The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

Unless explicitly stated, we spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

Whether it's the names of individuals, categories of products, or song titles, as long as the information is organized within a framework, it's structured data. Descriptive text: Think names (of people, products, companies), categories, or titles of works. Use unstructured data when you need to.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 20, 2025

The first number in the code represents the category of the status. Shopify Partner API: This API opens up Shopify apps to connect with other products, like, for example, allowing a SaaS metrics tool to pull data directly from Shopify dashboards. Status codes With every request you make, you'll receive a status code.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

Every other term on this list falls under the umbrella of AI, so it's a pretty fuzzy category to define. Benchmark A benchmark is a standardized test set and metric used to compare AI models on a task.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Define your growth metrics Ideology and bull market momentum does not sell long term, and utilizing terms like “protocol” and “DAO” doesn’t remove the requirement to develop and scale a product that people actually want to use. Before considering growth, however, it’s important to understand what growth means for your project.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

We found these by looking through firms’ websites, social media, blog posts, etc. That said, a generous carry percentage is irrelevant if the fund’s metrics for the other components of the formula above are low. Joel Palathinkal , CEO of Sutton Capital , observes that scouts usually fall into one of three categories:

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 22, 2024

We gathered 30 invaluable strategies from SEO Analysts, Founders, and other experts, ranging from optimizing content with targeted keywords to crafting blog posts that answer key questions. The advantage of Web Stories is that you can condense existing blog content or other content for easy sharing on various social media platforms.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

We found these by looking through firms’ websites, social media , blog posts, etc. That said, a generous carry percentage is irrelevant, if the fund’s metrics for the other components of the formula above are low. Dr. Joel Palathinkal , CEO of Sutton Capital , observes that scouts usually fall into one of three categories: .

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

It's like partnering with people who go on create categories or redefine them in business that move the world forward. Like what are the metrics you looking at for the business and how do you know, or what is a great founder for you. I have a blog post on that, fundraising advice for founders raising for the first time.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Kevin’s team received the Turnaround Management Association’s global best turnaround award in the sub-$50 million revenue category for leading the hyper-turnaround of NASDAQ-listed VivoPower International. The post The two powerful skills every 10X entrepreneur needs appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Y Combinator

MAY 29, 2019

19:00 – Data examples from their blog. They’re like very metrics-driven, very data-driven. Michael Babineau [16:51] – What other metrics are you able to show? ” What metrics get investors super excited? Because your blog is basically just this, right? 11:30 – Their first customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice. He had just written another one of his way-over-the-top blog posts. I think Dave has blogging Tourettes Syndrome when he hears the word VC. We then started talking about Dave McClure.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

Jamie Finney is a founding partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund , where he blogs about his work on VC and small communities. A new category of investors has emerged offering a hybrid between VC and revenue-based investment (RBI), which we call “flexible VC.” We detail below the major categories of VC: Funder category.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

Floodgate exists to invest in prime movers - entrepreneurs who build movements that become category defining companies - before the rest of the world believes in them. Favorite business book, blog, podcast? It’s different, because rather than focusing on building a product or a business, they’re thinking about building a category.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This blog post will explore what a soft launch is and why it can be beneficial for game studios. Soft launch enables player feedback and metrics which can be used to compare to benchmarks that both Apple’s iOS App Store and Google Play offer in their dashboards. There are typically two stages of soft launch: alpha and beta.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

This dynamic gets exacerbated as you get earlier in company life cycles where the quantum of capital for the large allocators becomes less meaningful and before actual metrics and multiples converge to larger (e.g. I’ve got a blog post teed up mentally about why seed rounds are what they are. public) markets.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 30, 2021

Instead, I messaged Jeff Jordan and said, ‘You know, I read your blog post about retail, and the transition of retail to online.’ He had a take that some categories were not going to shift as fast, including grocery, and I disagreed with him. Revenue is your best metric. Whatever that metric is, really measure that.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 19, 2021

