TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

This morning Mural , a startup that builds digital collaboration software with a focus on visual presentation, announced that it has closed a $50 million Series C. Mural’s product focuses around a visual collaboration space, akin to a digital whiteboard. Visual collaboration startup MURAL raises huge $118M Series B.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 12, 2020

The not-for-profit called Open Kitchens is collaborating with restaurants across the UK to cook meals for NHS workers, schools, the elderly and those most in need. “I His company has collaborated with media partners to install free information campaigns encouraging people to stay home and stay safe.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

This means that you can do extremely powerful batch photo editing that is kind of like a mash-up between Snapchat’s photo filters, Adobe Lightroom’s batch editing features, Photoshop’s flexibility and the collaborative powers of Figma and the like. An example of the Facet interface. Image: Screenshot from the Facet tool.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 30, 2017

Creativity. Encourage Collaboration. You can help encourage that kind of collaboration by having an open-door policy where people can come in and get clarification or share ideas. Don’t get me wrong—meetings done RIGHT can be amazing, collaborative and constructive. That fuels innovation. The sharing of ideas.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Consider collaborating with influencers. Now it’s time to get creative with your customer acquisition. Here are 10 ideas to get your creativity flowing. Design a creative card, use “forward to a friend” links in your marketing emails, etc. Expand it into a blog post or an e-book. 10 customer acquisition tactics.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Creative arts, such as music, photography, etc. Do they need tips to scale content creation efforts or to find brand collaboration opportunities? Step 5: Search Kindle for books on your chosen topic. Kindle has a number of e-books on various topics written by niche experts. Sign Up: Receive the StartupNation newsletter!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

At these shows-within-our-show, you’ll engage with smart, driven founders, and investors and members of your community, and have the opportunity to cross-collaborate with leaders from other industries. Early Bird tickets are now on sale through May 12 — book your pass here. See you there!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

End-of-year wrap-ups, best books for the summer, things to do this weekend — they’re all methods to note not only the passage of time, but also to begin to set the tone for what is about to come. Seasonality is critical for the media. 5 startup theses that will transform the 2020s.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 25, 2024

Everyone can now be a programmer, a producer, a designer, or a musician, shrinking the gap between creativity and craft. Many creative projects require more than one type of content. We’ve already seen this with products like Midjourney and ChatGPT’s Code Interpreter. Multimodal (and multimedia!) combinations.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2023

But some reviewers, whether out of genuine concern for their fellow shopper or an effort to get the creative juices flowing, put time into crafting reviews that not only inform, but entertain. Summaries of these reviews would do them an injustice — and miss the point entirely. Perhaps you’ve stumbled upon these gems.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

At a product lab called Adept that emerged from stealth today with $65 million in funding, they are — in the founders’ words — “build[ing] general intelligence that enables humans and computers to work together creatively to solve problems.” ” It’s lofty stuff.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Creative arts, such as music, photography, etc. Do they need tips to scale content creation efforts or to find brand collaboration opportunities? Step 5: Search Kindle for books on your chosen topic. Kindle has a number of e-books on various topics written by niche experts. Sign Up: Receive the StartupNation newsletter!

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

Asynchronous collaboration "In today's fast-paced work environment, utilizing asynchronous collaboration has become increasingly important to save time and promote deep work within teams. Asynchronous tools like Mural, Figma, and Loom are excellent options for teams to collaborate.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Software development at its best is a creative endeavor. In Daniel Pink’s book “Drive,” he covers how autonomy, mastery and purpose are the main drivers of motivation. Source control and collaboration tools are more than a mailing list now, and we can all be constantly in contact by text chat, audio or video call.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

All of this is done within an interactive code editor extension, which AppMap designed with the help of comic book artists and musicians in order to make it as easy to use and intuitive as possible. . I’m a data scientist, so I know how overwhelming data can be,” said Lawler.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

It currently partners with more than 70 content creators and publishers, including FanFan, Image Comics, Kodansha USA, Kuaikan, Mr. Blue, SB Creative, TokyoPop and Toons Family, and has more than 800 titles so far, including manga, webtoons and graphic novels. Amazon Acquires Digital Comic Book Store Comixology.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Facilitators rate teams in the following categories: Open/Closed; Focused/Scattered; Aggressive/Passive; Active/Reactive; Deductive/Creative; and Independent/Dependent. They are closest in the deductive versus creative area. Employers should take note of the characteristics of the members of the top 2% teams vs. the bottom 2%.

