The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

AI automation AI automation handles the execution of AI-related tasks and decisions without requiring human oversight. Instead of following rigid scripts, automated AI systems can adapt their behavior based on changing conditions and previous outcomes. Try Zapier's AI features Discover how AI gives you automation superpowers.

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StartupNation

MAY 29, 2025

By adopting a strategic mindset, you can achieve better outcomes while reducing your workload. The Power of a Simplified Marketing Strategy Imagine having a decision-making framework that guides every marketing choice you make. By identifying your purpose, you create a foundation for all your marketing decisions. Sound familiar?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 28, 2025

Sales efficiency is about how well your team turns effort into outcomes. It measures the quality and consistency of outcomes, like closed-won deals, customer retention, and long-term revenue growth. Use data to guide decisions Top-performing sales teams don't rely on gut instinct—they use data to drive strategy.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 24, 2023

Through a blend of agile methodologies, data-driven decision-making, and a desire to continually improve, our organization has unlocked unbounded potential, fostering growth, innovation, and a company we love to work both in and on. Dissect it into smaller goals with clear purposes and outcomes. Assign everything accordingly.

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Dream It

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Rule #2: Executives must be aligned on GTM & product strategy A core group of decision-makers: C-level executives, product, sales, and marketing leaders need to be on the same page on GTM strategy and segmentation. This will ultimately impair your ability to be agile and product quality will suffer.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

An alternate outcome that I also unfortunately observe in some cases are companies who had extreme early success with an initial product adoption but failed in key areas that limited the growth and therefore the ultimate financial outcomes. what your product & engineering thought they cared about and you adapt your offering.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This post unpacks offers an insiders’ view of some of the key strategic decisions that led to Techstars’ decline. ————– Techstars is – or was – one of the world’s best startup accelerator programs. But we were caught off guard by the decision, announced just today, to cancel the flagship Seattle Techstars program.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 22, 2024

Uncoordinated care is a significant contributor to morbidity and mortality, and can result in duplication of tests and services, medication errors, delayed or missed diagnoses, patient confusion and frustration, and poor patient outcomes. Providers can effectively communicate, execute a care plan and make up-to-date, informed decisions.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The startup’s offerings include Qure.ai, which assists radiologists in making better diagnostic decisions. helps firms improve investment decisions, Eugenie.ai The startup, which employs more than 3,500 individuals globally, also helps its clients with decision-making actions, Velamakanni said. ”

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Meet Oula  — the healthtech startup redesigning maternity care with a midwifery-first, team-based model that dramatically improves patient satisfaction while delivering better quality outcomes. What They’re Solving For: Pregnancy outcomes in the U.S. How They Do It: Oula’s offering centers on midwifery with support from OB/GYNs.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It was inspired by the lack of a reliable portal in Africa to guide decisions on college and course selection. Through Craydel, the founders said, they are giving power back to students by providing them with access to a portal that offers verified information about colleges to help them in decision-making.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

AI could accomplish this through expert patient triage, clinical decision support, image analysis, care management, and more. And with that expansion will come better evidence to foster inclusion of these technological advances into value-based models, driving better care and better outcomes at lower costs. This is not sustainable.

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Feedough

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The outcome of social entrepreneurship is measured in terms of value created for society, which is often intangible. Decisiveness: Social entrepreneurs are firm with their decisions to bring a social change with their solutions. This decisiveness helps them convince the world to agree to their point of view.

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StartupNation

JULY 29, 2021

A mature team can handle most day-to-day operations and decision-making and offer owners invaluable strategic support. Related: How Quality Reporting Helps Smart Entrepreneurs Build Investor Trust and Long-Term Returns. How professional is the company’s existing management team? How have they responded to the current crisis?

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 23, 2023

– but creating an enduring bond transcends the question of founder:VC dynamics and is often not even directly correlated with economic outcome. And I think if you were to look at all of those interactions and score them on quality of the “user experience”, the majority (but not all) would probably qualify as poor UX.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Whatever the outcome, interns are a much cheaper source of employment than building a team of qualified and experienced staff members, which is ideal for small new businesses with limited funding. Some internships may also be compensated by the government to give young people the chance to get into employment. Final word.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It was inspired by the lack of a reliable portal in Africa to guide decisions on college and course selection. Through Craydel, the founders said, they are giving power back to students by providing them with access to a portal that offers verified information about colleges to help them in decision-making.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

It applies machine learning to analyze and visualize the data, while also conducting what it bills as “deep analytical work to assess the underlying project quality” Via that process it creates a standardised rating for a project, so that market participants are able to transact according to their preferences.

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Dream It

MARCH 28, 2020

Elemeno’s mobile-based point of care learning platform transforms best practices into one-minute on-demand videos, checklists, and decision guides. Kaizen relieves the growing provider administrative burden and patient financial burden so they can both focus on quality care. Contact Founder. Contact Founder. Contact Founder.

