Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I recently read a book I’d highly recommend to every reader of this blog called “ Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive &# by Robert B. Angels are writing smaller checks so they typically don’t want the overhead of complex analysis in order to make their decision. So what are you waiting for?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

The potential risks – trying to achieve too much (complexity / breadth of scope worried me a bit), they didn’t seem to have a tight enough use case that they were doing better than anybody else (again, possibly too broad). Tags: Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. Overall, exciting team.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

I recently wrote a blog post here in which I argued that the best VC meetings are discussions and not sales pitches. A few weeks ago I sat through two very contrasting presentations and wrote this blog post right afterward. He was defensive and seemed affronted that we wanted to discuss the complexities of building his business.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Justyn Howard, founder of Sprout Social has a blog post that he’s written about his experiences of migrating from scrappy tools to more efficient ones (i.e. There is no “right or wrong&# as this will be a judgment call in each startup based on capital raised, stage of company, number of customers, complexity of your business, etc.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 27, 2025

Here’s how the Zap works: A Webhooks by Zapier trigger catches incoming feedback tagged red or yellow from Customer Thermometer. scaled, so did the complexity of its internal updates. For Smith.ai, every call summary email includes a customer satisfaction survey powered by Customer Thermometer.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

While Mailchimp has now discarded lists in favor of tags, Brevo sticks with a list-based approach. While it's nice to have these organizational options, it all feels a bit clunky to me in practice—in the age of AI, there are better ways to do this using dynamic tags and advanced segmentation.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The next step is to create a social media post with these examples, tagging all relevant VCs/PEs, with a message like ‘Check out intel on your raises and other similar deals we could have helped you predict’. Be flexible: Try to not be dogmatic about formality, avoid complex agreements/signed documents.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

Common examples are the neat fields in email headers (sender, recipient, subject), standard file properties (like creation date or author), or specific data tags set up to organize content. Exhausting setup: Analysis might be easier down the line, but the initial task of categorizing, tagging, and arranging data can be very time-intensive.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 3, 2025

With AI integrated into your editorial workflow, you can automatically generate SEO briefs, draft outlines, or repurpose blog posts into LinkedIn updates—all using structured prompts and a few clicks inside the apps your team already uses, like Google Docs or Notion. When a new user signed up, they were tagged by language in ActiveCampaign.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

If you keep all your relationships in one place, then you’ll need to use tags or another identifier to isolate the folks that really matter to you. There’s a lot of value in pulling in all of our correspondents into a CRM, but only if most of them are tagged as “acquaintances” so they don’t make the database unwieldy.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 11, 2021

An AI copywriting software can help in this regard by automating and speeding up parts of the content creation process, such as writing blog posts, emails, landing pages, Pin titles and descriptions, and Instagram captions. Let’s say you have a nutrition startup and want to write a blog post about vegan protein powders. .

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

But as your business grows, so does the complexity. Enterprise automation is the practice of using technology to connect processes and software across large, complex organizations. It spans everything from automating internal team tasks to orchestrating complex, cross-functional workflows. Your team needs to move fast.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

Airtable takes a much more liberal approach to data, so as noted in the previous section, a single piece of data could be as complex as a bug tracker for your dev team or as amorphous as a process optimization plan. Now, it's not going to read your mind if you have a really complex, multi-step report you're trying to build.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In this blog post, we’ll discuss some of the best tools you can use to achieve productive marketing, how to apply them and how much they cost. No need for complex calculations when you need information — only answers when you need them, and fast, too. Product analysis. Customer analysis. Customer-journey analysis. Price plans.

