The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Communication plan templates How to write a communication plan Communication plan essentials What is a communication plan? Communication plan templates A communication plan is that one bookmark every employee clicks at the beginning of their day until they associate its main page with the smell of coffee.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 16, 2025

As part of our series on legal and structural issues for new fund managers, we’ve created a template General Partner Entity agreement, which can serve as a checklist for aspiring fund managers. Download here our Template General Partner Entity Agreement for Your New Private Equity or VC Fund. Thanks to my coauthor Dolph M.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

To get started, choose from a long list of templates (e.g., And you're not limited to one template: you can add as many as you want to a board, zooming and scrolling with your mouse, trackpad, or touchscreen to navigate through the various templates on the board. FigJam also has one of the more powerful AI implementations.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 9, 2025

Connect your project management software to your other apps Make your job easier That's what project management templates are to project managers: replicable systems of organization that keep everything efficiently structured. Table of contents: What are project management templates?

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Users range from food truck owners to sports leagues that can now tap into a tool to create professional logos—which can be expanded for a complete brand kit, featuring colors, fonts, and templates ready for social media, business cards, websites, and more.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

At any moment in time one of Upfront’s associates are likely to be working on: a pricing strategy, a market-expansion strategy, an M&A review, or helping build a company’s first board deck template. We’ve done all of these recently. We encourage you to judge us by our actions.

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GCUC

JANUARY 16, 2025

Securing GCUC Conference Funding from Your Leadership Team: Email Template Why Conference Attendance Matters In today’s competitive coworking landscape, professional development isn’t just a perk it’s a necessity. Yet many community managers and. Read More

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 8, 2013

Here's a template you can use--inspired by Rob May of Backupify: -- INTRO --. Helps experienced investors identify fact patterns that the management team might not notice--because sometimes another pair of eyes can look at things just differently enough to spot a key opportunity or a potential future problem. Cash in the bank: $x.x.

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Source Link

APRIL 1, 2022

The agenda included an overview of exciting new enhancements to The Resource Navigator®, SourceLink?

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The Seraf Compass

APRIL 6, 2022

In those pieces we talk a lot about the importance of having a good diligence template to ensure the final product is useful to the reader. Here for your reference is our Due Diligence Report Template. We’ve published a fair amount about due diligence and being a deal lead.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 29, 2025

Canva is a powerful template-based design tool. Its hundreds of thousands of templates, countless resources, images, and other graphic elements, and drag-and-drop editor make it incredibly easy to create almost anything you need. So we should probably quickly address what you're ignoring.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 5, 2021

But behind the scenes, I can collaborate with my colleagues on templates and lists for various bulk emails that I need to send. When it is time for me to send the emails, I simply work my way through the list, selecting a new name, adding the template, making any little changes to personalize the message, and then I hit send.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 18, 2016

They don't come from templates. If we don't talk about how that's going to happen, what's the point? Ask for an amount, tell me what you're going to do with it, and tell me how that leads to a big exit. Every startup is different. The best pitches follow the word problem with.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 8, 2025

You can create your own Zap from scratch without any coding knowledge, but we also offer quick templates to get you started. If you'd like to start with a template, click on it below, and you'll be taken to the Zap editor. If you're using the Zap template, the trigger app and event will already be selected for you.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

He jumped into some portfolio company exercises to help with pricing strategies, budget templates, M&A support, marketing function reviews, etc and started to show us how valuable he was to entrepreneurs. In Jordan’s first year he did company analysis at a level of insight beyond what we had ever produced internally.

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Dream It

OCTOBER 21, 2019

About Slidebean: Slidebean is a pitch deck and presentation tool with hundreds of templates available to use as a starting point. To celebrate their success, we collaborated with Slidebean to host a Fireside Chat in New York City on October 10th featuring Caya, founder of Slidebean, and Steve Barsh, Managing Partner at Dreamit.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 3, 2021

In terms of how we’re going to actually implement this into our daily lives, I’ll go deeper into this as we go along, but here’s some of the basics of where we’re starting: 1) We created new, separate (we use Google) calendars to build the template, inserting each segment into repeating blocks in perpetuity.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 6, 2013

If you need a way to keep your investors updated, you might look into this template. What haven''t I thought of? Ask that and you become an entrepreneur that is much more prepared to go into battle. Venture Capital & Technology'

