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Backup

http://www.carbonite.com/ A $5/month backup service I would be a little bit cautious

about using Carbonite for backing up files with bank account information, social security numbers, or passwords

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Conference Calling

http://www.freeconference.com/

A free conference calling service

End run the long distance charges by using Skype for your outbound calls

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Direct Mail

http://www.amazingmail.com/ A reasonably priced service for

direct mail

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Email Management

http://www.constantcontact.com/

A reasonably priced outbound email marketing management service

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Fax

http://www.efax.com/ A free incoming fax service For ~$10/month will do

outbound faxes

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File Transfer

http://www.yousendit.com/ A free service for transferring

large files when email attachments don't work

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Groupware

http://www.mailstreet.com/ Hosted MS Exchange and MS

Sharepoint Options to do spam filtering

and sync with most handheld devices

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Job Board

http://www.craigslist.org/ Free or reasonably priced job

board

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Online Alerts

http://www.google.com/alerts A great way to keep track of

your competitors

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Online Collaboration

http://www.basecamphq.com/ Reasonably priced project

collaboration

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Online Collaboration

http://www.conceptshare.com Design collaboration

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Online Presentation Sharing http://www.slideshare.net/ For sharing powerpoint

presentations

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Online Presentations

http://www.vyew.com/ A free WebEx competitor

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Online Social Networking http://www.linkedin.com The new LinkedIn Answers tab

is especially useful

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Online storage

http://aws.amazon.com/s3 Not free, but a good option if

you have large amounts (1TB+) of content you need online

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Online Video Sharing

http://www.youtube.com Useful for pitches and training

material

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Open Source Software

http://sourceforge.net/index.php

The largest repository of open source code and applications on the Internet

Look here before writing any code yourself!

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PBX

http://www.onebox.com/ A virtual PBX Same company that offers the

dFax service

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PBX

http://www.aptela.com/ A virtual PBX

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Online Survey

http://www.surveymonkey.com/ A free online survey tool (with

limitations), $20/month complete capabilities

Steep learning curve – if you’re going to make a commitment to online surveys you should take a look at WebSurveyor

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Tchotchkes

http://www.cafepress.com/ A way to get your logo on

moderate quality products at reasonable prices

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VoIP

http://www.skype.com/ A free VoIP service that allows

free outbound calls into the regular telephone network

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Web Traffic Analytics

http://www.google.com/analytics/

Of course, you're giving an immense amount of data about traffic to your site to Google, but the price is right ...

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Wiki

http://www.jot.com/ Jotspot (now part of Google) is

a free wiki-based collaboration tool

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More Information

This is list is also available as a PDF at: http://www.earlystage.com/dc/onlineresources.pdf

If you have suggestions, updates, or additions, please email them to:

Andy Forbesa.forbes@earlystage.com