American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 13, 2025

January 3, 2025) The New Jersey Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology (CSIT) awarded over $2.7 The funding will support pilot demonstration projects from startup companies creating technologies that mitigate the emission of greenhouse gases and other pollutants. TRENTON, N.J.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 21, 2025

Creator Ventures, founded in 2022 by cousins Sasha Kaletsky and Caspar Lee , is uniquely positioned to invest in the next wave of AI-enabled consumer applications, marketplaces, creative tools, and SaaS platforms reshaping the digital landscape. Thats what we bring.

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Revolution

JULY 28, 2025

Plus, retrofitting lets you work creatively within real-world constraints around budget, time, and space. What makes this collaboration work is that NJNG brings established customer relationships and market credibility, while we bring the technology they need to demonstrate truly innovative energy efficiency measures.

energy

Jason Malki

MARCH 26, 2025

Sanjit has held roles at top-tier institutions including Weill Cornell Medicine, NASA, Johns Hopkins University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and the National Security Innovation Network. My true belief is that with the power of technology and innovation, we can save even more lives than we ever imagined.

technology

StartupNation

JULY 2, 2025

A strong company culture grows from genuine care, and when people feel supported, they naturally want to be part of it and share it with others. These small gestures signal care, and over time, they shape a culture where people feel seen and supported. In this way, a reputation for kindness gives you staying power.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 4, 2025

Supporting continued AI growth across Zapier We're not stopping at onboarding. For example, a performance metrics rollup for our Support team , a way to automatically calendarize work blocks for high priority tasks , or using AI help to summarize lengthy Slack message threads.

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Jason Malki

JULY 16, 2025

Developed creative, non-dilutive financing that supported rapid growth. In this capacity, he channels his extensive experience toward supporting the next generation of innovative startups. Mentors entrepreneurs and provides hands-on support to portfolio companies. Thank you so much for joining us!

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StartupNation

JUNE 23, 2025

With support from peers and the incredible State of Search community, we fixed the issue, restructured the backend, and got things back on track. Communication had to be clear-cut, customer support had to scale up, and internal systems had to be rearranged on the go. ” That was my low point. It was a challenging process.

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StartupNation

JULY 21, 2025

1 is packed with eye-catching provisions, corporate tax breaks, investment deductions, and innovation credits, it remains conspicuously light on addressing the daily operational burdens squeezing SMBs hardest: labor costs, payroll pressures, and mounting regulatory obligations. But while H.R.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Collaboration builds innovation and helps navigate obstacles more effectively. Surround yourself with mentors and like-minded entrepreneurs who can offer guidance, support, and inspiration. These qualities align with current trends emphasizing ethical business practices and innovation.

founder

StartupNation

MAY 20, 2025

In my role as CTO of Blask and my experience leading teams through strategic growth and technical innovation, I’ve learned the importance of hiring the right people and managing them effectively. Startups are full of unknowns, and you need professionals who can embrace change and find creative solutions to new problems.

culture

StartupNation

JUNE 27, 2025

You also might be less creative when burned out , leaving you struggling to develop new ideas or solutions. Was it the product development, the connection with the customers or the innovative challenges? Creativity thrives when you’re doing what you love. What aspects of your work lit you up when you first started?

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Jason Malki

MAY 4, 2025

With over 20 years of experience across regulatory compliance, risk management, and financial innovation, Hourad has become a leading voice in turning compliance from a burdensome cost center into a powerful enabler of trust andgrowth. Were not just saving companies money and reducing riskwere liberating human creativity and innovation.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 24, 2025

With its unique work culture, shaped around the idea that difference is a superpower that can drive innovation – Mel is living proof that passion for an idea and understanding the ‘Why?’ I think a lot of founders who wear so many hats and are also the creatives often have imposter syndrome and so find it hard to sell their products.

incubation

Jason Malki

JUNE 23, 2025

Redefining Recruitment: How LatAm Talent Partners Is Building Agile, Borderless Teams for the Future of Work Mark Mancebo I had the pleasure of interviewing Mark Mancebo , the founder & CEO of LatAm Talent Partners , a recruitment firm dedicated to helping top-tier talent across Latin America land impactful roles with innovative U.S.-based

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Jason Malki

JULY 21, 2025

Brusseau, who is a global strategist at the intersection of data, creativity, and technology. With over 30 years of experience across North America, Europe, and Latin America, she has led strategic transformation and innovation for blue-chip brands and multinationals, holding leadership roles at Starcom, Ogilvy, JWT, and DDB.

culture

American Entrepreneurship

MAY 7, 2025

Supporting the Growing Needs of Mobile Businesses As mobile apps continue to dominate global consumer engagement, developers face mounting challenges in discovery, monetization, and user retention. Weve merged, innovated, and built momentum, yet we believe the opportunity for growth in mobile is just beginning. Valued at $4.3

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

If you’re looking for alternatives that offer better support, more intuitive design tools, and reliable inbox placement, you’re not alone. We’ve tested 16 alternatives that might be a better fit with user-friendly interfaces, improved deliverability, and responsive customer support. Let’s dive in. (TL;DR)

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Drives innovation: AI automation is a powerful R&D assistant. This means these systems can, for example, intelligently route customer support tickets based on their actual content and urgency, dynamically optimize supply chain logistics as conditions change, or provide remarkably accurate sales forecasts by analyzing complex datasets.

