The Zapier Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

If you're more curious about CRM options than customer service solutions, check out Zapier's post covering the best CRMs. Zendesk also offers intuitive side-conversation features and a clear view of interaction history with customers to make your agents' lives easier.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

I wrote about how to give demos in a previous post. IQ Engines is an image labeling and photo recognition platform that relies partly on technology to identify photos and party on a crowdsourced team of people who review the photos and tag them with the idea of the system learning and automatically becoming better through the process.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We spent the first 45 minutes or so talking about industry trends (in this order): The history and background of True Ventures, one of my favorite early-stage VC’s (and the one with whom Om is a venture partner). Diverse search results include stream updates, blog posts, news articles, photos, videos (versus Twitter/FaceBook1 only).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

So what else matters when one considers history? Keith Rabois (mentioned in my previous posts on angel investors) is on record on GigaOm as saying how important VC backed deals are to him. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. But I promise you I’ve been here before and know that this is temporary.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

For example, you might set up an automation that tags email contacts with any new information you receive about them, like demographic details and job characteristics. Save time by automating Email marketing automation allows you to complete detailed tasks that would be impossibly time-consuming to do manually.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

So what else matters when one considers history? Keith Rabois (mentioned in my previous posts on angel investors) is on record on GigaOm as saying how important VC backed deals are to him. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. But I promise you I’ve been here before and know that this is temporary.

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Derek Sivers

MARCH 1, 2022

They are also a history of my life. I’ve written four books and four hundred blog posts in plain text. Maybe in each diary entry, the first two lines are like: date: 2022-02-28 tags: where-to-live, kids, dog, anxious. I search them, update them, and learn from them. My written words are my most precious asset. Here’s why.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

search deal (“will go down as one of the worst deals in history”) to the skewering Jason gave to his competitor Nick Denton (of Gawker fame) when he stole his most productive employee. Anyway, to close my Twiistup 6 Summary post I will borrow from the wisdom of my forefathers, “next year in … Santa Monica.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

This is because when you search video, you’re really searching for tags, descriptions, and other basic elements that can be easily added at scale. “The industry has over-simplified the problem, thinking tags can solve search,” said Twelve Labs founder and CEO Jae Lee. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Facebook’s parent company Meta announced the first major job cuts in its history this week, eliminating 11,000 jobs. Image Credits: GPC Smart Tags (opens in a new window). According to Syneroid, a startup that makes smart tags, 10 million pets are lost each year in the United States, but “less than 30% are returned home.”

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

I recently wrote a post on angel financing covering the topic of convertible notes but I realized I was thinking about the issue more from investor perspective and a very narrow topic of how to price the round. This post is for those who want to raise angel money. Definitionally not a short post (sorry for letting you down, Ari ;-).

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

Second, Pogo is a play on the rise of e-commerce tools such as Rakuten and Honey, browser extensions that automatically find cash, coupons and deals in return for your shopping history. You wouldn’t place a price tag on your freedom to speak. To scale data in exchange for cash, the startup raised $14.8 million pre-seed round. “EFF

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

This is the last post in that series. A large part of our post meeting conversation was how we felt the individual seemed to be of low integrity. I’ve heard this about similar technology executives of some of the biggest names out there in history. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice.

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OnStartups

MARCH 18, 2019

The following was originally written as a post on the internal HubSpot wiki a couple of years ago. Now, based on my history with that person, they may think: "Well, Dharmesh thinks I should do X so I'm going to do that, even though I was going to do Y." At the request of several fellow entrepreneurs (hi, Wade from Zapier!)

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

It places undue pressure early in the company’s history to “do big things&# when sometimes what is warranted is more prudence. I’ve spoken about this in a post entitled, “ Do you even need VC ?&# Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice Startup Advice.

