The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

We each have a unique chronotype: an internal clock that governs our focus, creativity, and mood over the course of the day. Your personal chronotype impacts what time of day you're the most focused, most creative, most likely to make a mistake, and most likely to say out loud the things that should absolutely be kept in your head.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

That is, if you are someone who wishes to earn a minimum viable living being creative, what is the likelihood you’ll be able to do so? A writer who wants to blog about culture. I absolutely concur that if you want to maximize around other objectives, or examine particular types of creative industries, you might disagree with me.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

1 thing that has consistently helped me get better at setting—and achieving—goals is using the right framework.” If you figure out how to 10X the success of difficult conversations, you can 10X the productivity, culture, and profitability of your company. Don’t be afraid to get creative and explore new possibilities!”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 13, 2016

In this special interview, the co-founders of Pronexia—a new generation recruitment firm—open up about their bootstrapping days, their unique hiring methodology, and the role authenticity plays when building relationships and company culture. Our shared commitment to unapologetically innovate formed the framework for our business.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 15, 2024

Chad Bellin , Co-Founder, Disca Leverage Startup Culture’s Flexibility Startup culture, often hyped for its dynamism and innovation, can be a double-edged sword. While it fosters creativity and agility, it can also present challenges like long hours, ambiguity, and an intense work environment.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 25, 2021

To this end, the conscious capitalism movement provides a framework that includes four interconnected disciplines. The caring culture he developed also points to his genuine concern for stakeholders. Caring culture. The culture of conscious companies is very tangible to their stakeholders as well as to outside observers.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

We asked Jantsch about all that, and found our conversation an interesting complement to our interview with LA-based agency MuteSix : Both share a focus on results and creativity, but Tuff is focused on a wider range of sectors than DTC, while also being smaller. Why did you choose to have an in-house creative team?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

1 thing that has consistently helped me get better at setting—and achieving—goals is using the right framework.” If you figure out how to 10X the success of difficult conversations, you can 10X the productivity, culture, and profitability of your company. Don’t be afraid to get creative and explore new possibilities!”

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Impact Hub

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Furthermore, the guide provides sample outputs, outcomes, and indicators to form a framework for gender lens measurement. Mouina-Kenza Mosso is a freelance writer with a proven work history delivering vibrant and engaging copy for the meaningful and creative industries. Find out more here.

entrepreneurship

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

At its core, Playbyte’s game creation is powered by its lightweight 2D game engine built on web frameworks, which lets users create games that can be quickly loaded and played even on slow connections and older devices.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

You need to get straight to the beating heart of the business, understand the culture, involve the right people — and be comfortable telling founders and exec teams things they don’t always want to hear. So, I always start with an audit of their customer base or target audience: What role are they hiring the business to do?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2020

What’s required this decade is to start to encroach on the harder questions, topics like how we build a better society, make people more empowered to do deep and creative work, and how we can build a more resilient and sustainable planet for all. Is there a threshold of value associated with this metric?

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

We then construct a framework as part of our growth program that also allows room for certain beliefs a company has. Talent became much more accessible, and through that internal cultures became more diverse and more resilient. And that’s also the moment you’re at your most creative.

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Reforge

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Scrum is an iterative approach to software development that is intended to allow creativity to flourish. More from Ely Matt Marenghi Matt, former VP of Engineering at Netflix, fostered a culture of autonomy for ~13 years, largely ignoring the Scrum regimen — even in its heyday. We all know it today as Scrum. What is Scrum again?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

A couple of examples of this include Friends With Benefits , a social DAO which started as a token-gated Discord server for web3 creatives; Loot , a game that started with content first before moving to gameplay; and Smoothie , a discover-to-earn awards platform that started out with just content and community built around Web3 startup discovery.

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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. ” Those questions and then having them written into narratives, fundamentally started to change the culture. Because engineers they tend to start from the how.

