The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

This allows IT teams to easily track assets (like computer equipment and software) and their relevant requests. From the project, you can switch between priority views and quickly see the status of each request—features that make the lives of IT teams much easier.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

Until I can clone my brain and upload it to a computer (or to an agent ), I still need to attend meetings to move the needle forward on big projects. The problem is what comes after meetings, like summarizing next steps or pulling insights from transcripts. That's not really a problem. It only takes a few minutes to set up.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

From each node, you then repeat the process, drilling deeper into the different concepts. "BBQs" We're never paid for placement in our articles from any app or for links to any site—we value the trust readers put in us to offer authentic evaluations of the categories and apps we review. It gets out of the way.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

AI Artificial intelligence is the broad field of building machines or software that perform functions we normally associate with human intelligence, from pattern recognition and language understanding to planning and decision-making. o1, o3, o4, and dozens of other specialized model versions released from OpenAI alone.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 20, 2025

I order groceries, get food delivered, map out how long the drive is to Barnes & Noble, and check the weather to confirm that staying inside is the best course of action—all from my cozy corner of the couch. It relies on APIs to fetch real-time weather data from meteorological services and deliver it to your device.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2015

I noticed this post today from Ezra Galston titled “ Dear Brad, Fred & Mark: How The Hell Do You Do It? BTW – if anybody at Twitter reads this you need to fix your “embed Tweet” code because as you’ll see from above it doesn’t properly embed when you have a quoted Tweet. **. HSzvQK63th.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series called “ Start-up Lessons.&#. I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight. I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. I had to laugh a bit reading it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I just returned from 3 days in Cincinnati including attending the annual meeting of one of Upfront’s LPs – Cintrifuse. It required a diffusion of personal computers that led to the massive growth of Hewlett Packard, Intel, Apple Computers and others. And then the world changed. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2010

So what is the problem and proposed solutions from the film maker? It has long been believed that people from lower-income neighborhoods can’t learn as well as middle & upper class ones due to environment issues such as problems at home and trouble in the neighborhood. But he was a geek and loved computers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

It’s why I always work hard to find images for my blog posts & why all of my keynote presentations are visual rather than bullet points with words. It’s why before every speech I call the organizer and drill them about who will be in the audience. When I write a blog post I often see the words before I write them.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

In the initial phases of any new market you’re developing a product (hopefully with a minimal set of features), getting feedback from customers, refining your product based on user feedback and then re-launching your product. It’s the whole basis of my investment philosophy, which I call “ The Entrepreneur Thesis.&#.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2015

And actually if you have ADD you may just want to watch the videos I’ve embedded below because it’s easier to concentrate on that than reading a blog post. I’m not a doctor so everything you’ll read and listen to here will be my point-of-view from what I’ve read and from doctors I’ve consulted.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. Why did MySpace lose to Facebook & what can Twitter learn from this? We were on services called CompuServe and Prodigy. We were on services called CompuServe and Prodigy. cheap accessible digital hardware]. It isn’t new stuff.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

“Staple green cards to the diplomas of foreign students who graduate from any U.S. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. His new company was called YowTrip and he wanted to work on it full time. I know all of this from first hand experience. He’s South African.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2021

We asked authors Cyril Bouquet, Michael Wade and Jean-Louis Barsoux how entrepreneurs can benefit from Alien Thinking: What does it mean to think like an “alien”? . It can adapt existing ideas from a different world. The role of these divergent proposals is to get a reaction and learn from the client’s discomfort as well as delight.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Called Converge, the cohort will be financed by the OpenAI Startup Fund , OpenAI says. ” “We’re excited to meet groups across all phases of the seed stage, from pre-idea solo founders to co-founding teams already working on a product,” OpenAI writes in a blog post shared with TechCrunch ahead of today’s announcement.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2020

You also have an impressive array of side projects—from books and apps to philanthropic and environmental initiatives. While there have been a few times when I thought I’d have to close the doors of Urban Betty, I chose not to give up, to learn from my mistakes and to implement significant changes to save the business. What’s next?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 13, 2018

The intense, international competition culminates with the Global Finals, where “studentpreneurs” from 50+ countries compete and make connections with both seasoned entrepreneurs and their fellow competitors. The family next door mentioned they needed a teenager to fix their computer. Tyler Olson is one such GSEA alumni.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

I attend many tech focused events, hearing from tech executives and founders sharing their view of the world. Cloud computing is expensive. Cloud computing is all the rage. However the "hidden secret" is that at a certain scale cloud computing gets VERY expensive. See this blog post from popular investor Fred Wilson.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JUNE 20, 2020

Voices from the field. The ecosystem model approaches metrics in a new way shifting the focus from the short-term to the long-term (20+ years). And the ecosystem building metrics stem from the outcomes derived from the community. And the ecosystem building metrics stem from the outcomes derived from the community.

