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Interview: James Burnes, Ministry of Awesome

NZ Entrepreneur

And in around 2018, 2019, there was a strategic focus by the Board of Trustees to start looking at how can we more specifically support and service founders in the Greater Canterbury region to help them pursue their ideas. For us, it was not a good use of money. Topics that are important have really emerged from past events.

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What is AI automation? And how your business can use it

The Zapier Blog

Automation used to be the best way to do that. Get started Here, I'll explain what AI automation actually is, why it's useful, and how you can start using it to offload all the worst parts of your job, so you can focus on the human stuff. Now, I delegate to AI automation. Table of contents: What is AI automation?

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Visual workflows: The ultimate guide, with examples and tools

The Zapier Blog

My own system was a chaotic mix of muscle memory and flagged emails. Visual workflows, on the other hand, use diagrams, standardized symbols, colors, and flow lines. Using a visual map to define roles and responsibilities, similar to a RACI chart , eliminates confusion. Before the next Ice Age?

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“I think CEOs that are interested in a future acquisition need to be building relationships or at least awareness with potential buyers at least 2-3 years in advance, especially with strategics. If you’re not on the list, it’s rare for a deal to happen.” Joe Hyrkin on Selling Issuu to Bending Spoons, and More….

Hunter Walk

These events are organized as a conference format, so the discussions are casual and mixed with networking, planned appointments and good content. The point here is to build a partnership with the companies whose products are also used by your customers. Facebook is a great model to use for learning from the past.

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The 9 best AI email assistants in 2025

The Zapier Blog

This is useful to understand if you need to be more tactful with your reply or can move the conversation forward with confidence. Business intelligence and enrichment One step above basic processing, AI can use pattern recognition and data integrations to use your inbox as a starting point to look for and surface relevant information.

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A Meeting of Unreasonable Minds

Entrepreneurs' Organization

A successful entrepreneur, businessman and EO Bahrain member, Suhail Algosaibi had long thought about how he could use his position and his company—FALAK Consulting—to make real, radical and sustainable change in his corner of the world. Too much of today’s economic growth comes from unsustainable models using limited resources.

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IdeaPAD case study: How do you define and build value for an existing product?

Paul G. Silva

The product was useful to their business as a marketing and operations tool, but they wanted to build it into something more. Previous companies using the IdeaPAD scaled their product by 10x or became leaders in their space. Each criteria was weighted at either a 1 or 2, though any multiplier could be used.