The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Agentic AI vs. generative AI vs. AI agents Agentic AI in action Agentic AI examples Getting started with agentic AI What is agentic AI? So, let's step back and look at what agentic AI systems are, what their potential is, and how you can get started using them. So let's dig in. Table of contents: What is agentic AI?

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 10, 2024

A much more rational approach to starting up. Starting with credit card debt or a personal loan and working through money from friends or family, or simply consulting to earn money for investment, entrepreneurs should consider early resources for capital to produce a prototype, do market research or start to build a team.

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Paul G. Silva

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Try it for yourself: Go to the RoboInvestor CustomGPT in your web browser, start a new conversation, and follow the on-screen instructions. Entrepreneurs can use this tool to refine their pitches independently, allowing mentors to focus on higher-value advice. You’ll be asked to upload your company’s executive summary.

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 25, 2025

As Collins puts it: The moment you believe you have nothing left to correct is the moment you’ve started your decline. Use Pre-Mortems to See Around Corners A technique I now use religiously is the pre-mortem : Start by imagining complete failure: “It’s 6-12 months from now, and our initiative has catastrophically failed.”

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Revolution

MARCH 26, 2025

We believe great companies can start and scale anywhere, aided by the fact that startups in emerging venture communities are often more capital efficient, offer a lower cost of doing business, and attract talent looking for a better quality oflife. These are great stories. I have more like them, but not nearlyenough.

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StartupNation

MAY 23, 2025

As I’ve already slipped the spoiler in the title, you can start a business under $100. Instead, consider budget-friendly businesses you can start with only $100 or no money at all: Freelancing (copyrighting, graphic design , SEO, etc.) Absolutely not! But let’s not rely on ChatGPT this time, okay?

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FEBRUARY 21, 2021

The population is made up of about 30% or so white men—so, not knowing anything about who is pitching, all things being equal, that’s the starting point we’d expect to observe in terms of who gets funded. One, it usually implies that you’re going to start going cash flow negative to accelerate growth. That adds risk.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

A lot of people ask me what I think of posting to Twitter these days… (I’ll start calling it X as soon as I learn to stop saying Battery Tunnel and Triborough Bridge). That’s a complex question that should start with answering the following questions: What formats will you enjoy creating for the most? Audio/video vs writing?

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Paul G. Silva

JANUARY 9, 2025

The project started strong with a motivated Pilot group, leading to a field-ready solution. Had we used the Adoption Roadmap from the start, we could have anticipated and mitigated challenges earlier, accelerating success. But there the effort stalled.

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Revolution

JUNE 26, 2025

Some highlights from her playbook: start by noticing whether you’re “ above or below the line ” (operating from a place of curiosity versus threat), and when tension spikes, pause for three deep breaths and a step back to remember the long goal.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2020

She did an amazing job making the most of what she could start with, creating a safe and largely respectful product for women compared to competitors. The whole thing started with Armstrong’s outright refusal to publicly support the Black Lives Matter movement and a walkout of employees.

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NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

While spreadsheets might seem sufficient in the early days, investing in a proper accounting system from the start can save you countless headaches down the line. Register for GST from the start Now, you might not have to register right away, especially if you’re starting small.

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MAY 2, 2025

If you act the way a founder would to figure out everything you can about a particular customer problem or wave of innovation, youre bound to bump into a few founders doing thisoften because you start talking to obvious potential customers. Fintech investor? Sometimes, founders come out of the woodwork, but often they dont.

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Red Rocket

APRIL 30, 2025

So if you are incurring newfound losses and your runway is under 12 months, it is time to start chopping, as raising funds in this economic climate will be very difficult. The faster you cut, the quicker you start saving your cash, which will be a hot commodity in down markets like this. How Important is It to Retain Key Talent?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 4, 2025

But to make AI transformation truly sustainable, we have to start at the beginning: how we hire and onboard people into Zapier to build this future with us. AI fluency: Now a requirement for all new hires Starting immediately, all new Zapier hires are expected to meet a minimum standard for AI fluency.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Consider starting one. If your ideal clients are small business owners, start at your local chamber of commerce or small business association. Start by including in every job description your clearly defined values and culture, principles, beliefs, and behaviors that define your organization. Look for CEO roundtables and forums.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 21, 2025

Two prominent entrepreneurs share their views on starting a business plus 10 tips every first-time founder should have. Elon Musk forewarns founders of the challenge they are taking on, stating, “Starting a company is like eating glass and staring into the abyss.”He

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

There are many ways to project the value of a company for purposes of pricing an investment, but all rely upon the revenue and profit projections of the entrepreneur as a starting point. For those of us who’ve invested in early-stage companies, especially technology startups, we have confronted a universal problem.

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APRIL 11, 2022

3) Like in the example I started off with, just share a quick one line and let me know you’ll be following up. If you can’t do that, you’re probably going to find starting up a $100mm annual revenue very difficult. This way, you get more information about the market, but it shows that you know that they’re pre-seed and not Series A.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Boston has never had any trouble building big companies—but for years people have told me that there’s very little community feel, especially for newcomers and younger professionals starting out. It wasn’t until the late twenty teens that exits like Flatiron Health started proving naysayers wrong.

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JULY 25, 2022

When you first start your company, you’re not going to have much in the way of data or projections to run everyone through—so it might just be a bulleted agenda. To lay the groundwork for accountability—where you say what your plans are and you can all huddle around your performance against that.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 5, 2025

Having the right business advisor can be a game-changer for an entrepreneur Starting and growing a business is a challenging and often lonely endeavor. They can help you maintain perspective during difficult moments, reminding you of your strengths and why you started your business in the first place.

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The Seraf Compass

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

As a deal lead, once you conclude that there is enough of an opportunity to merit potential investment, and around the time you start drafting the final report, you can push through the temporary euphoria and begin negotiating the termsheet.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 31, 2024

A clear red flag for me is when I start to ‘lose my cool’ and treat others rudely. In my own entrepreneurial journey, I have learned that when the pressure of work starts getting to me, it often brings a wave of anxiety that leads me into a downward spiral. If I am mad at everyone, then I need to step back, breathe, and reflect.”

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Revolution

MAY 12, 2025

Though I had spent most of college starting new businesses, when it came time to choose what was next, I followed the crowd and joined corporate America, moving to Ohio to work for P&G. So whatever desire you feel right now, whatever nudge has whispered to you about starting something, fixing something, inventing something: listen toit.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

I could start a company, keep 99% of the common shares and give 1% to you, but call you a co-founder. No team starts off with exactly enough people it will take for a company to get to a huge exit or IPO. Let’s first talk about the definition of a co-founder. Technically, it’s a title.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Customers may now secure their spot taking place at one of the following global venues : Living in Space : An immersive journey into the future of space habitats, held in Paris, France, with prices starting at $19,500 per person for 3 days/4 nights.

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The Seraf Compass

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

This series of articles is written for fund managers who are creating these new sources of entrepreneur-focused capital today, and those who aspire to start funds in the near future. And, wherever you find entrepreneurs, you will find investors looking to finance those entrepreneurs.

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

Instead, you start with the value proposition of the product itself and you make sure it’s clear why someone would want to use it in the first place compared to all the other dating apps. Once you had that squared away, you’d start testing various acquisition channels, optimizing them regularly for cost effective conversion.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JANUARY 23, 2024

However, what started as just an idea turned into a website and friends and co-workers tutoring, and has since grown into a brick-and-mortar business and a leader in the education industry, improving access to quality STEM education all over the Caribbean.

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