The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

No, this apparatus isn't gone yet, but it will likely join the fax, floppy disk, and Rolodex in the business graveyard within the next decade. Today you can make calls using FaceTime, Messenger, WhatsApp, or dozens of other call apps, and virtual phone systems do the same for your office number. Select your phone number(s).

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Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Ben and I started to hang out because of the Vassar connection and then even more so because he was just so darn helpful. His experience at Flexport; his pay-it-forward nature; and his friendly user interface, made his a desirable angel/advisor for startups. What was it like giving up your email address , so to speak?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Sell more and keep your customers happy Automate your eCommerce Wix and Squarespace are two of the most popular website-building apps. Wix is best for small businesses. If your business only has basic marketing needs, you can run your entire digital operation from the Wix dashboard.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Brad wrote up his answer here – you should read it because it’s very instructive for how I believe communities ought to think about naming conventions. The first rule of choosing a brand for anything is to figure out the image you want to project. This is the list I would start with. Outline your key attributes.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

So that we’re speaking the same language I would define “exclusive” as a period in which your company is prohibited from doing business with certain customers or business partners, which is why many incorrectly assume this is necessarily bad.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m inspired by the enthusiasm of the young, emerging startup ecosystem that is here. awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. I will start recruiting soon.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

I hear it right after people have decided to come by for a few days to “check out what all the fuss is about.” Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. “There’s something going on in LA.”

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

There were chat rooms, discussion groups, dating, classified ads – you name it. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. rose to prominence by offering a free, ad-supported alternative to all of the crap your mom got on AOL for a fee.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 26, 2024

A study of Jill Nelson offers a Master class on what it takes to build a thriving business. Jill worked as a business broker for a few years after college, where she noted the operational wins and woes of a wide variety of companies. If you are not super-passionate about your business idea, don’t bother. “I

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 15, 2019

Written for EO by Walker Deibel , an experienced acquisition entrepreneur who has co-founded three startups and acquired seven companies. . If you remember high school science, you’d choose the one with existing forward momentum. Starting a business follows the same principle. Forget the groundbreaking solutions.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2022

Blogging can be a profitable side business. Startup costs are low and the nature of the business is flexible. You can monetize your blog through affiliate marketing, sponsored posts, display ads, and selling digital and physical products. Granted, you may not be able to earn that kind of money right off the bat.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2022

Blogging can be a profitable side business. Startup costs are low and the nature of the business is flexible. You can monetize your blog through affiliate marketing, sponsored posts, display ads, and selling digital and physical products. Granted, you may not be able to earn that kind of money right off the bat.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 18, 2014

We live in interesting times where working at a startup is glamorized to the point that many founders even refer to their team members as “rock stars,” which to my ears is cringe worthy. Great programmers are artists, for sure, but rock stars is about the last definition I’d choose. Running a startup is a grind.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

Minority businesses make up a large part of the American economy. Unfortunately, these businesses have had the hardest time scaling up, in part because of a lack of funding. Fortunately, there are some organizations that can help minority businesses with funding. These are needed for any business to grow.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 7, 2022

Blogging can be a profitable side business. Startup costs are low and the nature of the business is flexible. You can monetize your blog through affiliate marketing, sponsored posts, display ads, and selling digital and physical products. Granted, you may not be able to earn that kind of money right off the bat.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The pandemic has made life difficult in innumerable ways, but it has also presented business opportunities to savvy entrepreneurs. Company closures left spaces for startups to fill, and the unprecedented environment prompted the creation and development of specific markets. This is the largest increase in new businesses since 2007.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 12, 2021

When most people think of an entrepreneur, they imagine a twenty-something young adult, straight out of college, working tirelessly in a basement on an exciting new business idea that will change the world and make them rich and famous. In school, whenever possible, I would choose to work individually instead of in a group.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Today, her London-based firm works with startups around the world — and her startup clients have raved about the results, based on what we’ve heard in our TechCrunch Experts growth marketing survey. Nikki O’Farrell of KatKin told us that “[She has an] expert ear and eye from the world of startups/scaleups and growth.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

With her new startup, Granitt — with Sandvik as its principal — aims to help at-risk people, like journalists and activists but also politicians, lawyers, refugees and human rights defenders, from threats they face doing their work. And we started building out a curriculum around what you should do to be safe online.