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Startup Blogpost

JANUARY 27, 2023

This material should consist of well-written and original product descriptions, photographs of high quality, and relevant meta tags. Deciding which keywords to target for each category, product, or item is a complex task that is often done incorrectly. Hamza Usmani, Head of content, SEO-Audits.io

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

I’ve said versions of it on this blog before so I hope it’s not too repetitive. But here’s my rationale: I see way too many employees trying to understand all of the complexities and spending way too much time trying to calculate how much their options are worth through each fund raising round. I think you will.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments. But I had been reading Munjal Shah’s blog about his experiences at Riya (later renamed Like.com) and this openess had an appeal to me. This was 2006 and we were now working on our second company.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

She can intelligently tag customer tickets with related keywords, fetch relevant information from your knowledge base to answer a user's question, notify you of strange ticket responses, and even perform sentiment analysis (essentially poking your shoulder and saying, "Hey human, I think the customer is mad").

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OurCrowd

JUNE 24, 2022

Software product development needs considerable time and resources for testing, which requires complex workflows built and maintained by expensive DevOps engineers. The post Newsletter: Schrödinger’s Unicorns + Startups solving airline jet lag appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. for AI-powered coding tech BioLumic wraps $13.5M

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OurCrowd

JULY 15, 2021

Complexity in the supply chain often arises when a number of relatively straightforward activities combine together in a complex way. The post [Classiq in Digital Journal] Quantum computing will one day simplify shipping logistics appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. This is especially the case with shipping. Read more here.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

You can even send transaction data to a database like Airtable for more complex or customizable use cases, especially if Airtable is your central hub for other parts of your business. Within these apps, you may have additional automation set up, such as adding tags to the customer or kicking off a welcome sequence.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

" Director of Exceed Plumbing and Air Con , Caleb John, on the other hand, uses location-tag macros to automatically allocate jobs: "Every urgent ticket tagged with 'gas,' 'leak,' or 'urgent' and a postcode gets routed directly to the technician on-call for that zone."

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

Table of contents Address customer service issues quickly Resolve complex customer service concerns Streamline customer follow-up Offer personalized service at scale New to Zapier? Complex customer service concerns can be resolved completely Some customer questions or concerns are relatively easy to address.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

In fact, when he first joined Zonos —a SaaS company that offers technology to simplify the complexities of international commerce—he’d never worked a desk job, didn’t know what an API was, and had zero automation experience. Emails are automatically tagged using the classification and routed to priority folders in their inbox.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

I recently wrote a blog post on understanding how the size and age of a venture capital fund might affect you when you’re raising money. Because it is a “series&# I plan to get into some of the deeper complexities of funds such as “cross over funds&# and “why VC’s hate to price their own deals&# at a later stage.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Through processes like machine learning and NLP, these platforms can scan through virtually limitless amounts of simple or complex data to discover patterns, spot trends, or determine root causes. AIOps works by collecting inhumanly large amounts of data of varying complexity and turning it into actionable resources for IT teams.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

All saved posts end up in Collabwriting's Inbox, which you can organize further using themed boards and tags like "AI positioning" or "Thought leadership." So if you want control and complexity, it's not for you. month (billed annually); Business plan from $12.36/profile/month Will pricing : €25/month.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2023

It’s an impressive price tag for a job role that would’ve blown minds just one year ago. Or put differently, don’t just keep it high level, get specific about the tone and complexity you prefer in answers. As Bloomberg reported earlier this week , these jobs can land up to $335,000 in annual salary. Ask for help. Ask for nuance.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

While Sierra Interactive comes with a higher price tag than most, its suite of features makes it well-suited for those seeking a comprehensive all-in-one solution. But due to its technical nature, Sierra Interactive has a steeper learning curve, potentially making it less suitable for those uncomfortable with technology.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 15, 2025

Businesses can: Feed AI examples of previous blog posts, customer stories, or founder letters that struck an emotional chord. Use sentiment-tagged data to show AI the difference among joyful, concerned, curious, or frustrated tones. Write a blog post that celebrates small business owners with warmth and pride.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I’d say I see way more products with too many features / too much complexity than I do ones with not enough. You, the king of the overly long blog posts? I think my blog posts would be far better if I made them 50% of the length. I made a decision in blogging that I wanted to opt for frequency and depth of thought.

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