The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

I once viewed "process documentation" as corporate torture. Trying to hold a complex, multi-stage process with various dependencies entirely in your head or decipher it from a dense document is like trying to assemble a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle in the dark. My own system was a chaotic mix of muscle memory and flagged emails.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 3, 2025

With Zapier's automated workflows—called Zaps—you can share important Grain meetings across channels, distill conversations into insights, and direct customer feedback into product boards. Here are a few ways to leverage your team's collective knowledge across your business. New to Zapier? It only takes a few minutes to set up.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

That's where a meeting minutes template comes in handy—to ensure you track the most actionable and helpful notes that boards and other teams need to get their work done. Formal meeting minutes template Download template Best for: executive meetings, board meetings Have you ever been in a meeting and thought, "Am I underdressed?"

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

The best mind mapping tools Coggle for mind map beginners and occasional use MindMeister for collaborating on a mind map with a team Ayoa for a modern approach to mind mapping MindNode for Apple users Xmind for personal brainstorming QuikFlow for quickly building out organized mind maps What is mind mapping? It allows you to save and export.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 13, 2025

Reviewers consistently mention that Stampli's interface is intuitive and easy to learn, which is a big plus for getting teams on board quickly. It uses sophisticated OCR technology combined with machine learning to swiftly and accurately extract data from any financial document. DOKKA's core strength bypasses this.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

A project plan is a formal document that details how a project will be executed by outlining the purpose, resources, scope, timeline, and deliverables required to complete said project. It might be a comprehensive multi-page document detailing every phase, milestone, and activity or a succinct one-pager for smaller projects.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Modern note-taking platforms go beyond documenting your thoughts. Its versatile interface lets me quickly organize and find it all in a variety of formats, including interactive tables and Kanban boards. That also means content, like text, never appears like it would in a normal document editor.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

Google Sheets handles more data and collaborators, but Airtable handles more data types Cell for cell, Airtable doesn't come close to matching Google Sheets' cell limit of 10 million. Here's another clear win for Google: Free Sheets accounts get up to 100 collaborators.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2020

You need to: study the rules, make sure that you don’t violate the “affiliate rule” (more later), consult with your Company Counsel, consult with your board and investors and then make your own determination. How do I amend my legal documents so that the Affiliate Rule doesn’t stop me from applying for a loan? It is not “free money.”

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

You can work as a consultant, an interim executive, a board member, a deal executive partnering to buy a company, an executive in residence, or as an entrepreneur in residence. . As a next step, we recommend that you register at the major expert network websites, as well as LinkedIn and job boards, if you haven’t already.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 9, 2025

Project management templates are structured workflows, documents, and other assets that can be iterated within business processes to make them more efficient. And marketing teams can benefit from a project management document template to organize campaign planning, content scheduling, and performance tracking.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 24, 2023

Enhanced communication My team now collaborates more effectively, leading to a stronger culture and better project execution with improved outcomes and performance. Analyze features such as Gantt charts and Kanban boards, which provide visually rich overviews of projects. Prioritize tasks Prioritization is essential.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In a recent board meeting, Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern PA (Ben Franklin CNP) proudly unveiled its latest investments in six exceptional tech enterprises situated in central and northern Pennsylvania, totaling $725,000. Athletic Trainer System collaborates with athletic trainers in a variety of environments.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Investors: TomorrowVentures (Eric Schmidt’s investment vehicle; Court Coursey joining board), CompuCredit Holdings, with existing investors Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, Omidyar Network, QED Investors, Volition Capital. Collaboration in business starts and ends with email. Enter Xobni.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The real super power of ecosystem mapping is how the mapping process and the actual map are used by the community as a catalyst to collaboratively strengthen the ecosystem. Finally, ecosystem mapping can be a catalyst for collaborations. Make it Collaborative. There are many benefits to ecosystem mapping.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

We knew that when her fellowship ended, we needed to bring someone on board who was solely focused on this work. Someone who could understand the current landscape, help envision where we want to be and collaboratively develop a plan to get there.”. says Alexis.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Collaboration features let teams share, edit and comment on notes and directly attach them to shared calendars for faster reference. One source estimates that document disorganization costs businesses $3,900 per employee each year in productivity losses, making Mem an attractive proposition if the tech works as advertised.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

The next wave of products will be able to straddle the line of comfort to successfully get adoption, and cultural shift to successfully deliver a truly collaborative cash experience. Best practices for Zoom board meetings at early-stage startups. What should banking look like for modern couples? Seen on Extra Crunch.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

