Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

Since I answer this all the time anyway I thought it might make an interesting blog post. Some people do the conference circuit too much, get involved in lots of side projects and attend every entrepreneur dinner. The problems are much more manageable. It’s like the manager of a basketball team. That’s true.

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StartupNation

MAY 23, 2025

Event planning Dropshipping Handmade crafts selling Pet sitting Social media management Repair service Blogging/vlogging Alternatively, consider more revolutionary business ideas like AI automation consulting or podcast-editing services. 8 Ways to Make Money on Social Media Arm yourself with a toolset (free!) A contract does.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

had a very ambitious project. The idea of aggregation is powerful in a world where your social communications are fragmented and increasingly hard to manage. The two most ambitious projects were ThereNow and IQ Engines. Tags: Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. Team Pip.io I wrote about how to give demos in a previous post.

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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 ). How to manage costs - One of the biggest frustrations that people have with lawyers are unexpected costs. Much of this is unfounded – some is not.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2015

Until a few years ago I had tried every task management list and failed each time so I, too, resorted to email to-do’s. I get too many, “This blew my mind” headlines, too many “Bob also commented on a post you’re tagged in” and too many quizzes, ads and drivel. Still want to port my blog their.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

As more teams adopt automation, IT will play a more central role in vetting tools, managing access, and building (secure) self-serve 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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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

Google Sheets is simple, quick to onboard, and comparatively limited in its use cases, making it a good choice for teams that just want basic data management. While it can function in similar ways to a spreadsheet, in that it can manage various cells of data, that's just one element of what it's for.

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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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The Zapier Blog

JULY 7, 2025

Those on-call shifts can sneak up on you though, especially if you're in the midst of projects. You should also add their Slack IDs so the agent knows who to tag and notify in Slack. This step sends a daily message to the selected teammate, tagging them in a Slack channel and letting them know they're on call.

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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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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 23, 2010

I took a meeting with a city official once and the first think he said to me was that the contents of the meeting were not to be blogged. The position will: “help develop forward-thinking policies on social media, digital communications, web 2.0 Hmm… Lots of building, broadcasting, promotion, releasing info… …but you know what I don’t see?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

They offer powerful workplaces to manage your knowledge, no matter where it comes from. While Notion operates as a broader productivity tool to manage your projects, knowledge, and files, Obsidian works more as a highly flexible writing app. All your notes, tags, and links are still there in text files.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

They communicated this to product management who looked at all of the internal requirements we had generated (e.g. and product management worked with me to decide what to build & when. Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments.

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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

APRIL 25, 2023

Keep your customer support systems healthy Streamline support To save your organization resources (and your customers a headache), you need an intuitive customer service software that streamlines ticket management and—to put it bluntly—makes your agents not hate their jobs.

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Campaign Monitor

MARCH 8, 2022

It’s content-driven yet concise, and each article — whether they’re demystifying Google’s latest algorithm updates or diving into voice search — gets a 1-2 sentence tag to grab readers. . Plus, it feels organized, which is exactly what you want from a project management software. . The small description is important.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Our portfolio company DreaMed Diabetes is teaming up with the University of Colorado School of Medicine to help more people manage their condition. Sprout is investing $1M in Protag, whose smart ear tag for cows allows farmers to continuously monitor the animal’s health, location, grazing and breeding habits.

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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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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 23, 2025

That way, you can process large lists in manageable batches or avoid reaching your plan's task limit. Each record in the table contains a team name and keyword tags representing the topics the team cares about. A search step finds all the tasks within a specific Asana project. The search results are returned as line items.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Add context to projects When you're working on a project and need to reference stakeholder feedback, it's time-consuming and frustrating to have to hunt through all your past tl;dv recordings. But keeping all project-related conversations and information organized can be a huge drain on your time. Sign up for free.

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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

JUNE 10, 2025

But manually updating Glean with every new doc, project board, or Slack conversation just isn't realistic. Make new team projects and presentations searchable If you love constantly getting requests for project updates, I love that for you. You can read more about setting up Zaps here.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

My first task wasn’t managing an inbox or scheduling meetings,” Connor said. “It It was managing Zaps. An onboarding project is also created that both the customer and onboarding rep have access to view integrations tasks and progress. What he did have was a willingness to learn and an eye for efficiency. “My

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

If you don’t understand the concept of “signaling&# please read the blog post I wrote on Understanding VC signaling. From the debate on VentureHacks, our offline chats and from our blog posts, I think that Chris Dixon and I are pretty much 98% aligned on the topic.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Do you work as a civil engineer on water projects and have great access to wealthy project developers? Find out who funded them – Contact the management teams. Social Network s / Search / Blogs – Obvious, huh? Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice. Take them for a coffee. Ask them for advice.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Automate your IT management workflows Learn how Dogs don't know what running clothes are, per se, but they pick up easily on patterns of behavior. This allows it to not only recognize patterns in data but also align actions, insights, and projections at scale and over time. They can even predict behavior and react preemptively.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Other weeks, my LinkedIn marketing efforts get pushed to the back burner while I scramble to meet project deadlines. 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." Learn more.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

You need something to keep things straight when juggling client management, property listings, and the looming threat of being upstaged by that insufferably smug agent from the office across the street. Workflow management: Real estate involves numerous tasks and deadlines, and a CRM that can streamline your workflow is essential.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

Here are ways to use automated workflows for time tracking and task management. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. You can customize the link text (just click Manage ) and even create an administrator link, so other people can reset the timer as needed.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

And I'm sort of projecting here where I guess I think I put myself in your shoes. And I published this on my own startups blog. So my agreement with Brian was I'm not going to have any management responsibilities in this company. I'm going to be in it a hundred percent, but I'm not a good manager. Shaan: Right.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

If the recruiting manager’s job consisted solely of reviewing your resume it would be an easy task. One of the most common tasks of “knowledge workers&# is to analyze a situation and present conclusions to others in order to make decisions on a project. You, the king of the overly long blog posts?

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