The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

For a simple example, the idea is that your AI assistant agent would be able to book flights using a travel comparison website's AI agent. To create alignment, AI developers use techniques like reward design, oversight, and constitutional training. Models in the family include DeepSeek V3 and the DeepSeek R1 reasoning model.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

One of the books that first made me aware of the “creative brain&# was “ Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain &# by Betty Edwards. All are known creativity drivers and are covered in the book mentioned above. My framework gives me a deeper understanding of the sector. For others they swear by music.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I told people privately my perfect spec: computer science undergrad from MIT (or any other great school), 2-years at McKinsey but no more than that (I love the analytical framework that the top strategy consulting firms provide. My first job after college was as a developer at Andersen Consulting. I installed Windows 3.1

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Source Link

MARCH 29, 2021

The SBA Community Navigator framework envisions a lead nonprofit partner who can serve as a hub for the entrepreneurial community and the network building efforts. For those new to the field, we wrote a book on our methodology , which features global examples of people engaged in improving the environment for small businesses to succeed.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2021

In the book Alien Thinking , three innovation professors at IMD Business School argue that people who generate truly breakthrough ideas look at their world like aliens–outsiders unburdened by the assumptions, biases and conventional thinking that constrain imagination. Entrepreneurial success hinges on generating breakthrough ideas.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

We spent a bunch of time in the video talking about “disruption” as described by Clay Christensen in his seminal book, “The Innovator’s Dilemman” which I profiled here. 22:00 Mark’s book recommendation: American Pastoral by Philip Roth. I agree with him. Everyone follow him @scottedwalker.

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Ian Hathaway

AUGUST 6, 2020

The Startup Community Way is a book I co-authored with Techstars cofounder Brad Feld. It’s a collection of frameworks, principles, and action points that guide and inform practitioners and observers about the key characteristics, behavioral patterns, and basic function of startup communities and entrepreneurial ecosystems.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

In this conversation, a16z General Partner David Haber talks with Marco Argenti, the chief information officer at Goldman Sachs, about bringing fintech processes into financial services, turning developers into clients, and how AI is a major inflection point in the history of technology. And then I started selling.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Michèle Hecken : I had sold my business and was writing a book, which made me curious about public speaking. I wanted GSA to give me a framework for a signature talk and help me understand what topic and how best to present on it. I have also developed a women’s leadership retreat in Tuscany, Italy. It did exactly that!

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Ian Hathaway

JULY 28, 2020

After three eventful years , I’m excited to say that my new book— The Startup Community Way: Evolving an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem , with Brad Feld —is officially available to the public today! It’s my first book, so this is a new feeling. It wasn’t always fun; writing a book of this nature is really hard work.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

A startup called Sanity has built a platform to help businesses (and their people) do that more easily with a SaaS platform that lets developers create code and systems to manage content. million to fuel its growth. ” It is not the only company in this wider area getting a lot of attention.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 24, 2021

In the book, I brought in 50 business leaders to advise you on how to grow your business from your basic idea through to your eventual exit and summarized it into a step-by-step framework. This includes: Developing a marketing plan. In co-authoring Beyond Product , I set out to help founders with exactly this challenge.

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Ian Hathaway

MARCH 31, 2020

federal government involvement in the formation and development of the venture capital industry. government played a decisive role in getting the whole thing kickstarted, and for a period of time, sustained its development in the early stages. This post summarizes the parts of his book that deal with U.S. federal government.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

Whether you’re already in the fundraising process or plan to be in the future, be sure to read “A crash course on corporate development” that Venrock VP Todd Graham shared with us this week. Let’s make a deal: A crash course on corporate development. Let’s make a deal: A crash course on corporate development.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

I propose here a framework for prioritizing your platform buildout. Nick Kim , Crosscut’s Head of Platform, in his presentation at the 4th Annual VC Platform Summit, shared their Platform development methodology, which he viewed as an exercise in product development. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 18, 2023

Ewen Finser , Founder, The Digital Merchant Utilize a Hypothesis-Driven Framework One essential strategy that we’ve utilized to manage risks in our startup journey is the adoption of a hypothesis-driven framework. This way, we made more informed decisions and reduced the risk of failure.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

After reading this, we reached out to Ammo’s director Cam Sinclair for insights on early-stage brand development, marketing readiness and more. Our workshops help startup teams design a customer journey using the pirate metrics framework and turn that into a clear, step-by-step action plan which they can implement or outsource.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 25, 2023

” The firm’s investment process begins at the macro level, building actionable investment frameworks based on extensive internal research. I also just finished Phil Knight’s book “Shoe Dog” and enjoyed “The Three Body Problem” series earlier this summer.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

