The Zapier Blog

JULY 31, 2025

This brings transparency to campaign financing while underscoring ROI. This level of visibility lets you easily spot anomalies and opportunities that would be difficult to catch manually. With just a few clicks, you can effortlessly set up A/B tests to find the perfect ad creative and targeting combination.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Identifies opportunities: When you integrate AI tools into your existing workflows, it can use your data to flag blind spots and possibilities for your business. Explore now In the realm of AI automation, this opens up powerful possibilities for automating creative and content-heavy tasks. IDP can automate and make sense of it all.

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StartupNation

JULY 22, 2025

Skye Amundsen , Owner, hope&plum This Month’s Free Skills Training: From Determining Prices to Government Contracting Turning Layoff into Startup Opportunity I lost my company in 72 hours, and it made me a better entrepreneur. I wrote things like: freedom, creativity, intellectual stimulation, writing, psychology.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Think creatives, developers, analysts, and other worker bees. Key RACI benefits include: Clearly defines responsibilities and expectations: No more "Well, finance said it was ready to ship." It's an opportunity to clarify any ambiguities and hash out any disagreements so everyone's on the same page.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 31, 2025

To help maintain your hard-earned rankings, plan to update posts at regular intervals (like yearly) by adding new data, replacing out-of-date info, expanding light sections, and optimizing for new keyword opportunities that may have emerged since publication. Users will know if they're reading something an AI chatbot spun out in seconds.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 8, 2021

But financing isn’t always easy — especially if you’re the proud founder of a brand new business. You still have plenty of creative financing options to fund your business. You’ll need to think outside the box, but you’re bound to come across your “aha” financing moment in this article.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 15, 2020

And that’s been an opportunity to cut out after-school activities and drop the commutes. 4 Opportunities for Growth During a Pandemic. To make bold choices despite the business-related challenges you face, I recommend considering these hopeful (yet pragmatic) opportunities. An opportunity to trim fat from your budget.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 17, 2024

Turning an idea into a sellable product takes grit, but limited budgets often require entrepreneurs to develop creative solutions that rely more on resourcefulness than cash. In the rocky economic climate of 2024, creativity fuels entrepreneurial success more than deep pockets.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 25, 2021

Everyone deserves to have equal opportunities, rights, and benefits,” says Marí?a She dedicates herself to creating wearable art and ethical jewelry using unconventional materials and creating fair employment opportunities for at-risk groups in El Salvador. I gained a solid business background to support my creative side.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

-Atul National Geographic Explorer, Victoria Herrmann The conversation: Choose your own adventure with National Geographic Explorer, Victoria Hermann The takeaways: Today’s climate problems are also incredible investment opportunities. Executing on opportunities at the intersection of utility and disruption allows for exponential innovation.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

It has the diversity and cheaper rent necessary for great creative potential and I think you're going to see a lot of development next year of Brooklyn as its own unique, but complimentary community of innovation. Credit cards "just work" and peer to peer transactions just aren't big enough to bootstrap a network. What's the business model?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. We literally are a land in which people left their stable East Coast homes in search of opportunity and a chance to start fresh. But what about tech talent?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 1, 2020

Embrace this era of uncertainty as an opportunity. Lean on industry peers for creative ways to support your staff and stay informed about the latest laws and resources in your area. • What does your small business look like six months from now, one year from now? Implement new, virtual ways to communicate regularly with your team.

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StartupNation

JULY 12, 2021

Crisis creates opportunity. Consumers are changing how they shop , how they work and where they live, creating opportunities for new and creative business models. As the pandemic hit, many workers found themselves either out of a job or out of the office, working from home with time on their hands and creative energy to burn.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 2, 2021

There are many creative and engaging ways to teach life lessons outside of the classroom ?even Open a savings account with your child: A perfect opportunity to teach children about budgeting and saving is when they receive money from special events or birthdays. even if you’re not a certified teacher!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This week, I covered Zeta, a new startup working on joint finances for modern couples. Here’s what I learned : The success of Zeta hinges on the idea that people want to share their finances in an ongoing and meaningful way, and that the world of finance is ready to shift from individualism to collectivism earlier and louder.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Sam also had a vision as early as 2012 about how MakeSpace would be a large employer of middle-income jobs: The company would hire employees rather than just have contractors and he would lead the effort to ensure they had opportunities for growth and benefits for their families.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Finance where needed. I show charts on housing, structural unemployment, home equity re-financings that we spent meaning less spending power post crash, new housing sales, debt-to-income ratios, public-sector job problems that will cause crises in cities and states across the US. We need some visibility. Cut where needed. Fawk, man.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Pajani Singah’s company, Amazonia Impact Ventures , was named Top Innovation Winner of the World Economic Forum’s 2021 Tropical Forest Commodities Challenge for protecting the Amazon rainforest and improving the lives of its people through an innovative finance company that works directly with indigenous communities in the rainforests.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

