The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

Source: Atlassian If your company also uses Jira Software, you can check any recent releases there to help diagnose the problem. And for when a human touch is needed, Zendesk’s powerful omnichannel routing directs tickets to the right agent, regardless of their source. Take a look at what an open ticket in Jira looks like.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

However, after analyzing hundreds of reviews from G2, Capterra, Trustpilot, and other sources, several recurring issues kept surfacing: Technical bugs and glitches — Users report frequent workflow automation failures and broken features that cause missed opportunities and wasted time. “ Campaign Monitor is the best. ” — Shaley M.,

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 4, 2025

Unless explicitly stated, we spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

It starts with a category being done poorly, reimagining the experience, creating distinctive products and then constantly messaging this to the market. If you tried to shop Amazon for just one of these categories?—?where In certain product categories that means building in features & functionality that isn’t a commodity.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

A2A A2A is an open agent-to-agent protocol (pioneered by Google) that enables independent AI agents to exchange messages and delegate tasks so they can collaborate seamlessly. Agentic AI systems use an observe → plan → act → observe loop to handle open-ended objectives.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 20, 2025

The first number in the code represents the category of the status. Open a text editor like TextEdit for Mac or Notepad for Windows. Open your command line client— Terminal for Mac or Command Line for Windows—and navigate to your working directory. ( Status codes With every request you make, you'll receive a status code.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack. Open source became a movement – a mentality. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure. Enter Amazon.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2011

Or the Cliff Note’s version: Open Source & Cloud Computing (led by Amazon) drove down tech startup costs by 90%. The result was a massive increase in startups & a whole group of new funding sources: both angels & “micro VCs&#. The series started here if you want to read from the start.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

You won’t be open to new ideas, new sources of deals, fortuitous meetings, new relationships that can yield results down the line. That was one of my most read posts and I believe is a great lesson for all investors to think carefully about your sources of deals. Same objectives. The next one will come along.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

The era of cheap cloud computing plus open-source software plus digital natives unleashed upon society is creating some truly amazing products that will challenge the way we do business and the way we live our lives. Sure, that’s a fine category. As with the late 90′s the answer is “Yes. Healthcare information?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

It has become a short form premium destination that is verticalizing content in category channels. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. Opportunities in vertical search exist where the sources of data are somewhat hidden and can be unlocked and displayed in an innovative manner.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate. But the most public and open stream right now by a long shot is Twitter. My firm was an early investor in Overture (then called GoTo.com) who created this category.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. source: Capital IQ. source: Capital IQ. We are definitely still open for business. I believe that. What a bubble means for each entrepreneur.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Jorge Torres is CEO and co-founder of MindsDB , an open source AI layer for existing databases. Adam Carrigan is a co-founder and COO of MindsDB , an open source AI layer for existing databases. Open-source software gave birth to a slew of useful software in recent years. Adam Carrigan. Contributor.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a part-time scout, getting paid for sourcing investments. At Versatile VC , we’ve been studying VC scout programs, not just to improve our deal sourcing , but for four broader reasons: . Scouts are intended to be a lighter-touch relationship, focused only on sourcing.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

You start out with vision, you must adapt and have intellectual honesty once you stare at your data and know where your true sources of differentiation and value are. We spent a few hundred thousand dollars opening up operations in Chicago and Washington D.C. and we were met with weak demand, slow growth and high costs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a scout, getting compensated for sourcing investments. We’ve been studying VC scout programs, not just to improve our deal sourcing, but for four broader reasons: 1. Scouts are intended to be a lighter-touch relationship, focused only on sourcing. But how do you do that?

