The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

You'll document your RACI roles in a RACI chart to be sure everything's clear and transparent—more on that below. If it feels like a group project in school, where everyone needs to pitch in, give CLAM a shot. CLAM (Collaborate, Lead, Agree, Monitor): CLAM might be the way to go if your project is highly collaborative.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

For an app to make this list, you need to be able to attach images, videos, documents, web pages, and other assorted extras to your mind maps. As long as you save your mind maps as PDFs, plain text documents, or images, you can delete your old drafts and basically have unlimited free mind mapping for as long as you need.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

This document can look different depending on what it's used for. Whether you're drafting a press release, writing a briefing doc, refining a pitch, checking for brand risk, or just cleaning up grammar, these bots help you move quickly and confidently. This is important even in non-crisis situations.

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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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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

From using voice analysis to identify behavioral health issues to streamlining physician documentation of patient interactions, startups have incorporated voice technology to improve the value and efficiency of care. Physicians spend hours each week documenting their patient interactions in the EHR.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

This can be your star Chief Architect who loves to code but hates having to handle the admin like testing, documentation, recruiting, etc. Every so often I find myself caught up in a really hectic 3-4 week schedule where it seems like I float endlessly betweens meetings. Board Meetings. Conferences. I get sucked up in “Do” mode.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2022

A Very Honest Guide to Writing Your Fundraise Pitch Deck How to optimise yours for success Congratulations! You know you need a pitch deck to do this and so fire up your slide software of choice and crack your knuckles, ready to wow. I often see pitch decks positioning themselves as a Seed raise but realistically are at Pre-Seed.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

At the very least, answer ALL the profile questions, include your company’s logo, create a two-minute elevator pitch video and upload your presentation deck. One of the reasons that investors use Gust is that they know they can always find the most current information about a company simply by clicking on its Gust document vault.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

I don’t feel like canceling LinkedIn just because occasionally a well-meaning but slightly not-clued-in person from a faraway place wants me to be their personal mentor, answer 3-questions for their high-school entrepreneurship project or take a sales pitch for their recruiting services. In Adam’s world, I’m rude.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 23, 2025

I was in the room at Microsoft's Copilot launch event in New York City in 2023, where Satya Nadella pitched a vision of Copilot across all Microsoft's apps and services. Now, Copilot in Excel is now just one click away—but most people still aren't taking full advantage of it. Now Copilot makes everything a lot easier.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

LawCloud offers free legal documents through the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization. These documents are helpful for forming a new company, running your company, maintaining good corporate governance, and more. Contestants pitch their legal product idea for a chance to win $5,000, tutoring, and more.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 3, 2021

15+ years ago the Business Model Canvas (BMC) changed everything by giving us a 1-pager (or 4×3 foot poster) to help you quickly document and test the key hypothesis behind your business model. In fact, it tells the story of your business, as you would in a good pitch. The BMC was a quantum leap forward. No map required.

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StartupNation

APRIL 21, 2021

As Indiegogo indicates, crowdfunding campaigns with pitch videos tend to get four times the backing of those without a video. Your video needs a story arc: a structured, well-documented journey. Be sure to follow these storytelling best practices as you conceptualize your visual pitch: Educate yourself. Key takeaways.

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Founder Bounty

APRIL 4, 2023

A business plan is a document that outlines your company’s mission, goals, market analysis, target customers, financial projections, and strategies for success. Knowing who your target investors are and what they are looking for can help you tailor your pitch and increase your chances of getting funded.

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Paul G. Silva

MAY 24, 2020

15 years ago the Business Model Canvas (BMC) changed everything by giving us a 1-pager (or 4×3 foot poster) to help you quickly document and test the key hypothesis behind your business model. In fact, it tells the story of your business, as you would in a good pitch. The BMC was a quantum leap forward.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Startup pitches with promises to provide various services to Africans — across different sectors — are commonplace now. We know the rules, so you don’t have to spend time talking to lawyers and getting documents — we simplify all that.” The continent is also home to more than 1.2

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

This pitch throw-down is all about startups determined to power a more equitable, inclusive and healthy world, and we need more of that visionary thinking put into action. You know they’ll bring the heat and present a finely tuned pitch. Join us and thousands of people around the world for this free, virtual pitch competition.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

Pitch Deck Get your idea onto paper; it’s far easier to convey that way. A pitch deck is a teaser, where its goal is to create an appetite for further conversations and this can work equally well with prospective co-founders as it does with investors. Get the pitch right Tell a great story Startups that tell a great story get funding.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Floww — a data-driven marketplace designed to allow founders to pitch investors, with the whole investment relationship managed online — says it has raised $6.7 Founders can then “drag and drop” their investor documents in any format. million (£5 million) to date in seed funding from angels and family offices.

