The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

Collaboration: This defines not only how your team meets and communicates, but also how they document processes and decisions to keep stakeholders in the loop and transfer knowledge between team members.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 13, 2025

you're managing a handful of vendors, the next, your finance team is playing Whac-A-Mole with overdue notices, drowning in an inbox full of emails with the subject line "bumping this." It's a truly modern finance platform that uses AI not just to manage spend, but to intelligently understand and control it.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 19, 2024

By embracing strategic thinking and the lean startup philosophy, you can overcome entrepreneurial challenges and bring your vision to life. Embrace Lean Startup Methodology Traditionally, starting a business meant undertaking thorough planning, seeking significant funding, and developing a product in isolation from its future users.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 8, 2021

But financing isn’t always easy — especially if you’re the proud founder of a brand new business. You still have plenty of creative financing options to fund your business. You’ll need to think outside the box, but you’re bound to come across your “aha” financing moment in this article. Bootstrapping.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The showcased solutions included Tomtit for rural finance, Goose for supply chain finance, and Lark for automated credit line management. These solutions were specifically designed to assist SMEs in overcoming financing barriers and enhance the accessibility of financial services for MYbank’s 50 million SME clients.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. Let’s talk money, startups and spicy IPO rumors. Thanks not to Public, really, but M1 Finance, a Midwest-based consumer fintech that has a stock-buying function amongst its other services (more on it here ). Sign up here. . Various and Sundry.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This week, I covered Zeta, a new startup working on joint finances for modern couples. Here’s what I learned : The success of Zeta hinges on the idea that people want to share their finances in an ongoing and meaningful way, and that the world of finance is ready to shift from individualism to collectivism earlier and louder.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2010

In the first part of this post I talked about how sales in a startup is often evangelical , requires as consultative sale and needs constant adjustments based on customer feedback. I know all of this, like most everything I learned about startups, from making mistakes at my first company. A’s, B’s & C’s.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

To begin with, it is important to understand some basic facts about the world of entrepreneurial finance: There are many more entrepreneurs than there are investors, with the result that only one company out of every 400 that seeks venture funding actually receives it.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

In addition, Toni works on several digital-economy-related initiatives that support the scaling of digital businesses, stimulate startup ecosystems and accelerate the digital transformation of key industries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Middle East. A glimpse into Singapore’s current startup ecosystem. Jamil Wyne.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Ann Arbor continues to be one of the top growing tech ecosystems around the country with some of the best startups to watch. This was a year like no other for Ann Arbor startups, so we’ve spent lots of time keeping up with all the news from Ann Arbor tech companies. Small Ann Arbor startups to watch in 2022. DocNetwork.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

The topic of compensation has historically been a delicate one that has left many people — especially startup employees — wondering just what drives what can feel like random decisions around pay and equity. Now today, the startup behind that platform, Figure, announced it has raised $7.5 million in seed funding led by CRV.

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StartupNation

MARCH 30, 2021

I was at Kidville headquarters in New York City and had just signed the final documents. You can get financing for the businesses, so you won’t be undercapitalized. Funding startups is difficult, which is why most of them seek alternative forms of financing and not bank loans. Literally.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

It seems there’s news every day about startup funding reaching record highs, new unicorns being minted and tech firms going public. Outliers — unusually large financings with high valuations relative to the company’s maturity — are as old as the industry itself. The biggest impact appears to be in the late stage.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? 2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. However, many industry experts question the accuracy of early-stage market data, given many startups are no longer filing their Form Ds. Absolutely not.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. Note we are not including here most of the freebies offered by corporates for founders in general (as opposed to students in particular), which we list in Free Money from the Global 500 for Tech Startups.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

million in Series A-1 financing from existing investors led by Base10 Partners, VisionTech, and Collina Ventures and its new investor IU Ventures. to fund product innovation, welcomes Jon Schwander as CFO first appeared on AsiaTechDaily - Asia's Leading Tech and Startup Media Platform. The post Boardable secures $2.6M

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

It’s that time of year, where I — as a committee of one judge, me — select one startup in the tech ecosystem that “broke out” and has the makings of an even larger outcome should things continue to go right. It’s entirely possible the trend lifts these companies in due time, as well.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2022

Register South Korea’s largest accelerator program for foreign startups, K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) , is accepting applications for its 2022 edition. month all-paid residency program invites global startups to participate in this program known as an entry point for business in the Asian market. Besides the 3.5-month

