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Zapier co-founder’s 7 principles for building culture remotely
(Guest post by Wade Foster) I’ve written before about how we manage Zapier as a remote team. But one point that is constantly brought up is how co-located teams have an easier time building culture vs. remote teams. In fact, I’ve even had co-located teams tell me their culture problems were solved by simply buying…
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Why we fly home to mentor at Startup Weekend every year
I’m a big believer that the best place to start your company is your home town. Often times, however, the best place to grow your company is somewhere else. That has been the case for us at Zapier. In October 2011, we debuted at the inaugural Startup Weekend Columbia (Missouri). Eight months later, we earned…
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Columbia, Mo.-born Zapier launches from its new home at Y Combinator
Zapier, the winner of Startup Weekend Columbia in October, launched today, just weeks after moving to Silicon Valley to join Y Combinator, a program and seed fund for startups. “(It’s an) easy way for non-developers to get integrations between all their SaaS applications,” co-founder Wade Foster said on Monday. In other words, Zapier syncs apps,…
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Experimentation is to a startup as a task list is to a job
(This is a guest post by Wade Foster.) Few people come out of the womb, kicking and screaming, born ready to be a startup founder. Most of us take the longer more traditional route. Usually that means 12 years of primary education, 4 years of secondary education, a few more years working at a good…