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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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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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. Fund VI is the latest step in the firm’s long-term strategy to address the dual crises of housing affordability and climate change.

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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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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

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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 15, 2020

So much of an entrepreneur’s success relies on figuring out your true target prospect, the right pricing, and the winning product mix. It turns out, the market found a different – but far more valuable – use for our skills,” says Justin Lake , EO Dallas member and CEO of Venado Technologies. Listen to the market and be flexible.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Instead, they're focused on "strategy", which lots of makers already have a good starting sense of. That means making it easier for meetups and innovation conferences to use your spaces. I don't mean literally, but I do think students need to mix with their professional communities a lot more. Open your doors.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

If you want to build a strong online video business it almost certainly must make YouTube an important part of the strategy. I was arguing that I believe in this strategy on the Internet as any disciple of The Innovator’s Dilemma will tell you. MiTú will use its $10 million to build out new production facilities in LA and Mexico.

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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. You can use Veo 2 in the EU via Gemini only.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

Healthy living strategy comes with a smart plan too, you just need to focus on your pain points. But, once again - healthy living strategy is something that we all should focus on. Plan, Plan, And Plan No matter how busy you’re or how tough your timetable is healthy living strategy should be your to-do list at least thrice a week.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Investing in a podcast can be worthwhile, but your organization needs to answer this question before you start: Does a podcast make sense within the whole of your marketing strategy? 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Business model: o They bought a lot of ad inventory (banner ads/advertising) driving people to signup forms, converting (fill out form) and sold leads, o Initial strategy was first comparison shopping and then monitoring and upselling on more savings. Mix it up with different agencies, people run out or creativity/contacts.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

How might you create a prolific content strategy which resonates with your audience at a higher level? The podcast interview revealed how they used Facebook groups to grow their business from $80K to $500K in monthly revenue. Increase organic traffic using Pinterest. I use a plugin called Grow , which does all that for you.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Taha Ahmed and Rooshan Aziz left their jobs in strategy consulting and investment banking in London earlier this year in order to found a mobile-only education platform startup, Maqsad , in Pakistan, with a goal “to make education more accessible to 100 million Pakistani students.”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

It has proven a very successful strategy to get consumers to activate the payment on their mobile phone bill. I don’t think my unwillingness to use it is generational (as in I’m 42 and don’t “get it&# ) – I think it’s a life stage issue. Add this new model to the mix. 13mm in Series B.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

For Greg Isenberg , a growth advisor to TikTok and former head of strategy at WeWork, entrepreneur homes are a signal of what the foreseeable future of building could look like. Habitants of the Launch House use the pool for recreation and brainstorm sessions, called “pool-storms.” ” Image Credits: The Launch House.

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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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StartupNation

JANUARY 7, 2022

You can use social media as one tool to make those connections , but it doesn’t stop there. If you’re a professional and you want to make a sustainable living from your art, you need a bank account that’s separate from the one you use in your personal life. Personal connections are what is going to really sell.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

A successful entrepreneur, businessman and EO Bahrain member, Suhail Algosaibi had long thought about how he could use his position and his company—FALAK Consulting—to make real, radical and sustainable change in his corner of the world. Too much of today’s economic growth comes from unsustainable models using limited resources.

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American Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 11, 2024

There is a wealth of online marketing research resources to help a small business or startup to establish a marketing plan and strategy to achieve its marketing goals. With the right information, small businesses can formulate a strategy to move forward more confidently, by understanding their target customers and related market segment.

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Founder Bounty

APRIL 4, 2023

While some business owners use personal savings or loans to get started, many others turn to investors to help finance their dreams. A business plan is a document that outlines your company’s mission, goals, market analysis, target customers, financial projections, and strategies for success.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

It’s been a hot minute since TechCrunch checked in on the brand — almost three years, actually — which is carving out a unique niche in the $10 billion functional drink mix market that founder and CEO Lauren Picasso told TechCrunch has “exploded” in the past 12 months. but we are using much better ingredients.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

The company argues that greenhouse agriculture is a safer, more reliable and more climate-resilient mode of food production, producing up to 15 times higher yields, using a twentieth as much water as traditional agriculture. The funding will be used to accelerate product development and expand commercial collaborations.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

government, and it’s been doubling down on that strategy ever since, its CEO and founder Pat Larsen told TechCrunch. “That turns out to be extremely useful for an individual when you do accounting and tax. It also turns out to be very useful for accounting firms.” Still, ZenLedger gained the trust of the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

It doesn’t feel like a week goes by at the moment that another startup doesn’t emerge armed with a huge wallet of cash to pursue a strategy of consolidating and then scaling promising brands that have built a business selling on marketplaces like Amazon’s. That was a good surprise.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

San Francisco-based Heyday — which buys up and then grows direct-to-consumer merchants and brands that have found initial traction, leveraging the Amazon marketplace — has raised $555 million, a Series C that it will be using to continue expanding its technology, investing in business development, and to buy up more assets.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

An alarming report from Veracode and Enterprise Strategy Group found that nearly half of organizations knowingly ship vulnerable code despite using cybersecurity tools, often to meet release deadlines. It’s an acute problem. SonarSource doesn’t claim have overcome these. Image Credits: SonarSource.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2023

This data can be used to improve future events and marketing efforts. Environmental benefits: Online events are more environmentally friendly than in-person events, as they do not require travel and often use fewer resources, leading to less waste. Then use the StreamYard Giveaway Tool to select audience participants to win.

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 21, 2023

And I use automation tools to have the videos come out simultaneously everywhere. I rank for dozens of them—just creating landing pages for every use-case keyword imaginable. I use this to grow the company with new features, which can then be used for more bottom-of-funnel landing pages and more short-form mobile content.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“Despite ethnicity usually being a self-determined categorisation, we believe this is justified because the data we collect is subsequently anonymised and is being used to improve access to capital,” they note, adding: “Ethnic or gender prejudice is dependent on the perception of the person holding the purse strings to funds.”

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. RBI structures have been used for many years in natural resource exploration, entertainment, real estate, and pharmaceuticals.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Businesses today feel, more than ever, the imperative to have flexible e-commerce strategies in place, able to connect with would-be customers wherever they might be. It plans to use the funding to expand its own technology tools, as well as grow internationally. ” The roster includes Metro, Aldi Süd, Toyota and many others.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Although that component of the España Nación Emprendedora strategy is, inevitably, going to be a slower burn, hence the decade-long lens. In the near term, the startup law will be one of the first major deliverables of the strategy. This is sample data that we use — that we extracted from business data analysis.

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