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

Any plugins that were difficult to purchase, install, or use were eliminated. Templates. Most of these plugins come with various pre-made form templates to get you started quickly. Customization options. Whether you start from scratch or use a template, you'll want to customize your form at some point.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The first step in this is creating a truly simple user interface, where folks can simply drag and drop components into their designs, complete with hundreds of thousands of templates, without doing a lot of fine tuning. The second step is creating a massive library of content, from fonts to templates to imagery, gifs and videos.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 6, 2020

From fundraising document templates , to tips on how to pitch , to strategies for navigating COVID — we hope that our library offers something useful to every founder. One of the most common requests we get from Startup School participants is that we provide more content than what is currently in the curriculum.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

In that case, you can use an invoice template in Google Docs and just email it off when it's ready. Wave's invoicing features are intuitive to navigate and include several templates, so you can customize the layout and design. Choose from several templates, add a logo, and adjust colors.

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StartupNation

MAY 18, 2025

The Solution: Create a simple risk-tiered system for your contracts: Low-risk agreements (NDAs, standard customer agreements under a certain dollar value): Use pre-approved templates that you can sign quickly. Days 8-14: Develop 2-3 standard templates for your most common agreements. They don’t need to be perfect.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Review diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility and belonging best practices and consider a template for a strategic action plan for your business. Use this strategic action plan template to think through the critical elements of the values and expectations of your business.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Review diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility and belonging best practices and consider a template for a strategic action plan for your business. Use this strategic action plan template to think through the critical elements of the values and expectations of your business.

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David Teten VC

MAY 11, 2025

Everything to consider to set up your firm for success.

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Paul G. Silva

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Get the KISS Canvas template (free). Get the KISS Canvas template (free). The KISS Canvas, in one page, highlights: Who each stake holder is and what motivates them. The value that must be delivered. The relationships needed to find, convert, & retain them. The value each provides Magic Mops. KISS’s Questions.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 6, 2025

They come with templates that you can customize to suit your business. They can create a custom design that fits your brand perfectly, but for most small businesses, a template is a great starting point. You can design your website yourself with a DIY website builder like WordPress , Wix , or Squarespace , which are all easy to use.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 3, 2025

Table of contents Share details from team meetings Create detailed meeting summaries with AI Create tasks from meetings and recordings Connect Grain with product and support tools Build a content backlog To get started with a Zap template—what we call our pre-made workflows—just click on the button. It only takes a few minutes to set up.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2013

As your company grows the number of sales reps you have it is useful to build “ROI calculators” for them which are nothing more than spreadsheet templates where they can enter in variables and the spreadsheet will make a case for your product. The easiest thing for you to quantify are the hard costs associated with your product.

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Founder Bounty

MARCH 16, 2023

It has a user-friendly interface and a variety of templates to choose from. It offers a library of templates, images, and fonts to choose from. PicMonkey : PicMonkey is a graphic design tool that allows for creating social media graphics, banners, logos, and more.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Fuzey also offers document templates and one-click customer reviews to make the process of leaving a review easier. Response time is important, and we even have response templates with predefined questions or comments so you can get back to customers quickly,” Lysgaard Jensen said.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

Structure: Putting a framework into practice means structuring it around standardized tools and templates. Think project charters, org charts , status reports, risk registers, communication plans, and meeting templates. You could also DIY your own Kanban board using Google Sheets or a template like this one. Learn more.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

The initial Apple/AT&T deal was of course limited to the geography in which AT&T operated and thus after its initial success Apple had a template for exclusivity agreements in other countries. Why Exclusivity Matters to Your Customers or Business Development Partners.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

If starting with PLG, the template sells the product. Fight the empty box problem with great concrete templates that demonstrate how to use AI. If selling top-down, most of the conversations today are at the C-suite rather than the mid-market predominantly because the buying process is new.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Here are a few Zap templates to get you started: But the process is rarely that simple. Steal this template to create your own automated help desk powered with AI-powered responses, automatic ticket prioritization, and knowledge base updates. Want to improve your IT support? Want to build your own fully customizable IT systems?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

Brevo's prebuilt segmentation options are limited to a few templates, like Engaged email contacts and New email contacts , and the segmentation builder isn't as impressive as Mailchimp's. Here's a quick overview, but keep reading for a deep dive into my experience with the apps and who they're best for.

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