The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

A product launch communication plan helps keep everyone on the same page regarding brand messaging, intended effects, and progress throughout the launch. Let's take Apple as an example. An employee communication plan, for example, is only meant for your team's eyes. Table of contents: What is a communication plan?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

You need something to keep things straight when juggling client management, property listings, and the looming threat of being upstaged by that insufferably smug agent from the office across the street. I looked into dozens of options, read approximately a million reviews, watched demos narrated by people way too cheerful for 9 a.m.,

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

And it’s the latest in a series of investments we’ve made in building out our practice as the LA technology market continues to grow robustly and attract entrepreneurs and investors. Sam in the perfect example. So what is an EIR and why Sam? So I had a sense that I knew who he was. I told him my strong biases. Not for me.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 23, 2025

Excel Copilot examples Copilot in Excel vs. Under the hood, it uses OpenAI's AI models —the same ones that power ChatGPT. If you're not on a corporate plan—for example, if you're a knowledge worker who pays for your own Microsoft 365 plan, like I am—you get access to 60 AI credits per month as part of your subscription.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I just returned from 3 days in Cincinnati including attending the annual meeting of one of Upfront’s LPs – Cintrifuse. I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

It’s hard enough to raise capital from VC, private equity fund, and family offices. We are a community for family offices, private equity funds, and VCs focused on using technology and analytics to make better investments in private companies. How do you sell to them? In roughly descending order of impact, I suggest: Invest in funds.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

For example, IBM’s U.S. Based on our website traffic at Teknicks, we’ve seen increased interest in startup educational information on franchising, app creation, blogging, SEO, Google analytics, website creation and other web-based inquiries related to starting a business online. But if you’re one of the 3.2

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 18, 2020

For example, in the US, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed the following recommendations, among many others: • Protecting manufacturing workers • Cleaning and disinfecting community facilities • Reopening buildings after an extended closure. Those that don’t are risking extinction. Infection Basics.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Founder and chief executive officer Ivy Huq Russell, who grew up in Chittagong and Dhaka before moving to the United Kingdom for university, started Maya as a blog with healthcare information in 2011. Out of the four million queries the platform has handled so far, about half were answered by its AI tech.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 3, 2024

For example, perhaps a social media platform isn’t as receptive to your messaging, or a certain type of content isn’t resonating with your audience. For example, perhaps a social media platform isn’t as receptive to your messaging, or a certain type of content isn’t resonating with your audience.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

One example that stands out is when Tomás Champalimaud (EO Portugal) showed up with a rented van and asked, “How can I help? All of them came back with cars filled up with refugees, which they gladly hosted in their houses and offices. My phone was flooded with messages from hundreds of people. Bearing witness.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 9, 2022

To get those stories out into the world. I don’t care about revenue, office space or employee count. Implementers” who figure things out via model-building or other tools. While some people may think that limits his audience, Justin points out: “There are 8 billion people on the planet — 0.1% Know your brain.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 19, 2021

Renée Rouleau, an EO member in Austin, is the founder and CEO of Renée Rouleau Skin Care , whose products and personalized skincare are respected by celebrities, bloggers, and skincare obsessives. As she marks 25 years in business, Renée shared what she’s learned along her entrepreneurial journey. Do I owe all my success to the astrologer?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

So my family is Jewish and very typical immigration story – his father left Romania at 19, had to get a fake passport in order to get out of the country, left and never went back, and left in the middle of winter and got frostbite. Here is the link to the video interview. it would make more sense than “me.”

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

The best marketing newsletters These are my favorites, but there are countless others out there. It's worth subscribing to any that look interesting to you—just be sure you unsubscribe if you don't get what you want out of them. The example they used is the tagline for the MacBook Pro: Mover. Boundary breaker.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Contributed by Madhavan Sivashankar , chief executive officer and founder, Gulf International Finance Limited. Companies in developed markets have churned out profits at a historic pace, despite massive economic dislocations like the bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2000 and the global financial crisis eight years later.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

EO Oklahoma City member Piyush Patel has figured out how to do just this. However, when I was asked to give the commencement speech, just a few days before the speech I walked out of the shower and told my wife this would be a perfect time to accomplish that bucket list item.” Lead by example. Lead by example.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

For example, we’ve created workflows for automatic cleaning and standardizing of certain data fields. For example, we’ve created workflows for automatic cleaning and standardizing of certain data fields. I run PEVCTech , a community focused on this area. Third, a modern backend. Fourth, easy no-code customizability. Hootsuite).

