StartupNation

JUNE 4, 2025

This article breaks down the essentials of innovative design techniques that have a proven track record for engaging investors. For our market size slide, rather than showing a single TAM number, I built a simple interactive model that let investors adjust parameters to see how different market penetration scenarios would affect our growth.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

For many founding teams, pricing is one of the most difficult and complex decisions for the business. Expensify, Netsuite, New Relic, Slack follow this model. Skimming (Profit Maximization) - start with a high price and systematically broaden the product offering to address more of the customer base at lower prices.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Working at Zapier means I spend a lot of time thinking about how to make software do my job for me. 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.

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StartupNation

MAY 21, 2025

Choosing the right Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system is a critical decision for any startup. To help you avoid these pitfalls, we asked 17 business leaders to share the mistakes they made when selecting a CRM — and how they corrected them.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

Let's talk about what it really means—and why your business desperately needs it. Examples of AI orchestration 7 AI orchestration best practices Getting started with AI orchestration What is AI orchestration? " This guide will teach you everything you need to know about AI orchestration.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Homebrew makes investments by consensus – it works because there’s just two of us. We’ve done it this way for two reasons – first, it works internally given our style of decision-making and respectful but loud debate. What story does your career tell? I love that sense of accountability.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Visualize, plan, and automate business-critical processes Try Zapier Canvas That's the entire premise of a visual workflow. It's about making the invisible visible so that work can happen without the constant questions, dropped balls, and frantic Slack messages. It's not about bureaucracy; it's about clarity.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Agentic AI vs. generative AI vs. AI agents Agentic AI in action Agentic AI examples Getting started with agentic AI What is agentic AI? Imagine an AI email app that automatically screens your incoming emails. It totally depends on what it can do without your intervention. So let's dig in.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

Automatically extract data from your apps with Zapier Learn how And again, like oil, not all data comes out of the ground with the same properties. Here, I'll walk you through key differences and use cases and share some examples so you can understand how to use both to power your business. What is unstructured data?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 2, 2011

We need to take some risks in education and in innovation in this country so anybody that it trying to break through the traditional mold and try to create a new model ought to be lauded, not attacked. So I don’t mourn for their lost youth or their downside consequences if their businesses doesn’t succeed.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

I’ve always believed it’s been one of the most important attributes of business success yet something very few business leaders talk about. Almost all business success relies on creativity. One example is driving, which has an actual physiological reason it makes you creative. Creativity. THE DETAILS.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 22, 2012

You have a million things to get done at your startup, yet you only have a handful of people to do them. To make life simpler, I'll take a page from George Carlin, who masterfully widdled down the Ten Commandments down to two simple rules. I can break down all the things a startup needs to do into three ideal people.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really. And I think about the “Seattle issue&# as a metaphor for startups and business in general. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 27, 2020

Agonise over whether or not you need business partners. If you can afford it, don’t have business partners. The tenth entrepreneur without the headache is usually the one without a business partner. For me, not having a business partner is one less problem. Your job is to find where the other person’s sweet spots are.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 27, 2021

If you want to start a new business in the new year, then you’re not alone. According to QuickBooks’ New Business Insights report, 3 out of 5 (57%) US employees thinking about taking the plunge into entrepreneurship. QuickBooks’ New Business Insights Report. The coronavirus affected most small businesses.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 29, 2020

Contributed by Shawn Johal, business growth coach, leadership speaker and co-founder of DALS Lighting, Inc. Life is busy, and focus is hard to come by. Life is busy, and focus is hard to come by. Do you ever feel overwhelmed with no idea where to start? Once you know there is an issue, write down your thoughts.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 13, 2016

When it comes to running a business, there is no go-to manual for greatness or a secret recipe for success. As EO Montréal’s Moranne Elarar and Marina Byezhanova can attest, it all starts with hustle and heart. I grew up in an entrepreneurial family, so that instinct to start a business has always been in my DNA.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 5, 2025

Having the right business advisor can be a game-changer for an entrepreneur Starting and growing a business is a challenging and often lonely endeavor. Entrepreneurs are presented with both business and personal challenges as they travel their entrepreneurial journey.