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The Zapier Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

Support ticket organization AI support ticket organization—which employs things like natural language processing (NLP) and sentiment analysis—uses rules to automatically apply tags and labels to tickets and sort them to the appropriate agent and support phase.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

There’s a long history of productivity tools offering integrations and aggregations that propose to pull relevant but distributed data into one easier-to-keep-tabs-on location. Building trust with users will be paramount and security- and user experience-enhancing data pre- and post-processing will play a crucial role.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

” Crunchbase had a post-money valuation of $150 million as of the closing of its Series C. Paid Crunchbase plans unlock data about competitors, history and more. CEO Jager McConnell declined to reveal the valuation but described it as a “significant up round.” Image Credits: Crunchbase. Image Credits: Crunchbase.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2010

I know that this will sound like a random post topic for startup advice but I promise it’s relevant. And they’ll invent that history that you were the bad guy for complaining. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. File this under entrepreneurial advice. Seem it happen – I promise.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 24, 2010

Greatly exceed expectations at all costs. There is so much history behind this insight, and so many stories that illustrate this point. Tags: Growth! First customers are critical. The result of doing this right will be to blunt criticism, reinforce compliments and provide a solid user base to build upon.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 19, 2010

Whitney McNamara referred to as the “post that launched 1000 VCs”, but it was really meant to open up a dialogue between an innovative little company hyperfocused on an important piece of data—when people show up to venues—and a bigger company dependent on relationships with venues. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 3, 2010

Each board pack should have the history of performance over the past year, a comparison of performance relative to plan and your forecasts going forward. Always helpful too for them to include a “here’s what we need from you” slide so you know your marching orders post board meeting too." we'll figure it out together."

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2010

In this post I don’t want to address those topics – I’m not a Facebook Fanboy. I think this decision proved to be correct but history will tell us. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. I know a lot of people fear him right now and the popular thing to do is rag on Mark.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 18, 2009

I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs. One of the most famous case of resiliency in the US history is Abe Lincoln. It was the worst year in history to be selling Enterprise Software and worse yet we were selling SaaS software, which was still experimental in buyers’ minds.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 28, 2021

SEO tags (title, description, alt). A single system, such as a CRM or SaaS platform, stores all the data the user reported to the company and the history of client actions: activity on the site and social networks, use of certain applications, email, etc. Post product video reviews. site security (HTTPS). duplicate content, and.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

I have made many of my arguments in a blog post I wrote on The Innovator’s Dilemma , a concept that is critical for both innovators & incumbents to understand. This has been the history of OPEC – it a cartel full of countries that routinely have cheated. Tags: Tech Market Analysis.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

When I was looking through their company’s history I saw the following statement made in September 2009: “Takes on WebEx, launches web conferencing and announces its US expansion with 900 US resellers&#. I’m writing this post from Shanghai. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. So my advice was to focus a bit more.

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OurCrowd

MAY 26, 2022

The company’s machine-learning platform understands how consumers see webpages and improves its automatic-tagging abilities over time while automatically adapting to website changes. The post Newsletter: Oprah’s smart oven + Kim Kardashian’s taste appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Top Tech News.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In this post, we will walk through what drove Monzo’s early success, how it has come to dominate the UK market, and the company’s opportunity to change the landscape of global financial services with its beloved brand. But unlike when it launched in the UK, Monzo now has five years of history and product work to leverage.

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The Zapier Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

If you share a link to someone else's blog post with your audience, for example, you won't know much about how many people—and who—click through; all that data will be in the other person's analytics account. Tags, which you can add to your shortened links, let you view the link traffic related to specific campaigns.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

But as I argued in my “ App is Crap &# post I don’t believe that this will be the long run solution on mobile devices. I know Facebook seems to have a lock on the market right now but those who have been around long enough and remember history will know we’ve been here before. Tags: Tech Market Analysis.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In this post, we will walk through what drove Monzo’s early success, how it has come to dominate the UK market, and the company’s opportunity to change the landscape of global financial services with its beloved brand. But unlike when it launched in the UK, Monzo now has five years of history and product work to leverage.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2010

OK, hiring is a loooong topic and I couldn’t do it justice in single post. Either I say, I want the resume history in under 5 minutes (I usually do this to be polite since I know they’re dying to tell me what they’ve practiced). Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. I do this two ways.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

Yesterday I wrote a post about how much capital your startup should raise. In that post I was talking about how it is a bad strategy to be underfunded. I shouldn’t have covered it in the last post because I should have stayed focused on the topic of how much money to raise. Paying customers.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

So doing that deal and bringing these guys in, are there any interesting observations or any entertaining little stories about either pre-acquisition or post that had to do with Sam and The Hustle? Or even just read these blog posts and watch these videos. Shaan: And he posted on Twitter a gif. And he posted that gift.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

We’ll have the post show water cooler effect that was popular in the Seinfeld era. And meanwhile Zynga is one of the fastest growing companies in US history. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. .&# The 15-30 crowd will feel like this is what TV was meant to be – social. But most of it will be virtual.

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