{"id":203,"date":"2019-03-29T14:15:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T06:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dottedsign.com\/blog\/?p=203"},"modified":"2023-09-01T17:49:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T09:49:06","slug":"15-best-productivity-tools-for-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dottedsign.com\/blog\/product\/15-best-productivity-tools-for-startups","title":{"rendered":"15 Best Productivity Tools for Startups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We\u2019re more than familiar with Startup Culture here at Kdan. We were in your same situation just 10 short years ago! Our passion is helping you and your growing team unleash your creativity while maximizing productivity<\/a>. We\u2019re sharing our picks for the top-15 kinds of tools your business can use to build, grow, and flourish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RELIABLE CLOUD STORAGE<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

As a startup, some of, if not your most precious asset(s) are your ideas. Taking your business idea<\/a> from initial spark to fully-operational enterprise means hundreds, if not thousands of brainstorming documents, business plans, product designs, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019ll also have formation documents, NDAs, contracts with vendors, and more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the sake of your own sanity, you and your team need a reliable place to keep everything organized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our newly-released Kdan Cloud <\/a>is the solution. Your team can upload, store, and access documents, designs, photos, videos\u2013you name it\u2013on 1TB of Cloud storage anytime, from any device, anywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A COLLABORATION PLATFORM<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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You\u2019ll get to watch your team and network expand right along with your actual business. That\u2019s why we suggest working with an information management platform that allows for easy collaboration and the sharing of information. Markup<\/a> gives you the freedom to create teams within app where you can easily share pictures, web posts, and documents with the Team Clipboard and Shared Folder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Bonus use: Check out how we planned the trip to Thailand with Markup\u2019s collaboration capacity<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SIMPLE-BUT-EFFECTIVE TASK MANAGEMENT<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

This comes as no surprise, but as you develop your business, the size of your to-do list will soon start to rival Mt. Everest before you know it. Todoist<\/a> is a great task management software that helps your team create tasks, set due dates, and crush objectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COMPREHENSIVE NOTE-TAKING<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Growing your new venture will involve endless brainstorming, designing, copious amounts of note-taking, and plenty of information gathering. NoteLedge<\/a> is a comprehensive, multimedia note-taking tool that lets you capture everything through handwritten or typed notes, drawings, photos, videos, web clips, audio recordings, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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EFFECTIVE DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s considered a best practice in business to send all of your important files out in the always-reliable PDF format. PDF Reader<\/a> makes it easy to convert files to PDF format, scan documents with its OCR (optical character recognition), and allows you to add e-signatures, watermarks, and make other edits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can effortlessly switch between mobile to PC or Mac, annotate and edit your PDFs, and export them to any cloud solution or devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A DIGITAL SIGNATURE TOOL<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

More and more companies, including ours, are moving away from physical documents and digitizing their workflow in an effort to expedite the signature process. DottedSign<\/a> is available for iOS devices (Android coming soon) and is designed for on-the-go entrepreneurs like yourself! DottedSign simplifies the process, and allows you to easily create, sign, and send contracts and POs (purchase orders) right from your mobile device, replacing the need for a printer or scanner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PASSWORD SECURITY<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Have you ever spent time sorting out through endless sticky notes or spreadsheets looking for where you wrote down the latest password? A lot of people like to write them all down in one physical place like a notebook\u2026a lot of people would be wrong. Keeping your passwords somewhere that they can be easily lost or stolen is way too risky! Instead, why not try LastPass<\/a>? LastPass is the perfect solution to store your sensitive information in a central and secure location online. It also saves information that you enter into online forms<\/a> to help you save time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VISUAL CONTENT GENERATOR<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

If your background isn\u2019t in graphic design, you\u2019ll want a solution that makes generating marketing content easier. SmartMockups<\/a> helps you quickly create promotional material for social media<\/a>, blogs, presentations, flyers, and more! This web service is easy to use and features 23 categories of images or lets you use your own. Once completed, you can export and share the final mockup in high resolution. If you need to make a presentation<\/a> in record time, reusing a good presentation template<\/a> with a visually appealing style instead of starting from scratch can help you save many valuable hours. It provides a cost-effective alternative for presenters and individuals looking for graphic assets to use in their presentations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VIDEO-EDITING TOOLS<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Communicating your dream visually is one of the most important things for a startup. Creating brand promotion videos<\/a> with online video editing tools<\/a> can help raise brand awareness. With Write-on Video<\/a>, you can create amazing videos<\/a> for your website and social media. You can create promotional material and videos and share directly on various websites such as YouTube, Vimeo, and Twitter. This software is great for beginners to create and share professional videos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n