The Zapier Blog

JUNE 17, 2025

Sales forecasting becomes much more accurate when based on real pipeline data, and marketing analytics help you understand which campaigns generate the best return on investment. Enhanced customer relationships, satisfaction, and retention: When you actually remember who your customers are and what they care about, they tend to like you more.

real estate

The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

Investing in a unified platform—where all your apps are connected via a shared system—can simplify data management, prevent silos, streamline communication, and reduce operating costs. Category Description CRM Sales Manage your sales process and client communications, including leads, contacts, accounts, and deals.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 4, 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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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

While both platforms offer chatbots, Zendesk has heavily invested in this area, rebranding its bots as "AI Agents." And they've been busy little bees recently, especially in the AI department. Creating your own traditional, non-AI agent in Zendesk isn't the most user-friendly process, either.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 28, 2025

When your sales team consistently hits targets, you generate reliable cash flow that allows you to invest in product, talent, and long-term strategy. Here are a few categories of sales performance tools worth adding to your stack—plus links to lists of app recommendations for each one: Customer relationship management (CRM) software.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

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. 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

JULY 13, 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. Not only financially.

finance

The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

How to know if your business is ready for enterprise process automation There's no perfect checklist, but a few signals can help you know when it's time to invest in enterprise automation. AI-assisted enterprise automation Spend any time online and you might think AI is just about generating awkward headshots or robotic blog intros.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2015

Hungryroot is going after that category--the packaged food category, with a product that takes about 7 minutes from package to mouth. We stayed in touch and reconnected around a blog post that I wrote in 2012 on falling in love with the problem and not getting attached to the solution. All you need is a pan and some olive oil.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. Any longtime readers of this blog will know that I often try to simplify complex ideas into a simple parable that is easier to remember to set the tone of one’s behaviors.

peer-to-peer

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate. Then came blogs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2020

You can expect to see families invest in toys, to keep their children occupied, as well as board games, projects and puzzles that can be done as a family in the evening and on weekends. Influencer parenting bloggers are already putting together lists of their favorites items in these categories and sharing them broadly. Food Delivery.

health

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? And I think about the “Seattle issue&# as a metaphor for startups and business in general.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The week’s top investment deals from OurCrowd. Green light for cleantech investment. Green light for cleantech investment. Annual investment in cleantech increased tenfold from about $400 million a year to peak at $4.3 Joining the AI healthcare revolution. Better choices to fight cancer. Virgin Hyperloop gathers speed.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Future approaches will require serious investment in IP, technology, and R&D but at the end of day, what will continue to matter most is taste. Last year, the White House published a blog post attributing half of the price increases at the grocery store to beef, pork, and poultry. based venture capital fund.

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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. But less considered is the fact that the success of the Web 2.0

networking

Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

With that background, here are 30 tips to help you make the most of Gust: Subscribe to the Gust Blog , and go back and read the past posts. This added exposure can result in indications of interest (investment, acquisition, partnership, etc.) Having a good public profile on Gust means that your company’s public (never private!)

VC

Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

A writer who wants to blog about culture. 1) The Creator Economy as an Investable Concept was ZIRP Accelerated. 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? A singer who wants to sing. An animator who wants to draw.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This article originally appeared on the PixelEdge Blog. “[The It was clear that there was more opportunity for their research and data products, but they wanted to invest their resources in promising ideas for their target market. They had an investment information tool for their space, including research and data analysis.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Jamie Finney is a founding partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund , where he blogs about his work on VC and small communities. We list here all the active flexible VCs we have identified, broken into these categories: Revenue-based. They share their learnings on flexible VC and pioneering rural startup ecosystems on the GCVF blog.

startup ecosystem

David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a part-time scout, getting paid for sourcing investments. How to win consulting, board, operating, and investment roles with private equity and venture capital funds (video). Syllabus for how to launch, manage, and invest a VC fund. But how do you do that? .

VC

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

What are the ‘jobs to be done’ of an investment manager? The macro trends forcing change on the investment management industry. The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a scout, getting compensated for sourcing investments. Scouts are typically paid a percentage of carry-on investments they source.

VC

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

As a result of their investments, Founders Fund partner Trae Stephens and Lux Capital co-founder Josh Wolfe are both taking seats on the company’s board. Initially, they’ll be unmanned, according to a blog post published by Fifty Years. Then they’ll manufacture things in space that benefit from low gravity.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Building tools for unions is certainly not a category or product that most VCs want to exist, let alone see grow. How personal opinions immediately cloud this topic, but how many new categories are evaluated with some marginal intellectual curiosity. I’ve heard many fast and hard passes. then a passing reference to Jimmy Hoffa.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 20, 2021

Prices in the public market are stretched, which is why one should invest earlier in a company’s development cycle.”. He previously worked at Jefferies LLC where he was a Vice Chairman and Executive Committee member, roles he took on after leading the technology investment banking group for many years. Back to the Investing kitchen. “I

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

investment

OurCrowd

JUNE 26, 2021

Ripple products are currently available in over 20,000 retail stores across the US, where the company has captured ultra-high value customers and driven category expansion of plant-based milk products. How To Grow a Hectocorn: Zoom Backer Jim Scheinman on His New Investment. Spread the word about OurCrowd’s investment opportunities.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

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. Invest in content: Less competition, easier to get eyes on your content New things scare people. In my experience, this is a mistake.

communities

FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

Venture capital investing offers different challenges than those associated with tech entrepreneurship, but Alex Mittal, co-founder and CEO of FundersClub, approached the sphere of venture capital the same way he did as a tech founder previously: is there a better way to do this? And so that's our primary motivation and reason for being.

VC

Startup Blogpost

MARCH 22, 2024

We gathered 30 invaluable strategies from SEO Analysts, Founders, and other experts, ranging from optimizing content with targeted keywords to crafting blog posts that answer key questions. The advantage of Web Stories is that you can condense existing blog content or other content for easy sharing on various social media platforms.

strategy

Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

That does not always lead to success, but it helps founders to avoid investments of resources into unpromising markets and ideas. Social networks, expert and consumer blogs, blogs of relevant influencers, test portals, and tools like Google Keyword Planner. How many people experience the problem?

frameworks

TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

But I can share with you a blog post that Affirm’s Levchin published on June 3 regarding his view at least on why his company is positioned to not only survive but also thrive in a downturn.

incumbents

TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2023

Reports Manish Singh: “India’s central bank has directed SBM Bank India to stop all outward remittance transactions in a blow to the bank and many of its fintech partners that offer services allowing users to invest in foreign services.” A 2022 graduate of TechStars LA, Matchstick Ventures, Far Out Ventures and Acadian Ventures invested $1.7

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

UAE Tech Investment Landscape: Introduction for the Israeli Ecosystem , broadcast from Abu Dhabi, will be held on Oct. Masaood al Masaood, Chairman of Emirates Angels, explains the flying start to tech investment ties with Israel and OurCrowd. We are defining the rules of an entirely new category of software,” Hurt says.

leadership

OurCrowd

JULY 1, 2022

The company’s net revenue grew in 2021 despite supply-chain disruptions during the Covid-19 pandemic, with sales growing several times faster than the industry average across all categories. SoftBank asked Vision 2 Fund companies to share their top marketing investment. L earn More.

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OurCrowd

MAY 23, 2021

The World Economic Forum says SqUID’s technological power and its ability to climb and work within existing infrastructures puts it in a unique category of its own: an “Autonomous Climbing Robot.” Join OurCrowd as we invest in a Series A round with Pico Venture Partners and Pontifax. Learn More. Learn more.

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