The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

It divides projects into time-bound phases called sprints and values individual team members—not the tools or processes they use. Like Agile, Scrum divides projects into sprints, only with a much clearer breakdown of different sprint stages and roles. Scrumban solves that issue.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

They track sprints (those short, focused bursts of work), user stories (the often-optimistic tales of what users want), individual tasks, and the inevitable bugs that pop up like unwelcome party guests. Customer onboarding: Process maps You've made the sale. Here are some common examples of how they work in practice.

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NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

So many potential customers in one place. Your expo pre-event plan Have a plan for how you will capture ‘leads’ and information about your potential customers. How easy is it for potential customers to give you their information and move on? Expo follow-up is a marathon, not a sprint. Every expo team will be tired.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

For example, sales and marketing teams might use Zoho CRM to organize contact info and manage relationships with current and prospective customers, whereas accounting teams may rely on Zoho Books to manage their financial operations. Voice Sales A business phone system to help customer-facing teams communicate and engage with customers.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

I used to work at a children's shoe store, and we kept all our customer information on index cards (.yeah). So when a customer came into the store asking about their previous shoe size, naturally, we had lost their information and couldn't help them. But which one should you go with? user/month* Premium: $57.50/user/month*

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StartupNation

JUNE 20, 2025

Advice: Entrepreneurship is a marathon, not a sprint. Create an experience that resonates with your customers on a sensory level—whether through design, service, or even the way you communicate. A strong brand is one that feels authentic, consistent, and inviting, making it easier for customers to connect with what you offer.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

You can customize it, import past notes, and tweak fields however you want. Interactive meeting minutes template Try the template Best for: taking action on your meeting minutes This meeting minutes template helps you actually do something with your meeting notes.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 26, 2025

Make sure everyone knows: What's in scope What's out of scope What to do when something new is proposed Stick scope reviews into sprint planning , team standups, or kickoff calls. It doesn't align with our current sprint goals, but let's add it to the backlog for future consideration." Make space for questions.

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Dream It

APRIL 2, 2019

Dreamit works with top healthcare, cybersecurity, and urban technology startups, providing access to extensive customer, industry, and investor networks during its 14-week acceleration programs. And we like that the program has a stringent focus on customer acquisition.”

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

In Airtable, users can store virtually any kind of data in each record, relate data across tables, customize displays, and automate data management, among other options. Users can even create named functions to apply countless other custom actions to cells. And remember how Google Sheets can handle massive amounts of data?

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Revolution

MARCH 7, 2024

The CEO: Amena Ali The Company She Leads: Optoro , a reverse logistics technology platform that uses data science and real-time decision-making automation to improve returns for customers, retailers, and the planet. Alas, COVID has changed the work paradigm forever, it seems.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 26, 2024

And, no matter what time of day the phone rings, one of Ruby’s personable team members answers and provides your customers with exactly what they need — making your company shine. Growing a business is like running a marathon at a sprint pace, so if there’s not something in your core driving you forward, it’s not easy to last.”

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 9, 2025

In our case, these are either Zapier templates or shareable spreadsheets that can be customized and inserted into processes across various project types. You can customize the Table to fit your project quirks and connect it with thousands of other apps across your tech stack. Try the template 2. Try the template 5.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Gopal told TechCrunch that as its user base grows, it is acquiring more new customers through word-of-mouth and referrals. It’s only been live for a couple of months, but we’ve already gotten so much feedback from our users and we’re sprinting to unlock new capabilities such as real-time payments and credit,” said Gopal.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

A custom-tailored architectural design allows for a more efficient development process, fast iteration and gets to the robust and scalable software solution leaner and with fewer bumps along the way. We tend to focus our recommendations on the time span of roughly six to 12 months so that we do not get stuck with premature optimization.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

Instead, it is our eight years of indefatigable relationship and customer building with large segments of the world’s early stage finance industry. despite having lots of competitors. ” With that in mind… No: It’s a similar situation in the entrepreneurial funding space.

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Reforge

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

They lay out the framework as follows: The Roles : Scrum Master, Development Team, and Product Owner The Ceremonies : Sprints, Daily Scrums, and Retrospectives The Artifacts : Product and Sprint Backlogs They go on to say, “ If the team were to remove or alter any of these components, they are no longer using Scrum.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

“We have over 1,000 customers across our four key verticals — machine learning and AI, batch processing, pixel streaming and visual effects and rendering,” Intrator said. Every day is a sprint for victory, and it shows in the quality and quantity of their customers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

The enlarged $270 million round — the January tranche was from Eurazeo Growth, Sprints Capital and Wellington Management — includes both primary and secondary capital, and this latest tranche is part of the secondary element, PPRO CEO Simon Black confirmed to me. ” In particular, the U.S. ” In particular, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

One of the winners is GrowthSpace, founded by Omer Glass, which leverages algorithms to match individual employees and groups of employees with experts for development sprints. But Glass claims that GrowthSpace has seen substantial growth over the past year, now reaching 3,000 active users across 200 paying customers, including a U.S.

