StartupNation

JULY 7, 2025

For example, aim for something like “understand customer satisfaction and ease of use with our checkout page.” I also suggest avoiding jargon, technical terms, and industry-specific lingo unless you are absolutely certain your target audience uses and understands them regularly. What is your age range?

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StartupNation

JUNE 9, 2025

EquityNet RAISE CAPITAL Use flat-fee crowdfunding with no commissions. Consider using long-term financing options for major asset purchases rather than depleting your operating cash. Mixing funds creates legal and tax complications, obscures true business performance, and increases personal liability.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

Take your transactional email to the next level with automation Automate your campaigns I've been using Mailchimp for years and have tested Brevo (formerly Sendinblue) extensively. All these features are available with easy-to-use menus, accessible tutorials, and great user experience design.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Automation used to be the best way to do that. Get started Here, I'll explain what AI automation actually is, why it's useful, and how you can start using it to offload all the worst parts of your job, so you can focus on the human stuff. Now, I delegate to AI automation. Table of contents: What is AI automation?

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Jason Malki

JUNE 18, 2025

He mixes strategy, research, and hands-on design to make AI feel intuitive, useful, and above all, trustworthy. where he helped shape UX patterns for clinical AI tools used by tens of thousands of clinicians. Thank you so much for joining us! What are your future plans for your startup? This was very insightful.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 22, 2025

The new fund is dedicated to preserving, greening, and enhancing affordable and mixed-income housing in high-demand urban areas across the United States. With this milestone, the firm has now raised over $1.5 billion across its series of preservation funds, reinforcing its national leadership in mission-driven real estate.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 31, 2025

All of them use Kit (formerly ConvertKit). And while it doesn't make quite as catchy of an anecdote, the Georgia Museum of Art, Jittery Joe's Coffee, and a brand of baby sunglasses called Babiators all use Mailchimp. In this article, I'll compare the features of both apps so you can figure out which makes sense for you.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

There's one for the sound bar, one for a Blu-ray player (RIP), two for gaming systems I don't use, and one that might control a ceiling fan in someone else's house for all I know. And anyone can set it up using a tool like Zapier. " This guide will teach you everything you need to know about AI orchestration.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

My own system was a chaotic mix of muscle memory and flagged emails. Visual workflows, on the other hand, use diagrams, standardized symbols, colors, and flow lines. Using a visual map to define roles and responsibilities, similar to a RACI chart , eliminates confusion. Before the next Ice Age?

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StartupNation

JULY 13, 2025

As long as you follow the legal formalities, like not mixing personal and business finances.) You can use your own Social Security Number for taxes. Use our handy checklist. LLC: The business is its own legal entity With an LLC, you typically get limited liability protection. No state filing. No annual reports.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

Today you can make calls using FaceTime, Messenger, WhatsApp, or dozens of other call apps, and virtual phone systems do the same for your office number. Instead of deploying yards of copper wires spooled out to attached office phones to make and receive calls, virtual calls are made using a broadband internet connection.

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Jason Malki

JUNE 10, 2025

I’m excited that I get to intentionally bring together a great mix of people who complement each other and create a special experience. Plus, to use my French! What is it that excites you about what you’re building? If you could partner or collaborate with any brands for your business, what would they be?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 7, 2025

When used effectively, your CRM becomes a central command center for tracking relationships, managing pipelines, and coordinating touchpoints across your entire customer journey. A lot of times, the "other system" is used for lead capture, like a form on a website. Learn more.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 29, 2025

If you're throwing together a quick social media graphic, making a poster for an upcoming event, or even creating a presentation, Canva is one of the best design tools you can use—but it isn't the only one. It's not even the design app I use. I have no time or patience for design apps that are awful to use.

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StartupNation

JUNE 2, 2025

If you’re in the latter group, the good news is you don’t have to use debt to build business credit. Trade lines and other accounts, like business charge cards, that you can use to establish a positive payment history without taking out a small business loan. Raise business capital of $100K to $100M.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

In this guide, I'll break down what enterprise automation really means, the challenges that make it harder than it should be, and how large organizations are using it to work faster with control and confidence. Enterprise automation is the practice of using technology to connect processes and software across large, complex organizations.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 13, 2025

How we evaluate and test apps Our best apps roundups are written by humans who've spent much of their careers using, testing, and writing about software. I wanted to see them in action, imagine myself actually using them day-to-day, and pinpoint what really made the AP process smoother.

