In 2010, it felt like the flurry of new startups and Web tools only accelerated, with more and more products popping up every week. For business owners, it’s not always easy to stay on top of it all, let alone take each of these new offerings for a spin to see if they’re worth using.
As 2011 approaches, ReadWriteWeb takes a look back at 10 of the last year’s most useful or promising Web tools for small and medium-sized businesses.
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InDinero
Billed as the Mint.com for small businesses, InDinero launched in early July and is a real-time financial dashboard for companies. The Y Combinator-backed startup is led by 20-year-old Jessica Mah, who got the idea for InDinero while she was selling items on eBay in middle school.
“I had no idea how much money I was actually making,” Mah told us in July. Mah, who is obviously some kind of super-genius, graduated from UC Berkley’s computer science program this year at the age of 19 and promptly began putting the finishing touches on the Web app, which closely resembles Mint.com.
InDinero is free for up to 50 transactions per month, $29.95 for up to 500, and $99.95 for an unlimited number of monthly transactions.
Rapportive
Rapportive may not have been designed specifically for small businesses, but it sure makes life for pretty much any business owner easier. The Gmail plugin creates a widget that sits to the right of any open email message and culls data from the Web to tell you exactly who miscellaneousperson@whateverbusiness.com really is.
Depending on how readily available such details are, Rapportive will pull an avatar image, name, job title, recent tweets and links to any active social networking profiles the person may have. You can even connect with somebody on LinkedIn via Rapportive, without leaving Gmail.
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