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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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2013

I just had to tell this story. I told her the story of Aaron, the company, the reviews, etc. We got along and shared stories about the startup market. I said, “This category is going to be huge. The photo in this blog (like many of mine) came from 500px. That’s a fact. And I’m not an investor.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. My firm was an early investor in Overture (then called GoTo.com) who created this category. Then came blogs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? I’m in Seattle this week. People keep asking me if I’ve “seen anything interesting.&#

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Revolution

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Last year, the White House published a blog post attributing half of the price increases at the grocery store to beef, pork, and poultry. Educating Consumers on the Health and Moral Imperative There is a significant opportunity to increase consumer education in this category.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

He’s someone I really consider a ‘good egg’ as we’ve enjoyed the stories of his own entrepreneurial journeys and strongly held opinions on Chicago coffee. HW: But at the same time we’re seeing lots of stories about new segments of workers seeking to unionize ( such as Amazon ). What’s your take on the potential here?

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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. One thing that helps me is using Google Web Stories. Web Stories, as the name suggests, is a feature of Google.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2023

This news creates the largest global cross-merchant network effect for e-commerce … Brands will now have control of the checkout experience and payment options they offer shoppers on third-party digital channels (such as social media, blogs, digital interfaces and QR codes). Check it out here. And while we’re on the topic of Klarna.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Customers: One of the biggest issues for any Web3 marketer is the lack of case studies and customer success stories. On-site SEO: Everyone has a website and a blog, yet not nearly enough Web3 marketers devote mind-share into making their websites and apps search friendly.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

But I can share with you a blog post that Affirm’s Levchin published on June 3 regarding his view at least on why his company is positioned to not only survive but also thrive in a downturn. I have always struggled to underscore what draws me to stories, because it feels so disparate.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 8, 2020

Together, they develop strategies and make presentations around the world with the intention of finding high-quality ventures that participate in the different categories of the award. There are currently no changes to the CEMEX-TEC Award and it is continuing as planned (at the posting of this blog).

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

“There is a huge unmet need for this,” OncoHost CEO Ofer Sharon, a physician and entrepreneur with experience at global pharmaceutical companies like AstraZeneca and Merck, tells Sara Toth stub for our story in The Times of Israel. The post Newsletter: Investing in the healthcare revolution appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Social networks, expert and consumer blogs, blogs of relevant influencers, test portals, and tools like Google Keyword Planner. The model is divided into three main categories: Performance, Must-Haves, and Delight. Research and technology portals, patent databases, open innovation platforms, competition, and tools like Statista.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

There is the darker story though of what was the kick in the butt that actually lead me to join up with Boris Silver who's my partner and co-founder. It's like partnering with people who go on create categories or redefine them in business that move the world forward. So it's sort of a natural transition for me.

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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. These stories demonstrate that hyper-turnaround and hyper-scaling are really two sides of one coin.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

You can expect everything from crazy marketing experiments to his personal stories, which are both funny and fascinating. Sticky Notes The best marketing newsletter for marketing stories Cole Schafer is a creative copywriter and the founder of Honey Copy, an agency that helps businesses craft brand stories and marketing messages.

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Y Combinator

MAY 29, 2019

19:00 – Data examples from their blog. Because your blog is basically just this, right? Michael Babineau [19:32] – Gotcha, what’s some stuff that you guys have put on the blog recently that’s your favorite? The Uber, Lyft thing is like a recurring topic and so in our blog we decided, you know what?

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OurCrowd

JULY 11, 2021

Watch the full interview here and read the story here. The post Newsletter: Car and motorbike safety + Sustaining Israel’s startups appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. “Without this Ride Vision system I installed, I would have been splattered all over that car,” Nachmias says. Learn More.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 15, 2024

The gymnast story is almost too kind as an example, because gymnasts spend only a small percentage of their time at elite competitions. The top three categories of techniques make up 80 percent of the most effective strategies entrepreneurs use to build mental resilience. and more articles from the EO blog.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 10, 2024

We hear all too many of these types of stories. These stories hit me hard. Keep it SIMPLE I think of the flaps of a plane as six different life categories. that is the basis for this blog post. and more articles from the EO blog. I asked myself “Why?” We’re paying a high price for our outdated notion of balance.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

Hiring your first employees into a startup is storytelling: You are spinning a story that contrasts their steady, reliable job at an established company, pitching it against taking a chance on your startup. Acquiring early customers fall in the same category: Why should they trust you over a larger, more established competitor?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 14, 2021

could it be a blog post, or a tweet? Valuable Pocket Litter In the Cold War days, spies would carry what they called “pocket litter” to corroborate their cover story in case of capture. This is where press releases can be valuable pocket litter to corroborate the story you told them about how amazing you are. Of course not.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

The entrepreneur, whose fall from grace has attracted global interest, just found a ladder in the form of a check from storied venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Andreessen Horowitz declined to comment beyond the blog post , and Flow did not respond immediately to request for comment.)

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

When layoffs occur, we often get the employer’s side of the story — but not always that of the employees. It took us weeks to write, as we wanted to be careful to protect our sources but yet still tell their stories. Read more on the company’s blog post here. You can read his take here.

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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. The two primary growth categories are paid and organic and both are important ingredients to any game’s growth story. Stress testing paid growth is a bit easier to do than testing organic growth.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. I typically publish essays in a major media venue, and then cross-post it on my blog. The mailings are just roundups of recent blog posts, so don’t require extra work. Linkedin.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. I typically publish essays in an established media venue, and then cross-post it on my blog. The mailings are just roundups of recent blog posts, so don’t require extra work.

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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”. . We detail below the major categories of VC: VENTURE CAPITAL TYPOLOGY. Funder Category. I don’t think the risk continuum story is right. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog.

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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”. . We detail below the major categories of VC: VENTURE CAPITAL TYPOLOGY. Funder Category. I don’t think the risk continuum story is right. (co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Investors participating in this round include Israeli cybersecurity guru and existing investor Pinchas Buchris, a former Director-General of the Israel Defense Ministry, and a former commander of the storied Unit 8200 of Israel Military Intelligence. This $8M Series A round will be used to grow sales, marketing and fund additional R&D.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

And if you are – what on earth are you reading such a boring blog as this?!? OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about? Silicon Valley (and Alley) has been super excited about the new category of “group text messaging&# and for valid reasons.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2018

While being female and being black are clearly not the same thing, they do fall into the category of "not white men", which the fundraising environment favors--but perhaps not in the way people assume. I'm not saying you should be asking for $10mm right out of the gate, but I'll share a story. Thanks for listening.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 17, 2018

The story of how she rebuilt her health after a complete burnout can guide any entrepreneur who wishes to optimize their performance. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

THE FULL STORY. Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. PHONE CALLS. Enter phone calls.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

So doing that deal and bringing these guys in, are there any interesting observations or any entertaining little stories about either pre-acquisition or post that had to do with Sam and The Hustle? The one minor story I can recall. If I enjoy it, that's a different story. And I published this on my own startups blog.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 4, 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. Categories.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. Have a shorter to-do list with more things that are in the “done” category.

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