A new category of VCs have emerged offering a hybrid between VC and RBI, which we call “Flexible VC”. . “Too This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Funder Category. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5%

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 19, 2021

A new category of VCs have emerged offering a hybrid between VC and RBI, which we call “Flexible VC”. . This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Funder Category. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5%

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 17, 2018

Next, I began experimenting in earnest with four areas of my life: morning routine, food, sleep, and what I call the catch-all category—such as life without alcohol, much less sugar, etc. Objective metrics don’t lie. Why is tracking your sleep important? Well, to make improvements, you need to know where you’re starting.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

And I published this on my own startups blog. So it's a recursive function to say, oh, well, if the New York Times links to you, that's much more valuable than if Dharmesh's blog links to you because New York Times has more page rank. Or even just read these blog posts and watch these videos. I'm making the number up.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor. Some quick highlights include: The Role of a Seed Stage VC.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 26, 2019

The original article appeared on ValueChampion’s blog here. . We used publicly available data to score countries based on their rank across these categories. Given these metrics, the country is an excellent place for individuals to start and grow businesses. Where does India rank?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2021

It lets them track and improve the most important metrics of the industry — cost of acquisition, retention and session times. Daniel and Oliver don’t just bring a vision but more importantly, a killer execution that is helping them define and build an entirely new category within gaming,” Northzone’s Pär-Jörgen Pärson said in a statement.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

While they might not be the best in any one category, they generally offer an environment that is amenable to startups in terms of business costs, business climate, labour quality and strength of the economy. Despite not winning any individual category, Germany topped the charts as the overall best country in Europe for startups.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Choose metrics that matter. Your company is already likely using vanity metrics, like open rates, shares and time spent on a page, to measure how well your content seems to be performing. Vanity metrics don’t measure how engaged potential customers are; they simply gauge the relative popularity of your business.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

To help you make a system out of your content schedule, FeedHive lets you create post categories. If you post how-tos on Monday, inspirational content on Wednesday, and a short-form video on Friday, you can lock in these categories on a weekly calendar. After that, you can create posts and assign them to these categories.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

Zoho has a pretty massive suite of over 55 cloud-based tools that span categories like sales, marketing, HR, finance, security, project management, and more (I'm getting dizzy). Likewise, I was really impressed with how much Zendesk allows you to customize your help center—it almost felt like I was building a blog or a website.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 20, 2018

It needed to be logically laid out with categories, parent and child pages—and internal links to other pages on the site wherever appropriate. Improving Domain Authority (DA)—a metric created by Moz to determine how well a page will rank—was paramount. Building the website’s reputation. The higher it is, the more trusted your site.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

tinyEmail's segmentation and forms features fall into the same category: not as impressive as what Klaviyo offers, but a convenient option for beginners. You can use prebuilt segments to separate users into categories like Dormant Subscribers , Engaged Subscribers , or New Subscribers from Shopify.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 23, 2025

Paths work well when your data fits into a fixed number of categories, while Looping is better suited for when your list length tends to change. If you always have the same number of items or categories, use Paths. Each record contains the team member's name and their activity metrics.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 25, 2016

Business owners typically fall under one of those categories, if not all. It doesn’t matter whether you use a CRM or have key metrics that you look at on a weekly basis – your goal should be to make it easy for you to audit the work of your employees. The post Systematize For Expansion appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

We’ve been number one in our category for 30 straight years, “says Steve. You need to be aware of the key metrics you’re looking at. Not only do we provide great products and services for SMBs, but we also have a small business blog on our website.” It was named by forbes.com as the number three rated franchise.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 29, 2023

Let me share some examples : This weekend, I wanted to clean up some HTML image links in older blog posts & modernize them to markdown format. Early search engines, including Google, also required specialized inputs/prompts & suffered from lesser quality results in different categories. I typed this description into ChatGPT.

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