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Hunter Walk

APRIL 17, 2025

These events are organized as a conference format, so the discussions are casual and mixed with networking, planned appointments and good content. The point here is to build a partnership with the companies whose products are also used by your customers. Facebook is a great model to use for learning from the past.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 4, 2025

You use templated, predefined rules and let machines do the work, so every onboard is fast and consistent. You can also use specialized mobile device management (MDM) solutions to handle similar configurations for mobile phones or tablets. But many can support different provisioning needs and use cases.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 23, 2025

Whatever your use case, we'll show you different ways to pull in the power of ChatGPT into Zaps—Zapier's automated workflows. Table of contents Which model should you use with our ChatGPT integration? Which model should you use with our ChatGPT integration? You can use AI and automation to bridge that gap.

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The Zapier Blog

AUGUST 7, 2025

For example, you might use Zapier to orchestrate a workflow that kicks off when a new hire fills out your Typeform onboarding form. Data transformation and mapping: Let's say your lead gen app uses a data format best described as "WTF," and your CRM uses a format called "OMG."

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

Get started AI buzzwords are everywhere, but knowing what they actually mean can help you use AI better. For a simple example, the idea is that your AI assistant agent would be able to book flights using a travel comparison website's AI agent. You can build your own AI agents using tools like Zapier Agents.

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The Zapier Blog

AUGUST 4, 2025

Taking notes used to be a mess of notebooks, Post-its, and scribbled napkins. Turn ideas into action Automate your note-taking Using new technologies can be tricky, especially when dealing with sensitive data like your personal notes. I'm using one of these apps every day and the others I tested over the course of three weeks.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

That means you can also use them to develop your own AI-powered tools and connect them to thousands of other apps using Zapier. If you aren't sure which model to use, GPT-4.1 It's the model to use for simple tasks, or when you need to prioritize speed and cost-effectiveness. Fastest and cheapest GPT-4.1

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The Zapier Blog

AUGUST 4, 2025

This is useful to understand if you need to be more tactful with your reply or can move the conversation forward with confidence. Business intelligence and enrichment One step above basic processing, AI can use pattern recognition and data integrations to use your inbox as a starting point to look for and surface relevant information.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

As opposed to Notion's "blocks," Obsidian uses Markdown , a lightweight formatting language, but you don't have to learn it to customize your text. You can just use standard options like bold, italic, and more. Related reading: The best AI notes apps Notion vs. OneNote: Which app should you use?

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 14, 2014

Take the most widely used number--that way fewer women are getting venture funding than guys. Lastly, six of the eight founders that counted as part of the BI study were part of mixed teams--where there were both male and female founders. Why so many mixed teams? That, statistically, is true.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 26, 2025

Google Veo 3 at a glance Veo 3 is really impressive—folks are already using it to overhaul their marketing strategies. When I tried using Jump to to generate the second shot, Veo 3 Fast wasn't compatible—it automatically switched to Veo 2 Fast, which lost the audio entirely. I found it was easier to use it with Flow, personally.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

I use some of these apps daily as a prompt to make my writing more concise and, hopefully, more enjoyable. How we evaluate and test apps Our best apps roundups are written by humans who've spent much of their careers using, testing, and writing about software. Style and tone suggestions. Privacy and IP controls.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Of course, to solve this, you can look for professionals to add to your team, but what use are your friends then? With no actual influx of capital into your business, you’re looking at a dangerous mix of emotions, finances, and ego. Your Finances Will Be Quite Strained.

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Dream It

AUGUST 6, 2020

The investment will be used for platform R&D to further enhance patient triage and symptom checking features as well as clinical decision support analysis – including intake collection, differential diagnostics and lab test interpretation – and to expand operations in Germany and the US, where Infermedica currently has one office.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 8, 2021

A mix of the above. Your business can then use the video on YouTube to extend its marketing value and reach an even wider audience. In addition, you can slice and dice the video into engaging clips to use on social media. One person talking into a microphone. Two co-hosts talking about a topic. The interview style.

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Startup Grind

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Challenges: It’s not really that hard to acquire users for your product at this stage given your value proposition is clear and the product is somehow useful. There is a mix of science, engineering and philosophy behind that which needs careful study and growth-minded teams. Historically, this is where EdTech entrepreneurs have failed.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Over the past decade we’ve had high-profile exits at many companies that pioneered monetization techniques now used across the web including Commission Junction, Value Click, ShopZilla, Price Grabber, LowerMyBills and a newer breed including Invoca, Burstly, Shift, Rubicon Project, Gravity, Convertro, Retention Science and so forth.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Augmented reality/mixed reality. At this stage, the corporate customer has already discovered some internal problem or use case that the technology might address. There’s already a clear understanding of at least some of the use cases or problems that need solving, and return-on-investment metrics have been established.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The product was useful to their business as a marketing and operations tool, but they wanted to build it into something more. Previous companies using the IdeaPAD scaled their product by 10x or became leaders in their space. Each criteria was weighted at either a 1 or 2, though any multiplier could be used.

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