For those following me from Jesse’s recommendation… apologies in advance for the boring follow. I post pictures of coffee on LinkedIn if you’re into that.
I've tested 200+ tools running my companies.
Here are the 25 my teams use:
Operations & Analytics:
- @NotionHQ : Your second brain
- @stripe : Payments that just work
- @mercury : Banking built for startups
- Good Operator (@SpaceChenst) : Bookkeeping and Fractional CFO (game-changer!)
- @mixpanel : Understand user behavior
Sales & Marketing:
- @close : CRM that salespeople actually use
- ContactOut: Find anyone's email
- @short_io : Track every link click
- @Dropbox : Files everywhere
- @canva : Design without designers
Communication:
- @SlackHQ : Where work happens
- @loom : Skip the meeting
- @Superhuman : Email on steroids
- @Zoom : Still the video king
- @Calendly : End the scheduling dance
Content & Growth:
- @beehiiv : Emails that convert
- @buffer : Social media on autopilot
- @Grammarly : Write like a pro
- @TallyForms : Forms people actually fill out
- @ahrefs : SEO intelligence
Productivity:
- @zapier : Connect everything
- @1Password : Security made simple
- @useMotion : Calendar that thinks
- @n8n_io : Create AI agents
- @OpenAI : Teammate on call 24/7
What’s in your tech stack?
In one decade, Chase went from hospital C-Suite at 25, to ground floor at an IPOd startup, to frustrated restauranteur, to founder of a fast-growing accounting firm for bootstrapped businesses.
His secret to new founders?
Become a master of cash flow.
Read our article on Chase's meteoric career and why he thinks the best businesses are the ones doing the boring jobs really well: https://t.co/guSDTzHxY7
How are people still on this? I was on for 10 minutes yesterday and got upgrade prompts after every single engagement. Every. One. This is just intolerable. See you in another 20 months.
First day I've been on X in about a year but I got an email from someone showing Noah Kagan had shared my website along side a traditional firm and asked who you'd pick. My optimism, or probably hubris, assumed he was highlighting US vs a boring, stale traditional firm
@noahkagan Those are misses and on me. The photos of me and the team is obvious and it’s not there because I didn’t want to use ai, didn’t want bad self shot pictures and haven’t had the team all in one spot lately to shoot. I need to do it. I just hate bad photography.
@noahkagan No offense taken. And I’m taking the notes. I do stand by standing out and not looking like all the others that used a template and stock photos (that’s a custom font) but you can’t go to all that effort and then miss on some basics so points taken.