25+ Must Have Apps for Startup CEOs

If we pretend it's 2001 again, or perhaps think back to how integral it was to have access to dictionaries, thesauruses, and the pocket forms of them both, we see clearly the benefit of having it installed onto a smartphone. 20 years later in 2021. Moreover, having a direct access to an alphabetical order of words, definitions, some American, Urban colloquialisms, and synonyms. It does include a light thesuarus. If you need to spellcheck on the go, it's a great tool to have. It works offline and is a free app to download. It's also a free website to access from any internet-conntected device via web browser. Merriam-Webster is a widely used dictionary service, and a useful alternative may be Dictionary.com.  

If you deal with money on a basic level, Cash App can help solve simple day to day financial needs. It's not a bank, so for traditional bank services, this is not a viable alternative or replacement. But for basic money purposes that most people are using banking services for in today's time, are probably able to be facilitated through Cash App. Cash App is a peer-to-peer payments app that also grants it's users their own free debit card with pin number to spend money and transactions from the balance held in their Cash App account. Your billing address can be updated from directly within the app. 

They don't handle refunds or losses, so make sure that you understand the culture behind Cash App is to spend money between people who trust each other. They don't deal with Scams or Frauds that take place on their app. This is not a marketplace with a social aspect and a store for sales. Further, it's not recommended to send money to anyone through Cash App unless a relationship is established. 

Instances and uses where Cash App are not recommended:

• Soliciting sales with cold call tactics. If someone randomly wants to sell you something and offers their Cash App as a place of service, this isn't going to be protected by Cash App. The chances to where they can take your money and not offer their services (which is a scam / fraud) will be contingent on if you can verify the person on the other end's business professionalism and the agreements within their services, and not the terms & agreements of Cash App's services.

The best place to get a very close to accurate view of the world's prices through a luxury, quality lens is eBay. On eBay you get to see the market price versus the direct competitive "black market" right beside it. What's more, you can round out your understanding of the market's current response to the economy. For example, if you check in daily on your business's industry and market, you can watch your most important business upgrades dwindle or rise in price due to competition and other emerging markets forcing the price to change. The pace of these changes usually vary between industries; technology, which dives down in value pretty quickly, is never really a safe bet. Consumer or not, even in B2B markets where enterprise level technology is invented for other businesses to use and profit from in consumer markets or other business markets, are affected the same. If you really want to see how competitive the markets are, you can combine your research between eBay, Amazon, and OfferUp. Find out more on each of these similar and sometimes rivaling companies in the list coming up.

Firefox is a web browser available on for download on multiple platforms, i.g. App Store, Google Play, Mac OS, and Windows operating systems. Where they set themselves apart from other web browsers like Google Chrome is that they're ran by a nonprofit Mozilla that makes browsers, apps, code and tools that put people before profit and with the belief that "privacy is fundamental to a healthy internet". 

Post Affect! is a creative community and monetized social network. We offer eMagazine support for digital blogging and video vlogging, and news reporting.

Embedded with various tools for the next century, here you can take your content marketing and product marketing to a different dimension. We take "5th dimension" thinking to the next level and help create 5th dimension results!

Business brands can create close-knit communities and support the creative economy by hiring talent local and abroad. Establishing a pop up shop or long term e-commerce business is easy to manage inside Post Affect's software.
Paying yourself and your staff / team members can be based on hourly wages or commission or both, and you can pay yourself and your team directly in your own back office. We're integrated with PayPal for payment services.

Your company is guaranteed marketing materials, content creation, as well as content marketing, social media management, and paid advertisements through Post Affect's ad rollout. Your business and product will be front and center in communities that share interests in your product, guaranteeing quality leads and customers.

PayPal is one of the leading platforms in transactions for reasons as simple as how many people already use it, or as serious as tracking online and business-related transactions for their digital business. PayPal is a recommended platform when you have an online/digital business, need to make transactions and collect funds into an account, and when you need a handy and light Point of Sales (POS) app to process credit and debit cards. There are other options as well that rival PayPal, so if PayPal isn't your choice for transactions, continue reading to find out about alternatives we recommend.

A great place for communication at large, you can start different sized chat rooms and channels for different reasons and grroups. 

Lots of different hobby groups, professional teams, and even managers and team members use Discord to stay in communication within group chats and sub group chats. Usually coupled with Twitch, many of Discords users are from a live streaming, gaming, and hobbyist culture, not to say that Discord isn't for anyone else, but if you do come from those backgrounds, it'll feel more homely and gets the job done.

If Discord isn't your favorite, we have an alternative you may like, so keep reading for more. 

Wikipedia Foundation is responsible for the most dominant Wiki on the web currently with Wikipedia.org. Wikipedia is an online, free access multilingual encyclopedia that anyone can edit. It's maintained by a reputable community of online users so as to not be overrun by trolls on more unmonitored hobby- and gag-defined communities. 

An encyclopedia is defined as "a book or set of books giving information on many subjects or on many aspects of one subject and typically arranged alphabetically." 

That said, this is a world- and community-ran online encyclopedia which can be updated at any time. The purpose for this recommendation to all CEOs is the dated information of certain history and pop cultural records which are all sited with sources. As with the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the dates of origins can offer insight to challenge the status-quo within your ventures.

Pinterest is a bookmarking and photo saving website and social media network. The power of Pinterest lies within your personal usage as a tool combined with the insights it offers to you as a business owner. Pinterest, like Post Affect, is one of the more leading-edge social networks on the web because of it's flexibility and diversity in it's visibility and cultivating an authentic solution to it's user's needs. 

