The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

The RACI model—which stands for responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed—would have gotten us the Instagram-worthy escape time we'd hoped for. RACI is an acronym that stands for responsible , accountable , consulted , and informed. Informed: These people are just here for the updates. "Just " moments.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

A communication plan is your blueprint for delivering key information to appropriate stakeholders. It outlines the information that needs to be communicated, who it's meant for, the channel it's delivered through, and the folks in charge of it to ensure clear, consistent, and purposeful communication.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

It typically includes sections for the project scope , objectives, timelines, resource allocation, risk assessment, and communication strategies (unless telepathy is in the budget). A project plan template is a pre-formatted document that serves as a starting point for outlining the approach to a project.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 5, 2022

MyEO DX attracts EO members who are looking to transform or reinvent their business strategies or overall engagement with entrepreneurship. Some MyEO DX members are angel investors and serial entrepreneurs with deep knowledge about the process and strategy behind buying and selling companies.

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Startup Blogpost

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

20 Tips for Pitching New Business Ideas to Potential Investors To provide you with the best advice on pitching new business ideas to investors, we asked twenty CEOs, Founders, and other professionals for their top tips. You should highlight the potential future earnings while pitching your proposal.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

APRIL 2, 2021

But in too many communities entrepreneurship is an underutilized and underleveraged strategy for economic growth. In my role as an ecosystem builder in Sacramento, I’m doubling down on my efforts to raise awareness about entrepreneurship and ecosystem building as an economic development strategy to civic and business leaders in our region.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

This is a fantastic time to found a startup, but unless you plan to bootstrap it, you will still need to go through the laborious exercise of crafting a pitch deck. According to Jose Cayasso, CEO and co-founder of pitch deck design agency Slidebean, there are five slides where pretty much all founders miss the mark : Go-to-market.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 19, 2024

My first pitch was not to investors or potential clients; it was to my fiancée, convincing her to delay our wedding plans until Equifund was up and running — a promise that took significantly longer than the anticipated six months to fulfill. It was a brute-force strategy, devoid of any fairy-tale twists, but it was effective.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

CEOs may resonate with a higher-end content strategy such as white papers, books, or even a branded podcast. The next step is to find potential ideal employees through an interview process structured to get both technical and behavioral information from candidates. These groups are easy to find and fairly inexpensive to join.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

If you haven’t read the post the thesis was that I care way more about watching the trajectory of your performance as a team (or individual) than I do about how good you “pitch” on the first day you come to see me. He waited to pitch me until he had a strong sense of what he wanted to build. Pose is no different. Here’s the deal.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 31, 2024

Entrepreneurs seek to find the right investor and to make the best pitch when the opportunity comes Entrepreneurs start their companies with great passion and big dreams. Once contact is made, maintaining a dialog with potential investors that informs them of ongoing progress and the passing of key milestones nurtures a trusting relationship.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

From this post, deep tech startups can formulate their marketing hiring strategy and attract and cultivate top talent to drive their go-to-market plan. To this end, marketers develop creative ways to gather lists of, and information on, key contacts at these potential partners. Whether the marketing team needs industry experience.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 18, 2022

Top 3 DIY tactics, according to a former BBC journalist turned media relations troubleshooter Image by author I sifted at least 100,000 story pitches when I worked on the main planning desks for BBC News (radio, tv, and online) and its investigative show Panorama. They just need the right insights and tools to pitch successfully.

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Startup Blogpost

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

11 Startup Content Marketing Strategies That Actually Work To help startups navigate the complex world of content marketing, we’ve gathered eleven successful strategies from industry professionals, including CEOs and Content Marketing Managers.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

With a thirst for learning and a willingness to share lessons learned and insider experiences, EO members published 47 informative posts on EO’s Inc.com channel in 2023. These insights from top entrepreneurs benefit EO members plus the entire entrepreneurial ecosystem. Insights Learned From Raising $1.5

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Granting loans to farmers is hindered by various obstacles, such as insufficient information about agricultural output, extended growing cycles, high risks, and a lack of reliable collateral. Also read : Top 10 Fintech Startup Investments Powering Southeast Asia in 2023 Japan’s Five-Year Development Strategy unveils KANSAI Startup Night Vol.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 30, 2024

During Demo Day, attendees heard pitch presentations from five founders who participated in the initial Bridge2 cohort. Participants in the program engaged in weekly workshops and coaching calls, refining their revenue models, competitive strategies, and customer acquisition.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This was a fantastic strategy in terms of impact, raising the bar for startup excellence in key startup ecosystems and opening up access to the Venture Capital financing market to founders who couldn’t or didn’t want to relocate to the Bay Area. The next important group to spot the weakness in Techstars’ strategy was the investment community.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 12, 2022

It concludes with a Pitch Showcase awarding at least $25,000 in prize money. Entrepreneurs need easy access–wherever they are–to personalized learning and coaching resources in order to successfully implement digital strategies into their businesses and have the confidence to succeed in the post-pandemic future.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 19, 2022

Use the information you learn to refine your product, approach, and pitch. ” “It is important to have a focus and a strategy but it is easy to spend too much time trying to get this right rather than doing the doing. Fabulous ideas are a dime a dozen. Hannah Hunt – Cofounder. Roar Collective.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Most of them were so open to receiving pitches, they said we could include their contact information. Each shared details about the sort of deals they’re looking for right now and indicated how they prefer to be approached with pitches. “All that begs for more defined team structures.”

