Roam Freely in the Entrepreneur’s Zoo

By Kriti B Vichare on October 16, 2013 16 Comments / 3030 views

It’s a jungle out there.

This may be the only zoo most familiar to those in the startup world – let’s call it the Entrepreneurs Zoo! Just coincidentally, many of the vendors, services and products, we (and other entrepreneurs) use in starting a business have “animal” names. We’ve used many of them, and here is a line up and maybe one of them can help you, depending on what country you are starting up in.

Web Development and Technology

HostGator – affordable web hosting solution

Safari – easy-to-use browser iDevices OS X Mountain Lion – Comes standard on all Macs

Grasshopper – affordable cloud-based phone and IVR solution

Marketing

MailChimp – simple interface to send out your email campaigns and build a list.

MOO – on-demand business cards, stickers, and stationary to promote your business

SurveyMonkey – customizable forms to poll customers and analyze that data

Miscellaneous

Shark Tank – TV show with ventures vying for funding

Task Rabbit – reliable outsourcing of some of your daily tasks

Red Bull – instant energy to keep you up those long nights

The #entrepreneurfail part of this is that aspiring entrepreneurs may want to just use a service or a vendor without assessing business needs and ROI and end up wasting time and resources. Make sure you do your due diligence and choose only vendors that will grow your business.

Did we miss any “animalistic” resources and tools for entrepreneurs in this kingdom? Let me know in the comments below.

I’ll be teaching a workshop in Delhi on Oct 27th! Come learn some brainstorming hacks! Would love to meet you in person.

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Comments

Kriti B Vichare

16 Comments

asha chaudhry October 17, 2013, 4:22 am

hey kriti,

how long are you in delhi for? i’m in delhi for two weeks during diwali and am likely to meet some rodinhooders over chaat 🙂 if you’re not scared of delhi belly let us know!!!
Prashant Kumar Sharma October 17, 2013, 7:07 am

All of your posts are a refreshing take on things. I just so love reading it.:)
Vijay Khubchandani October 17, 2013, 7:28 am

BugClipper – for bug reporting, and app testing..
asha chaudhry October 17, 2013, 7:31 am

vijay…. just for this comment i shall write to NING to create an AWESOME button. alok would love to use it pretty often as well i guess 🙂
Vijay Khubchandani October 17, 2013, 7:35 am

Me too.. 🙂
Kriti B Vichare October 17, 2013, 7:44 am

Just sent you an email! Would love to meet you if we can squeeze it in!
Kriti B Vichare October 17, 2013, 7:44 am

Thank you Prashant! Any feedback is awesome and helpful…
Kriti B Vichare October 17, 2013, 7:45 am

Awesome addition Vijay – I’ll add it to the original post on http://www.entrepreneurfail.com and attribute it to you if that works for you!
Rishi October 17, 2013, 9:34 am

love the pic! very creative
Kriti B Vichare October 17, 2013, 9:56 am

Thank you Rishi!
Jaykishan Prithiani October 18, 2013, 10:31 am

for bug tracking you can use Bugzilla

Other than Mac, they can use FireFox (Mozilla)
Kriti B Vichare October 18, 2013, 10:36 am

Awesome! Totally forgot there was a Fox in FireFox!!!
Ashwin C Parulkar November 12, 2013, 5:04 am

Hey ur illustration skills are much improved now
Kriti B Vichare November 12, 2013, 1:54 pm

thanks I don’t know if much improved – this one took me forever!!!!!

(disclaimer – never claimed to be an artist..just a doodler).
Ashwin C Parulkar November 14, 2013, 6:07 am

Yup I am a creative dir so I know how a artist progresses in his work .
You will improve eventually ,see more such doodle cartoonist and keep drawing during white space …while going in a car, or vacant time
Kriti B Vichare November 14, 2013, 12:48 pm

look forward to your continued and future feedback Ashwin!