The benefits of building a diverse startup team are overwhelming; from increased creativity and faster problem solving, to a greater diversity of thought opening up new market opportunities and more revenue streams, to better understanding the customer base and building better products… the list goes on.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Now, the stars have aligned to swing the doors, open to new ideas, new opportunities, and lots of creative energy and focus being put to work, to formulate new business models that target needs in the marketplace today and create opportunities for aspiring entrepreneurs. Computer and it work top the list of businesses.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We’re fortunate to interview William Stringer, Founder of Chisos Capital , a structured finance company. Chisos is a structured finance company that provides startup and brand capital to entrepreneurs, athletes and creatives. My background is finance, investments and operations. Q: Please give us an overview of Chisos.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 11, 2021

YC is hiring across many of our teams, including Admissions, Continuity, Software, People Ops and Finance. Data Engineer : YC Continuity is hiring our first Data Engineer to help us identify promising investment opportunities using data. Find out more about the open roles here. ADMISSIONS. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Paulo is the co-founder of Vale do Dendê (Dende Valley) and AFAR Ventures , a global diversity and inclusion creative and consulting agency that identifies opportunities for multinational brands, corporations and investors in emerging markets. Paulo Rogério Nunes. Contributor. Tara Sabre Collier. Contributor.

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Forward Cities

DECEMBER 16, 2019

For many cities, a history of red-lining , unequal development, and decisions to build highways through thriving minority communities contributed in significant ways to disparities in wealth and access to opportunities in our neighborhoods. For me, this hits even closer to home. Side Hustles and Innovation Sprints.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

With a background in cross-border deal advisory, knitting together experiences covering Fortune 500 companies from a structured finance perspective to impact-driven direct investing and consultancy for early to growth-stage companies in emerging markets, she brings a unique financial perspective to the world of tech startups.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Without industry-wide master unique identifiers for medical-surgical (med-surg) items, hospitals cannot easily compare products by their attributes to identify cost-savings opportunities, or map product selection to the best patient outcomes. This challenge spelled fear and opportunity in equal parts. We didn’t know the domain.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

But he almost didn’t, when he had trouble securing the necessary financing to pay his tuition. Participating services include, but are not limited to, YouTube Premium, Dollar Shave Club, Adobe Creative Cloud, Nintendo Online, Apple Music, SoundCloud, Xbox Live, Amazon Prime, HBO Max and DisneyPlus. By the time it raised its $2.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

To this end, marketers develop creative ways to gather lists of, and information on, key contacts at these potential partners. Marketers work with finance and product teams to formulate projections as the company moves into the clinical phase. When should deep tech companies hire marketers?

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StartupNation

JUNE 10, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic forced a mass transition to online learning for all ages, from kindergarten to postgraduate degree programs, which caused a spike in demand for online tutoring as well as created new opportunities for new and seasoned educators. Creative minds can also teach things like how to play the piano or paint over a video call.

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StartupNation

MAY 9, 2021

Review your household finances and compare them to your estimated startup expenses. Reach out to that creative friend who’s always sharing her DIY projects on social media and treat her to virtual coffee in exchange for the opportunity to pick her brain. After all, your idea could be the opportunity of a lifetime.

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Forward Cities

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For many cities, a history of red-lining , unequal development, and decisions to build highways through thriving minority communities contributed in significant ways to disparities in wealth and access to opportunities in our neighborhoods. For me, this hits even closer to home. SIDE HUSTLES AND INNOVATION SPRINTS.

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TechCrunch

JULY 2, 2022

It looks like needing money for drugs makes you creative! “In this pursuit, founders and management teams bypass private financing markets which consist of professional and diligent investors such as VCs or growth capital funds,” he told me in an email. TechCrunch+ is having an Independence Day sale!

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

As illustrated by games like AI Dungeon, AI — while imperfect — can inject surprising creativity and novelty into branching narrative storytelling. “ Inworld is a creative platform for building virtual characters for immersive realities. Inworld AI was founded on this premise. Image Credits: Inworld AI.

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Forward Cities

MARCH 27, 2020

As the Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University recently wrote , “cities need to organize economic stabilization teams… to offer short-term, focused relief until the federal government can offer some direct relief.” Additionally, with crisis comes opportunity. The time for action is now.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Comcast Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Real Estate Technology (RET) Ventures co-led the financing, which brings the company’s total raised to $32 million since its 2019 inception. Chipperfield previously served as global creative director at Tesla, head of special projects at Apple and head of digital at Burberry.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

With so many entrepreneurs and startup ventures seeking investment opportunities, it’s crucial that venture capitalists (VCs) create a list of criteria they want their potential investments to meet. Every entrepreneurial leader needs to be able to creatively think outside the box.

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