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JANUARY 25, 2010

Chris Dixon wrote a blog post last week titled, “ Techies and Normals &# in which he defined “Techies&# as people who are not just “early adopters&# but also have more of a geeky, technical, product bent. Anyway, Chris’s blog got me thinking about Techies and Normals. He is both.

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MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups.

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APRIL 5, 2010

I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. So I asked our COO, Stuart Lander (a Brit) to set up operations for us. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement.

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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. million and we seemed likely to raise another $40 million within the first 18 months of operations. Even better if he/she can double as a VP Operations & HR.

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JUNE 18, 2010

We talked about the negative effect of Apple’s closed system attitude but how that will be a gift to the market because Apple’s cracking of the operator hegemony has forced the industry to innovate. Diverse search results include stream updates, blog posts, news articles, photos, videos (versus Twitter/FaceBook1 only).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 1, 2009

If you’ve read my blog for a while you’ll know that I’m a fan of starting businesses in a non-traditional way. Once it’s set up I recommend bringing in a co-founder and giving them 10-30% of the company depending upon when you bring them in. - Are you externally savvy vs. more inwardly operational? -

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). I always try operate on the “Fixed Fee +&# arrangement. You need to know how “tag along&# rights could potentially screw you.

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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. Unifying operations with powerful sub-Zaps With hundreds of workflows powering internal and client-facing systems, keeping everything organized is critical. That reliability is what allows Smith.ai

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

There's even some overlap with email automation , which refers to automating more operational workflows like logging emails, sending transactional messages, or cleaning up your inbox. But tagging contacts and segmenting them manually can be a real drain on team resources, especially as your audience grows. The takeaway?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

I tend not to go into heat when I hear the latest buzz on the tech blogs about the latest gadgets. I remember reading many years ago about how devices being connected in the cloud would be far more pervasive and have a much bigger impact on our lives than the simple PC’s that we operate. That’s always stuck with me.

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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

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’. This was cross-posted on Integrity Research’s blog. It introduces friction where there shouldn’t be.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

Retail and eCommerce operations might use AI with their structured CRM and sales data for advanced predictive modeling of customer buying habits, to optimize supply chains with better demand forecasting, and to personalize the customer experience. Metadata: Metadata is essentially data about data, and it's usually very structured.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. I looked at the SEO tools each website builder offers, such as the ability to adjust page titles and meta descriptions, add alt tags, and upload a site map. You can edit meta and alt tags and optimize for mobile.

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Feedough

JANUARY 3, 2021

Still, these ads have their own set of importance, types, advantages, disadvantages, and even operations differently from traditional ads. It comprises images, text, and animation, and shows up as banners on websites and blogs. Sponsored listings within or after blog posts form an example of native ads. Display Ads. Native Ads.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Contact Sales I work at Zapier, an enterprise that not only helps other businesses automate their workflows, but relies on automation to power our own internal operations. IT- and ops-led enterprise automation Enterprise IT and business operations teams often build automations to support other departments.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Zapier lets us put a name tag on every lead. Building the workflow with Zapier, click to close attribution Thomas leads a five-person AI and automation team tasked with making operations "less terrible" (his words). So when Zapier published a blog post about tracking , it sparked an idea, and a solution.

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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. Optimizely has some free features, however most of them are not and come with a sizable price tag. However, the free version does not contain all the operations the tool can perform.

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Feedough

MARCH 15, 2021

And even those who don’t tag themselves as influencers tend to use LinkedIn posts for their own benefits. For example, it operates using a chrome extension, and makes you log in via Google and not directly LinkedIn, which might become a barrier for prospects at the top of the funnel. Inlytics serves to this repressed demand.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

It also wrote a bit more about the fundraise on its own blog.). “How these stores operate today” — problem slide. They typically don’t have the benefit of the specialized software and tech to help make everything run smoother, but that’s where Vori saw an opportunity.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. Tags: Start-up Advice. They’re tasked with doing … marketing. But the counter case is equally ineffective.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

For example, you might set up an automation that tags email contacts with any new information you receive about them, like demographic details and job characteristics. Save time by automating Email marketing automation allows you to complete detailed tasks that would be impossibly time-consuming to do manually.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Here’s how I learned: When I first started blogging 18 months ago or so I started asking people the best way to get distribution. I had a few friends help with the initial distribution and explained how to do that in this post on how to blog effectively. Seems these rings operate where they can. Uh, no thanks.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

While Notion operates as a broader productivity tool to manage your projects, knowledge, and files, Obsidian works more as a highly flexible writing app. It also doesn't help that Obsidian's app skips explaining what a vault is, which local directory is ideal for its operations, and how it will affect your note-taking experience.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

You can set up records as project management elements like tasks, contacts, projects, pipelines, and goals, and then assign priorities, statuses, deadlines, tags, and assignees. In-cell AI operations: The =AI( ) formula enables tasks directly within cells, such as text categorization, sentiment analysis, or data summarization.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 24, 2025

It also makes your operations more scalable. You can tag specific people in Slack or send a channel message—whatever makes the most sense for your operations. It's not about replacing people; it's about freeing them up to focus on the work that actually moves the needle.

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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. What changed for us was Tim Barker arrived.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 8, 2022

The company has contracts with a number of major carmakers, city grid operators and EV charging operators. Consumer interest in buying sustainable, lab-grown meat and seafood is growing, but the price tag can be a deal-breaker. Its technology is deployed in 17 locations in Europe. Sign NDA and Learn More.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The company has a prototype facility in operation producing “salmon” steaks that are recommended and used by leading Israeli chef Nir Zook. Technology from our portfolio company HIL Applied Medical reduces the size of the facility to one room and cuts the price tag in half, Lisa Gann writes in the Times of Israel.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Its product is future proof, compatible with any technology, cellular, WiFi, and multiple operators, in frequencies up to 7 GHz. Cellium is currently in MOU discussions with system vendors, a major semiconductor company and leading wireless network operators in the US, Japan, Russia and elsewhere.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 8, 2022

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. Between managing my rag-tag team of part-time software developers, attempting to keep customers happy, and trying to sell new ones, I’d been just trying to survive each day.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2010

When I started blogging I had an idea. I operate on the principle that you’re most vulnerable in any deal immediately after you’ve won. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. Kind of obvious even though many people overlook this). So you have more experience in helping to manage the process.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 24, 2022

Spanish transportation tech giant Indra will be integrating the airport operations management platform created by our portfolio company IntellAct into their own products, Passenger Terminal Today reports. This solution allows us to plan and monitor KPIs for everything related to our operation.” OurCrowd is leading this $1M SAFE round.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

No rule is ever absolute no matter how it sounds when one writes a blog. Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. There is a lot of long-term value in loyalty.

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MAY 1, 2010

To understand what most VC’s want between board meetings I think it’s useful to start with a quote from Mark Solon ’s blog for which I’m in complete agreement (along with agreeing with his entire post, which was brave, honest and accurate ). Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice.

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