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 17, 2023

Product of Sam Corporation (Photo source= beSUCCESS) Q. These categories encompass all subjects, which are then structured. Training at Helsinki, the hub of education (Photo source: Sam Corporation) Q. Pangyo Metaverse Hub, the office of Sam corporation (Picture source= beSUCESS) Q. Could you explain this technology?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? It’s an awesome source of regional news. We won’t rush into the market but we’re very open to finding teams with the ambition to build big businesses. How do we make that happen?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Tracking the explosive growth of open-source software. The playbook: Pour money into sales and marketing and become a category leader; eventually, as the market recognizes your leadership, revenue will accelerate. He was previously the CEO of database company MongoDB. More posts by this contributor. Now, it’s not so simple.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Using a host of AI tech such as machine learning algorithms and deep learning — like a lot of tech out of Israel, it’s being built by people with deep expertise in this area — Offer says that SimilarWeb is crunching data from a number of different sources to extrapolate its insights.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

The very companies building for any consumer who needed a better way to learn online began turning to stickier customers — enterprises — for more reliable sources of revenue. We still see job openings and turnover at record highs, and many companies are not planning to cut back on hiring, let alone turn to layoffs.

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TechCrunch

JULY 17, 2022

The corporate spend category continues to evolve. Kote emphasized that he does not believe that the move puts Airbase into the lending category. “We Meanwhile, Stripe — another fintech with European roots — saw the internal value of its shares slashed by 28%, sources told the Wall Street Journal and as reported by TechCrunch.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

An unlikely source of research about corporate team performances is underway at my company Mystery Escape Room. Judging the teams involves several categories, including communication, motivation, and organization. All of the teams seem to be open, but the top teams are even more open. Escape Room Research.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Extra Crunch publishes a variety of article types, but how-tos are my favorite category. Image Credits: Zastrozhnov (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window). Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window). Welcome to Bloxburg, public investors. What’s going on?

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

For Spotify’s core business, which charges consumer subscriptions for the ability to have unlimited mobile access to an enormous music library, music as the audio source converts high engagement minutes into recurring revenue via subscriptions. Many folks think of podcasts as its own category.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019. More experienced founders exist and specific markets, particularly in the Big Four (Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt and Kenya), show a mix of matured but still open-for-disruption traits. Rabbit’s eight-figure pre-seed is thrice that amount.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

While there are hundreds of marketing channels, they each fall into seven broad categories: Your website and blog : Make the most of your website and blog by sharing educational, helpful, and/or entertaining content with your audience. Establish yourself as a go-to source of helpful information. Be the source for trend information.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Roughly a fifth of our deal flow is related to construction tech, of which robotics is a rapidly increasing category. Open-source code and resources are enabling large-scale 3D printing, robotic welding and machining to be developed by startups for the construction space in record time.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Image Credits: GOCMEN (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. “It’s imperative to constantly analyze the sources driving growth at a detailed and bottom-of-funnel level,” he writes. Image Credits: TARIK KIZILKAYA (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Image Credits: Say-Cheese (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

US retail (which includes categories such as gifts, home goods, groceries, pharmacy goods, apparel, and cosmetics) generated $3.3 The most common example of this phenomenon is in the books category. Similarly, independent establishments in Faire’s core categories have grown from 1.47 trillion of revenue in 2017 2.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

“There’s a product category called Product Lifecycle Management — or PLM — which is meant to be a receptacle for that information for centralizing and managing it. You can have a single cloud-hosted source of your source code control, and then you build an ecosystem of tools and people and tasks around it.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

According to one source , 95% of the more than 30,000 new products introduced every year fail. Rather, it’s meant to help companies see product categories through the eyes of a consumer, he said, while accounting for individual tastes and preferences. ” It’s true that product development is risky.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Expert Network firms source subject matter experts from various domains and pair them with clients seeking topical or industry insights. Guidepoint services 6 major categories of clients globally, across several industries. Source companies for the transaction. Source sponsors for the transaction. Expert Networks.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

First and foremost, you need free and open trade. Time and time again, the fact patterns show that when countries open borders and freely trade, the end result is increased economic prosperity. Popular categories include web developers, mobile developers, designers, writers, and accountants. SHARING ECONOMY MARKETPLACES.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

It’s the latter category that is the target for factory14, Steinbruch told me. There is also the fact that in many cases, marketplace sellers may have found themselves sitting on successful businesses but unable to source the investment (or the will) to scale them to the next step. “The top 1.5%

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

We’re not interested in another Uniswap clone, or an Open Sea copycat of the flavor of the week alt-L1. is rapidly becoming one of the most open, from a thought-leader perspective. In the next five years, we expect the market to bifurcate into two categories: permissioned and permissionless. More clarity could be very positive.

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