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Impact Hub

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In collaboration with the implementing country partners, local GIZ representatives and the investor committee, 40 top startups have been selected to partake in the program. In Africa, there are 250 million children with no access to books in English or their indigenous languages and 48 million African youth (ages 15-24) are illiterate.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 18, 2021

“The pandemic has also provided an opportunity for entrepreneurs to think creatively and find solutions to some of the obstacles that have arisen.” Encounter plans to change this model by creating a one-stop portal where customers can book multiple service providers and plan their trips seamlessly.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

.” He described it as a progression along the same trajectories of “what Twilio did by coming in with APIs for communications, and Figma did with its concept of collaboration.” These days, the medium, as they say, is the message, and in that regard “publishing” has taken on a new meaning in the digital age.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Creative arts, such as music, photography, etc. Do they need tips to scale content creation efforts or to find brand collaboration opportunities? Step 5: Search Kindle for books on your chosen topic. Kindle has a number of e-books on various topics written by niche experts. Sign Up: Receive the StartupNation newsletter!

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Ian Hathaway

JANUARY 20, 2020

Last Sunday I hit send on my first book manuscript for review by the publisher. If you don’t know already, it’s a book on entrepreneurial ecosystems co-authored with Brad Feld. My favorite shorthand definitions of these terms are as follows: complexity = the science of interactions; emergence = unpredictable creativity.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

At the time of that Economist article, I was on leave from UC Berkeley to run a lab for Intel Research in collaboration with the campus. The poking around remains creative work because the space of ways to use the data is just so big and the metrics of what success looks like are so varied. What does that mean for our data world now?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 3, 2022

1: I’m a copywriter and brand strategist, but this should work for most other creative service providers. I teamed up with great people When I say I went solo, I don’t mean I never collaborate. Pick at least 3–5 books about money (there’s plenty to choose from) and get clued up. Disclaimer no.1: Disclaimer no.2:

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 16, 2023

I just read Jay Shetty’s book and he tells people to be like salt, ‘Salt is so humble that when something goes wrong, it takes the blame, and when everything goes right, it doesn’t take credit.’ Breaking out of a routine uninhibited our thinking and collaboration in magical ways. Don’t beat yourself up about them.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

But the book of Hopin has just begun. Not only does this greatly reduce your marketing spend, it also forces the marketing team to be more creative, more generalist. Overcommunicate and collaborate with short toes. Everyone shares in these responsibilities and they should all be tackled with collaborative autonomy.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

And also in collaboration with Microsoft, we built some of the largest online stores back then in the U.S. But then at the core, the functionality, it’s something that you can leverage to make sure that you’re removing this undifferentiated heavy-lifting in a way and really focus on things that are creative to your business.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Nowadays, we try to solve problems by negotiating; many books and experts still compare business to war. Competition can drive creativity if we look at it healthily. Of course, it’s not pure altruism, and both sides usually get something out of the collaboration. Who’s the real enemy? But what does healthy competitiveness mean?

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JANUARY 29, 2021

While some have scaled back significantly and are focusing their energies elsewhere, others have been very creative and resourceful, pivoting and standing up new programs to connect and engage the startup community. We have the zero-sum mentality Brad Feld speaks of in his recent book in spades. The responses varied considerably.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The amazing brand that MakeSpace has built today was the collaboration of our passionate founder, Sam Rosen, who espoused our brand values but also one of his earliest hires, the creative genius Rion Harmon who led all of our visual work and creative subway campaigns, videos, online acquisition imagery, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2010

I was WAY off between my book research about what the engineering & construction market would want (my first company) and what they actually wanted. Repeat this process 50 times and trust me you’ll see patterns. I only found out through customer meetings. Also, this goes equally for business development. That’s what they do.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Finally, always agree on a clear set of objectives and key results (OKRs) to ensure focus, prioritization and collaboration. For example, for Airbnb that may be the number of nights booked; for Spotify, minutes listened to. Amex has shown how a brand and business can reinvent itself many times over.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 8, 2022

But only the minority have high WeQs (Collaborative Intelligence). If you want your senior leadership team to work as a team you have to pay a lot more attention to many different areas e.g. communication, listening, supporting, collaborating etc. Working in a team is not the same as working as a team. It’s got harder!!

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 19, 2020

By placing an importance on building relationships, there is an opportunity to partner with major players now — many of whom likely might not have collaborated with you during a different economic climate. If your business is struggling, be an open book about it. The worst thing you can do in a crisis is act distant.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 10, 2024

To create it, gather your team in a collaborative space away from your daily workplace. It’s what comes after because that is the essence of your brand, according to Gerry O’Brion in his new book, They Buy Your Because. Use your logo and company graphics creatively to keep it interesting.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Framing Innovation Through Collaborations Big and Small , with AT&T. Web3, Crypto, Blockchain — Unlocking Prosperity for Tech and Creative Industries in Africa , with Fast Forward Venture Studio. Use the event app to book one-on-one meetings with other attendees at the show or at any of these events you attend. 12:10 p.m. –

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

After reading the book, Senior Editor Devin Coldewey talked with Lee and Chen about how the collaboration came about, how their points of view coincided and differed, and why they think the future will be how they describe it. How Ryan Reynolds has mastered authentic marketing.

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