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Startups face a lot of challenges, but putting together the tools and infrasture they need to get up and running shouldn't be one of them. Startups need to minimize cost and effort so they can focus on brewing their secret sauce, but they can't afford to look like amateurs.

That's where ReadWriteRecommends comes in. The Startup Toolkit identifies the top tools in seven critical categories: productivity, project management, accounting, file sharing, payments, web content management and support. Some of these tools are consumer-grade. Others are used by the world's largest corporations. And they're all just the right size for startups.

There are any number of places where first-time entrepreneurs can go to ask questions from others - Hacker News, StackOverflow, Quora, for example. As useful as Q&A sites can be, it's also helpful to have resources gathered together in one place.

That's what Songkick's Ian Hogarth did by creating a Startup Tools Wiki. Built to save others from "re-inventing the wheel," says Hogarth, the wiki gathers useful tools that startups have found and come to rely on. The wiki is meant to gather these resources in one place so companies that are getting started have a wiki to reference.