I find Clayton Christensen’s jobs to be done (JTBD) framework very powerful because it’s relevant to the product, marketing and strategy teams. For example, for Airbnb that may be the number of nights booked; for Spotify, minutes listened to. What problem are they solving? What value do they add?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

The process of debating and agreeing the details of this startup ecosystem support framework is expected to take between six and nine months. Polo: Yeah, because looking at the full picture, it’s actually the first time in our history that we’re going to have a specific legal framework for startups. Which is much simpler.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

I propose here a framework for prioritizing your platform buildout. Nick Kim , Crosscut’s Head of Platform, in his presentation at the 4th Annual VC Platform Summit, shared their Platform development methodology, which he viewed as an exercise in product development. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog.

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Impact Hub

JUNE 19, 2024

Every one of us has a role to play in helping address these obstacles through targeted measures such as legal advocacy, financial support, skill development, and networking opportunities. Let’s take meaningful action to support refugee rights and empower them to rebuild their lives with dignity and hope.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And as Travis mentioned, we’ve had lots of great recent guests, Hollie Wegman, CMO at Segment, Adam, the head of developer relations at HashiCorp, G.C. After having read Elad Gil’s book, I understand why. In fact, one of the defining chapters in that book was her user instructions for her as a manager.

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Unvalidated Learnings

JUNE 8, 2017

How An Algorithm Transformed The Music Industry And Created The Mobile & Social Web As the music industry recently announced its first annual revenue growth after 15 years of uninterrupted contraction, I thought it was a good time to share some of the things I learnt from reading Stephen Witt’s book How Music Got Free.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 14, 2022

Instead of giving shoes One for One, TOMS is committing 1/3 of profits to grassroots goods, developing deep partnerships with local organizations, and providing them with cash grants. Develop contingency plans and processes. After careful consideration of community-driven feedback and market research, TOMS decided to evolve our giving.

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FundersClub

JUNE 8, 2017

Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures dives into how figuring out how to become an apprentice is key to developing great judgement in " Apprenticeship. " Investor Thoughts.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Remember to book your tickets to the show today before prices go up $1,100. . Launched in 2020, Solana gained worldwide renown for being one of the fastest blockchains with a rapidly growing developer ecosystem. It seems to be true accessibility in a framework that works with the existing U.S. Disrupt Stage Agenda.

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FundersClub

JUNE 22, 2017

" Suiteness announces a partnership with Viceroy Hotel Group to integrate some of their most exclusive and lavish suites from hotels in cities such as Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco into Suiteness’ online booking platform in " Suiteness Partners With Viceroy Hotel Group to Offer Exclusive Suites Online.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

AI, I think, so far is living up to that framework. It does a search across, you know, basically all of these words and sentences and diagrams and books and photos and everything that human beings have created. You know, this AI is a use case for developing and deploying that kind of power. I believe that it will.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Eventually, however, we gained our footing and developed a mental model for the industry and a framework for where opportunities do exist. I got very lucky early on because someone introduced me to a book by David Goldhill called “Catastrophic Care.” healthcare system is confusing and complex.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

It is a hugely compelling show because Zakaria covers world issues that will affect all of us in ways that are accessible and with frameworks for processing disparate information. He brings knowledgable experts from varying points of view but never books anybody that engages in yelling matches.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

I’ve been steadily progressing through the excellent books in the Stripe Press catalog. It’s the best book I’ve read on engineering management. The book abstracts out the wisdom of those times into theory abstracted from experience, not just hypothetical ideas. First, I read High Growth Handbook. Morale is low.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Companies that embrace this new model, called interaction field companies, generate, facilitate and benefit from interactions and data exchanges among multiple people and groups—from customers and stakeholders, but also from those you wouldn’t expect to be in the mix, like suppliers, software developers, regulators and even competitors. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

He shared how to develop a “best place to work” in a recent Octane post. Capacity building is the method through which we seek, acquire and develop the skills necessary to consistently perform at a higher level in pursuit of our innate potential. Here, he shares his thoughts on capacity building as a leadership strategy. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 17, 2023

Or, as the late scholar, author and psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi described it in his classic book ‘Flow’, these are the times we find our most productive flow; our path toward personal happiness. We learned how the RAWI framework can be a simple but powerful method of taking control of the situation. We might even stop trying.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 23, 2015

It’s the single best book on the topic. The book is invaluable for every founder, CEO and member of the management team because it not only explains how the Hubspot sales team is structured, but why the structure came to be. His list surprised me.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

On the flip side, employers sign a contract with Zenjob and can then book temporary staff as needed, including for both short and longer term jobs. “That’s why we focus a lot on the internal technological development of our platform and all required processes.

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