Since crowd-funding and fund-raising outcomes are unpredictable, one of the major but often overlooked ways to extend your runway is to control your costs. Fortunately, there is a lot of help available to entrepreneurs to lower a startup’s burn rate. Here is a list of the best startup goodies we have found:
Infrastructure
Bizspark - Up to $60,000 of Azure cloud services for 1 year and free downloads of software and tools such as Visual Studio and Office.
Paypal Startup Blueprint - $50,000 worth of payment processing fees are waived when you use PayPal or Braintree.
Google Cloud Platform - $100,000 in credits to use on all Cloud Platform products.
AWS Free Tier - Use any of the 18 products and services on AWS for free for 1 year.
Marketing
Google Adwords - $100 credits for new accounts.
Bing ads - $100 credits for new accounts.
Education
Free programming books - Here is a list of free programming books for all types of programming languages.
Udemy - You can find discount codes to some Udemy courses on this subreddit. Otherwise, Udemy frequently runs promotions, so just sign up an account to receive promotional emails.
Other Deals
F6S Card - F6S offers a wide variety of deals, worth $900,000, ranging from hosting, to marketing, to almost all other tools that a founder needs.
Appsumo - The Groupon for software developers and entrepreneurs, you can get discounts of up to 90% on tools you need.
Did we miss anything?
Is there anything that we have missed out on? Share with us in the comments section below and help your fellow entrepreneurs out!
