Starter Kit for Small Companies

by Benj Miller | May 4, 2016

At Syrup, we love small companies. As a small company that is full of tech-savvy millennials, we tend to make sure we’re using the latest tech stack to make sure we’re as efficient as we can possibly be.

Here’s a quick guide to the tech we use and recommend:

• Google Apps for Business: Let them run your email/document/calendar infrastructure.
• Slack: Internal emails by penalty of burpees.
• Asana: Project management. There are other good options, this is where we landed based on process and business needs.
• Quickbooks Online: Value, ease of use, features.
• Infusionsoft: Automate everything you can.
• Proposable: Send/track proposals.

This leaves out the tools we use within our different jobs (design, development, social, etc), but is a great universal starter kit.

Outside of technology there are a few other things we highly recommend:

• Entrepreneur Operating System (EOS): Methodology for running your business
• Our reading list for starting/running a small business:
  • eMyth Revisited
  • Start with Why
  • Good to Great
  • Built to Sell