Subject Guides: Startup Resources: Ideas Generation

Idea Generation

Successful business comes from great ideas. There are various tools and techniques to facilitate idea generation and path the way to your success.

Curator
With Curator you can organize your thoughts visually, refine your visual storytelling, collect inspiration, create mood boards, and export them to PDF.
Innolytics
Learn how you can build a professional idea management and innovation management system
mindmeister
MindMeister is an online mind mapping application that allows its users to visualize, share and present their thoughts via the cloud.
miro
The online collaborative whiteboard platform to bring teams together, anytime, anywhere.
Skitch
Get your point across with fewer words using annotation, shapes and sketches, so that your ideas become reality faster.
Stache
Stache makes it quick and easy to collect and re-discover pages you find useful, interesting or inspiring, in a beautiful, visual and fully searchable library.
XMind
XMind is the most professional and popular mind mapping tool. Millions of people use XMind to clarify thinking, manage complex information, brainstorming.

Market trends could be spotted from market statistics, analysis reports, consumer reports, country reports, global news and etc.

Factiva - provides access to global news

Gale Business: Insights - provides access to business-related analysis

Passport - provides access to different types of industry, country and marketing reports

Statista - provides access to statistical data on various types of data and statistics

Google Trends - provides access to real-time trends as reflected on Google Search