The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

Nimble's best feature is that it serves as its own lead enrichment tool—if your business were a Western, Nimble would be one actor playing both the by-the-books bank manager and the kooky prospector.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 4, 2025

The best WordPress SEO plugins Yoast SEO for content analysis and guidance Rank Math for a free plan and affordable scalability Squirrly SEO for AI-powered suggestions SmartCrawl for balancing features with simplicity The SEO Framework for speed and automation Slim SEO for beginners What makes the best WordPress SEO plugin?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 24, 2025

A writing assistant Chrome extension (Bolt) I've shared a lot of my best advice for writing for the web in my book and LinkedIn Learning course , but I wanted to see if I could create a real tool for writers. I built this with Cursor.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

To better understand the concept of a chronotype and its impact on day-to-day (or, rather, hour-to-hour) productivity, I turned turn to Dr. Michael Breus's book The Power of When. In Michael Breus's framework, the Lion chronotype describes people who are most alert in the morning and fade out by early evening.

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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. Frameworks address bias testing, privacy, governance, and environmental impact, and standards such as the EU AI Act codify best practices.

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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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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

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. I paid up for the diploma but can’t say that I saw better results. Like Chris Dixon I grew up programing.

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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.

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

Mark Settle is a seven-time CIO, three-time CIO 100 award winner and two-time book author. His most recent book is "Truth from the Valley: A Practical Primer on IT Management for the Next Decade.". Conventional DLP frameworks are incapable of addressing these challenges. Mark Settle. Contributor. More posts by this contributor.

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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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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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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’d been speaker-coaching for nearly 20 years, but I loved being behind the scenes more than on the stage.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

One of the most influential books of my career is The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clay Christensen. Many people bandy about the definitions of “disruptive technology&# or “the innovator’s dilemma&# without ever having read the book and almost universally misunderstand the concepts. I haven’t read it.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Rocket often followed the Blitzscaling model popularized by Reid Hoffman — earning them an appearance in his book of the same name. Our team at Heartcore Capital use the following framework and learnings to guide internationalization strategies for our portfolio companies. billion market cap), Zalando ($21.2

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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. In co-authoring Beyond Product , I set out to help founders with exactly this challenge.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

It provides the framework to grow your business by helping you to gain new customers while you retain the ones you have. Publish blog posts, e-books and other downloadable content, as well as an engaging newsletter. Expand it into a blog post or an e-book. Building a customer acquisition strategy. Offer amazing content.

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Ian Hathaway

MARCH 31, 2020

No one tells this story better than Harvard Business School professor Tom Nicholas in his recent book VC: An American History. This post summarizes the parts of his book that deal with U.S. What may be less known is the federal government’s central role in the birth and early development of the venture capital industry specifically.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Whereas in the past it only referred to materials prepared for print, such as books, magazines and newspapers, these days it can be any kind of content prepared for the web or any other endpoint where it will not only be “read” but potentially manipulated in some way, and likely also changed by the producers as well.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Outschool itself has surged over 2,000% in new bookings, and recently turned its first profit. In this framework, startups are both a bridge to a better future for teachers and a symptom of failures from the public educational systems.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

I propose here a framework for prioritizing your platform buildout. These folks are rare, expensive, and often have multiple side obligations (book deals, speaking engagements, etc.). Cory Bolotsky , Co-Chair of the VC Platform Global Community shares a ten-component framework to comprehensively cover a VC fund’s Platform Strategy.

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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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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

” Wilson’s book explores the history of freon, a common refrigerant that was later banned due to its devastating impact on the ozone layer. The new framework benefits consumers and sellers, but for the region’s startups, “it opens the door to a plethora of opportunities and new business models, from payments to credit.”

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Ian Hathaway

JULY 29, 2020

This article originally published on the Center for American Entrepreneurship Ideas Blog My new book with CAE Advisory Board member Brad Feld published yesterday. Frameworks are helpful and principles apply broadly, but what ultimately works in each place and time will vary. These private actors, as opposed to bureaucrats, are the key.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

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. Have you worked with a talented individual or agency who helped you find and keep more users? From there we design a logo.

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Reforge

OCTOBER 20, 2022

We’ll provide a simple framework to calculate the expected value of the information gained from the experiment. We’ll explain how to adapt the framework to your own use cases, and take a peek under the hood for those that want to dive deeper. Much of this paralysis is due to a lack of framework for determining the value of a test.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

I propose here a framework for prioritizing your platform buildout. These folks are rare, expensive, and often have multiple side obligations (book deals, speaking engagements, etc.). Cory Bolotsky , Co-Chair of the VC Platform Global Community shares a ten-component framework to comprehensively cover a VC fund’s Platform Strategy.

venture capital

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Outschool itself has surged over 2,000% in new bookings, and recently turned its first profit. Here’s an excerpt, showing how market leaders approach key metrics and pricing: The MAP customer value framework: Metrics: What are the key metrics the customers care about? Is there a threshold of value associated with this metric?

education

Impact Hub

JUNE 19, 2024

Some countries, particularly in Latin America, boast strong legal frameworks, but even when laws are in place, the economic, social and bureaucratic barriers to employment are immense. Across different regions and countries, the disparity in work rights and conditions for refugees varies widely.

entrepreneurship

Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

So, if you get a bunch of engineers in a room for example, if they need to do a web project, you can count the seconds before the discussion on frameworks come up. Because engineers they tend to start from the how. And that’s a good discussion, but not a discussion I would start from. So, this idea of saying, “Okay.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

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. Maybe we can start with that backstory on how that chapter inside of Elad’s book came together. Her team loved working for her. Claire, welcome to Office Hours.

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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

In my next book, Gen Z Graduates To Adulthood, the oldest members of Gen Z tell me they are looking for something different in the brands they support than previous generations. for the year to date and we are confident that we will be well within our multi-year framework of 3–5% for the full year. The first-mover advantage is real.

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