The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

Creativity aside, I do use it to generate blog article ideas. It's not a bad way to get the creative juices flowing if you're ever stuck or short on time. I spend way too much time scrolling through Airbnb, avidly amending filters (I once booked what was essentially someone's garden shed), and reading hotel reviews.

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StartupNation

JUNE 22, 2021

A brand should be rooted in a company’s heritage and culture, connected to a set of core values that are the company’s very reason for being. A reality-grounded CEO manages, protects and leads the brand by managing, protecting and leading the culture and values behind it. You will need the help and advice of others.

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Startup Blogpost

MAY 19, 2023

Mentors can be a great addition to a startup, as they provide wisdom and advice to emerging businesses. They can also help establish the right organizational culture, guide you in making tough decisions, and help you develop your management skills. No course, mentor, or book alone will provide the key to success.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Software development at its best is a creative endeavor. However, if you are unsure about someone and wondering if you should check in with them, my advice is always to reach out. In Daniel Pink’s book “Drive,” he covers how autonomy, mastery and purpose are the main drivers of motivation.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 26, 2022

Steinfeld is passionate about creating a workplace that humanizes employees and fosters creativity. This is vital in forming an inclusive workplace culture where people’s voices are heard and deeply respected. Check out the podcast. Smart Hustle Small Business Podcast · Blinds.com founder – His best tips for YOUR success.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 17, 2022

( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. Do not take this as financial advice. Thank you VC money, keep pumping the market full of that fee-adjusted beta!

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

” Those questions and then having them written into narratives, fundamentally started to change the culture. If I didn’t understand the subject deeply enough, I had to match myself to the right book, which was not easy, and then climb this ladder of knowledge until I was finally equipped to understand a certain subject.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As somebody who has seen the shift from Innovation to Systematization many times I can tell you that culturally it is very hard for organizations. If I could close with some advice for startups and boards …. Startups are like families.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Birb An apartment rental app to search for the best offers in a user’s favorite neighborhoods Book Box A library service for corporations to provide employees access to books and reading material Corner “The modern, frictionless way to set up a renovation with a pre-designed kitchen entirely online.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

You need to get straight to the beating heart of the business, understand the culture, involve the right people — and be comfortable telling founders and exec teams things they don’t always want to hear. That may seem strange advice for a new startup, but the economy is volatile and things change very fast.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 8, 2022

My advice is that even the senior team should set its own distinctive purpose so that it can set its own performance goals to measure itself against. Because there is greater creativity, group think is avoided, and all the different perspectives are aired. personality, cultural background?—?and

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Y Combinator

MAY 15, 2019

One of our core hypotheses is that if you look at the amount of culture in the world and the amount that we’re investing in it as a proportion of our overall GDP and what we’re paying for it, is that too low, too high or just right? It’s like a book in this way. Podcasts tend be hours long.

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

It felt like my whole life was consumed by this industry, when really, there’s more dimensions to me as a person, and also, what I wanted to do creatively. ” C++ is not a great first language to learn, especially if it’s just from a book. Jarvis Johnson [00:03:57] – Oh, absolutely. It really only takes one.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The incident involving a woman, “EJ” whose apartment was ransacked by short-term tenants who booked a stay through Airbnb was promptly dubbed “Ransackgate.” Much has been written about the cooperative nature of Valley culture, and Airbnb itself was an outgrowth of the couch surfing movement.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

Adam: If you’re a large model creator and you have tens of employees that you can allocate to building a consumer product, and you have the culture to do that, then you can go direct to consumer, and you can build a good product. There’s knowledge that people have in their heads that is not on the internet and is not in any book.

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