The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

I also absolutely despise their lack of cross-object reporting. Use interfaces, data tables, and logic to build secure, automated, AI-powered systems for your business-critical workflows across your organization's technology stack. What pains are you guys feeling? What's your solutions?" " — Reddit thread. "I

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 29, 2025

On top of all that, Canva has a solid free plan, an affordable paid plan for solo users, and a great team plan with collaboration features for businesses. Being able to do one-off designs is fine, but for influencers, businesses, and anyone who cares about consistency, you need to be able to create professional, repeatable designs.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

Jira offers multiple service management templates to solve different customer satisfaction issues, including ITSM, general service management for IT and business teams, customer service management, and plenty more. You can keep track of all your equipment in one place and link issues to related objects. user/month* Premium: $57.50/user/month*

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

These meetings have a more structured order of events, like recapping old and new business or voting on new initiatives. A formal meeting minutes template should include space for: Old business—follow-ups on previous action items New business—agenda items or new action items Discussions Voting records 5. Stay objective.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 20, 2025

Perplexity integrates with Zapier , so you can pull the power of its AI research into all your other business tools, automatically. Use interfaces, data tables, and logic to build secure, automated, AI-powered systems for your business-critical workflows across your organization's technology stack. Learn more.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 13, 2025

For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. That's because every business has different objectives. With that, let's dive into the top accounts payable software available today. There's no one single best AP automation software.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Your brand image is an important aspect of business that can affect operations on every level, and nurturing it requires strategic communication, especially with media and public inquiries. Focus on setting specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) business objectives.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 26, 2025

Connect your project management software to your other apps Make your job easier In the business world, this same kind of boundary-slipping shows up as scope creep—when a project quietly expands beyond the original plan, often without additional resources, timelines, or support. ." We've all been there.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

This team must deeply understand the project's objectives, constraints, and the steps required to complete it successfully. It typically includes sections for the project scope , objectives, timelines, resource allocation, risk assessment, and communication strategies (unless telepathy is in the budget). Who crafts a project plan?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 20, 2025

Usually, there will be a reference section that provides the various objects, parameters, and endpoints you can access. SOAP (simple object access protocol) APIs use XML (extensible markup language), a type of programming language, to communicate. I'll be using Google's Gmail API for this tutorial. Why use an API?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

Here, I'll walk you through key differences and use cases and share some examples so you can understand how to use both to power your business. Similarly, AI-powered image, video, and audio analysis can identify objects, scenes, activities, and even infer context or sentiment with increasing accuracy. What is unstructured data?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Starting a business is an exciting adventure. You might be surprised by the obstacles you could face as friends in business together, though. Here are just seven reasons to think again before you launch a business with your buddy. Here are just seven reasons to think again before you launch a business with your buddy.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Obsidian vs. Notion at a glance Notion and Obsidian are both heavy-duty note-taking platforms, and their objectives, to an extent, are similar: to help you build a personal wiki. Notion, on the other hand, has hundreds of integrations for tools like Google Drive, Asana, Calendly, Slack, Jira, Teams, and other apps that power your business.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

Yet we know big businesses can be built in many places by talented entrepreneurs with diverse backgrounds. Our approach might feel a bit uncomfortable at first, but our objective is always to encourage rigorous thinking and quality decision-making through debate. Our portfolio companies value us as sparring partners.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 19, 2024

The excitement of building your own business can quickly fade when faced with the reality of resource constraints. Embrace Lean Startup Methodology Traditionally, starting a business meant undertaking thorough planning, seeking significant funding, and developing a product in isolation from its future users. You can, too!

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

I’ve always believed it’s been one of the most important attributes of business success yet something very few business leaders talk about. It’s why I always work hard to find images for my blog posts & why all of my keynote presentations are visual rather than bullet points with words. Creativity.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 5, 2024

During nine custom-designed Learn Around excursions to Singapore businesses, most owned by EO members, groups of EO members enjoyed behind-the-scenes access to local enterprises including Creative Eateries , LionsBot International , Brass Lion Distillery , LeVel 33 Brewery , and Goldbell Group. “It

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

The tech community has been having a long-overdue conversation about mental health and work/life balance and it’s something I’ve been talking up as far back as 2006 , 2009 , and 2014 on my blog and in public. I continue to emphasize that as an investor today. It probably fall somewhere in between.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

