The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

At first glance, Jasper and ChatGPT seem similar—they're both generative AI tools that can create content in a split second. There have been major upgrades to both apps since I first started using them, so I dug into each one again to see how their features stack up.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

We were only paying for Zapier in order to pull business cards into Salesforce. For example, we’ve created workflows for automatic cleaning and standardizing of certain data fields. For example, we’ve created workflows for automatic cleaning and standardizing of certain data fields. Second, high-quality customer service.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

Keep your customer support systems healthy Streamline support You may not be in the shoe biz, but the importance of quality customer service is pretty universal. I tested both apps to see how their features compare and what teams they're best for. But which one should you go with? Keep reading for my breakdown of Zendesk vs. Jira.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

It's helping millions of people write content, solve coding problems, and create games, among other ridiculous and impressive things. Build your own AI chatbot with no-code Here's how Allow me to save you a dozen Google searches (or ChatGPT prompts). Because ChatGPT isn't the only hat in the ring.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

Make Slack a more productive place to work Automate Slack As a fully-remote company , reacji allow us to quickly respond to messages without creating unnecessarily long threads with "I agree" and "aww" (for dog photos, obviously). Our team has created thousands of custom Slack emoji to speed up communication.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 1) Manage the firm .

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

How Web3 startups should deploy their limited marketing resources Photo: Burst Almost $2 trillion of market value has disappeared from the crypto industry in 2022, taking with it much of the buzz around Web3. With the crypto winter in full swing for several months now, marketers?—?and and their budgets?—?have have felt the freeze.

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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 filled with helpful tips, product how-tos, and even a little incentive at the end. Table of contents What is email deliverability?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 26, 2025

Google's Gemini era has been in full swing over the past year, integrating its Gemini family of AI models into nearly every corner of its product suite—from Google search to Google Workspace and beyond. Try Zapier Chatbots Create free custom AI chatbots to engage customers and take action with built-in automation. Here's how.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 8, 2023

They like to emphasize how they are “focused on their own mission” instead. As if their business becomes a more noble pursuit. Business is All About Competition, Stop Saying Otherwise Business is competitive, and that’s what makes it hard. They are searching and comparing. The process never stopped.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 1) Manage the firm .

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

What I didn't realize is that minor tweaks to generalized email marketing tactics aren't enough to create a successful B2B campaign. B2B email marketing is a tactic for promoting products or services to business-to-business customers.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

In the right circumstances, these AI text generators can help you work better and faster, and create more polished and on-brand copy. This latest generation of AI writing tools can obviously write a passable lede, but it can't give you an actual opinion as to how good it is. That's what us humans are for. (In

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 20, 2020

20: How AgTech protects our food supply in a pandemic. Startup technology is increasing farmers’ yields, easing distribution and enhancing irrigation, creating unprecedented opportunities for investment in fast-growing AgTech companies. . This week’s top investment deals from OurCrowd. Webinar Oct. The astonishing $1.2

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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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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 3, 2024

From adjusting your pricing strategy to doubling down on what’s working, let’s explore how to effectively double your ARR and set your software company on a path to that next level. The Power of Pricing Strategies In the world of software businesses, your pricing strategy is more than throwing up a number and seeing what sticks.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

There is however, a more important trend that relates alternatively to the consumerization of the “business” of healthcare. healthcare system rarely thinks of the patient as a customer. healthcare system rarely thinks of the patient as a customer. One could go even farther, and suggest that the U.S.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 24, 2022

Our portfolio company Kaholo is set to change that with its low-code SaaS-based platform for creating and orchestrating IT/DevOps automation workflows. If we get it right, the effect will be much greater than the step change that has placed millions of times more computing power in a smartphone than on Apollo 11.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. I use IFTTT and Zapier to automate the process of maintaining these platforms. Most investors including me spend most of our day doing the same things people have always done in the job: in my case, due diligence, deal execution, etc. Tech stack.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 20, 2022

Businesses are pulling out of Russia en masse in an unprecedented display of leadership even when it costs them in their bottom line. Businesses are pulling out of Russia en masse in an unprecedented display of leadership even when it costs them in their bottom line. The invisible hand and heart of capitalism supports Ukraine.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 23, 2021

Freightos adds Qatar Airways to WebCargo roster Qatar Airways, the world’s second-largest cargo airline, has signed onto WebCargo’s digital freight marketplace created by OurCrowd portfolio company Freightos , which gives freight forwarders the ability to quickly compare live rates and capacity, and electronically book shipments.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 29, 2022