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OnStartups

MARCH 24, 2021

An Odd Start To My Angel Investing. I started my first company at around the age of 24. I did not plan to do another startup. I had done it for 10+ years and lived the notorious startup life. My conviction to not do startups lasted only a few.weeks. During classes (which I loved), I missed the startup life.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Imagine a drumroll, folks, because we’re about to announce the last tranche of investors and thought leaders who will choose which outstanding startup takes the title of Startup Battlefield champion, along with the $100,000 prize and serious bragging rights. Mar Hershenson , co-founder and managing partner at Pear VC.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Register Startup founders need to be authentic and prepared when they get the chance to meet prospective investors, according to Rex Fong, founding partner at investment and advisory group Capitale Ventures. And when did you first think about starting a fund? and What’s your mental model for investing? Remember Me.

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Founders Coop

APRIL 29, 2024

This post is an effort to unpack what’s required of a startup accelerator to truly serve the needs of high-performing founders. Step 0: Understand the goal Before you attempt to design a system to do a specific type of work, it helps to articulate the beliefs and assumptions underlying your design.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Clothing, electronics, toys, automobiles, musical instruments, furniture — you name it and you’ll find a manufacturer in China who can turn your intangible concept into mass-manufacturable reality in mere days. Genki Forest, a Chinese direct-to-consumer (D2C) bottled beverage startup, is one such contender. billion this year.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

market, choosing New York and L.A. If a bank is partly about corralling enough users on to your platform to pay money in and out, Klarna is well on its way. We also discuss Klarna’s business model and the balancing act required to win over consumers and keep merchants onside. over San Francisco for its American offices.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 11, 2010

All I had to do was to name 5 black tech startup entrepreneurs in New York City when asked by a reporter to do so. I'll bet not too many other VCs in my peer group could name five… Go me! If some of those newly trained go start a tech company, that's nice. Kidding aside, I did feel a totally misplaced sense of pride.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Engineering is typically the function that grows fastest at a scaling startup. When we found product-market fit later that year and started bringing on lots of new customers, instead of spending engineering resources on re-architecturing our platform to scale, we were able to double down on product engineering to accelerate the growth.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

You can share your own recommendations here !). Ellen Jantsch: Tuff is a small (20-person) growth marketing agency that partners closely with startups and scaleups to help them increase revenue and sales. I started Tuff as a one-woman show because I wanted to do meaningful work with companies (and founders) I liked.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Just don’t let the name fool you. The massive wave of professionals who are opting out of their current jobs might be a boon for the startup community. As noted by MarketWatch, new businesses have begun to spring up around the nation in record numbers. Right now, there are no fewer than 4.5 It’s a good bet they would.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. I write this post as a warning to pick your VC’s carefully. One theme that I always get is, “I’ve gotten an offer from a VC, but they want me to do X, what do you think?&# X is always something non-standard that the entrepreneur knows in his gut isn’t right.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

London and Barcelona based audio-as-a-service SaaS startup Aflorithmic has scooped up $1.3 Sample clips on its website illustrate the personalization element with synthesized (robot-voiced) voice overs greeting a named customer before plunging into the detail of whatever content it’s been programmed to deliver.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

David Baszucki, Roblox Right now, we’re at a place where AI might be doing the first draft, but getting from first draft to final product is kind of hard and usually takes a team. I’ve got to go ask another engineer who might be busy with something.” I actually think we’re going to see an acceleration of creation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

” (Full disclosure: the second time I worked at a startup founded by Mark Pincus, Zinga slept behind my desk and I was one of her favorite dog-sitters.). 5 ways to raise your startup’s PR game. The ability to effectively communicate can make or break your launch. 5 ways to raise your startup’s PR game.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Early-stage entrepreneurs who are eager to ship usually spend more time calculating their startup’s monthly burn rate than selecting an optimal development environment. As a result, technical debt starts to accumulate. All you’re doing that sprint is working off your tech debt backlog,” said Somal. “I And accumulate.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 22, 2024

How to Leverage SEO to Drive Traffic to Your Startup’s Website In the ever-evolving landscape of digital marketing, leveraging SEO is crucial for driving traffic to a startup’s website. Dive into the collective wisdom of these professionals to boost your startup’s online presence.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2022

A Very Honest Guide to Writing Your Fundraise Pitch Deck How to optimise yours for success Congratulations! You’ve started a company, assembled a super squad of founders, and built out the MVP of your product. It’s going pretty well, and you think it’s the right time to speed up your growth by raising some money.

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