The Zapier Blog

JUNE 5, 2025

We talked to a range of experts—from marketing leaders to engineers—about how they track AI performance in their work. We also implemented a system that incorporates relationship history and customer-specific parameters into each interaction." " And this pivot has paid off. "Our "Today, our average score is 4.3."

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Financial History and Projections Let’s start with the basics. Careful about “hockey stick” forecasts. Completing this exercise often leads you to lower your expectations about the amount of money to be raised. All to help you set your expectations. How much money can you get? Well, here is a question with a circular answer.

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Founder Bounty

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Purchase History:  Past purchases, product preferences, frequency of buying. Product Updates and Announcements:  Keep subscribers informed about new products, features, and company news. " Personalize It:  Use the recipient's name or reference something specific about their interests.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Working at Zapier means I spend a lot of time thinking about how to make software do my job for me. It's about turning those "what if" moments into "what's next" realities faster. This step is all about clear objectives and knowing what "better" actually looks like.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

Boost your team's productivity Automate your CRM The best pipeline management software helps sales teams by keeping prospects engaged and the data you have about them organized. How we evaluate and test apps Our best apps roundups are written by humans who've spent much of their careers using, testing, and writing about software.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

" This guide will teach you everything you need to know about AI orchestration. Let's talk about what it really means—and why your business desperately needs it. That way, no one needs to worry about manually writing down every little tweak or overlooking critical updates. Table of contents: What is AI orchestration?

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 25, 2025

You learn so much in college, but I think real world experience is something that you cant replicate in the classroom, and thats what I appreciate about Entrepreneurs Cup, Daniel Kringel, from Oral Roberts University team SparkMotion, said. Winners were chosen for their compelling business plans, impressive pitches, and real-world potential.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 17, 2025

So, let's talk about what a CRM is, why you need one , and what you get out of using it. That's the kind of customer understanding we're talking about. Enhanced customer relationships, satisfaction, and retention: When you actually remember who your customers are and what they care about, they tend to like you more.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

Slack, Salesforce, Zendesk, Zoho, Microsoft, and about 80 other apps make up the robust integration options, or you can connect GoTo Connect to thousands of other apps using Zapier. There's also the occasional concern about Google's history of killing off services without much notice. Here are some examples.

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HPA

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Scott is an experienced Chief Commercial Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the logistics and supply chain industry. Read more about it here: Techcrunch News Article and Press Release The post Paccurate Raises $8.1 Million Series A Round first appeared on HPA.

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Red Rocket

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

What is it about Memorial Day, July 4 th , Labor Day and the Christmas season? Penney was one of the most successful retailers in history, commanding a dominant market share at their peak. Throughout the generations of shopping, retailers have trained consumers to expect certain behaviors, including when to expect discounts.

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StartupNation

JUNE 2, 2025

It’s not uncommon for business owners who think they have good business credit to have no credit history or low credit scores. Here are common issues that may be bringing down your credit scores and what you can do about them. The reasons for this lack of payment history are myriad. Some report only negative information.

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Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Excited to share more about Ben via Five Questions. How did you originally get introduced to the startup and do you recall how you thought about the ‘pros and cons’ at the time? HW: As Flexport grew and created a leadership team, how did you decide about promoting from within versus hiring from the outside?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 4, 2025

One of the first plugins I heard about when I started using WordPress was Yoast SEO. How we evaluate and test apps Our best apps roundups are written by humans who've spent much of their careers using, testing, and writing about software. You can't get excited about it, but it does a solid job without being flashy.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The problem with early-stage companies is that most of them do not have a stable enough history to rely upon the numbers. Usually, an investor making such a comparison will deduct about 20% of the value of a comparable public entity in calculating your value, just to account for the intrinsic value of being a public company.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

How we evaluate and test apps Our best apps roundups are written by humans who've spent much of their careers using, testing, and writing about software. Using an app is all about overcoming the analog downsides, not reinforcing them. What about AI mind mapping software? What makes the best mind map software?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 13, 2025

How we evaluate and test apps Our best apps roundups are written by humans who've spent much of their careers using, testing, and writing about software. This isn't just about speed; it's about clear accountability and slashing approval cycles. When invoices come in, Ramp's pretty smart about it.

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Revolution

JUNE 16, 2025

To understand why I care so deeply about Hawaii’s future, you have to understand my past. It’s where I learned to respect tradition, to value diversity, and to see how geography, history, and identity are intertwined. I was born in Honolulu just before Hawaii became the 50th state. I grew up climbing banyan trees and body surfing.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Track performance and iterate Every automated email is a chance to learn about your audience. You can automatically group contacts based on behavior, purchase history, or engagement level and then tailor your messaging to match. The most impactful emails often come from the smallest details. Pro tip: Start small. Seamless, right?