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Founders Coop

APRIL 29, 2024

We’ve also seen a large enough set go on to varying degrees of success – an IPO, a multibillion dollar acquisition, many eight- and nine-figure outcomes and over a dozen companies still valued at a billion dollars plus – to have an informed view on how that comes to pass.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 18, 2023

This way, we made more informed decisions and reduced the risk of failure. Recognizing the unpredictable nature of the startup environment, especially in the manufacturing and semiconductor industry, we’ve found that formulating and rigorously testing hypotheses allows us to make more informed decisions.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Joseph Heller is a small businesses expert and the CEO of Supplied , a wholesale platform for small businesses and brands that makes it easier for boutique owners to access high-quality, affordable items. You end up internalizing that bias in your mathematically “objective” decision-making. Context is always important.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This has been an incredible example of the power of public-private partnerships as we all aim to bolster the resources and entrepreneurial outcomes across rural communities in Colorado,” said Marc Nager, Co-Founder, Greater Colorado Venture Fund. “We In the past four years, they have invested over $14.5m

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This has been an incredible example of the power of public-private partnerships as we all aim to bolster the resources and entrepreneurial outcomes across rural communities in Colorado,” said Marc Nager, Co-Founder, Greater Colorado Venture Fund. “We In the past four years, they have invested over $14.5m

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Ian Hathaway

JULY 29, 2020

For this reason, federal entrepreneurship policies can be more effective by pushing funds and decision-making authority to states and localities. Although startups, as a whole, drive productivity, innovation, and job growth, the most likely outcome for any particular startup is failure. Senate and House in March.

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Reforge

MARCH 28, 2023

Once those calls are made, product leaders must communicate those decisions to their engineering teams. User stories should mark a point in time in product development — between the end of the production-decision making process and beginning of the developer’s implementation process. The quality of the user story comes from the inputs.

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Reforge

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

It’s largely process for process’s sake, instead of the thing we all really want it to be — a method for delivering high impact outcomes, faster. More from Sachin In our conversations, we dug into: Why does a Scrum Master fail at driving quality and speed? Scrum has become a modern day antipattern. Why do Scrum Masters fail? .

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

AI uses data, statistical algorithms, and machine learning techniques to identify the likelihood of future outcomes based on historical data. This, in turn, can help startups in the following ways: Improved decision-making: Predictive analytics can provide insights and help startups make more informed decisions.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 7, 2021

Pre-pandemic, ACA held a series of regional events throughout North America and one global event each year to build relationships, increase deal flow and syndication, and deliver top-quality educational sessions to angel investors. We are growing, with purpose – and you should join us.

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Angel Capital Association

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Under Dannielle’s leadership, ACA’s frequency and quality of social media and other communications, especially using video, has exploded. Once we turn the collected data into knowledge we will publish and broadly distribute findings improving outcomes for all. This work has already begun! With additional campaign gifts toward our $2.3

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 15, 2024

Eventually, we found a compromise: a phased rollout that satisfied both the need for speed and quality. Now, we discuss our differences with data and customer feedback, leading to more thoughtful decisions and a stronger partnership. Through active listening and respectful dialogue, we uncovered the underlying priorities and concerns.

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Reforge

JULY 20, 2022

Do they have the knowledge to make technical decisions? The business acumen to make P&L decisions? The empathy and understanding to make decisions that impact customers? These meetings weren’t decision making forums. Do they have experience working on similar problems? Details matter. It’s not about micromanagement.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 21, 2024

I think we’ll see a decrease in the number of deal and fund managers overall, and the people who continue deploying capital will be those who have quality relationships with LPs and access to quality investment opportunities. It’s another step in the process, but it shouldn’t make or break an investor’s decision.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 24, 2023

Thanks to his extensive industry experience as a Licensed Professional Engineer at WSP and later as a Design Build Manager at Dragados, he recognized the significance of a diverse subcontractor base in achieving successful outcomes. Data-Driven Decision Making Continuous impact assessment is a priority for us.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). You can’t have this many quality issues and still protect his job. It’s time for change.” ” Hours and hours if you’re engaged. Pay attention.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

When I talk with junior personnel at private equity firms, the quality of firm management is a frequent complaint. . The proportion of LPs using technology to manage their portfolios will continue to increase, and GPs unable to provide quality data to LPs will find it increasingly hard to retain and attract LPs.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 26, 2023

Over the course of four days of quality content, interactive discussions and vibrant networking, attendees will elevate their angel investing experience. Our events this year included the 2022 The Big Launch Challenge in Research Triangle Park, NC and an incredible return to an in-person Summit in Atlantic City, NJ.

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