Every successful company has to start somewhere– at the bottom, to be more precise. And when the company is yours, climbing that ladder of success can feel awfully daunting at times. Luckily, there are tools available to help entrepreneurs advance their businesses. We have partnered with AppSumo to bundle five of the best ones out there together at a great price. The Startup Bundle costs $55, but in exchange, you get 100 MOO Mini Cards, plus premium accounts for Batchbooks (social CRM tool), MailChimp (e-mail list management), Freshbooks (invoicing) and Formstack (online forms). If you’ve ever thought about upgrading from a free account with any of these companies, this bundle is well worth the money– 6 months of Formstack’s Starter account alone would regularly cost $84. If saving huge amounts of money isn’t enough of an incentive, here’s a bonus for the philanthropically-minded: 50% of each bundle sale gets donated to the National Wildlife Federation to help clean up the recent Gulf oil spill. To learn more about the features of each account, buy the bundle and donate to a great cause, check out the AppSumo site. The Startup Bundle – [AppSumo]

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