Pinterest can serve you as a vision board for your own concerted interset in self-organization and directing your next game plan. It can assist in project management and communication across visual teams in a business setting. You can create "boards" labeled with their own names, "pin" photos from Pinterest's worldwide database of user generated content which is sure to have something close to what you're looking for if not exactly (and if it doesn't you'll need to upload it or get a little dramatically creative to express your idea, which could turn into a whole different board on it's own just for explanation purposes), then invite people to your board or leave it private. 

You can also create public boards and curate moods, themes, feelings, memes, cooking, fashion, thoughts, expressions, and more, and grow your own following. 

A person who puts together artistic visuals from other places and people online (or in person), is called a Curator.

A place to do your normal day-to-day -- and even intensive business communications on a regular basis. A lot of people aren't very aware of the many different email alternatives. And if you want the absolute best experience, you'll need to start to do a little research on prices, because it'll absolutely cost you. Will it break your pockets? We discuss these different paid advantages in various other articles, but for now this is one of the top 10 free electronic-mail options on the web.

You have different options of emails such as: 

1. @mail.com
2. @email.com
3. @usa.com
4. @myself.com
5. @consultant.com
6. @post.com
7. @dr.com
8. @execs.com
9. @europe.com
10. @engineer.com
11. @asia.com
12. @writeme.com
13. @lname.com
14. @techie.com
15. @contractor.com
16. @accountant.com
17. @workmail.com
18. @musician.org
19. @artlover.com
20. @cheerful.com
21. @publicist.com
22. @cyberservices.com
23. @instructor.com
24. @angelic.com
25. @muslim.com
26. @religious.com
27. @graphic-designer.com
28. @fast-service.com
29. @californiamail.com
30. @graphic-designer.com

The best part about having access to such a colorful array of options for emails is their marketing ability. If you're a contractor, you would benefit from creating an email under @contractor.com. If you're an assistant or financial accountant for a company or brand, you may benefit from @accountant.com. Some of these email domains help distinguish your product on a business card immediately, and futher brand awareness and recognition. A lot of these "soft hacks" can save a lot of extra time explaining what could be a critical selling point in your brand.

Twitch is a live streaming, video broadcasting social media network by Amazon geared toward video gameplay and hobby videos. You can use this space to upload and to livestream different genres of hobbies and activities that you think people will tune into. Right now, Twitch is a great place for DJs to host live parties and monetize their set performances. It's also a place you can monetize your content if you're looking to host your media and material.

Amazon is a more retail price-oriented marketplace that sets a value on it's products aove normal garage sale tactics that take place on apps like eBay, OfferUp and Facebook Marketplace (which is built into Facebook). Amazon will guarantee a price set geared toward the manufacturer's suggested retail price, or MSRP, which is almost identical to the product's release price. It's usually unchanging, or perhaps the changes that take place are so insignificant to the average buyer who usually can make a safe bet on buying used gear for a much lower price, that it almost looks as if there are no price changes at all.

Amazon does sell used goods, but they usually sell them at a markup that reflects a maintenance price and repair price on the product that they consider it a full restoration and refurbished quality. And because of the nature of the vendors on Amazon, a refurbised product may come with it's own return policies based on the company's distribution, which makes it easier for Amazon to do what it does -- provide a marketplace -- and step aside and allow the relationship between the buyer and warehouse to be based on ther terms between the two parties.

The goal in using Amazon as a CEO is understanding the nature of the value of your own business goods, the business upgrades you plan to purchase, and to challenge the information across other markets when necessary, like OfferUp, eBay, your local pawn store, etc, to understand the constant changing nature of the open and controlled markets around you. This research can lead to a upper hand in avoiding consumer and prosumer mistakes by supporting a hyped product that may have no value or benefit to your company, thus not offering the upgrade as marketed to create and yield large profits on your ignorance.

Two words: Graphic Design.

Three more: On the go.

This app is special for reasons starting with it's freemium model that allows everyone a basic free service for graphic designers, and that it's use is geared for entry-level designers. The only major learning curve is one you can't really avoid when opening a new software, and that curve is just getting to know the software and interface itself. Once you know where everything is, this app is a breeze. 

The main recommended use of this app is to have no excuse when it comes to communicating your message to your audience. At this stage in starting a business, it can and it will be expensive to hire an in-house graphic designer, which is something that all modern companies should aspire to. But the truth is that it's a hat someone's gotta wear, but Canva makes the experience way less dreadful than one can imagine.

The app comes with all sorts of templates to get you going in the right direction, and you can cut and paste your information directly into the designated text areas. Years of learning is what it takes to become an advanced Adobe Photoshop master or Corel Draw designer. But in just minutes you can create beautiful, elegant, creative, professional, pop style art boards, flyers, instagram stories, and more for all purposes you can imagine. It just takes you opening the Canva app with a small intention; to create.

Stock photos for free. It doesn't get any better. 

This is a community of photographers and visual creators who make and upload beautifully captured and themed images that can fit various creative stories, thoughts, ideas, etc. 

Photographers can upload their work and in exchange for allowing their photography to be used with a free creative license and with full name credit to the original photographers, creative content curators can use the images to help tell their stories online. To give thanks, you can donate to the creator of the image in the same place you download their work. 

Because the license is free and is a new concept, it may be easy to forget that there is still an active license and to honor the license, the user must credit the artist. This not only settles the agreement between the user and photographer, but credits the artist for their talent that they offer free of monetary charge through Pexels.

Like Pexels, Unsplash is a great community and database of stock photography for just about anything you can think of. A feature I find really great about Unsplash is that you can hire the photographer for future work if their name has a verified check next to "available for hire" by their profile name. 

Using Unsplash and crediting the artist as you would even when you pay for a license, allows the artist to expand their reach and gain visibility. The pressure point with Unsplash is to make sure you do your part and credit these amazing photographers for their work.