With SO MUCH 3rd-party software out there, what is ACTUALLY required at launch?

This is not product specific, rather usage specific. My list so far: - Customer Support/Success (Intercom etc) - Marketing (Mailchimp, Active Campaign etc) - Subscription Management (Chargify etc) - Payment Gateway (Fast Spring etc) - (MAYBE) a CRM (Hubspot, Active Campaign etc) Am I on the right track? Too much? Too little? I've thought about what key business processes look like at start-up and come up with this list, without blowing the budget out of the water. What do you experts think?

By my own experience, it is your creation. URL with a message + videos and picture to illustrate your product and it uses: functionalities and features.

It depends on your leads acquisition strategy. If it's low touch (minimal interactions), you only need a chat (intercom), a support board (jira), integrated payment systems (stripe elements or stripe checkout). A free trello board to manage your ideas, brainstorm and communicate with your team. Obviously, you'll need a website and a facebook/twitter/insta pages although no tools are needed to manage them. Facebook Business Manager & Google Adwords for running ads, Apple Search ads if you have a mobile app. If you intend to have a High touch attribution model (manually managing your leads to make them subscribe), then I recommend getting a good CRM and/or an email sequencing tool (reply.io). I can get you a free website and CRM from our inhouse startups if you send me a PM.