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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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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. If the founding entrepreneurs believe their business models will scale quickly, they will need a good deal of funding to support growth.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

With the pandemic, climate crisis, global economic shifts and rapidly changing consumer markets, it is clear that many businesses of today will no longer be relevant tomorrow. experiments to build a product, find customers, test business models and hire amazing people. Our world is changing, and fast. Risk and reward.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 18, 2023

It basically talks about how, instead of betting everything on one big idea and risking it all, you need to start by firing small “bullets”—testing out various ideas on a smaller scale. This way, we made more informed decisions and reduced the risk of failure.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 25, 2022

It requires a lot of attention to make sure the pace of execution does not slow and cultural issues do not emerge as you scale. And good people follow good people, helping you grow your team down the road. What makes this even harder is you often have to play the long game to get the best engineers signed on. These were: a.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 16, 2023

What advice would you give your past self? I added that the low points, while no fun in the moment, are all things that make you smarter down the road. The question I asked them was this: If you could go back in time and give your younger self some advice just as you were starting your founder journey, what would you say?

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Chris Donan works for AT&T Business as the VP of Business Sales. His job is to serve small, medium-sized businesses across the United States. He has the responsibility of leading and working alongside 1,300 solutions and technology specialists that work directly with small businesses. Serving Small Businesses.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Check out our day-one highlights to whet your appetite and then dig in! Start your day off right — join Mary Ann Azevedo, Natasha Mascarenhas and Alex Wilhelm at the TechCrunch+ stage for a live recording of Equity, the podcast about the business of startups. Making Care Actually Work. TC Plus Stage | 9:05 am.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Your mission? This daylong event gives aspiring and early startup founders — from the idea stage to Series A — the confidence, skills, information, connections and community they need to take next steps and grow their business. But how can founders look that far ahead, in a turbulent market, and predict their future business model?

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Founders Coop

APRIL 29, 2024

In that prior post, I had offered Y Combinator as a positive example, but I didn’t break down exactly why. Step 0: Understand the goal Before you attempt to design a system to do a specific type of work, it helps to articulate the beliefs and assumptions underlying your design. This has not been our experience.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

5 ways to raise your startup’s PR game. The ability to effectively communicate can make or break your launch. So how do you make a splash? 5 ways to raise your startup’s PR game. 5 ways to raise your startup’s PR game. Today, it’s also about business resilience.

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Impact Hub

JULY 30, 2021

How can we make the field of entrepreneurship more inclusive to groups that are systematically deprived of representation? Following our conversations with Rut Turró and Hrishabh Sandilya — two courageous entrepreneurs who are making an incredible impact — , we talked with Larissa de Moura. A: An explorer of new experiences.

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 21, 2023

What Is Your Process for Developing New Business Ideas?: 16 Experts Weigh In Sixteen entrepreneurs, from Founders to CEOs, unveil their personal blueprints for birthing a business concept. You don’t write about your mood; you talk about your day. The sentiment analysis determines your mood for you.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 26, 2022

You’d like to believe the world is completely meritocratic—that you’ll put your heads down to work on your company, hit all your metrics, and just show up on the doorstep of a VC firm who will just be bowled over at the fantastic little company you’ve created. They’re not buying your past history.

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Reforge

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Here’s a secret: Marketers aren’t getting the big returns they expect from testing, because they don’t make big enough bets. Big experiments require strong business cases and coordination across multiple stakeholders. We’ll make our case using an example of a big, risky bet: turning off your highest performing channel.

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Forward Cities

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Q:What is your deeper “why” behind your commitment and work to support inclusive entrepreneurship in Kansas City? . A: Starting out in both the tech sector and restaurants, we made a lot of costly mistakes that made life very hard. Q: What is a challenge you’ve faced in your life that has led you to this work? .

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 24, 2023

How did you break into tech investing? What has been your biggest challenge when finding the “right deals”? Many startups need a definitive business model and a well-thought-out GTM strategy. If you had to share, “words of wisdom,” with a Founder who’s about to start their startup, what would they be?

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Based in Miami, WelSpot is a pioneering Pay Later FinTech company dedicated to making wellness more accessible. Before leading WelSpot, Carey co-founded miMeetings , where he created a global marketplace currently being used by American Express Global Business Travel. What motivated you to launch your startup?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 3, 2024

It’s a pivotal phase where your initial success is tested, and your strategies for growth are pushed to their limits. This leap in revenue is indicative of your company’s ability to adapt, evolve, and expand in a competitive market. It’s a pivotal component of your growth trajectory.

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