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Paul G. Silva

DECEMBER 12, 2022

One can easily turn a KISS Canvas into a pitch deck for investors by simply creating slides that mirror the content in each row. 15+ years ago the Business Model Canvas (BMC) changed everything by giving us a 1-pager to help quickly document and test the key hypothesis behind our business models. The BMC was a quantum leap forward.

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Feedough

DECEMBER 21, 2020

But fret not, we’ve listed down the eight biggest fundraising mistakes that you need to be wary of while approaching the investors, pitching to them, and signing contracts. Substandard Pitch Decks. A prominent mistake entrepreneurs make is by not focusing much on the pitch deck. Assuming Valuations And Demands.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 8, 2021

While it might sound strange getting your brother-in-law to sign a contract, a legal document is a great way to establish expectations for both parties. Pitch your business idea at a competition to earn startup funding. Check out this list of pitching competitions. Startup competitions.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 5, 2022

So give your pitch deck a break and lend an ear!”. This could include mundane tasks from replying to emails or phone calls, to bigger things like completing the pitch document that is needed next week, to prepping content in advance for social media. And don’t forget it’s not a one-way street.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

It is a huge mountain to climb and a full-time job to continuously pitch your vision and yourself to reach the first meeting with a VC fund — and that’s still miles away from a funding discussion. These discussions then bring further biases to the surface. It is all possible, but patience is key. Think of the worst-case scenario.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Traditionally, SMEs were required to visit physical bank branches, provide extensive documentation, and endure lengthy approval processes for loans. MYbank has acknowledged the obstacles encountered by SMEs, which include limited coverage, depth, and accessibility of necessary financial services.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

But in recent years, corporate docs are being drawn up in English to facilitate communication both inside Switzerland’s various language regions and foreign capital, and investment documentation is modeled after the U.S. Today, pitch competitions, incubators, accelerators, VCs and angel groups proliferate.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

But as ventures as an asset class grows and the documentation around raises gets thornier, the data can sometimes be missing a big chunk of what’s actually happening on the scenes. Announcing the TC Early Stage Pitch-Off. Lore was Walmart’s e-commerce chief until January. Use cloud foam to dollar sign.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

So Edda already has some competition beyond dusty-old spreadsheets, but what it’s pitching is an all-singing, all-dancing tool covering all bases. ” Edda supports this by serving as a centralized conduit for investors to upload documents, keep LPs up-to-date about deals, generate reports, share statistics, and more.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

He’s the CEO of Humaans , an HR tech startup that lets organizations build a customizable HR stack that manages employee documents, data, payroll, contracts and other components of “people ops.” ” Luperti has a product to pitch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

In the enterprise, there’s been an explosive growth of data — think documents, videos, audio files, posts on social media and even emails. Goswami pitches it as a compliance solution as well as a means to manage costs. ” So what else can enterprises do with Komprise?

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Paul G. Silva

DECEMBER 15, 2023

You can’t pay them in the early days unless you pitch, and deliver on, exponential growth for your investors. Action: Document your core values, collaborate with stakeholders that share those values, and be ready to compromise on everything else.

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Startup Blogpost

JANUARY 5, 2024

When the idea of starting a business is pitched, it is human nature to get excited about it, but when the actual work begins, team members may slack off and fade away. It shows you who has updated the task, and you can include documents, images, and other attachments in the task.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 23, 2014

The statement of work converts the company’s phone or in-person sales pitch into an asset for the internal champion. For this reason, SOWs can be a vital document in the handoff between sales and customer success and can also form the basis for better collaboration between the two teams.In So, statements or can align three teams.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Based on our experience, it takes less time to prepare an IEP petition than an O-1A petition because it’s not as document-intensive. Were you invited to judge a pitch competition, speak on a panel or mentor others based on your background, experience or skill set? My firm has filed several IEP petitions on behalf of clients.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 30, 2023

Formstack alongside All Stage & Zapier allows us to solicit pitch meetings dates from founders, for deal leads to request SPV creation, for members to refer new members. clipr transcribes and categorizes the content of our pitch meeting video recordings. Zoom is our platform of choice for pitch meetings and internal meetings.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

The pitch was tantalizing — but never fully realized. Dating back to 2017, Transformer has become the architecture of choice for natural language tasks, demonstrating an aptitude for summarizing documents, translating between languages and even classifying images and analyzing biological sequences.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

Eva Doss, President and CEO at The Launch Place, elaborated, “We had multiple organizations in the region that were providing specific services to entrepreneurs and small businesses: business counseling, seminars, workshops, investment capital, pitch competitions, networking events, etc.

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