Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Unfortunately, our current linear economy produces enormous amounts of waste—and electronic waste is one of the fastest-growing categories to address. Naturally, data security is a critical part of every asset retirement process. This process ensures they maximize what can be recycled. Responsible Recycling.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

People had been steadily blogging for 2-3 years and this crowd seemed to bifurcate. On the one hand were the blogs that “blew up&# and became real businesses like TechCrunch, GigaOm or TalkingPointsMemo. So Twitter was initially billed at a “micro-blogging&# platform. started blogging again outlined here.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 30, 2018

For instance, SKU #L122UV from Bausch+Lomb was categorized as Intraocular Lens (also called “IOL,” one of the test categories our customer assigned us) and had the following attributes: Optic Shape, Optic Material, Haptic Material, Pieces, Optic Diameter, Overall Diameter, Power, Haptic Design, A-Constant, AC Depth and Haptic Angle.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2011

VC Blogger Fanboy This geek reads all the blogs religiously and is a lean startup ninja. Having them associated with your business is cool, and might get you into a pitch meeting, but if their actual relationship to you is vaporware, it's just going to set others up for a disappointment in the due diligence process. Ashton Kutcher.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

That does not mean, however, that anyone else outside that category is unable to raise. This blog post is not about debating if "enough" diverse founders get funding--whatever that might mean. If you don't own that in your ask and your plans, you're going to get crushed in the fundraising process. That is a fact.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. I attended events. I hustled.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

As a VC with scores of startups in our portfolio we have ringside seats to many, many fund raising processes plus I had to raise money across about 5 different rounds of capital as an entrepreneur so I’ve developed some thought on the process that I hope can be helpful to some of you before you start. Below is the outline Upfront.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups. This is unintentional and inevitable.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

Visualize, plan, and automate business-critical processes Try Zapier Canvas For the past few years, I've tested dozens of online whiteboards to find the best ones for a variety of needs. 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 30, 2025

Free invoicing software makes the billing process a whole lot easier. Streamline your invoicing workflows with automation Learn how And with so many great free invoicing tools out there, you can streamline the process without any upfront investment. Others use third-party payment gateways to process payments.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. I attended events. I hustled.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs. But the masses didn’t want to blog. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. Distribution.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Forward it to a friend, share it on Twitter, and follow my personal blog for more content. She raised $101 million in 10 weeks for her inaugural fund, a process she thinks took too long but, clearly, resonated with a number of investors. Visual generation is not an existing software category. The do-it-all’s.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

From each node, you then repeat the process, drilling deeper into the different concepts. "BBQs" 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.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 13, 2016

Management of my newsletter & blog. First, these processes could get in the way of your ability to focus on your core competency. Second, handling all these processes would ask you to be an expert in too many areas. The post My Big Resolution for 2016 appeared first on THE BLOG. Management of my YouTube channel.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

I've grouped them into categories to make things easier to scan, but keep in mind: the best ads don't always fit neatly into a box. That kind of third-party validation builds instant trust, especially in a category where trust is everything. Many blur the lines between formats, and that overlap is often what makes them work.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

The answer to the original question, therefore, is that an entrepreneur should use Gust as a set of powerful tools to organize, support and smooth the fundraising process, rather than expecting it to be a magic bullet. Among the contributors are Quora regulars including Tim Berry , Antone Johnson , Martin Zwilling and me.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This article originally appeared on the PixelEdge Blog. “[The The PixelEdge] workshop and canvasses provided an easy structured framework to work through our evaluation and customer discovery process. Since the company wanted to reach low-hanging fruit, they weighed the feasibility category at 2.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

Some data is structured, neatly categorized, and easily processed. 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.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

A writer who wants to blog about culture. Do these folks want to be the 100th investor chasing SaaS or do they want to define/invent new categories where they can be the thought leaders? That is, if you are someone who wishes to earn a minimum viable living being creative, what is the likelihood you’ll be able to do so?

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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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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 5, 2025

The best vibe coding tools Lovable for ease of use Bolt for flexibility Cursor for debugging vibed code v0 for a clear view of the building process Tempo Labs for free error fixing Replit for planning before building Base44 for easy security controls Memex for vibe coding everything What makes the best AI vibe coding tool?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The company, with bases in both Austin and Australia, was started in 2009 and facilitates exits for millions of online business owners, some that operate on e-commerce marketplaces, blogs, SaaS and apps, the newest data integration being for Shopify, Blake Hutchison, CEO of Flippa, told TechCrunch.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Benefits of AI automation Key components and technologies that AI automation uses How to implement AI automation AI automation use cases Examples of AI automation processes What's the difference between AI automation and RPA? Table of contents: What is AI automation? A dream come true.

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Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Many thanks to David Rose , Ilana Grossman , Justin Stanwix , and the whole Gust team for making the Gust Blog such a valuable platform and resource for entrepreneurs and angel investors. As we’ve discussed, obtaining a patent can be a slow, costly and difficult process.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 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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StartupNation

OCTOBER 20, 2021

This is known as intent marketing, and it’s what we’ll be exploring in this article, along with the two categories of purchase intent and, of course, the reasons why intention is essential in marketing. These intentions are grouped into two categories: informational intent and transactional intent. Let’s get to it!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 15, 2016

Around this time, I joined another entrepreneurial group called The Dynamite Circle, and through their blog, I was introduced to Taylor Pearson, a coach and writer who is both thoughtful and analytical— exactly what I needed. But there was a catch: I had to stay away from picking a specific business category. I couldn’t be more proud.

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StartupNation

MAY 19, 2021

Are you carving out a new category? By starting the process before your course is complete, you’ve paved the way to get your program to market faster and to a receptive audience. I recommend weekly nurturing in the form of emails, short-form videos or even blog posts. How are you serving them? Are you creating a new specialty?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Suddenly, every process has a hundred steps, five tools, and a dozen people involved. Challenges of automating for enterprise How to know if your business is ready for enterprise process automation Types of enterprise automation Enterprise automation examples How to choose an enterprise automation platform What is enterprise automation?

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 25, 2025

Hosted by i2E and presented by Loves Travel Stops, this years event awarded more than $167,000 in prizes across multiple categories, celebrating the brightest emerging entrepreneurs from colleges and universities throughout the state. The first-place team was G&J Sensing Solutions from The University of Tulsa, winning $6,000.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

If you’re a business, setting up and managing a subscription service — to ensure recurring revenue — could prove to be a complex process. Subramanian has credited reading blog posts by Joel Spolsky, founder of Trello, as an early inspiration to start his own venture. “He Tiger Global goes super aggressive in India.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 25, 2024

There are a few key features we believe products in this category will have: Generation tools that kill the “blank page” problem. Hitting the re-generate button and/or revising your prompt is a critical, but time-consuming and frustrating, part of the process. What if you could do every step of this process in one platform?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 3, 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. Privacy and IP controls.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

When I learned they were hiring a community manager, I threw everything I had at the interview process. Any good stories or memories about the process or listing day itself? A process that normally takes five weeks, give or take, took us ten months! They gave me a shot. Working at Box was a revelation.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

So, if you're looking for an AI content generator that will help you write compelling copy, publish blog posts a lot quicker, and otherwise take some of the slow-paced typing out of writing, you've come to the right place. 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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