American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 5, 2025

The funding will fuel the companys expansion into retail, drive product innovation, and support the hiring of top-tier talent. Other key investors include Superguts founding investor, Dave Friedberg, through The Production Board, along with Cultivian Sandbox, Strand Equity, Access Capital, Alpha Edison, LivWell Ventures, and Rocana Ventures.

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

I had the pleasure of interviewing Gururaj Pandurangi, a three-time entrepreneur and now the CEO of ThriveStack.ai , a product designed to help B2B SaaS companies grow rapidly and efficiently. We tried to compete, investing a million dollars in enabling self-serve products and revamping our GTM playbook. But it wasn’t enough.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 2, 2025

AI will drive enterprise productivity at scale.” Levelpath will use the Series B funding to accelerate product development, scale go-to-market operations, expand ecosystem partnerships and host a new AI Masterclass webinar series for procurement leaders.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 1, 2025

It reveals a product-led growth (PLG) business with a remarkable trajectory. Figma’s product is its primary marketing engine. The most significant is competition from AI products. Figma’s defense is its expanding platform—with products like FigJam, Dev Mode, & now Slides, Sites, & Make.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 6, 2025

The round follows David’s meteoric rise since its launch in late 2024 and positions the brand for continued growth as a leader in the functional food category. Valor Equity Partners offers operational expertise to help David scale its product line, improve logistics, and grow efficiently in a highly competitive market.

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StartupNation

MAY 16, 2025

Less common bank loans, such as those offered by credit unions or Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI), may also fall into this category. Funding methods like crowdfunding and campaigns are good ways to test a concept before releasing a product. How you deliver the message is as important as the product or service.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 2, 2025

We are actively seeking founders who understand that great taste, clean labels, and social responsibility must go hand in hand.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

They use pricing as an offensive tool to reinforce their product’s value and underscore the company’s core marketing message. Penetration (Market Share) - price the product at a low price to win dominant market share. As Madhavan Ramanujam tells it, Steve Jobs was both a product genius and pricing genius.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2025

New Product Ecosystems : Omnidian is developing offerings in adjacent clean tech areas like EV charging and commercial battery storageunlocking synergies and new revenue streams in the clean energy lifecycle. The firms value proposition is resonating globally.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

I've grouped them into categories to make things easier to scan, but keep in mind: the best ads don't always fit neatly into a box. The goal is clarity: show the product, show the value, and make it easy to say yes. Many blur the lines between formats, and that overlap is often what makes them work.

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StartupNation

JULY 7, 2025

Are you trying to understand if customers love your latest product feature? Here’s one to consider: “How satisfied are you with our product’s performance and its price?” Ask, “How satisfied are you with the performance of our product?” What’s the main goal of your research?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 5, 2025

Before this category came into shape, we had a loosely formed category named AI app builders. They fall into a set of categories that make them too developer-grade, focusing on tasks they have to perform every day for work. The platform focuses more on the product and user experience design. Vibe it with Lovable.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 11, 2025

It’s already reshaping how thousands of organizations operate, making Glean a frontrunner in the rapidly evolving Work AI category. Customers retain full control over their data, with security measures like fine-grained access controls, permissions enforcement, and governance protocols embedded directly into the product.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

Unless explicitly stated, we spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Improves customer satisfaction: The more streamlined and intelligent your process of delivering your products or services, the happier your customers will be. It can crunch vast datasets for that aha insight, prototype a web app for a partner, or rapidly test new product features while your team dreams up the next big thing.

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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Video production was expensive, slow, and inaccessible for most brands, but demand was skyrocketing. Our SaaS platform, Hero, is at the center of that, leveraging automation and personalization to make video production seamless and cost-effective. What motivated you to launch yourstartup?