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OurCrowd

JULY 25, 2021

Entangled Networks: Quantum computing for all? Edgybees brings video imagery to 911 call centers. The round is led by strategic investor GoDaddy with participation from OurCrowd and existing investors Pitango Growth, Mangrove Capital Partners, Armat Group, Disruptive VC, and serial entrepreneur Richard Rosenblatt. Introductions.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

A writer who wants to blog about culture. My earliest encounters with a personal computer, initial uses for the Internet, and 12+ years of product work [Second Life, AdSense, YouTube], were all driven by the conviction that everyone deserves the chance to be creative. A singer who wants to sing. An animator who wants to draw.

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OurCrowd

JULY 19, 2021

With so many changes and challenges during the last year of the pandemic, from shortages of consumer goods to moving life online, the tech industry has been more important than ever in providing creative solutions. Both companies and individuals are benefiting from new and creative solutions. Water Means Business”: WaterTech.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 1, 2016

When Ryan and I decided to get involved in the education sector, comments from peers were along the lines of: ‘Oh, that’s sweet’ and ‘Are you doing that full-time?’ You both hail from a business background, not an educational one. Students rotate from classroom to classroom for subject-specific lessons, as in a traditional high school.

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Hunter Walk

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It might ‘exit’ again at a later point (anything from a sale to an IPO), but it’s no long dependent on VC funding. Hunter Walk: Before we dive into your company Greenhouse , give me one story from your childhood that foretold you were going to end up a startup founder. for DOS), which they were struggling to use.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 22, 2016

When Ryan and I decided to get involved in the education sector, comments from peers were along the lines of: ‘Oh, that’s sweet’ and ‘Are you doing that full-time?’ You both hail from a business background, not an educational one. Students rotate from classroom to classroom for subject-specific lessons, as in a traditional high school.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The global reach of social networks means that brands, governments and individuals are now under constant threat from bad actors spreading malicious content and so-called fake news that can shatter reputations in minutes. My sense is that what we’ve created is one big Silicon Beach, from Tel Aviv to Dubai. Top Tech News.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

DECEMBER 18, 2023

“Creative Spark Industries” student team from Pryor High School wins highest honor Leaders from MidAmerica Industrial Park and i2E announce a team of three Pryor High School seniors are the top winners of the inaugural high school entrepreneurship program called the MidAmerica Cup.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 7, 2023

Entrepreneur to Investor: Jason Mackey’s Personal Journey from Serial Entrepreneur to Emerging Venture Capitalist Jason Mackey, a serial entrepreneur, and emerging venture capitalist, has a proven track record of fostering successful businesses in the United States and the United Kingdom. Let resilience be your armor against setbacks.

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Haystack

MAY 19, 2018

Social networks were not much of a thing, email was about work, telco’s charged for texting and we had feature phones which were definitely not computers. The marine layer of fog that draped Dolores Park shielded us from the world. Fridays, I tried to keep free from meetings. I’d end up taking a few calls.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 16, 2022

From producing detailed avatars to creating virtual storefronts, the Metaverse is a computer-generated world where revenue streams are very real. A new tool from our portfolio company Xage Security is designed to defend energy pipelines, water supplies and similar critical infrastructure against MFA attacks, TechCrunch reports.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

I recommend you read Fred Wilson’s recent blog post about the need for a well articulated business strategy before pushing a particular business model. I found myself in violent agreement with Fred’s blog post(s). I often call this “going a mile wide and an inch deep.” He’s awesome to learn from.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

His father came from Romania. And she bought a computer because she wanted to computerize her business. And as a result, I got a job in a computer store during high school. DEREK] You didn’t get a computer science degree in college, but you still coded, right? He grew up in Colombia, South America.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

Experiences way beyond any hack-a-thon, startup blog or your current company engagement can enrich your thinking and challenge you to think more broadly about the solutions you offer in the market. panel at the dawn of what people began calling “web 2.0.”. But I do make sure that I have a broad horizon from which to make decisions.

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Y Combinator

MAY 29, 2019

00:45 – Where did the idea come from? 4:00 – From project to company. 19:00 – Data examples from their blog. 20:30 – Post: Fashion retailers have nothing to fear (yet) from the rise of Stitch Fix. 29:00 – Finding good data scientists who work from first principles. Google Play.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 3, 2021

Until now, cancer treatment has been what I call one size fits all. It can really see and detect in a reliable way,” said Kobi Marenko, CEO of Arbe , whose systems are being developed in partnership with major global automotive manufacturers and will be available in some vehicles from 2022. Now we are narrowing it.

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