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The VC Stack Makeover: What Today's Funds Need - Webinar

The Seraf Compass

They free you up to think about the deal, not where the SAFE note is saved. A Day in the Stack: Real-World Flow for a $15M Seed Fund Imagine a lean two-person fund. Good tools don’t replace instinct. They sharpen it. Rather than relying on a single platform, most firms are embracing a layered stack.

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AI adoption: A practical guide from Zapier

The Zapier Blog

AI adoption isn't just about slapping ChatGPT onto your workflows and calling it a day. Think of it as a bandwidth boost, not a team replacement. It's not always smooth or uniform, but the direction is clear: AI is part of how we think and operate. AI helps you grow without stretching your people too thin.

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The best mind mapping software in 2025

The Zapier Blog

For example, if the central theme was "Summer" (say, for a marketing campaign), the first five or so nodes might be "Good weather," "BBQs," "Vacation," "Air conditioning," and "School's out"—or whatever else it is that you think of when you think of summer.

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What is revenue forecasting? Models and software for smarter business

The Zapier Blog

Think of it like predicting how much rainfall an Appalachian town is going to get in the spring, except instead of rain, it's money, and the town is a multinational corporate entity with its own football stadium. The key to doing it right is to use extensive data and a strong forecasting model (which I'll get into in a bit).

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Entrepreneur’s Don’t Think Enough. Here’s What You Can Do About It …

Both Sides of the Table

You need to take time out to Think. But trust me when I say that my observations across many startups (and other companies, frankly) is that not enough time goes into thinking. Every so often after a few weeks of go-go-go I work from home from a day. Or I will get some good time in at a hotel just zoning out and thinking.

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When VCs Play Defense

Both Sides of the Table

Somehow the world seems to be spinning faster these days than just a few years ago. The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. It got me thinking about the advice that I often give to new VCs. It’s exhausting.

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The Importance of The Narrative

Both Sides of the Table

So I went to college with no expectation that I would ever join a fraternity let alone aspire to become president one day. But I walked away with a big lesson that I carry to this day. Don’t you see that when we were young those leaders thought the fraternity had changed from the days when their elders were running it?