25+ Must Have Apps for Startup CEOs

A cloud to upload and transfer files to and from, store your work without fear of losing anything, and an easy way to keep your computer-based business neatly filed. These days, the mobile phone market is catching up in the cloud race, so they offer cloud directly on your phone and charge you after you reach a certain limit. 

Dropbox beats phone clouds by giving access to them from multiple platforms which is very hard to manuver on propietary branded apps and devices. It isn't awfully hard, but there's a tricky challenge in trying to pair an iPhone with Google Cloud, and an Android or PC with iCloud. So Dropbox wins in that space.

Quora is a place where people ask questions and get them answered by users of different expertise and backgrounds. The questions range from very much about a specific brand or product by a company that isn't widely known, to frequently asked questions that you could likely ask a stranger in the city.

What's more, if you have your own business or product that you excel in, you can list advice on the product and create Q/A walkthroughs for potential customers.

You can expect to find challenging different results and mixed answers, as well as verified solutions and questions that have been successfully answered. 

Slack is a business-oriented communication app and tool for teams, employees, managers, executives, some clubs, and other professional organization members. Like Discord, you can open communication channels, but because this is geared toward professional teams, it's made for companies and organizations to have more control of the inner coms. If you're looking to have a more open approach, Discord would be more in your favor. But if you're a strong team of pros who need to stick together through a consistent medium, try Slack.

FaceTime, now available on Google Play, is one of the greatest apps in video communication for reasons such as quality in experience, ease of use, integrated tools, and now, accessibility. FaceTime started as an Apple only product, being only available on iPhone, iPad, iMac, and Macbook. Now available on Android via Google Play, meetings just got more interesting as the high-quality communication app just became accessible to the other side of the industry-share pie chart, the larger majority of smartphone users in the world; Android users.

Using FaceTime can help save time with contacts and the trouble of accessing people through apps that are down right buggy and glitchy. FaceTime, proven one of the more respected and used video chats even amongst popular apps like Messenger, may take over as far as interest in fixing bugs and accessibility between apps, as do other developers with for example, video games that become cross platform for PS5, Xbox, Android, iOS, and PC.

FaceTime is recommended for just about anything from professional meetings, one-on-one mentoring, tutoring, teaching, classes, etc. And combined with Cash App or PayPal, you can have your own one-on-one coaching business with clients you trust.

The biggest rival known to YouTube is still widely unknown to YouTube users, which as of now is shocking, especially considering the market share between video-based social networks. Dailymotion is one of the best quality video uploaders on the planet, and doesn't have nearly the same censorship issues as YouTube, that I would like to bet is guaranteed based on their clever algorithm and homepage news feed. 

Like YouTube, you can uploade short- and long-form videos, broadcast from your own channel, change your own url, grow your subscribes and audience directly from your own page, and cater to your video-based community directly within Dailymotion if that's your choice.

Dailymotion is available as an app on iOS and Google Play, and accessible at Dailymotion.com.

A great tool for spell check in English, and in other languages as you may come to grow your business with different cultures. 

It's sometimes stated that Google Translate isn't the greatest or most reliable in language translation, and while this may have been someone's experience; Google Translate is recommended for reasons like challenging different status quo concepts and to gain a basic understanding or awareness in situations where Google Translate may be helpful to you. Translating paragraphs may lose some of the quality or intention through translation but this is sometimes unavoidable as you cross language barriers. The main thing would be to avoid certain analogies and definitely to avoid unconscious euphemisms which may accidentally offend.

Translation itself is usually a high paying salaried career, so, take it with a grain of salt!

GoFundMe is a place to express your need for support and ask your community to financially help. GoFundMe allows you direct access to the funds you raise for your cause and takes a fee for hosting your cause. Unlike other fundraising sites, you can access the funds you raise instantly without reaching a threshold. Great for raising funds for startup business equipment, college funds, support for moving, any accidents or natural disasters, or other forms of help.

Learn language in a fun way with Duolingo. Free with ads, and paid for a version without ads. Recomended for expanding your horizons, getting ready to travel across the world and build relationships with different language speakers. Fun, incentivized, and gamified, Duolingo will have you feeling confident in a new language after committing for just a week. Imagine where you'll be after studying Spanish for 3 or 4 months, consistently, for free!

