywhere there's internet, whether it's a 60" monitor in your office or on your smart phone.

  

  What you get

  Any package free for 3 months. (reg. up to $597)

  - Zero downloads. Zero installs. Available anywhere.
  - Easy setup and configuration. Get started in 5 minutes.
  - Multiple dashboards for different uses.
  - Sharable, read-only dashboards.
  - Custom widgets including charts

  Finer Details

  Only valid for new users.

• HipChat

  Real-time chat for your team

  HipChat is instant messaging built for business. No ads, obscure screen names, or failed file transfers. Collaborate in real-time with colleagues and clients in persistent chat rooms. Admins control who joins the secure network and what they can see. Oh, and HipChat is simple enough for the whole company to use, not just the techies.

  

  What you get

  6 Months of their ultimate plan (normally $594)

  -Persistent group chat rooms
  -File sharing and storage
  - Chat and file history
  - Private, safe, and secure
  

  Finer Details

  Valid for new customers and existing customers who have yet to upgrade to a paid plan

• Ask your target market

  The best tool to do customer research.

  We give you the tools to write surveys and send them to your ideal target market segment of our proprietary US consumer panel, or to your own list. We deliver your responses in a matter of hours and help you to understand the data.

  

  What you get

  The offer includes $25 value towards your first survey to our panel and
  3 months free subscription to our new Plus Plan, a generous package for any business that wants to test concepts, pricing, etc. The Plus Plan allows you to launch surveys to your own list and still use our easy survey creator and robust analytic tools.
  Details include the ability to:
  - Launch up to 30 surveys per month
  - 25 Questions/Survey
  - Collect up to 6 Demographic Traits (not included in Q#) -AYTM has a predefined set of 8 demographic parameters (traits) such as age, gender and household income that could be available as filters in the stats module. You can add the questions to the beginning of a ListSurvey before sending it.
  - Send to 1,000 respondents/survey
  - Ability to Export Data - use with any other tool
  - Results Mapping - See your respondents pinned on a map down to the level of zip code with their demographics and survey answers. Don't worry, we maintain their privacy!
  - Branded Surveys- use your own logo, colors, tagline
  - We'll host your survey results for up to 6 months
  - HTTPS Security

• Pandaform

  Simple database to manage all forms your company needs

  Easy-to-use database to share company data

  Centralized place to store company data, so your team can search, organize or share the data online in a click.Make any type of online forms simply by drag-and-drop. Customize form’s look & feel or use formulas for simple calculations such as total costs.Only the most updated data stays! Status changes and comments made by anyone are kept for you to review anytime.

  

  What you get

  Free lifetime starter plan includes:
  - 3 Users
  - Unlimited Forms
  -1,000 Records
  - 500 MB Storage

• Hacker Monthly

  Hacker Monthly 3 Month Digital Subscription

  Hacker Monthly curates the best articles from Hacker News every month and prints them in beautiful magazine format.

  

  What you get

  - 3 months digital subscription of Hacker Monthly delivered right to your email inbox in PDF, MOBI and EPUB format to read on any device (Kindle, iPad..etc).

  Finer Details

  - Only valid for new subscribers.

• launchbit

  Step-by-step guide to launch your Internet company

  Have a great web business idea & don't know how to code?

  This step-by-step guide will teach you how to launch your idea with 3rd party tools and skills you already have.

  

• Ginzametrics

  Optimize your SEO with Ginzametrics!

  <a target="_new" rel="nofollow" href="http://ginzametrics.com/">Ginzametrics</a> isn't software, it's a teacher.

  It teaches you step by step how to outrank competitors in the global search engine game. It let's you view how your SEO (search engine optimization) ranks among competitors in Google and Yahoo (Bing soon to come.) They'll view your web-page from a search engine standpoint; so you get a completely unbiased report on what to fix. Other features like multi-language support, web analytics integration, and advanced keyword management will give your page more hits than a weak boxer.

  Do your homework and take <a target="_new" rel="nofollow" href="http://ginzametrics.com/">Ginzametrics's</a> class. You'll get more than extra credit.

  

  What you get

  Register for our $19/mo starter plan with the discount code and you'll get 4 months for free. Here's what you get:

  - Automatically monitor search engine rankings everyday
  - Track conversions and correlate them with search engine rankings
  - Optimize your pages for SEO
  - Get reports via email

  Finer Details

  New customers only.
  Must be redeemed within 60 days.
  CC required on Ginzametrics on registration. NOT charged until after 4 month offer is over.
  This plan covers 1 site.

