Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. 5/ The Enduring Allure Of Platform Potential: Revenue is important.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Will folks be able to buy a house and raise their families here? I have been reading Fred’s blog AVC for about a decade now. I sort of feel mentored by Fred via his blog, which is pretty remarkable for just writing words on the web and sharing them. On question #1, we see good indicators that folks are leaving.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Learn more Fortunately, folks at Zapier are pretty crafty. Zapier Interfaces gives you the ability to create custom web pages and apps that can also pull in the power of GPT-4 via a chatbot component. It's a tool that helps anyone connect apps and automate workflows—without any complicated code. Sign up for free.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

Softr is a super flexible no-code app builder. With an intuitive drag-and-drop editor, Softr makes it easy for non-technical folks to whip up custom-made business tools, like customer portals and internal databases. But once your app is live, managing users, forms, emails, and data across platforms can cost you valuable time.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2021

based startup that uses sensors and other tech to track the well-being of folks who might need help to live on their own. Using tech to take care of folks is always good by me. Forget medicine, in the future you might get prescribed apps. The deal was worth £4.5 million, per UKTN. Upcoming attractions. Here’s a preview.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

But we’ve seen folks like Elon Musk and Chamath Palihapitiya use their broad market imprint to encourage regular folks — directly and indirectly — to buy into some pretty silly trades that could lose the retail crowd lots of money that they may not be able to afford. Which he did. And made money. I can’t figure it out.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

If Instagram’s photo tagging feature was spun out into its own app, you’d have the viral sensation Poparazzi , now the No. 1 app on the App Store. ” People’s real lives are made up of many unperfect moments that are worthy of being captured and shared, too, a company blog post explains.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Logan is another one of those folks that I can’t recall specifically how or why we met, but I’m so thankful for his friendship. So a sincere hope of mine in building Frank isn’t that we’re right, it’s that we can be part of growing an ecosystem or community of folks building tools specifically for worker power (LaborTech).

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

Leap AI Leap AI is an artificial intelligence platform that lets users add AI features to their apps. The app's aim is to let users build next-generation apps with image, text, video, and audio AI. Reaching more people—and getting AI implemented in more apps—would require a creative solution.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

CEO Dave Rogenmoser tells TechCrunch the funding will be put toward building out Jasper’s core products, improving the customer experience and bringing Jasper’s technology to more apps. Jasper leverages AI to generate content for blog articles, social media posts, website copy and more. ” Image Credits: Jasper.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

Apps like Twitter attempt to make things convenient by automatically posting my location when sending a tweet. Solution: Turn off the location-sharing functionality for social media apps. I see folks get hacked all the time, and it can be a devastating experience. And there are others that have similar functionality.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

And you want to build workflows that scale across departments without creating more work for the folks maintaining them. AI-assisted enterprise automation Spend any time online and you might think AI is just about generating awkward headshots or robotic blog intros. Zapier Enterprise Automation for every team, approved by IT.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2022

As always, you can support me by forwarding this newsletter to a friend or following me on Twitter or my blog. Wade reversal looms, should you delete your period-tracking app? In the rest of the newsletter, we’re talking about spicy venture firm pivots, fintech drama and a duo of inclusive play in exclusive worlds. Seen on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

They’re “doubling down on folks we call justice capitalists — people who have a head for business and a heart for the world. From Ivan Mehta: “ Block , the company behind Square and Cash App, now supports Apple’s Tap to Pay for iPhone feature for merchants. Read more on the company’s blog post here.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

So we asked folks in a variety of roles how they manage their time, and this is what they said. Connect your time-tracking app to your other tools Automate time-tracking By adhering to the two-minute rule, I can complete small tasks as they arise, rather than allowing them to accumulate and become a larger time commitment. ."

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

And now, the day’s deluge of new capital rounds from a bevy of startups: $49.55M for autonomous electric rail transit : Parallel Systems, founded by a crew of former SpaceX folks, wants to “build autonomous battery-electric rail vehicles.” The company is expanding its public blogging efforts as it also lobbies directly. Transit is hot.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Connect your project management software to your other apps Make your job easier Even if the most meticulously laid plans are at the mercy of a capricious host with a skinny microphone, starting with a project plan template lays a foundation of order and direction in a world where the rules are made up and the points don't matter.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. Its greatest superpower is that it can pull in data from thousands of different apps and tables. We have a couple of different solutions for you. Ready to get started?

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Haystack

MAY 19, 2018

I know many folks probably clicked on this looking for a bullet-point list of specific tactics that they can adapt to their own life. There are plenty of other blogs you can find that list all the email tools, to-do apps, and other things folks weave into their daily lives. listen here ].

