Every resource founders actually use, in one library.

What founders use most, ranked by how many answers lean on it.

1. The cheapest way to bridge a twelve hour timezone gap is to stop scheduling a live call for everything. Loom lets you record a... Loom Tool · Starting Up Loom for Sales Loom
2. When your short answer says follow up on the date whether or not they replied, eventually you reach the point where you need a... HubSpot Template · Starting Up The Power of Breakup Emails: 7 Templates To Close the Loop HubSpot
3. A CRM built specifically around follow-up: it reminds you to send that recap, flags the date you promised to circle back, and... Close Tool · Starting Up Close Close
4. The single biggest reason founders under follow-up isn't strategy, it's forgetting. This tool auto-reminds you (or auto-sends a... Boomerang for Gmail Tool · Starting Up Boomerang for Gmail: Email Follow-Up Reminders Boomerang for Gmail
5. A practical library of short LinkedIn opening messages organized by scenario, which you can adapt instead of guessing at tone... Sales Bread Template · Starting Up 37 Best LinkedIn Cold Message Templates That Get Replies Sales Bread
6. A free five-day email course covering the whole cold email process end to end: defining who to target, finding accurate contact... Hunter.io Course · 5 days · Starting Up Hunter's Cold Email Course Hunter.io
7. A tool built specifically around sequencing cold email and LinkedIn touches together, which matches the exact combine-them... lemlist.com Tool · Starting Up lemlist lemlist.com
8. LinkedIn is where most B2B founders will actually find the named individuals who match their ICP, and Sales Navigator's filters... LinkedIn Tool · Starting Up LinkedIn Sales Navigator LinkedIn
9. A free, instant way to sanity-check a draft subject line against length, clarity, and tone before you send it, useful as a... CoSchedule Tool · Starting Up Email Subject Line Analyzer CoSchedule
10. Hustle Fund invests at pre-seed and reviews over a thousand companies a month, so their founders team has read (and rejected)... Hustle Fund (Hustle Commons) Template · Starting Up Cold Email Tips + Templates Hustle Fund (Hustle Commons)
11. Streak is a Gmail-based CRM built for exactly this workflow: sending outreach and tracking whether it's actually being opened.... Streak Tool · Starting Up Streak: How to Write a Cold Email to an Investor Streak
12. A fill-in-the-blanks worksheet for documenting why your cold outreach counts as a legitimate interest, before a regulator or an... UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) Tool · Starting Up Legitimate Interests Assessment (LIA) Template UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)
13. A one-page cheat sheet you can keep open while you write, built to stop you from reaching for the generic first line under... Josh Braun Template · 1 page · Starting Up Cold Email First Sentence Cheat Sheet Josh Braun
14. Lavender scores your draft in real time and flags the lines that read as generic, which is a useful outside check on whether... Lavender Tool · Starting Up Lavender Lavender
15. Joanna Wiebe gives you five real cold email structures for different situations, pitching a service, quoting someone's own... Copyhackers Template · 12 min read · Starting Up How to Write a Cold Email: 5 Templates from a Pro Copywriter Joanna Wiebe
16. This is where you see, in Gmail's own words, how Gmail actually sees your domain: spam rate, IP and domain reputation,... Google Tool · Starting Up Google Postmaster Tools Google
17. A single search bar to look up your SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MX, and PTR records, plus a blacklist check across dozens of blocklists.... MxToolbox Tool · Starting Up MxToolbox SuperTool MxToolbox
18. A straightforward alternative to Hunter that independent tests rate as more accurate on harder to find addresses. Useful as a... VoilaNorbert Tool · Starting Up VoilaNorbert VoilaNorbert
19. This is the plain guess at the company's email pattern from our answer, made mechanical. Feed it a name and domain and it... Mailmeteor Tool · Starting Up Email Permutator Mailmeteor
20. This is the verification step our answer insists on. Paste in a guessed or found address and it tells you whether the inbox is... NeverBounce Tool · Starting Up Email Verifier NeverBounce
21. A large contact database that's worth trying when Hunter or VoilaNorbert come back empty, since it draws on a different index... RocketReach Tool · Starting Up RocketReach RocketReach
22. Once you have a verified address, these are ready to adapt templates from a CRM built specifically for small sales teams,... Close Template · 10 minute read · Starting Up 15 Best Cold Email Templates That Actually Get Replies Steli Efti
23. This gives you the actual words to use once you decide to ask happy customers for referrals, timed to the moment right after a... HubSpot Template · Starting Up How to ask for a referral from a client (+ best email templates) HubSpot
24. Warm channels run on proof, and this is the simplest tool for collecting video and text testimonials from customers without... Testimonial.to Tool · Starting Up Testimonial.to Testimonial.to

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