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Training your employees to spot phishing and link scams, monitor any unrestrained web browsing, rectify bad password habits, and eliminate vulnerable document processes can greatly increase the protection of your organization. Related: Cyberattacks: Why Cybersecurity Needs to be a Priority for Startups. Investing in cybersecurity.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

A typical enterprise grapples with hundreds or thousands of agreements, contracts and other legal documents every year, and it usually engages costly legal counsel either inside or outside the company to assess those documents on their behalf. In all, Ontra is processing some 20,000 NDAs monthly at the moment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

” To help address the problem, Aso co-founded LexxPluss , a now two-year-old, Japan-based startup that designs and develop autonomous mobile robots to transport loads and optimize workflows within warehouses and logistic sites. with a fresh injection of about $10.7 million (1.45 million (5.26 billion yen). million (1.45 million (5.26

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

MONIX said that the outcome of their least funding round was a demonstration of the company’s strong growth in micro-finance lending on the path to IPO in the near future and soon becoming the market leader in Thailand’s digital lending arena. “We 1 financial application in Southeast Asia and become the best financial friend ever.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Abstract Ventures led the financing, which also included participation from Propel Venture Partners, NFP Ventures, BoxGroup and Precursor Ventures. Interestingly, the startup also got some industry validation in the way of investors. Are insurtech startups undervalued? million in a seed round.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Working with writers to create documentation. Within a small startup with 3 engineers, everyone will work on all aspects of the site. There’s a big business in Finance working with Excel, but that’s an outlier. Communicating with the developers who write code. There is no perfect structure.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2022

Demonstrating that there’s a robust market for contract management solutions, LinkSquares , a company developing intelligent software that helps brands maintain and ink new contracts, today announced that it raised $100 million in Series C financing led by G Squared. million at an $800 million valuation. Image Credits: LinkSquares.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Startups are changing, and any new investment manager will have to adapt to the shifting landscape. Startup investors can be the financial backbone for mass disruption. Investing in startups is not just about making money. This means that simply offering large sums of money won’t get you traction with the best startups.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The decentralized reality of office work after the COVID-19 pandemic continues to drive plenty of startup activity. The startup has just closed a $10 million Series A to continue building out its workplace management SaaS for landlords and office managers — which offers features like resource scheduling (booking meeting rooms etc.),

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 17, 2022

I strongly recommend the contract-to-hire setup in the early days of a startup, as it led me to have a 100% close rate with the candidates we wanted to convert to full-time. We encourage the candidate to comment and add their thoughts to the document, including feedback for me and their thoughts on the interview process.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

Fast-forward to the beginning of the pandemic in 2020; Requarth teamed up with DuoLingo’s former VP of growth Gina Gotthilf and Yuri Danilchenko, former CTO of Brazilian startup Escale, to found what they describe as a “tech entrepreneurship program” in Latin America. VCs say there are more startup opportunities to chase in Latin America.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 29, 2024

Or if you’ve raised a warehouse, you can now fund and originate loans that will be repaid by a financing partner. Credit Agreement and Funding Mechanics The credit agreement, that lengthy document dedicated to formalizing your credit arrangement with the lender, outlines many of the key terms and ratios necessary for compliance.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 3, 2024

If challenges are occurring in particular areas such as sales, marketing, human resources, or finance, look for consultants with expertise in those areas to benefit from their depth of knowledge. Common challenges startup-businesses face are addressed and a business strategy is developed with key milestones as part of a strategic plan.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Most startups follow a standard playbook for issuing employee equity, but it’s a system riddled with complications. The most competitive startups will not only give staff the shares that they deserve but will also do so in a way that’s tax-advantaged, de-risked and highly customizable. We know this isn’t the norm.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

Problems arose after a person made public record request to the DMV to disclose the documents that the company had sent. The company announced it invested $450 million into Wisk, a startup trying to develop and commercialize electric, self-flying air taxis. The DMV asked Waymo some specific questions, which the company answered.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Finance teams worldwide emerged as strategic leaders for startups with the onset of the pandemic by recognizing ways to efficiently manage remote teams, their finances, company operations and associated cost-cutting mechanisms. What challenges do remote finance teams face? 4 ways to empower remote finance teams.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Recently, some startups such as Lami , Ctrl and Naked have sought to take on each regional market by storm, armed with the necessary capital to scale. “We got struck by the fact that most of the companies didn’t actually have the capabilities to give APIs or to give us documentation to integrate.”

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

However, historically most private equity professionals were former investment bankers and other finance professionals. connects startups to experts in building new businesses. Particularly relevant is Startups.com , which help tech startups identify consultants with relevant domain expertise. Further reading. Here’s How .

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