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TechCrunch

JULY 24, 2022

There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann. Whether or not you can take out a home loan and how much interest you pay is based on your FICO score. If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

But there are also a lot of bad ways to use AI for job searching, so I scoured the trove of AI job search tools, use cases, and how-tos out there to find the best options. How to use AI to find and land a job There are hundreds of impressive AI-powered job search tools out there. All you need to do is fill in your job title.

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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. At Uizard, we’ve had phases where we were fully remote with no office and phases where we had a physical office that people could optionally go to. We’ve been a remote-first startup from day one at Uizard ?—?since Reason 1: P eople.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

If you asked 100 people to name a place where you frequently wait, even when you are on time for your appointment, how many would say the doctor’s office? The subject of the “consumerization of healthcare” has been around for many years. healthcare system rarely thinks of the patient as a customer. where the patient truly comes first.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 22, 2020

An example of what might occur comes from one of my coaching clients, from a few months before the pandemic hit. An example of what might occur comes from one of my coaching clients, from a few months before the pandemic hit. Each participant should anonymously write out three possible reasons that the plan failed.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Work never stops in your office. Every day, there are new fires to put out, new targets to reach and new ideas to execute. Your to-do list keeps piling up—just like the files on your desk and the messages in your inbox! Before you know it, you are swamped and missing out on important opportunities! O is for Organize.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 18, 2018

You save money on office space and supplies. Efficiently communicating via texts, messaging and emails isn’t easy. Instead of sticking to emails and messaging, branch out with conference calls and video calls. Instead of sticking to emails and messaging, branch out with conference calls and video calls.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 19, 2023

For example, you may not have a choice but to fly to a conference, but you can reduce the impact of the flight by using public transportation while you’re there. Also, encourage employees to send texts or use messaging apps to communicate. Becoming a climate neutral company requires a shift in thinking from leadership to employees.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2016

You Need to Find Your Mojo A Chip On Your Shoulder A few years ago I wrote a blog post on entrepreneurs with a chip on their shoulders. One example is that capital funds team growth which funds product output which funds press coverage and accolades which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. I think it’s an important read.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 14, 2023

If you're already using ChatGPT to help you summarize, refine, or write content before you share it with customers or your team, this plugin helps you cut out even more steps in your everyday tasks by adding automation to the mix. That way, when you're asking ChatGPT to carry out a task, it has all the values it needs to perform it.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 11, 2021

This process, however, can be time-consuming and in some cases nearly impossible to carry out in a timely manner — especially with the number of social media platforms entrepreneurs need to keep up with. Let’s say you have an electric vehicle startup and want to write a blog post about the benefits electric vehicles have on the environment.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The brain prefers to copy what other people are doing instead of figuring something out on its own because it’s more efficient. These three powerful strategies will help you build it so that your business stands out: Proactively collect ratings and reviews. Make sure to emphasize the exclusivity factor in your messages.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 29, 2017

Once you’ve got a great idea and credible business plan, it’s tempting to run out and spend money on all the “essentials” that other small businesses have, like office space or computer hardware. Consider physical office space. By Doug Bonderud, writer and regular contributor for OnDeck. Another option?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Willis is the chief marketing and pipeline officer at Acrolinx and has over 20 years of experience growing companies in the technology sector. For example, vanity metrics might indicate that a landing page is performing badly, but they won’t tell you why. Take IKEA, for example. Christopher P. This makes measuring ROI tricky.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 6, 2023

Conversational messaging is how people communicate with their family and friends. To address this problem, we set out to create the first fluid and natural conversational experiences that would transform self-service customer experiences into surprisingly great ones. But how does this work? Is it even possible? What makes Elloe unique?

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

In my years as a small business owner, I've experimented with several appointment scheduling apps—and I've learned what makes a tool stand out from the rest. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. What makes a great appointment or booking app?

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Ramon hosted his 2020 holiday party with some of the best industry experts out there. So whether it's podcasts, webcasts, speaking, or blog posts, (and more) they need in order to connect to any part of the market, they are supported. “So Many companies spent a lot of time figuring out where they wanted to be at the end of 2020.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

In fact, most were told that the company had been dissolved — according to interviews TechCrunch had with a number of former employees, and corroborated in a report last week by industry blog Restaurant Dive. Butler’s downfall is a cautionary tale both of the opportunities and challenges that exist in the world of on-demand startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

as an example of why I shouldn’t be investing in the Twitter ecosystem any longer. Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. So with DataSift I’m doubling down.

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