Top 10 Places to Submit your Startup

“If you’re working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” -Steve Jobs

Starting something new is exciting, but it’s also laden with the worries of future, questions that buzz in mind like a beehive, and unwanted external pressures. Starting up a business in present times is easier, but keeping it on the market is a job that requires an incessant amount of hard work and clear insight of the marketplace. The business industry has seen a remarkable surge in the start-up statistics in the past decade. Where this rise is undoubtedly good for the economy, it has made the start-ups more prone to the failure. A great idea is not enough anymore; now the market requires blood and bone. Uniqueness and the capability to attract as well as hold the attention of the client is a major step on the ladder of the success of any business. Missing this step is not a choice anymore. To elaborate the presence of a start-up, it is essential that it reaches to the masses. Business is like a hyperactive extroverted kid on sugar high; it will lose sanity in isolation. Business needs promotion to reach the masses, and eventually, that will lead to the brand name.

Importance of Promoting the Business

Promotion is a gateway to success for any rising business. It is similar to the whole concept of promoting a film. If a film is not properly promoted and its presence is not known to the world, it would fall flat on the box-office. The marketplace is the box office of the start-ups, and the need to reach a wide spectrum of the audience is crucial to stay in business. Below are the reasons hinting at the importance of promoting a start-up:

• Creates a direct bond between the audience and the company
• Presence in the market, which will help in the brand awareness
• Works as an information tool: tells the audience about the products, costs, services
• Links one customer to another, hence, increasing the number of users
• Traffic on the site

Below are the 10 places one could submit the startup for promotion:

1. Bigstartups Network

Bigstartups is a platform which has dedicated a huge arena for the startups to flourish at their best. Just like its name, the company is giving big opportunities to the start-ups to create their own brand name by pushing articles to the global startup community, giving ample of opportunity to reach out to potential associates. BigStartups allows the customer to communicate with the community about what’s new in the startup and helps stay up-to-date with what’s trending in the community. You can submit your startup, and share the story behind it to let the world know about the whole process. Business is all about being in the race and knowing where you stand. Bigstartups gives daily analytics, progress and popularity ranking on the basis of the start-up's social media handles and web presence reaching audience worldwide.

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2. NettyFeed:

NettyFeed is a 'media and information' platform that connects its users to the outside world by focusing on the business, technology, entrepreneurship, and gives them a wide range of circuit to connect. It is important for any startup to get in touch with as many people as they can to increase the customers and investors. NettyFeed gives necessary information to the readers about the startups they post by delivering their articles and stories behind them.

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3. Crunchbase.com:

Keeping up with the trend is not just a part of fashion world. It is as much important to the business world, and in a way, fashion is business. Clothes from 80's are not trendy anymore, and if a person would wear clothes from 8o's in 2018, then it would be a major fashion fail. It is, somewhat, similar to the business world. Keeping up with the trend means remaining in the loop, and once out of the loop, the business will fall flat. Crunchbase.com helps the users to remain in the industry loop, know about new global companies, and look up to the companies that already have made it big.

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4. AngelList:

AngelList is one of the most sought-after websites where one not only can submit startup but also look for a job. This website has created a large domain where the investors, as its name also suggest, can meet the promising startups, and the job seekers can meet many employers. It's a win-win situation for everyone. It raises funds to help the start-ups, and seek talent that could stand the gruesomeness of the business field.

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5. SignUpFirst:

It is easier to fall into the endless pit of startups submissions and facing the companies similar to yours. What could be the best way to know where you stand in this position? SignUpFirst is the platform where one can get reviews about their startup. It works as a bridge between the owners who submit their products, and the users who can know more about the discounts and avail them too.

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6. ProductHunt:

ProductHunt is a leading website which is a full package for both users and the founders. Apart from the basic technology related startups, it allows the submission of startups related to books and games, which is pretty empowering. A world where Democracy wins sounds like a utopia, but ProductHunt is a small utopia for the startups. ProductHunt works on a voting system. If users like your product, then they will vote for it. Increasing votes implies towards the increasing popularity of the product.

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7. Launching Next:

Launching Next is increasingly gaining popularity because of its intrinsic details about the whole business world. The website launches the most promising start-up, and personally interview all the founders of the start-ups that they launch. It is taking professionalism to another level. They have case studies of entrepreneurs and try to dig deeper in understanding the whole cost-market equation for the small start-ups.

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8. Index.co:

Index.co is a platform where one can gather all the information on thousands of companies around the world. Just submit startup and it works as a directory for the business world. The co-founder, Patrick de Laive was a tech blogger who had an idea about the workings of the startup. It is a known fact that every start-up launches a crowdfunding platform to gain as many investors and coverage possible, and this brought him into the scene. He realized that many start-ups are pushed aside because of the lack of source. Index.co "utilizes natural-language processing and machine learning techniques to match news and data to companies."

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9. VentureBeat Profiles:

Venture Beat Profiles is somewhat similar to Index.co, as it also works as a platform where you can compare your company to another one and see how things could be done in a better manner. It comprehensively describes the trends of the industry and creates a space for people and investors to meet. The company is "designed from the ground up to meet the needs of business managers, sales, and research professionals." They have a slightly different streak to their working as they work with Spoke Intelligence which gives a 360 degrees information about the industry.

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10. Feed My App:

FeedMyApp is an Indian based website which accepts the submissions of apps. What makes it different from all other sites is its deeper knowledge about the apps. The e-Commerce is increasing at a lightning speed, and it is necessary for all the start-ups to be on its tail. Apps are an essential part of the business now, and it could not be denied that apps have made the business run faster. FeedMyApp posts new apps in relation to the already existing apps, which creates a whole new area of comparison and getting better. 

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