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

Tools like Zapier make it possible to add AI to almost any service or workflow, so you can, for example, pull the power of ChatGPT into any of the other apps you use at work. Zapier is the leading AI orchestration platform , integrating AI and connecting across 8,000+ apps. It adapts as work unfolds, scaling impact across teams.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2022

As always, you can support me by sharing this newsletter, following me on Twitter or subscribing to my personal blog. The startup offers supermarket items at a wholesale price, and lets folks order a basket via websites — instead of hard to access phone apps. Deal of the week. Stripe gets friendly with crypto, again.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 19, 2023

5 things you should automate today Start automating The tools and features I've included in this article are all ones I've used in the past, but keep in mind: the apps you're already using might have similar features. Learn more. If I've accidentally suggested a catch-up at 4 a.m., I can correct myself. But what if 9 a.m.

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OnStartups

JULY 14, 2016

It's a chatbot for marketing and sales people -- and anyone looking to grow a company (like startup folks). But, anytime bots come up in conversation (no pun intended), especially with media folks, people seem to frequently wander into the "are bots going to replace humans?" It's called GrowthBot. So, overall, it's been a good day.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 23, 2023

Examples include: Target customer: are these folks easy to find? Shopify app store)? If you found this article to be helpful, connect with me through my personal blog or Linkedin to receive helpful tips pertaining to the early-stage founder journey. What may have caused that? Easy to sell to?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

At this point its spokesperson just reiterated its line that: “Per the updated blog and clarified in the ToS — We’ve further updated the terms of service (in section 10.4) Anyone who receives the meeting summary may save and share it with apps and others. AI-generated consent may be inaccurate or misleading.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Why let a convoluted website or app design stand in the way when you can offer an experience as smooth as strolling through a well-organized physical store? Be it through insightful blogs, engaging webinars, or snappy infographics, there’s always a way to keep the conversation going.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

That's why, at first, I wasn't sure if I had the technical savvy to try out Leap AI , a nifty image-generation tool that works on JavaScript and that folks can integrate into their own apps. The main difference between those apps and Leap AI are the models. directly in any browser first. Design products.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 13, 2021

In this blog post, I’ll share what we learned setting up our remote-first startup. Uizard is a tool for designing mobile apps and websites that runs entirely on your web browser. We found that the tricks we learned and that are listed in this blog post are applicable in both of these contexts. Reason 1: P eople.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Race undoubtedly played a factor--and now I'll bet you a lot of scouts and front office folks are feeling pretty bad about themselves right now. Just the other day, I took a meeting with an entrepreneur who had a great mobile app with lots of downloads. That, I didn't get. That's the great thing about tech. So let's recount.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

It outlines the information that needs to be communicated, who it's meant for, the channel it's delivered through, and the folks in charge of it to ensure clear, consistent, and purposeful communication. A communication plan is your blueprint for delivering key information to appropriate stakeholders.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

If you keep all your relationships in one place, then you’ll need to use tags or another identifier to isolate the folks that really matter to you. From our blog, we include Mailchimp generated landing pages that act as email gateways for some of our content (i.e. downloadable white papers, models, etc).

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

I have a blog post on that, fundraising advice for founders raising for the first time. With things like Facebook and Snapchat, it's more about the metrics that show if the app is really compelling. Tokens, so new currencies, to the point where you almost think of Ethereum as Apple and these things are like the apps.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

I could never take 1:1s with all of these seemingly awesome folks so this saves me about 6 or more hours a week. 7) Reading: I read most of my books in the Kindle app off my iPhone. The one thing I really don't have a routine about is blogging. Every Friday I have a standing lunch set aside for a rotating group of 6-10 people.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 16, 2025

It's essentially a translator between AI tools and apps, so your AI can more easily take actions on your behalf. Before, developers needed to build complex integrations for every app they wanted AI to interact with. Again, you'd normally have to build an integration for every app you want in your AI assistant.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

It also doesn’t trip up on the fancy, javascript-heavy web apps that millions use today. “We have since deployed our products in production at Capital One (means they are used every day – and power their end-to-end accessibility operations – see the Capital One blog) and others.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

And she founded Mocha Girls Pit Stop Blog, started The H.E.R Terri was successful in doing a weekly podcast, writing the book, doing the regular job, and running her blog simultaneously because she planned her life that way. She is working as a customer success manager at Asana and is a smart hustler in the real sense.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. Sending your target audience regular newsletters helps you increase your customer base by reaching a wide group of people, including the folks who haven't converted yet.

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