OnStartups

MARCH 24, 2021

Which, as it turns out is a highly underrated thing (more on that in another blog post). There was one simple requirement: You had to be able to afford the risk and that was simply measured by how much money you had -- or how much money you made. So, all I had to do to become an angel investor was to start writing checks.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

Think how much faster you will be able to go, and therefore have more runway to iterate to product-market fit. Unfortunately, more often than not, these approaches have been disappointing, prompting me to write this list of tips to help founders win over a someone like me. How can you validate your idea?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 20, 2018

How did you start teaching your children about entrepreneurship? In support of its vision to create the world’s most influential community of entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) encourages new ways of inspiring entrepreneurship through education and experience sharing. Here’s what he shared. But even better?they

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 22, 2025

Email marketers don't have to contend with constantly changing search algorithms and ranking factors—but that doesn't mean that an email sent is an email received. It's very possible that your marketing emails, and even your transactional emails, will never make it to the recipient.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 18, 2019

No more emails, conference calls, work texts or traveling for business. Now, looking back, I saw how narrow my focus had been during my working years. Now, looking back, I saw how narrow my focus had been during my working years. I had always worked long hours in addition to traveling for work. It felt great!

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 14, 2021

could it be a blog post, or a tweet? Write an email with your eyes closed, or, in a more improve-the-world sense, let people with physical disabilities to move mechanical limbs. Valuable Pocket Litter In the Cold War days, spies would carry what they called “pocket litter” to corroborate their cover story in case of capture.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

Writing authentic sales emails is tough, even for the sharpest salespeople. I fed ChatGPT a whole load of different prompts to see if it could craft some decent sales emails for me. I fed ChatGPT a whole load of different prompts to see if it could craft some decent sales emails for me.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

From writing your resume for you to automating networking emails, there are tons of ways AI can help streamline your job search. 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.

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

From optimizing your sales funnel to getting a head start with sales/marketing copy, here are 9 answers to the question, “How can a startup (with limited capital and resources) utilize artificial intelligence in their business?” A CRM can be used to organize, manage, and collaborate on all aspects of the sales process.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Until VCs write checks, successful startups figure out ways to pay as they go. There is nothing more inspiring than the journeys of Oklahoma’s advanced technology startups. Bison Underground is one such company, an ag-tech startup that launched about a year ago in Norman, OK. candidate at the University of Oklahoma. military veterans.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

I spent a bunch of time in each of these apps, and here's how the Airtable vs. I spent a bunch of time in each of these apps, and here's how the Airtable vs. Google Sheets showdown went. Google Sheets at a glance If you don't want to read a granular breakdown of how the two products compare, here's the gist.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 8, 2022

despite it being a cold November day in Chicago. Starting as a 14-year-old, I would pore over sports blogs to find out who the future stars of my favorite college football programs would be. Starting as a 14-year-old, I would pore over sports blogs to find out who the future stars of my favorite college football programs would be.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

3 ways to automate your sales processes Streamline your sales So we asked sales and marketing leaders to skip the hype and share how they're using AI in their day-to-day workflows: what they've automated with AI, what's stuck, and what's quietly saving their teams hours every week. " Follow-up emails. "We

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 17, 2024

A product executive colleague at Google once joked he was basically an email router; that most of the problems they solved were largely about sending or forwarding a message with a small amount of value added. Blog as archives! Certainly my life as an investor has me doing a bunch of this as well.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

Despite taking piano lessons and music composition classes for nearly a decade, I remember very little about how to actually play the piano or how to transpose a song. If you want to first geek out on how memory works, keep reading. " Encoding refers to how you learn and understand information. ."

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Derek Sivers

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Last month, I published a new article to my blog every day. Here’s why: It made my writing worse, not better. I was skipping steps 2-5 of my writing process. I already write many hours a day privately, but I only post something to the public when I feel it’s really worth sharing. Have a private email account.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

It was an intense journey filled with cold-calling potential new members, leveraging resources, producing events that appeal to both strategic alliance partners (SAPs) and potential members, and implementing the strategies and structure for a successful organization. In EO’s 30-year history, members have led the formation of 196 chapters.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

In each episode, they share their unique journeys and offer their strategies on how you can pivot, perform, and profit in any environment. How to build a brand that will benefit your business? How did Ramon Discover He Was An Entrepreneur? How can you get fired from the United Nations, the most peace loving place on earth?”

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 29, 2010

There’s often going to be very little structure and guidance on how to create value when you’re at a startup, so if in your approach to me, you’re asking me to do work for you right off the bat, like tell you about the opportunities and tell you how to find them, I’m going to be very suspect about your ability to just kick ass.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2011

It’s clear that if you use Twitter wisely it can have an impact on how you physically experience your world. Except that without providing the Twittersphere any scope for write-in votes 9 people actually said to go to Jim’s instead. Here’s my story. So I asked Twitter a simple question: The results were clear.

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

How does he do both? 1:45 – How does he manage his calendar as an introvert? 3:45 – How Brian met his cofounder Dharmesh. 3:45 – How Brian met his cofounder Dharmesh. 9:00 – How would he have priced HubSpot differently knowing what he knows now? How do you mesh those two things together?

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