• Feefighters

  Get the Best Deal on Credit Card Processing in Minutes

  <b>You are probably paying more than you think for your merchant account.</b> Credit Card Processors can be really sneaky- often guilty of bait-and-switch tactics and hidden fees, they love to confuse you and take your hard earned money. That's why we created FeeFighters, to give businesses like yours a chance to fight back at the outrageous fees you pay to have money transferred from one place to another.
  

  Our unique auction process and comparison engine allows us to<b> save businesses 40% on average </b>on their credit card processing. FeeFighters is quick and simple and all of the processors that bid on our site are vetted and certified by the FeeFighters to ensure ethical behavior and top-notch service.

  

  What you get

  Included in your AppSumo purchase is a *FREE* statement analysis ($49 value!). We'll pore over your credit card statement (if you've ever seen one, you'll realize that this isn't an easy task!) and tell you what fees you're REALLY paying, and we'll let you know if you can get a better rate elsewhere.
  

  Send us your statement in electronic form, and we'll send you an email with a link to your analysis. In the meantime, you can learn more about credit card processing with our <a href="http://feefighters.com/ebooks/what-is-credit-card-processing/" target=" _blank">free e-book</a>

• Kissmetrics

  The most accurate person-based analysis!

  Page-view-based analysis is said to over count 25%-300%. <a target="_new" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.kissmetrics.com/">KISSmetrics</a> decided to cut that percentage down to 0 with person-based analysis. Just track the significant events that happen on your site and they'll collect the data.

  They'll answer questions like:
  Where are your highest-converting, highest-revenue customers coming from?
  Where are you losing visitors?
  Are your visitors able to use and benefit from your offering?

  Increase your conversion rate and increase your revenue. Use <a target="_new" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.kissmetrics.com/">KISSmetrics</a>.

  

  What you get

  50,000 events a month

  LIFETIME account

  Finer Details

  New customers only

• Crazyegg

  Crazy Egg - see where visitors are clicking on your site (reg. $228)

  Crazy Egg lets you visualize every click your visitors make. Discover exactly how visitors are using your website - then optimize it to increase your conversion rate.

  * Heatmaps let you visualize your analytics
  * Shows user clicks and missed opportunities
  * Helps increase conversion rate

  We've used it on AppSumo many times. You'll be shocked and disappointed to see what people actually click on when visiting your site. The good thing is you can use Crazyegg to test and get users to finally click the things you want.

  

  What you get

  - <b>LifeTime of Crazy Egg</b> for one page (you can switch the page anytime - even to another domain + <b>new users only</b>)
  -Click-action heatmaps for the first 1000 visitors to your site per month
  -Valuable information to improve site flow and increase conversions
  -<b>Redeem whenever you want</b>
  

• Slidedeck

  The Perfect Tool to Design a Product Tour for your Website

  <b>Autoplay does the sales pitch for you. </b> When a visitor arrives to your site SlideDeck can be set up to bust out a mini preso. So while you are passed out in your Power Rangers PJ's SlideDeck is pitching your product hard!

  <b>It is super SEO friendly. </b> SlideDeck can actually boost your SEO ranking in many cases. So not only does your site look sick with SlideDeck now more people are seeing the deliciousness!

  <b>Insane Support. </b> The guys that invented SlideDeck are straight ballers. So they will help you in any way possible to make sure your SlideDeck implementation does not choke like Christina at the Super Bowl. The guys at SlideDeck will take care of you. #promise

  SlideDeck is a powerful jQuery slider plugin made for web designers. With SlideDeck, you can create amazing product tours for your web app by organizing any type of web content into a beautiful and user-friendly slider.

  <b>Benefits of Pro for jQuery:</b> <ul>
  <li>No SlideDeck branding</li>
  <li>Saves Development Time</li>
  <li>Beautiful Default Design</li>
  <li>Powerful Features & API</li>
  <lil>Access to Upgrade to SlideDeck PRO for WordPress at a discounted rate.</li>
  </ul>

  You can see how we used it on our own site, <a target="_new" href="http://rewardlevel.com">RewardLevel</a>.

  

• SauceLabs

  Run Pain Free, Faster Selenium Tests with No Config.

  <a href="http://saucelabs.com">Sauce Labs</a> runs Selenium scripts faster, in parallel browsers in the cloud, with live video of tests and pain-free admin.

  

  What you get

  Multiple browsers - Run remote parallel tests
  Video playback - Watch and share test videos
  Instant capacity - Scale your testing routines
  In the cloud - Reduce costs and maintenance
  Open source - Selenium with an intuitive UI
  1 000 free minutes of testing.
  

