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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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Subramanian has credited reading blog posts by Joel Spolsky, founder of Trello, as an early inspiration to start his own venture. “He He was solving a very boring problem but in very interesting ways, and he used to share the story of how he is building a company,” he said in an earlier interview.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor. Some quick highlights include: The Role of a Seed Stage VC.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Demographics rarely tell the entire story. 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. You need to go beyond the profile of your prospects. Let’s get to it! Informational intent.

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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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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

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. Some other categories of apps can also work perfectly well.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

A huge mistake I see is that VC tells an entrepreneur no based on a set of reason that this VC felt weren’t right with the business (market size, traction to date, too many competitors, no big exits in the category or whatever easy excuses VCs have developed to politely say no) and the entrepreneur lets this get inside his or her head.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

I know that any time ads are mentioned it makes the blood boil on any self respecting technologist the same way it did when HotWire ran their first ad in 1994 and the way it made Google’s blood boil when Overture launched the sponsored search category. The big splashy image ads is part of their reading experience.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 23, 2024

The post Beyond the Cup: Tracking Success Stories from the Entrepreneur’s Cup Series – Nathan Fountain appeared first on i2E. Being able to empathize with business owners has helped me build strong presentations and come up with effective solutions for my clients.

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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

This narrative was laced through the event, especially with the founder of Thumbtack, Marco Zappacosta, recounting his company’s financing story. A number of companies that will go public this year and next (like Dropbox) didn’t raise obscene rounds of funding early. It’s all just a matter of time.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

I know that would be surprising to many readers since keeping a blog somehow convinces people that I’m a time management or productivity ninja. I tell this story to give you a sense of the urgency addiction in action: procrastination meets deadlines meets embarrassment if you suck = creativity and peak performance. [As

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 30, 2021

A lot of people have furthered their career by “putting themselves out there”—creating blogs, newsletters, participating on Twitter, doing podcasts, etc. They tend to fall into two categories and you're not either one of these: —Celebrities that are willfully ignorant about cultural issues. In fact, most of them aren’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

We also discussed how to deal with pricing in angel rounds and a strategy I advocated in my “social proof&# blog post , which is to price your initial angel round really low and get in the best possible angels as a way to get momentum in the company. People also buy for defensive reasons or ego but that’s a different story.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 23, 2024

Srijita Ghosh Represented East Central University in 2017 Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup 2 nd place in Small Business category and Pitch Competition winner Currently Venture Advisor at i2E Please provide a few details on your winning Entrepreneur’s Cup business idea.

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The Zapier Blog

MARCH 22, 2023

No-Code Transforming Businesses Tori Phillips, Support Technical Analyst, Hudl First up, meet the winner of the No-Code Transforming Businesses category: Tori Phillips, Support Technical Analyst for Hudl , a global leader in sports technology. A big thank you to all of our winners and everyone else who submitted their stories this year.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2016

I remember the same disdain from people when I started blogging or using Twitter. A bit like a blog that is put out regularly but not overly edited or self-conscious about word choices or typos. So it provides me with a less crowded audience than publishing on: blogs, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. Why would a VC do that?

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. They tell you how to tell your story. I asked for intro’s from entrepreneur friends. I attended events. I did speaking gigs. I hustled. Otherwise, “why I am so lucky?” They know how to build pitch decks.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. That notes only told part of the story. I would mostly lump me in that category. And did I really just try to drop an SAT word into my blog post? In VC there are the obvious people including Bijan, Brad Feld, Fred Wilson, Josh Kopelman and Bryce Roberts.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

SaaS companies may pursue small, medium and enterprise customers, many times across industry categories. It’s not to say each blog post or tweet must strike a chord with every segment each time, but that there ought to be some content for targeting each segment specifically. Very few businesses target only one type of customer.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

In fact, when it comes to marketing, about 90% of decisions fall into this category. Use your own story and voice. You don’t want to copy the voice or story of another business or product in the market. Master telling your story, and help people emotionally connect to your company through this method.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

He's the co-founder of growth marketing blog Growth Marketing Pro and content generation tool GrowthBar. Tell a story with your business’ proprietary data. Healthcare websites fall into a category of sensitive sites that Google classifies as Your Money, Your Life (YMYL). Mark Spera. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. They tell you how to tell your story. I asked for intro’s from entrepreneur friends. I attended events. I did speaking gigs. I hustled. ” Otherwise, “why I am so lucky?” They know how to build pitch decks.

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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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Jason Malki

DECEMBER 5, 2023

I wrote a blog about this the last time I started up. Relevant links Pitch deck —  link Product trailer —  [link] Product website —  [link] This product won the best Audio hack category at the Generative Hackathon organized by Stanford, Anthropic, OpenAI and LanceDB on 8th October 2023.

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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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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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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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