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Knowing the Value Proposition is key to establishing a marketing strategy that distinguishes a company from its competition. Then, build a strategy behind your assessment that will be part of your business plan. Exit Strategy: How is it possible to choose an exit strategy when you have not yet started a business?

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

We are fortunate to have leadership that have masterminded strategies utilizing public and private funding, along with a stellar regional foundation (Danville Regional Foundation, or DRF) to slowly work this puzzle out. Like many communities in this position, it has not been easy or straightforward. Challenges.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

Buckle up, because this day is absolutely packed with the essential information all early founders need to determine their next steps and make meaningful connections to grow their business. Are you ready to spend the day with hundreds of like-minded early-stage founders and investors?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 12, 2022

dating app My pitch to investors I want to tell you my story as a founder and CEO and share some examples of my f**k-ups. Self-reflection This strategy was a mistake. Our strategy should have been to run something first and then polish the product model, but prejudice prevailed. They all refer to the Hola! UX description 2.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

“What you want as an entrepreneur is funders nodding in agreement with your pitch before you even have a chance to finish it,” write Fingert and Foster. Creating a winterization strategy for a startup is a less straightforward process, however. Your startup pitch deck needs an operating plan.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

4 key strategies for succeeding at international expansion. At any stage of investment, be it seed or a Series B, it’s necessary to include a slide in your pitch deck that explains the size of your market from three perspectives — TAM, SAM and SOM. More posts by this contributor.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 26, 2024

I’ve unapologetically hyper-focused this shopping solution for women, as informed and directed by my personal experience and the experiences of my users as women, moms, and what I refer to as “household procurement specialists.” Practice in pitching and answering tough questions has prepared us to begin raising funding.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

Now’s the time to start planning your Disrupt 2021 schedule , and you don’t want to miss out on these informative presentations. Korea Pavilion Pitch Session – Hosted by KOTRA. You will not find this level of people accessible and in one place anywhere else. Michael McCarthy, CEO of Repositax. Brought to you by Samsung Next.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Strategy 1: Master Your Messaging Messaging is the bridge connecting your business with your prospective consumers. Yet, with the inundation of information, standing out requires a special touch. But it doesn’t end there: Use this strategy with storytelling. Strategy 4: Ask for the Sale Sales is about intuition and timing.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2023

It took me a while, but I’m realizing that my startup love language is discussing any attempts to standardize the opaque and often informal world of venture capital. Or, as I covered this week, a tool for startups that lets companies simultaneously blast out the same application — or pitch — to multiple angel and pre-seed investors.

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Startup Blogpost

JANUARY 5, 2024

From fostering a culture of trust to assigning clear task ownership, explore the diverse strategies and tools in these fourteen responses that can help ensure your team stays on track. By understanding human motivation and implementing effective strategies, leaders can foster a culture of ownership, responsibility, and collective achievement.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Whether you use your accounts sparingly or monitor your news feeds like a hawk, you’ll want to develop a social media strategy for Small Business Saturday that lands you at the front of your customers’ minds. Most will be happy to hear out a pitch if you have one—particularly if it isn’t self-promotional or comes off as advertising.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Strategies to help you maxmise your impact Photo: ReaktorX As a COO of ReaktorX, a pre-acceleration programme, I’m always very inspired when scouting startups. Luckily, there a few strategies you can deploy to maxmise your impact, and potentially win yourself a spot on the program. and it always proves to be insightful and motivating.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Before you can deliver on any of the promises in your pitch deck, you’ll need to build a team. To help TechCrunch+ readers take on this challenge, we are looking for experts to participate in a survey about tactics and strategies for startup recruiting in Q1 2022. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Yesterday’s House Financial Services Committee hearing on the GameStop short squeeze saga was fairly typical: Most lawmakers used their time to grandstand and little new information was revealed. 4 strategies for deep tech companies recruiting top growth marketers. Ilya Sukah, partner, Matrix Partners.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

Maria Palmer of RRE summarizes : “You can’t pick a platform strategy that’s unique, but you can pick a platform strategy that your firm can uniquely execute. ” . Two easy ways to enable scaleability: encourage founders to learn from one another, and share information simultaneously with many. Fundraising. Recruiting.

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