From thoughts on maximizing meeting efficacy and expanding your goal-setting mindset to improving employee engagement and reaping the benefits of systems and processes, EO members share personal experiences and action steps that can benefit your business. Here are the top blog posts EO published on Inc.com in 2023: 1. But the No.1

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 24, 2023

Contributed by Chris Kirksey, an EO member in Austin who is the founder and CEO of Direction , an SEO software and services company that helps entrepreneurs set their online strategy in the right direction to accelerate sales, grow the business, and dominate your market. Break it down Begin by examining project objectives.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. Any longtime readers of this blog will know that I often try to simplify complex ideas into a simple parable that is easier to remember to set the tone of one’s behaviors.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 26, 2023

Contributed to EO by Ashley Luck, an EO SLP member of the Edmonton chapter, One Canada Committee member, and the founder and principal of AMP Business Solutions. Ashley Luck is an EO SLP member of the Edmonton chapter, One Canada Committee member, and the founder and principal of AMP Business Solutions.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 9, 2025

Project management templates are structured workflows, documents, and other assets that can be iterated within business processes to make them more efficient. Business project proposal template Make a copy If you need a slightly less detailed project proposal for business use cases, this document should help.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Not everyone has the drive to start their own business. We need that entrepreneurial spirit and mindset in the world in order for innovative new businesses to emerge. You need to consider all of the steps that need to be taken to open a business. You need to consider all of the steps that need to be taken to open a business.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The World Economic Forum (WEF)’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland convened leaders from business, government and civil society committed to driving positive, tangible change for the long-term of our planet and the people who live on it. In that moment, EO changed the course of my life and my business.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

In recent years, startup accelerators such as Y Combinator, TechStars or 500 Startups, blogs including Venture Hacks, Fred Wilson’s A VC and Mark Suster’s Both Sides of the Table, and other resources have contributed to closing this knowledge gap. See my blogroll for links to many of the best resources.)

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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. Many entrepreneurs are looking for new revenue streams and the chance to finally start their own businesses. This is the largest increase in new businesses since 2007. For example, IBM’s U.S.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 15, 2019

Would you rather move a heavy object already in motion or one at rest? Starting a business follows the same principle. Of small businesses started in 2014, only 56 percent survived four years. What separates entrepreneurial winners from wannabes is the ability to run businesses. Forget the groundbreaking solutions.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

A writer who wants to blog about culture. My bold statement is that there has never been a better time for Creators by that objective function. I absolutely concur that if you want to maximize around other objectives, or examine particular types of creative industries, you might disagree with me.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 29, 2018

Ask any brand expert and successful entrepreneur and they’ll tell you: Design impacts organizations at every level, not just their web site and business cards. Don’t Miss: Entrepreneurs and small businesses owners should spend 13 minutes listening to the episode, 10 Proven Social Media Tips for Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This article originally appeared on the PixelEdge Blog. “[The Client Business Information Director Problem A leading data aggregator for an entertainment sector came to PixelEdge to help maximize one of their offerings. The company knew that they had amassed the best data in the business, and wanted to tap its potential.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

From thoughts on maximizing meeting efficacy and expanding your mindset on goal-setting to improving employee engagement and reaping the benefits of systems and processes, EO members share personal experiences and action steps that can benefit your business. Here are the top blog posts EO posted on Inc.com in 2023: 1. But the No.1

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 22, 2018

Create clarity around meeting objectives, which will remind members why they’re there. Think ahead about what value you’ll bring to the meeting so participants can take what you brought and apply it to their lives and businesses. Construct an environment that’s action-oriented and milestone-driven. Be an advocate.

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Startup Catalyst

MARCH 27, 2018

The objective of this mission is to explore different models and programs used overseas for providing support to startups, while building global awareness, discovering international best practices, learning about the latest trends, and building strong global connections, all to better support the startups in our local Australian startup communities.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 19, 2018

A version of this article first appeared on Feliks’ Medium blog. . The Integrator tends to work on building the organization and maintaining business harmony. It makes it possible for different people to have an objective discussion—versus evaluating candidates on a gut feeling. appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Feedough

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

And this led to 150Birds – a freelancer aggregator that provides fast marketing services to businesses at a lesser price. End to end execution: It further helps the client find the best team to fulfil its objectives. It also provides specially customised plans for small businesses and enterprises with dedicated expert project hours.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

. “Snap’s Yellow Accelerator was founded to support mission-driven, creative entrepreneurs who are building at the intersection of creativity and technology,” the company said in a blog post.

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