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StartupNation

JULY 11, 2025

Launch new products? If you want to be taken seriously, you need to look like you belong in that category. It’s not about vague dreams or “if everything goes right” scenarios. They want real, reachable upside. That means you need to show where the business can grow and how it will get there. Can you expand into new markets?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

Boost your team's productivity Automate your CRM The best pipeline management software helps sales teams by keeping prospects engaged and the data you have about them organized. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

AI orchestration vs. traditional AI apps Traditional AI applications are standalone programs designed to perform specific tasks using artificial intelligence, like a chatbot that can answer customer questions, a recommendation engine that suggests products, or an image recognition app that can tell you what breed of dog you just photographed.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

That's why, in addition to my own research, I've relied heavily on the expertise of seasoned VoIP users, product demos, industry professionals, and reputable third-party reviews to paint a complete picture. Plug-and-play hardware, intuitive software portals, and helpful onboarding are all big pluses.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 17, 2025

Boost your team's productivity Automate your CRM Turns out, a CRM (customer relationship management) app is like my fantasy setup, but for people with actual responsibilities. Improved operational efficiency and reduced costs: A good CRM can automate the repetitive little tasks that ruin your day and your productivity.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

It offers business and productivity tools that run the gamut from sales and marketing to finance and legal to IT and analytics. That's how Zoho can introduce up to three new products every year to complement existing apps. Zoho apps: An overview What is Zoho One? Automate Zoho What is Zoho?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 29, 2025

Express also integrates with other Adobe products, like the generative AI Firefly , Adobe Fonts, Adobe Stock, and, of course, the big apps like Photoshop. The app isn't packed with the kinds of AI features that are now a major selling point of a lot of design tools in this category, so if that's a concern, give it a miss.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

It works by integrating with another Atlassian product, Confluence. This gives your knowledge base the powerful editing capabilities of Confluence, but it also means you're managing the setup and permissions between two distinct products, which can add layers of complexity, especially for non-IT teams. Is Zendesk a CRM or SaaS?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 16, 2025

What’s new for 2025 Sharper categories. 2025 award categories Marketing Automator of the Year : Celebrating a growth marketer who lets AI and automation scale campaigns while they sleep. Customer Support Automator of the Year : Honoring a CX pro who unifies product, marketing, and success with lightning-fast automations.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

Unless explicitly stated, we spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. The platform also lets you build an item library of products and services, which speeds up the invoice creation process.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 13, 2025

Unless explicitly stated, we spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Instead of dividing enterprise automation into those categories, I'll stick to a people-first framing here—because automation is only valuable if it actually helps teams work better. They also aren't exclusive to enterprise-level automation.

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Hunter Walk

APRIL 17, 2025

Five Questions with Joe Hyrkin Hunter Walk: You sold Issuu to Bending Spoons , which has recently acquired a number of legacy products including Evernote, Meetup, WeTransfer and Brightcove. In many ways, we fit their model, a primarily product led growth self service platform with good retention and a large global footprint of users.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

eCommerce ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A comprehensive eCommerce suite that's simple to use, though not ideal for digital products. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Robust eCommerce features; Squarespace is a stronger option for creators selling courses and digital products. You can also add products directly from Squarespace's editor by clicking Create New Product.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

There has always been tension between CPG (consumer packaged goods) companies and the retailers who sell their products to consumers. If a consumer will pay a fixed price for a product or service then the battle over who gets the margin in any sale is between the person who merchandises a product and the person who manufactures it.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

Unless explicitly stated, we spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. Plus, it integrates with 20 third-party products, including Zapier , to extend the functionality further. for the first year).

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

Whether it's the names of individuals, categories of products, or song titles, as long as the information is organized within a framework, it's structured data. Descriptive text: Think names (of people, products, companies), categories, or titles of works. Use unstructured data when you need to.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

Every other term on this list falls under the umbrella of AI, so it's a pretty fuzzy category to define. AI integration AI integration embeds AI capabilities into an existing product, workflow, or infrastructure. Related reading: The best AI productivity tools The best ChatGPT alternatives Make AI your new assistant

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

There were many moments in each space when pioneers were funding startups and the press hadn’t written much about them and if you were a typical investor you were still funding the last trend while some VCs were trailblazing into new categories. But deep down I personally yearn for bigger ideas and more profound products.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

You should be building something where the more people that use and absolutely love the product, the better your economics get--and the better the offering becomes. Check out its new indoor/outdoor product Flex. goTenna's new Mesh product enables off-grid communications in a network that improves as more people have it.

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