  Finer Details

  <strong>New users only.</strong>

• Chargify

  Chargify - Build Your Business, Not Your Billing System ($200 credit)

  Chargify simplifies recurring billing for Web 2.0 and SaaS companies.

  - Charge your customers' credit cards
  - Manage recurring subscriptions effortlessly
  - Seamlessly integrate our API into your site
  - Gain business intelligence from your billing

  

  Finer Details

  This is for NEW customers only.

• uTest

  On-Demand Software Testing

  uTest is the world's largest marketplace for software testing services. With our community of 35,000+ professional testers from more than 170 countries, we offer a better, more affordable way for startups to test their apps before they launch.

  

  What you get

  $1,000 off your organization's first purchase with uTest.

  Finer Details

  Valid for any order that you purchase between March and June 30th.

• Lessaccounting

  Bookkeeping sucks We make it suck less.

  Our Difference
  Import data directly from your bank, saving you time.
  Tech support is experienced bookkeepers happy to lend a hand, saving you stress.
  No confusing accounting jargon, saving your hairline.

  Bookkeeping shouldn't be a scary task. Click the button below to learn how to use LessAccounting in your business.

  

  What you get

  $100 package, free for three months.( reg. $100)

• Snapengage

  Live-chat with your visitors. AppSumo uses it :)

  Chat with your website visitors while they browse.

  We use this on AppSumo and love it. <a href="/snap-engage-example/">See Top 4 reasons we Love it</a>.

  

  What you get

  - SnapEngage Basic for 4 months ( a $76 value )
  - Good looking and easy to install.
  - No new program to install. Chat from your existing IM (Instant Messenger)
  - Integrates with your existing CRM or Help Desk
  - Unlimited live chat and offline requests
  - Proactive chat
  - Highrise, Basecamp, Pivotal Tracker, FogBugz, Jira, Lighthouse and Rapleaf integrations.
  

  Finer Details

  New users only

• Uservoice

  Finally, support that doesn't suck.

  UserVoice Full Service is the only customer facing solution lean startups need. Full Service combines UserVoice Feedback, a public forum unlike any other that gives users a voice and delivers you the top features your community is asking for, and UserVoice Helpdesk, the sexiest and simplest issue tracking and knowledgebase we think you'll ever use, into one fun to use package. Learn more at <a href="http://uservoice.com/fullservice/">uservoice.com/fullservice</a>

  

  What you get

  90 days free for any Full service plan

  - Issue Tracking
  - Instant Answers
  - Humane Interactions
  - Prioritized Feedback
  - Instant stats

• 99designs

  Free featured listing

  Look at this site, now look at yours, now look back at this site. Notice anything? We spent over $2,000 on this one page. Was it worth it? YES! <b>But now you can have something as sexy as this from 99designs for about 1/5 the cost.</b>

  Say you want this page designed. You go to 99designs and say "hey, make me a sexy site like AppSumo."

  Now you have hundreds of designers across the world designing for you. If only I could have this service for making my dinner.

  During the process you say which designs you like and don't. Then you only pay for the one you like best.

  You'd be surprised how affordable it is to NOT have your site look like crap.

  If you want proof on how awesome <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://99designs.com">99designs</a> is. Here's their spiel: "The #1 marketplace for graphic design, including logo design, webdesign and other design contests. Over 55,000 satisfied clients, including StackOverflow, SxSW, Tim Ferriss and Mashable!"

  

  What you get

  Free featured listing (reg. $69)

  Finer Details

  Only 1 per customer

  Credit must be redeemed by March 31

• Batchbook

  Manage contacts & conversations with Batchbook , your Social CRM

  With Batchbook, your contacts belong to you. From turning business cards into Batchbook contacts, generating invoices, sending email newsletters or simply syncing your address book, we're partnering with other services to let you do more with your contacts. They go where you need them to go!

  

  What you get

  6 months of our $149.95/month level account

  Finer Details

  New Customers Only

• Textingly

  Enables you to text your users

  Textingly is a service that helps companies and brands reach their customers through text messaging. Use our conversation wizard to send coupons, offer discount codes, run polls or create contests for your customers. Companies can monitor campaign activity in real time and respond directly to customers. In addition to our browser-based management console we also offer a robust set of API's

  You'll receive a 2 month premium package (a $300 value) free! This top-tier plan allows you to send 11,100 messages from the Textingly platform. Getting started is simple. Go to <a href="http://www.texting.ly" target="_blank">texting.ly</a> to launch your campaigns in under 10 minutes.

