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“I think viewing your board as an audience to be ‘sold’ to instead of a partner in your journey will orient your board to be less trusting and collaborative.” Five Questions with Nilam Ganenthiran, Former President of Instacart

Hunter Walk

I was introduced to Apoorva , the founder of Instacart, in the spring of 2013 by my close friend/business school neighbor Rafael Corrales. Apoorva was looking to bring on a non-technical co-founder as he entered YC, and my epic bad decision was not to jump at the opportunity to join Instacart at that moment. I am going to look stupid.

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How to Communicate Impact Metrics to Investors

StartupNation

Syed Balkhi , Founder, WPBeginner Showcase Real-World Impact and Metrics When pitching to investors, especially in the early stages, it’s easy to focus solely on financials — but in today’s landscape, especially in beauty and wellness, impact is a currency of its own. Tips for other founders: 1.

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Collide Raises $5M in Funding to Expand the First GenAI Platform Built for the Energy Sector

American Entrepreneurship

Unlike general AI tools, Collides platform integrates retrieval augmented generation (RAG) with a proprietary knowledge base that spans technical papers, internal operations documents, and an extensive Q&A library tailored to oil and gas professionals. The result?

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17 Common CRM Selection Mistakes Startups Should Avoid

StartupNation

Connor Butterworth , Founder, Marketing & Sales Expert, Southwestern Rugs Depot Different Types of CRM Explained: Which One is Best for You? We now start every software evaluation by documenting exactly how employees currently work before considering how systems might change those patterns.

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What is AI automation? And how your business can use it

The Zapier Blog

Thanks to NLP, AI automation systems can engage in (mostly) sensible chatbot conversations with customers, automatically analyze thousands of reviews to gauge overall sentiment, instantly translate documents, or transcribe meeting notes into text, making sense of our primary mode of communication. IDP can automate and make sense of it all.

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How to use Gmail with a custom domain

The Zapier Blog

Option 1: Use Gmail with your custom domain through Google Workspace Pros: You can access Google Drive, Calendar, Meet, Docs, Sheets, and more, which is perfect for solo founders or growing teams. Best-in-class calendar (Calendar), video conferencing app (Meet), cloud storage (Drive), document creation (Docs), and spreadsheet tool (Sheets).

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How should non technical founders collaborate with software developers?

TechCrunch

The degree to which we get involved with the idea validation may vary depending on the goals and needs of the project, the founders and/or stakeholders, and the stage at which the project is when we begin our collaboration. The intake process can vary a lot depending on the particularities of each project and collaboration.