Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

The best angels will do very well just at the best real estate investors did well in good times and bad. Great businesses take 7-10 years to build. This is the time it takes for a bankruptcy or asset sale to occur. We’ll re-compare notes then. People often talk about what makes a great investor.

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

The press enhances this misconception around YCombinator demo days, where the 3-day pitch event is perceived like an auction, with investors fighting each other for the best deals. Your investor deck needs to summarize a company story into 10 or 15 slides and hit all the high notes in a few minutes. It did for me, at least.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 24, 2011

They'll usually speak for free if it means helping out their local developer community with best practices. When you're doing RSVPs, use a tool like Eventbrite that allows you to collect more information from each attendee--like what languages they develop in, how many years experience they have, current company, LinkedIn, blog, Twitter, etc.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

Here are the top blog posts EO published on Inc.com in 2023: 1. How to Master the Art of Difficult Conversations in Your Business Shawn Johal (EO Montreal), a leadership speaker, best-selling author, and founder of business growth practice Elevation Leaders , shared how he handles challenging conversations in his company.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Disillusioned employees have alienated good customers, incompetent managers have killed productivity, and the best talent has left for the competition. Take a weekly pulse. Atlassian, an Australian software company , created an internal app called MoodApp (great name!) It will help you keep levels of engagement high.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2025

Below are some of the best AI-powered tools categorized by their functions: 1. Jasper AI AI-powered content generation for blogs, social media, and ads. Zapier AI Automates workflows by integrating apps and AI-powered actions. Microsoft Copilot AI assistant integrated into Microsoft Office apps.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. The founder reiterated that we don’t know the exact reasons that people are leaving, but he also noted that it’s a red flag from a recruitment perspective. Real estate investing app Fintor raises $6.2M The do-it-all’s. Food for thought.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

Taking the time to gather your thoughts and experiences, then write them down, is a simple way to manage stress, enhance creativity, increase happiness, improve health, and increase work performance. Hate every journaling app? It takes dedication to this new habit and a willingness to open up when writing on a blank page.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

While email services haven't changed a lot over the past two decades, email apps keep getting better. There are some great native Mac email apps that make the whole experience better and more Mac-like. 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

APRIL 18, 2023

How to use OpenAI's GPT to spark content ideas Learn how I decided to run a little experiment to see just how helpful AI can be to my blog writing process—if at all. My AI blog writing experiment Using Notion's AI assistant is easy; just hit the space bar in a new line anywhere in Notion. But could it help save me time?

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

But producing content, handling the posting schedule, and finding what your audience wants to read can be hard—even with a standard social media management app. Here are the eight best AI apps for managing your social media. Here are the main features I considered when choosing the best AI social media management software.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

Here are the top blog posts EO posted on Inc.com in 2023: 1. 3 Tips to Master the Art of Difficult Conversations in Your Business Shawn Johal (EO Montreal), a leadership speaker, best-selling author, and founder of business growth practice Elevation Leaders , shared how he handles challenging conversations in his company.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Copy.ai’s software costs $35 a month and can, for example, write a blog post outline based on a few sentences and create link descriptions for Facebook ads and even generate a company motto. One recent feature is Editor, which enables users to organize thoughts, save ideas and edit notes directly in the app. This follows a $2.9

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

The company, which has referred to itself as the “Shopify for mobile apps,” today powers the shopping apps for top brands , including Fashion Nova, Pier One Imports, The Hundreds, Patta, Culture Kings, and thousands more. Where is the e-commerce app ecosystem headed in 2021? During the past 12 months, over $1.2

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

And while March 2020 would have been the best time for a relaunch, March 2021 was pretty good, too. Today Chasen announced that the service has received a nice little slice of VC backing to help the service (which has thus far been invite/password only) take the next step. A mobile app would be nice, if I’m just spitballing here.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Yet many copywriters use generic phrases like “#1 software,” “the best platform,” and so on to impress readers without actually providing helpful information. This is best done by adding specificity. Help TechCrunch find the best growth marketers for startups. Make each sentence move the prospect closer to taking action.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. Now, we often take these sorts of lists with a grain of salt. You can read his take here.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 30, 2018

The original version of this article appeared on the blog of Boost, a New Zealand–based company that designs and builds web and mobile apps. It takes time to establish trust, but don’t let this put you off. The journey of building trust and mutual respect is a journey well worth taking. It takes time to master this skill.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

But as I wrote here on my personal blog about all of this, what does matter out of the generally irksome pol is that there is bipartisan interest in limiting the ability of big tech companies to buy smaller companies. And if those metrics dip, there could be fewer upstarts in the market actually working to take on the giants.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