  

• Infochimps

  Infochimps is a marketplace where you can find, share and build on data

  Infochimps lets you harvest data from various public & private APIs

  

  What you get

  Credit towards either a monthly subscription to the Infochimps API or for usage of certain APIs that charge per use when you signup for a new account with us
  - Example: You could sign up and apply $20 to a Brass Monkey subscription right away, then use the extra $20 to call against our Digital Element APIs, which are free for the first 5,000 but $3.35/1,000 calls after that.

• WP Engine

  Finely tuned Wordpress

  We make WordPress fast, secure, and scalable by hosting your site on our rock solid platform.

  

  What you get

  90 days free of either the $50/month or $100/month plan
  Free CDN Baked-In
  Curated Plugins
  One-Click Staging

• Server Density

  Server monitoring as a service - are your servers working properly?

  Server monitoring. CPU, memory, disk, network, Apache, MongoDB, MySQL + more. E-mail/SMS alerts. iPhone/Android server monitoring apps.

  

  What you get

  Free "paid" account for 1 server. Value = $120 per year

  Finer Details

  Only valid for new users

• Running Lean

  Running Lean is a workflow for building web based software that was developed by rigorously applying and testing Customer Development, Lean Startup, and Bootstrapping techniques.

  The content for this book has been tested and refined with dozens of startups and products.

  

  What you get

  In this book, you'll learn:
  - How to first find a problem worth solving, before defining a solution
  - How to find early customers
  - How to test pricing
  - When is the ideal time to raise funding?
  - How to decide what goes into Release 1.0
  - How to build and measure what customers want
  - How to maximize for for speed, learning and focus
  - What is Product/Market Fit?
  - How to measure and iterate towards Product/Market Fit

• Venture Hacks

  The Venture Hacks Bible: 1000 pages, and growing. PDF.

  When you buy Babak Nivi and Naval Ravikant'sThe Venture Hacks Bible, you get a PDF of the entire Venture Hacks blog. It's currently 1000 pages.

  

  What you get

  PDF Copy of the book

• Udemy

  "Startup and Go" Video Series on the First Steps to Building a Technology Company

  "Startup and Go" is a collection of 6 educational talks from Adeo Ressi (Founder Institute), Phil Libin (Evernote), Aaron Patzer (Mint.com) and others around the topics of startup ideation, startup research, and startup hiring, firing & co-founders.. These talks were designed to be a tactical overview of the beginning of the startup process, not just an inspirational conference talk.

  Usually these lessons are completely private for Founder Institute and StartupDigest members only, but for the next 48 hours anyone who purchases this AppSumo bundle will get access to these courses for free.
  

  

  What you get

  The Startup and Go course

• Trada

  Paid Search, powered by a crowd of experts.

  Trada's marketplace is revolutionizing PPC by connecting advertisers with the world's best paid search experts.

  

  What you get

  $500 Marketplace Credit*

  *standard Trada rules apply
  

  Finer Details

  Minimum 3 months of $3,000 / month advertising budget for credit.

• Andrew Chen & Sean Ellis ebooks

  Andrew Chen & Sean Ellis ebooks (reg. $38)

  <img style="float:left; padding-right: 10px" src="http://www.appsumo.com/static/1282146479/images/andrew_chen.jpg" /><img src="http://www.appsumo.com/static/1282146479/images/sean_ellis.png" />

  The ultimate resources in marketing from two of the leaders.

  Andrew Chen is a blogger and startup executive focused on advertising and social media. He writes the blog Futuristic Play and was most recently an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV), a Silicon Valley-based firm with $2B under management. At MDV, Andrew pursued initiatives in digital media and advertising and helped source internet investments for the firm.

  Sean Ellis is a successful marketer who's helped take two companies public. Recently, he's helped out these companies: Dropbox, Xobni, Eventbrite, Lookout, Grockit, , 20×200, Outright, Songkick and many others.

• Zencoder

  Quickly convert videos into web & mobile formats with Zencoder.

  Zencoder is a cloud-based video encoding API featuring extremely fast encoding, high scalability and industry leading file compatibility. Encode millions of videos or just a few and pay only for what you use.

  

  What you get

  $50 in credit towards encoding*
  Blazingly fast encoding - faster than real-time
  No waiting - 9 second median queue time
  Industry leading compatibility - 99.9% input format support
  Easy web services API - integrate in an afternoon
  Awesome customer support - 24/7 support available
  Encode to HTML5, Flash, Silverlight, iPhone, Android, and more
  Advanced processing - A/V Sync Correction, Source Normalization, Pixel-Perfect Scaling, and more

  Finer Details

  *for new pay-as-you-go accounts only.