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NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Niesh worked with ecentre, the startup business incubator at Massey University, as part of the Sprint Launch programme, focusing on growth through customer acquisition. “We thought spending more time would solve most of the big issues. It’s not always the right approach,” said Yoo.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Its leadership “sprints” focus on topics like retaining knowledge, and what goes into curating a safe environment for teams. NewCampus is an online, live learning platform that hopes to train rising managers within hyper-growth organizations.

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FundersClub

JULY 13, 2017

In conjunction with that, there will likely be days when all employees are expected to be at the office, whether it's for a weekly sprint meeting or a conference call with major clients. For jobs that require quiet and special equipment, such as customer service, then working from places other than home may not be a good fit.

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Startup Blogpost

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Regular sprint reviews and stand-up meetings keep everyone on the same page and focused on prioritized tasks. Embracing automation may help you save time, increase accuracy, and ultimately drive growth in your company, whether it’s through automated customer service responses, inventory management, or marketing efforts.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

All you’re doing that sprint is working off your tech debt backlog,” said Somal. “I 4 ways to make DEI a key component of customer service and culture. Technology should enhance customer service operations, but automation can risk making the experience feel a little robotic. Host interactive forums. Define your commitment.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Your network tells founders that you’re respected and reassures them that they will probably be brought into the fold to connect with future mentors, customers, investors or hires. Who you know is just as important as what you know, and the most prominent VCs tend to be in the middle of a flow of information and people.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JANUARY 24, 2021

At the ‘pioneer gap,’ where we act, that means helping entrepreneurs access customers, strategic partners, and/or investors that they need to grow and scale their businesses. Building an ecosystem isn’t a sprint. This sentiment was expressed in many of the responses I collected.

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Jason Malki

JULY 26, 2022

I had the pleasure of interviewing Haydar Al-Saad, the founder and CEO of RevSetter , a modern Customer Platform built to help companies elevate the way their teams work with customers to improve retention, fuel expansion and accelerate business growth. as the only company in the Customer Success space?—?

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 20, 2023

A product development team, for instance, might include engineers, designers, marketers, and customer service agents. Hassan Sanders , CEO, diabeticinsurancesolutions.com Implement Agile Sprints In this dynamic tech landscape, one tactic that has proven most successful in nurturing collaboration is our approach to Agile Sprints.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 16, 2023

Harish Agarwal , Chartable  — Make sure you’re clear eyed about who your customer is and that helping solve their problems is a durable source of motivation. 2) A startup is a marathon, not a sprint. Their answers are below. And I sincerely want to thank all of them for contributing and providing their perspectives.

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Reforge

MARCH 28, 2023

The focus ends up being more on the user story as opposed to the true customer problem and the true value proposition. Its purpose is to break down the feature’s value proposition into actionable tasks and articulate how a piece of work will deliver that particular value back to the customer. It's like a red herring for me.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

But my perspective and one of the things I thought we did very well at Global Payments, my perspective is you have to be very close to your customers. We have to know what customers want. We want our customers to be delighted with what we are selling. We have to get kind of instant feedback. and have it all be seamless.”

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Impact Hub

JANUARY 19, 2021

Similarly, we were blown away by the motivation and spirit of the participants and also our pro bono experts and coaches that guided the mixed teams through their ideation sprints.

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Startup Blogpost

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

By getting to the heart of matters using this technique, we’ve reduced our cost to acquire customers, improved our SEO rankings for commercial-intent terms, created new products our customers love, and increased employee engagement and buy-in for new projects. Cultivate a beautiful, warm environment. Ask the silly questions.

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Reforge

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Table of Contents What happens when we lose sight of customers How customer-centricity builds a competitive moat How to know if you’ve left your customers behind How to get back on track Common mistakes to avoid Data shows that customer-centered businesses outperform their competition. We can all agree on that point.

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Dream It

JANUARY 23, 2019

Dreamit invests in startups with demonstrable traction that are looking to rapidly gain customers, initiate new partnerships and raise capital. Startups participate in one of Dreamit's three industry verticals: UrbanTech , HealthTech , or SecureTech.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

A brand is a marathon, not a sprint. If you choose your name well and it represents what your customers value in you then it will be memorable, differentiated and meaningful. I often advise startup companies not to try and pin all of your brand equity into an announcement.

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