While scientists have figured out how to grow meat from cells, the process is long and expensive. The company has developed proprietary enhanced muscle-generation technology, created at the Weizmann Institute, which increases quality and texture while shortening the growth timeline of cultivated meat. Learn More.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 13, 2022

The robotic 3D printing platform created by Largix can produce large-scale industrial objects using standard polymers, slashing by up to 50% the cost of items like storage tanks by removing the need for scarce, highly-trained labor. Startup of the Week: Largix: First 3D printing for large industrial items. OurCrowd is leading this $2.5M

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

You use dozens of tools to get work done—and you'll need to move information between them to keep operations running effectively. But as your workflows get more complex (and they will), you'll need to automate those business-critical processes so you can drive actual results—at scale. Learn more.

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StartupNation

APRIL 8, 2021

Below are some tips for fixing common e-commerce pain points: Create a referral program. They skim through articles, case studies, blog posts or product reviews, but it may not be enough to seal the deal. Learn more about how you can create your own referral program here. Related: Make 2021 the Year of the Customer.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

If conducting research is a regular part of your workflow, chances are you've lost more than a few hours to tabs, links, and scattered searches. Enter Perplexity , the conversational AI search engine that gives you direct answers from real, reliable web sources and cites its answers—no endless link-hopping required. New to Zapier?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 2, 2025

Without both, it's difficult to run effective outreach. With Zapier's automated workflows (called Zaps), you can move data seamlessly between Clay and your other tools for smoother, more scalable processes without all the manual overhead. New to Zapier? Sign up for free to use this app, and thousands more, with Zapier.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

Automate your business analytics tools Learn more So whether you're in marketing, UX, risk management, manufacturing, or any other industry that the future matters to, predictive analytics tools like the ones I break down below should help you get the data-driven insights you need to make better decisions.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Fred Wilson recently posted a great video on his blog with the CEO of Forrester Research, George Colony. The top line is available storage (S), the middle line represents processing power (following Moore’s law) or (P) and the bottom line is the Network (N). This blog post lays out my case. He’s right about this.

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StartupNation

MAY 24, 2021

We’ve put together a list of six e-commerce marketing tactics to implement during the rest of 2021 that will set your business up for success: Drop pop-ups that cover your webpages. Pop-ups annoy almost everyone — so how could they be anything but problematic in 2021? Would you try again or just close the tab?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

How do reasoning models like OpenAI o3 and o4 work? How do reasoning models like OpenAI o3 and o4 work? GPT vs. o3 and o4 OpenAI o3 and o4 pricing How to access OpenAI o3 and o4 What are OpenAI o3 and o4? Large language models (LLMs) are incredibly good at stating things confidently, even if they aren't always correct.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 19, 2021

As she marks 25 years in business, Renée shared what she’s learned along her entrepreneurial journey. They would never teach this in business school (not that I went to business school!), Over the course of a quarter-century, I’ve learned a lot of lessons about how to successfully run a company. No, not entirely.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Our goal is to make the enormous volume of real-time information more manageable for the 99% of companies that lack the infrastructure to process these volumes in real time. Think of DataSift as turning the fire-hose into a cost-effective and manageable tap of running water. What does that mean? So with DataSift I’m doubling down.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 18, 2022

The concept of generating buzz to get consumers, marketers, and media to start discussing your offers is what spreads brand awareness for your new business. The concept of generating buzz to get consumers, marketers, and media to start discussing your offers is what spreads brand awareness for your new business. Let’s get started.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

We’re very excited for the impact they’ll have here at OpenAI,” OpenAI wrote in a brief post published to its official blog. It’s able to write essays, code and more given short text prompts , hyper-charging productivity. But it also has a more… nefarious side. And OpenAI is heavily investing in it.

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OurCrowd

JULY 4, 2021

Ride Vision has created the first Mobileye-style ADAS safety system for two-wheelers. Ride Vision’s patented Collision Aversion Technology combines off-the-shelf hardware with proprietary algorithms based on machine vision, AI, and neural networks to create a near 360-degree threat analysis of the environment surrounding a motorcycle.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 3, 2021

BlueTree Technologies is an Israeli startup whose proprietary process selectively removes sugar from orange juice and other high-sugar drinks – without harming the taste. The miniaturized capsule can safely go where no medicine delivery system has gone before: the innermost regions of the brain. Introductions. Invest Now. .

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