There are a few upcoming car-share and riide-share apps and comapnies but Lyft is usually the greatest option for finding low and affordable fares to and from the city. If you ever need to get to and from a meeting, get a client to and from a location, or get somewhere faster than waiting for someone else, Lyft offers you (and the people you know) the freedom of getting out of a jam and into where they need to be. Traffic and all, Lyft is agreat way to get around on your own time and get things done.

It wouldn't be right to think about a digitally advanced business and not think of Square. The mobility you need to run transactions and file the history of them can't be done without a "shopping cart" function in your digital possession. Square is a place where you can process credit card transactions and digital transactions. Square is the more business oriented brand of Cash App, which owns Cash App, too.

Because we listed it's intense rival, GoFundMe, we nudged this one to the bonuses, because it wouldn't be right not to mention it. 

Kickstarter is about raising funds, but you need to reach a goal in the eye of the public which shows and builds trust as they watch your growth in realtime. It's competitive nature is what drove us to list GoFundMe so that people can grow their company and business at their own appropriate pace. 

Kickstarter is definitely a great option for those who strongly would like to prove to the public and their silent partners that their product is absolutely ready for the world. 

What you don't know about YouTube is what makes YouTube a bonus. Skip the obvious benefits of uploading videos and growing a following... Y

ou can upload your own videos and make them "unlisted" and private so that you can have a more direct way of monetizing the views that you allow in. If you want to teach from a video series, you can monetize and charge a fee for access to a private playlist, and other different and creative ways to control your content.

Playlisting is probably the most important yet overlooked feature about YouTube -- which is likely going to save it from being trampled when the streaming wars get more heated with content and accessibility. Creating Playlists on YouTube don't really trigger a huge response from YouTube's algorithm (and that may change within the next 5 years so don't stop Playlisting on YouTube) but they do pop up within the search, and after becoming relevant enough they will make top 10 and top 5 results, which is extremely important especially considering Google users who pride themselves in having their business or product pop up on the first page of Google after being searched.

Playlisting is about organizing and inviting, and there is nothing that will be more inviting about YouTube in the future than an organized space to dive into, especially if it's ad-free and pre-monetized for the viewers pleasure.

Selling content online is important but making a Facebook account is not the first step in establishing your business. It will be the icing on the cake after you have your major distribution channels mapped out. Once prepared, Facebook will actually become your advertising channel and you will then have more control over your own sales channels because they will not operate solely on Facebook, but instead Facebook-assisted. 

Advertising through Facebook is integral and a major opportunity that changes constantly, and your target audience moves frequently as people have their own minds, thoughts, and change interests naturally. Your audience may be open to certain ads one day because of the needs they have, but if their needs are met by another service, your ad tomorrow will no longer suit them. Facebook is not a tool that businesses can use to spy on the public, but to invite to their product if it suits their needs.

Creating content as a business varies vastly from creating content as a creator and artist. Businesses usually find a medium to convey their artistic interests to the public by hiring an artist and crediting their brand and platform for bringing together two parties that would not have met if not for the authenticity of the artist hired by the business.

If you are an artist who also has a business out of their art, you will have to maintain both your business needs and your community needs which sometimes don't intersect at being sold a specific product, but just by being a part of the same community.

TikTok is important for the next-generation CEO for the same reasons as Facebook. The advertising potential is massive, and if you advertise your product in an engaging and authentic manner, your product visibility and sales should be positively affected.

As an artist who creates for a living, TikTok is a great medium for direct immersion in an active community of curators and fans, so TikTok is highly recommended if hashtags help you find your community. TikTok responds better to hashtags and doesn't have as many reports as shadow bans from it's users but that is not to say that TikTok doesn't shadow ban it's users at all.

Using TikTok is a great platform for multimedia creators who make audio and visual combined artwork as the platform is geared toward visual effects and muted videos with music overlays.

Twitter creates a professional streamline of all your favorite content and gives you a direct channel on your homepage. Your subscriptions are based on who you follow, and your homepage is a news feed tailored to what you may be more intersted in from the people you follow. You can follow your local news, government officials, business CEOs, creatives, artists, journalists, fans, and bloggers from around the world and join in on any conversation that allows you to reply or reply with the original "tweet" attached.