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

We jumped from discussing Cooper Flagg’s basketball stats at Duke to comparing Carlo Rovelli and Brian Greene’s competing theories of physics to talking about the history of San Francisco. The prompt is about 500 words. Over the weekend, I found myself in an hour-long conversation during my drive with an AI.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

ChatGPT could regale you with information about rose horticulture and the Roman Empire, but it couldn't tell you what the weather was like. Agentic AI systems have broad autonomy as to how they go about tackling tasks, what agents and tools they deploy, and how they pursue their goals. The big catch? Step 2: Reason.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Think about the tension between media companies and cable operators like last year when Viacom threatened to pull Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, BET, etc. Many of us learned about substitute products in undergrad economics courses. This is an age-old marketplace tension where leverage often determines the value captured.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

I've been writing about AI since before most people knew what it stood for, and still, barely a week goes by where I don't have to look up some new term or technical topic. Context length (context window) Context window is how much history or text an AI model can process at once.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

For example, your online banking system uses it to quickly pull up your transaction history, and a customer relationship management (CRM) system can filter contacts based on specific criteria because the data is neatly organized. Metadata: Metadata is essentially data about data, and it's usually very structured.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

This group of close connections can not only introduce them to capital but can give strong referrals based on years of shared history. You can tell when a founder has a goto set of people in their network to ask all the dumb, remedial questions about hiring, fundraising, deal doing, PR, etc. Ask yourself, “Am I an island?”

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

The way they set about it, however, is vastly different. On Notion, doing so brings up an exhaustive pop-up, where you can find several handy shortcuts to format the text, add a comment to it, ask the built-in AI about it, and more. You can't tweak much about how Notion looks.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

With Airtable, you can enter just about any piece of structured or even unstructured data into an entry—and then keep adding more. Airtable makes it easy to adapt its product to just about any use case through its new app templates. ") or get its help when you're trying to build or tweak your apps.

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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.” The monetization engine of the Internet that powers the most profitable business perhaps in history was invented and perfected in Los Angeles and is what you now know as Google Ad Words. But what about tech talent?

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 18, 2019

Everyone is excited when a new company gets funded in their ecosystem, but no one spends much time thinking about where the money comes from to fund that deal. This isn’t the kind of thing your average high net worth individual who occasionally does a deal would know about.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

CEO Travis Kalenick was caught on film arguing with an Uber driver about Uber’s new plans to lower fares. There was a comment in Susan Fowler’s original public post about her experience that struck me: “Travis should apologize and hire you back as a director.” Some people don’t like to take responsibility for their own s.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 2, 2021

For the first time in human history, we are experiencing how energy moves through populations at large. We have to think not only about what we do daily, but also what kind of human beings we are. The pandemic brought both global physical and mental health concerns. But it’s not. Creating joy and purpose in work.

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Source Link

OCTOBER 26, 2021

They’re used to overcoming challenges and quickly pivoting, and at no time in recent history has the world needed those qualities more. Contact us at hello@joinsourcelink.com to learn more about building an entrepreneurial ecosystem to serve those who take opportunities, create jobs and impact their communities.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Every year, a personal Upfront Summit highlight is getting to sit down with experts in a field I care about. I encourage you to watch the entire 30 minute video (below or here ) both for insights into Quibi and understanding how a leader like Meg thinks about innovation, but I’ll also pull out a few highlights.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 4, 2023

Unfortunately, if history repeats itself—and I predict it will—many companies and brands will make this mistake. I’m hearing a lot about conscious entrepreneurship , the act of prioritizing socially and environmentally conscious values for the company and its employees, which starts in the early stages of forming a business.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Life seems so different after finding out about Clubhouse! You may not have heard about Clubhouse because it’s currently an app that you can join by invitation only. People drop in and out of “clubs” to hear experts about nearly any topic imaginable. audio-only conversations with other users on an extensive variety of topics.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The power of second chances After struggling to re-enter the workforce after imprisonment, Saichelle is passionate about providing opportunities to people facing similar challenges and paying employees a living wage. “We I celebrate Black History Month every month ,” she said. “I We are a second-chances employer.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2015

I sat down with Kati Morton (who does YouTube videos on mental health) to talk about ADD. Luckily I don’t have hyperactivity but that makes me less able to talk about that. Misnomers about ADD. And by all means please forward this post to any friend you suspect could use some friendly support. I was a tinkerer.

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