Power up your Google apps with automation Learn how That has the potential to make my job a lot easier. Depending on your preferred option, you can like or dislike a draft to let it know which answer was best (presumably for training purposes). Creativity aside, I do use it to generate blog article ideas.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Here’s more: Editor’s note: This interview has been edited lightly for length and clarity. The educational and inspirational content you use to attract developers will depend on who is the best fit for your product. If you provide a mobile SDK, the right developer is building iOS and Android apps. The main takeaway?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

Welcome to The Interchange, a take on this week’s fintech news and trends. But it is illustrative of the measures that financial services companies — incumbents and fintechs alike — are taking to make their installment loans available to more consumers. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Case in point.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 22, 2023

Once acquired (gone to your website or app), they continuously go through a loop of activating/failing to activate, giving you money/not giving you money, and then going through the process again and again (retention). There is a classic blog post written by Paul Graham called “Do Things That Don’t Scale”. So what is growth?

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

We also wanted tight integration with our email client (Superhuman (best) or Gmail , including pixel tracking of when emails were opened. Note we’re looking to optimize deliverability for manually-created one-to-one emails, not just our newsletter. This effect is especially true when we see generalist CRMs, most often Salesforce.

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OkDork

JANUARY 27, 2023

Then, take a cut of whatever you save them. Basically, to be a content remixer, you turn long-form content like YouTube videos and podcasts into blog posts, tweet threads, LinkedIn posts, Instagram Reels, and TikTok videos. But I think a lot of times, the best way to make money is in the areas where no one else is making it.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

Everybody likes a business that also achieves social good, but the best way to do that is to find a model that makes a ton of cash and also happens to achieve some good. Sometimes it’s almost better to have a VC who does nothing at all than to have a VC who taking too much of your time as a founder.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

The easiest way to turn your business into a social enterprise is by taking a step back and analyzing your industry as a whole. Unlike the alternatives noted above, Techtonic Academy doesn’t charge for training. The best part of creating a social enterprise? Here are my insights into building a social enterprise.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

In all the podcasts I listened to and blogs I read, there was a consistent refrain: "You need to set aside time to think big." Get the Zapier blog in your inbox Subscribe So, I crowdsourced the answers. Keep a journal or a running Google Doc to jot down notes and reexamine them later. But what did it mean ?

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

But it's hard to land on the best idea out of the dozens flying around inside your head. ChatGPT is great for this because (a) it's free, and (b) it acts as a brute-force creativity tool: it can generate lots of possibilities, and it's up to you to choose which ones are the best. Adopting a circular mindset is.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 18, 2011

One, I thought I wanted to be able to take notes in meetings. I had a flip screen Toshiba at USV back in 2005, where I found myself to be as equally poor at note taking as I am now. The bain of any Windows user is how long it takes for their computers to load. I bought an iPad for two reasons. Problem solved.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

That's why, at first, I wasn't sure if I had the technical savvy to try out Leap AI , a nifty image-generation tool that works on JavaScript and that folks can integrate into their own apps. Its best use case, though, is that you can train your own models to generate images based on the originals you feed it.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

Best practices for Zoom board meetings at early-stage startups. Yes, we all get to communicate on it, and it’s great to have something to connect all of us, but it just takes up so much damn time to read through everything and figure out what’s useful and what is just watercooler chat.).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Magazine’s annual list of Best Workplaces for 2021 and was listed as No. I knew if we wanted to scale and grow, we needed someone like Evan to help take us to the next level. Magazine’s List of Best Workplaces for 2021. During the pandemic, our company focused on taking care of the team. 2,471 on the 2021 Inc.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. . Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. 3) Raise capital.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

Or you can scroll to the end for a quick summary of which email marketing service will be best for you. If we take the "Welcome Sequence" as an example, Mailchimp provides a basic sequence with only one email sent after a subscriber signs up. Hardly a sequence, really.) Here are some examples to get you started.

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Reforge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

I still remember reading Eric Ries’ blog post that first coined the term “Lean Startup” in September 2008. It fully encapsulated a new way to build startups that was starting to take hold in Silicon Valley. Over the past few years, I’ve become skeptical of whether “The Lean Startup” was really the best guide for new product innovation.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 17, 2021

Whether you’re selling a blog, eCommerce store, or app, it is important to understand how much your business is worth. For example, a content blog is up for sale for $3,000 with a multiple of 2x. Of course, it’s important to note that this is only if income remains consistent. Valuate Your Business. Website Data.

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