The APAC hub is backed by Enterprise Singapore, a board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry to foster SME development, and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, alongside industry partners Bureau Veritas Marine and Offshore, PSA unboXed and Synergy Marine Group.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As Latin America bathes the startup spotlight, players there need to consider how its startup growth can translate to self-sustaining economic and social development across the board. However, most AI programs and documents are written in English, in which Latin America has a 56% proficiency rate.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2022

#Kstartup pic.twitter.com/WbG8G9wA3x — Teknobuilt (@teknobuilt) December 4, 2020 The startup signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with major Korean car manufacturer Daewoo E&C for collaborative work projects. It uses cutting-edge NLP and OCR technologies to find all the relevant fields and values inside the document.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

However, having an experienced technical advisor from the very beginning who has already been on a startup journey, can provide an invaluable sounding board for an early-stage startup. A pitch deck is a teaser, not a document containing trade secrets and an idea on its own is useless, it’s the execution of that idea that counts.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

And I think that’d be a fascinating era for all designers to be working in collaboration with these AI systems. We’re using the technology and the technology is helping us understand how to collaborate with it versus ‘program’ it. I’ve got to go consult documentation. Dylan Field, Figma 4.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

That Google document provides cut and pasteable text I can share with other investors, based on their stage, focus, and appetite. . That said, the quick and dirty approach to using technology for better board stewardship is just to use existing file sharing systems (Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, etc.)

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 1, 2020

When it is from someone who sits across the table for that initial conversation, sees the work we have done and then says I’ll put in money based on the confidence we have been able to generate, that’s a huge start to a successful collaboration. President, and CEO of Progentec.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

That Google document provides cut and pasteable text I can share with other investors, based on their stage, focus, and appetite. . Capria leads the “largest network of collaborating fund managers in emerging markets” Their product Edge enables you to benchmark your internal processes against other investors. 2) Market .

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Tomasz Tunguz: That’s a living document. Claire Hughes Johnson : It’s a living document. But it really helped them in a tricky time when we were scaling quickly and they had to collaborate on a bunch of things that we were building for the first time. ” That’s reported to the board.

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

We’ve gathered insights from CEOs, founders, and top executives on their most successful methods, from combining chat and asynchronous video to actively listening and documenting meetings. Institute Cross-Functional Mentorship Within our startup, we recognized the importance of fostering collaboration among cross-functional teams.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The company has not yet initiated a voluntary recall, according to internal service documents the company distributed in late November, CNBC reported. Intel will remain the majority owner of Mobileye, and the two companies will continue as strategic partners and collaborate on projects. Miscellaneous.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

UpSquad offers a customized, branded engagement platform that helps company team members communicate, stay productive, collaborate and more. CEO Jonathan Kite said a new automated turn board feature was a significant factor accelerating the company’s success.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

It’s an incredibly lonely experience Loneliness is a huge problem for entrepreneurs, especially for early-stage founders who have no (or very few) colleagues to turn to for camaraderie and collaboration. Reasons for failure vary, but common reasons are premature scaling , lack of product-market-fit , and not having the right people on board.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

With Slack being acquired by Salesforce for $28 billion, the world of collaborative tools for teams is on fire right now. Space combines general collaboration tools: chats, team and project management, meeting scheduling and documents with workflows for specific verticals. Notion is super hot and last year Frame.io

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

An innovative new medical startup in Romania helped doctors from three countries collaborate to treat Ukrainian cancer patients made refugees after Russia’s brutal invasion. The “Tumor Board” project was initiated by doctors from the U.S., Meanwhile the Tumor Board project continues. Medicai, which has raised €1.2

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The collaborative online office and document service was not loading as of around 9am ET on Friday, preventing anyone who relies on the service from accessing their cloud-stored data. Facebook Oversight Board says other social networks ‘welcome to join’ if project succeeds. We’ll update once we know more.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Automattic’s replacement for meetings and most office collaboration is P2 , a modification of WordPress that it announced in August 2020 at the height of the pandemic and offers as a paid service. Documentation is the order of the day, up to and including information that would be hidden at other companies. A CMS for a CMS company.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

It is also collaborating with silicon vendors on what will become a Matter System-on-a-Chip to support the frustration-free setup. Mui Lab debuted its Matter-ready “ muiPlatform ” that turns smart devices into “calmer ones,” which includes a board that turns Amazon’s Alexa into a more visual interface.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Its API collaboration platform is being used by more than 17 million people from 500,000 companies globally. As Prudhvi explained, analysts who are hired to a central data team have the common context and knowledge that’s critical for collaborating on data across teams. billion valuation. They have a good rapport with the central team.

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