For Founders & Startup Teams
You’re passionate about your product or service
That’s where you should spend more of your time
Don’t re-invent the wheel on business setup steps
StartBlox is built for founders like you
or you’ve been running a small business for a while…
StartBlox has lots of tools for you!
Use the walk-through "wizards" to help with validating your product/service, conducting customer research, and creating your business plan.
Follow the Setup Blox to organize your company, setup key business functions, and connect with services and other resources you need to operate.
Activate vendor logins, set reminders, and track expenses in the Ops Blox dashboard to help organize your business
How we coach you through the setup process
Business Setup Features
all while surrounded by a growing entrepreneur community to engage with
Guidance
Track your progress
Our Setup Blox feature takes stock of what you’ve already done across six major operations areas and helps answer an important question:
What do I do next?
Take on key tasks
After seeing what steps you need to take, set task due dates for yourself, check off tasks as you complete them, and proceed to the next step
Information
Learn as you go
Setup Blox are more than just a set of tasks – they give you important information and context for actions you need to take at each step
Ask the community for help
If you need a deeper dive on a topic or have a question specific to your location or industry, reach out to the community – each task has it’s own Q&A channel right next to it
Topic & Industry Feed
Let the community come to you
Set topic keywords and industries to follow – when there are new tagged questions or answers, any of those matching ones you chose will appear at the top of your Feed
Help the community directly
If you need a deeper dive on a topic or have a question specific to your location or industry, reach out to the community – each task has it’s own Q&A channel right next to it
Business Resources
Connect right from the platform
We want businesses to help each other, so instead of a marketplace where all the services are dumped onto one page together, we’ve curated relevant solutions right next to the topic at hand
Get found in the Directory
Even if you’re not directly attached as a resource on a topic, you can still get your business found by enabling public view of your profile and filling out keywords in your description
Add team members to share same view of your new business setup & progress tracking
Plus, each person gets their own unique profile
Go Team!
Dual modes working together
Business Operations Features
Ops Blox:
Your Operations Dashboard
Manage vendors, due dates, and expenses
For setup areas where you use software or vendors, select the service and activate a button on your dashboard
A better way to bookmark
Launch vendor websites from Ops Blox buttons, too
Top 10 Industries of Founders Represented in the Platform
There are many others, just like your business!
| 1. Business Services / Consulting |
| 2. Accounting & Financial Services |
| 3. Advertising / PR / Marketing |
| 4. Internet Services & Software |
| 5. Education |
| 6. Healthcare/ Provider |
| 7. Retail |
| 8. Agriculture |
| 9. Food – Bar / Café / Restaurant |
| 10. Technology & Hardware |
Testimonials