The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

Retail and eCommerce operations might use AI with their structured CRM and sales data for advanced predictive modeling of customer buying habits, to optimize supply chains with better demand forecasting, and to personalize the customer experience. Metadata: Metadata is essentially data about data, and it's usually very structured.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. Our firm invested at a very early stage in retail brands including CostCo, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Ulta, Starbucks and many more. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

He wanted to create awareness for himself to generate marketing buzz and demand and then get the retail stores to pay wholesales prices for his cds. I had written a blog post on exactly this – how to not suck at group presentations – and what he said reminded me a lot of this post.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. Blogging has gone through many iterations. I use Wordpress for this blog and it’s great. Instead of publishing into the ether where 98% of blogs must get less than 10 page views / month, in Tumblr you have followers as you would in a social network.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 29, 2010

There’s also been some great blog chatter from Sarah Tavel ( here ) and Josh Kopelman ( here and here ) on the topic. Even if you have 5 major competitors in a city and they do a different place every weekday, you’re still only covering about 1,000 retailers and merchants per year, assuming no overlap and no repeats. Enter Closely.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. Adding full lifecycle data and industry exposure tags to that, across such a large number of companies, often enables us to see trends ahead of the market, such as retail decimation a few years ago.” AskAnything.VC aggregates resources from all the VCs.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. Adding full lifecycle data and industry exposure tags to that, across such a large number of companies, often enables us to see trends ahead of the market, such as retail decimation a few years ago.” AskAnything.VC aggregates resources from all the VCs.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 24, 2022

The company slashes the price tag of AI deployment across the board by creating a new system architecture which is cost effective, easy to adapt and even reduces energy consumption. Europe, and South America, though Mastercard has not revealed which retailers it will partner with for the rollout. “By

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. Users can send digital Giiv card with store credit (via SMS, for now) that is redeemable at retailer. Tags: Start-up Advice. They sponsor TWiVC. Mobile gifting service.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Diverse search results include stream updates, blog posts, news articles, photos, videos (versus Twitter/FaceBook1 only). Similar service to Verisign for SSL certificates and e-commerce transactions and McAfee SECURE (HackerSafe) for online retailers. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. -Real-time search engine.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

I have made many of my arguments in a blog post I wrote on The Innovator’s Dilemma , a concept that is critical for both innovators & incumbents to understand. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. Of course it’s their right to do so and there is so much money involved you can hardly blame them.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

Location is everything in retail—no one can shop at your store if they can't find it. Sell more and keep your customers happy Automate your eCommerce But when it comes to online retail, your options are much different. Do you build your own store, or open up shop in an already established marketplace?

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

You know, looking at retail businesses or. 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. Dharmesh: I think that's true. We just have.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

It also wrote a bit more about the fundraise on its own blog.). The cover slide is at the top of this post and just reads “The OS for Grocery” with a few keywords, designed as tags (“order management,” “inventory management” and “analytics”).

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Startup Blogpost

JANUARY 27, 2023

This material should consist of well-written and original product descriptions, photographs of high quality, and relevant meta tags. Dhiren Mulani, SEO Consultant, Dhiren Mulani Category and Tag Pages Set to Index Having many category and tag pages set to index is one of the most common SEO mistakes in an e-commerce website.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 12, 2010

But this gets all the space on prominent blogs because it’s what bloggers like to cover.&# It’s self selecting. Retail investors were burned in IPOs in 2000, Consumers getting burned by services disappearing) Minutes 31-35. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. Is there a gap in Series B funding? (10-12mm o Tuenti.

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