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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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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Once we have a solid foundation, we gather a diverse team of creative minds who bring different perspectives to the table. Early inspirations from cyberpunk culture and video games led me to explore how these elements could intertwine with fashion, challenging the notion of a linear career path.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

The European Union also recently presented a platform worker reform — saying at the end of last year that it would establish a framework to tackle bogus self employment. “What makes us very unique is we have a very diverse culture in Spain and very entrepreneurial,” adds Meiques.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 14, 2022

And building a culture tethered to a test and learn mentality. We knew the creative would need to stand out, so we leaned into our flexible & nimble approach with content that simply worked. 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.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 29, 2024

EO@INSEAD is one of EO’s six Executive Education programs that empowers members to amplify leadership skills, build culture, and drive change through four days of intensive learning. To help EO members learn how to create a thriving culture from the inside out with inspirational leadership and influence beyond authority.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 14, 2021

We thought GSEA would be an excellent framework for exploring another generation of students whose brilliant ideas could become big business.”. We wanted to tell a story of people from all different parts of the world, with different upbringing, backgrounds, and cultures. GSEA has that; it stood out from other competitions.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

From the age-old realms created in myths to the digital domains we traverse today in video games, the fidelity of these worlds has never been more immersive nor culturally impactful. Today, we’re entering an age where creative technology will allow anyone to create virtual worlds and bring their imaginations to life.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Of course, there are things in the personality of a talent (traits) that must match the intended role (R&R) and the organization itself so that there will not be a total cultural clash once they start working. This means that a mindset that is analytical and understands both people and technology has more to gain than what does not.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Katty Douraghy, EO US Central Bridge, president, Artisan Creative. For me, it’s been reconnecting and rebuilding the collaborative and fun environment we once had (you can’t quite build culture over Zoom!). This framework has really worked well for us! UGG founder Brian’s Smith’s story at EO GLC. “I Reconnecting with my team.

creativity

Reforge

OCTOBER 13, 2022

As platforms like Meta and Google automate most targeting, attribution, and optimization decisions with machine learning, soon the last growth lever left will be creative testing: Which concepts, copy, colors and artwork drive the best results? In this post, I’ll make the case for the rising importance of creative testing.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

AI, I think, so far is living up to that framework. And so it sort of harnesses the creativity of, you know, thousands of years of human authors and artists and then sort of, derives, you know, new kinds of answers or new kinds of images or whatever. Tyler: But are the roots of this stasis quite general and quite cultural?

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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. The best leaders I work with think about what the company culture is and how to foster it.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 10, 2023

Young people across the Americas are brimming with creativity, diversity, and potential. While this framework may have many advantages in the workplace and community, unless there is a sense of belonging, these efforts will fall short. What Are Marginalized Groups?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 15, 2017

It’s based on a rigid framework that stifles the free flow of creativity that’s essential to success. We live in a culture of false busy-ness where people love to complain that there aren’t enough hours in the day. In fact, it’s a common thread among many of today’s top entrepreneurs. Get the Most Out of Every Day.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

Roblox, the gaming company that went public this month with a strong debut , changed the game (so to speak) for the role that creative input can play in making a game more loved, more engaging and even more enterprising. Overwolf is developing the holy grail of frameworks for UGC for both publishers and in-game creators.

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Reforge

JULY 12, 2022

In this piece, we will cover: The definition of coaching and how it fits into a manager’s portfolio Why most managers struggle to coach How to improve your coaching skills today We also created a new Coaching Reflection Template that you can use to instantly apply the coaching frameworks, tips, and ideas outlined in this article.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 14, 2022

A business with clear values is a business with decision-making filters for everyone within the business. — Keith Roberts, EO Colorado, founder, author and speaker at OAK Journal , founder and creative director of Zenman. One cannot build a castle with a weak foundation. I consider values to be the foundation in business and in life.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 20, 2019

This management style engenders trust by creating space for others to be creative and grow. The last part is measuring success and creating a culture of transparency and honesty. Any number of frameworks will work including OKRs or weekly stand-ups. Speed is the most obvious. It opens up the solution space to novel ideas.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 19, 2015

He started initially in the creative department imagining greeting cards and ultimately found himself with the title Creative Paradox. In his book, he described the way he injected creativity into his working life. Creativity is another important topic Gordon explores. Hence the title.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

A number of angel investors, including Chris Aniszczyk , Jason Warner and Magnus Hillestad , as well as the a16z’s Cultural Leadership Fund, also participated, in addition to previous backers Heavybit and Harrison Metal. ” At the core of Orbit (the company) is Orbit the open-source community framework.

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Hunter Walk

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

My framework was a sort of triangle, and here are the three sides: a female computer scientist looking into a crystal ball, digital art [DALL-E]. And don’t go to the startup if they can’t get above it in some easy or creative way. Use available benchmarks (public, from friends, etc) to understand whether your offer is generally ‘fair.’

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