Bootstrapping your Start-up - Top 10 tools

Last weekend I participated in the excellent BarCamp Sydney event. Thanks for everyone who helped organise and participate! Photos here. I moderated a discussion about everyones favorite FREE or low cost tool that helped them bootstrap their work. The Top 10 were:

• Email
• Google (Search / Maps / News / Gmail / Apps / AdWords / AdSense / Blogsearch / Earth)
• Skype / Instant Messenger
• eBay
• Open Source Software
• RSS / Blogging / Wordpress / Blogger
• PDF
• Flash
• YouTube
• LinkedIn

Others that just missed the Top 10 included:

• eLance.com / rent-a-coder.com
• Outsourced Development
• Alexa / HitWise / ComScore / Compete
• Wikipedia
• Flickr
• Digg
• Delic.io.us
• Archive.org
• YellowPages / Whitepages online

The low cost list included:

• Broadband
• Cheap Hosting
• Mobile Phones / Blackberry
• Seek / Monster / HotJobs
• eFax
• Dell
• Apple (iPod / iBook / iTunes)

Richard McManus over at - ReadWriteWeb has a great article on software for virtual teams - similar vein but more in-depth - its well worth a look