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StartupNation

JULY 22, 2025

I went from negotiating multi-million-dollar deals for corporations to building something of my own—something that helps real families feel seen, supported, and strong. So, in my mid-30s, I stepped away from the security of a steady role and went back to school, immersing myself in health informatics and later, digital health innovation.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

If you want the advanced features of the Business plan, the price goes up a bit—to $18/month—to justify the extras: multi-user support, unlimited marketing automation, A/B testing, and more advanced reports. Brevo's AI implementation for creating newsletters is useful, though not all that innovative.

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StartupNation

JULY 19, 2025

High staff morale is vital for fostering creativity, collaboration, and innovation, boosting productivity and job satisfaction, and discouraging burnout, absenteeism, and turnover. Every small business owner who cares about profit should care just as much about their employees.

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Forward Cities

JUNE 11, 2025

E3 Durham (E3D) is a place-based, inclusive entrepreneurs initiative supported by Durham County’s ARPA funding. E3 Durham combines hands-on business navigation services, cohort-based training, and an innovative "learn-to-earn" incentive model that helps entrepreneurs access subsidized business services.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

Agile Best for: Innovation projects, changing requirements Agile is a collaborative, flexible project management methodology designed by a group of software practitioners in 2001. Try to secure leadership support as early as possible by quantifying the benefits of your framework (like dollars or hours saved).

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 17, 2025

This gives every team—Sales, Marketing, Support, the people who decide what goes in the vending machine—a shared 360-degree customer view. Emails, phone calls, support tickets, social media interactions, purchases , and birthday reminders (if you're that kind of person) all get logged automatically or manually.

real estate

Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

5 (300+ reviews) Apsis European businesses Local EU support €100/month 4.4/5 “ “Not only does Campaign Monitor make sending highly-customized emails easy and fun, their support team is phenomenal.” 5 (1000+ reviews) Mailchimp Small businesses All-in-one marketing platform Free plan; paid from $13/month 4.4/5

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 20, 2025

It may not look all that innovative—we've had news portals like this since the days of AOL—but since Perplexity customizes its Discover tab based on all of your searches and chats, it has a higher level of personalization than even Google can offer. ChatGPT's Canvas feature is great for creative projects.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

Mind mapping is a creative way to brainstorm and find connections between different ideas. Use automation to support brainstorming, delegation, and communication Learn how I do most of my mind mapping digitally—and even when I don't, I often recreate a paper mind map online so that I can have it safely stored and easily searched.

collaboration

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

Creativity. So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A As a practitioner of creativity rather than as an instructor of it I’m certain that there are many ways to get the creative juices flowing and how to release more creativity. I use tools to invoke my creative self.

creativity

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 25, 2013

Not only did I want it to include people working on the future of digital media at ABC, but I also had in mind the roll that other types of creative people have in the inspiration of a city. Anyone who was doing something new and cutting edge should feel connected to each other--whether or not they are building a venture backed startup.

communities

Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 27, 2024

Have you seen the new study in Nature that “conclusively proves” remote work harms innovation and creativity? The narrative that traditional, in-person work environments are the sole breeding grounds for innovation and collaborative breakthroughs has dominated the discourse.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Creativity is essential for any organization if you want to keep your business moving forward. There are numerous organizations that have designed a cool, funky, creative environment for their employees to help them relax and spark creative thinking to get their projects moving forward. Dopamine, curiosity and creativity.

creativity

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. Innovate In the early years of a startup there is a lot of kinetic energy of enthusiastic innovators looking to launch a product that changes how an industry works.

innovation

This is going to be BIG.

JULY 14, 2013

Cheaper rents could make it a great place for the creative community and there''s no reason why it shouldn''t become as popular a destination for out of town events the same way that Austin has. and figure out how to support them. What kind of support do they need? They also have reason to connect to a wide variety of people.

communities

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 14, 2012

I'll bet you don't know where the Center of NY's Tech Community and Center of Creativity is. Just because you put up a structure doesn't mean it's going to sprout a whole innovation ecosystem. These are people whose business it is to support startups. On top of that, they tend to be the locus of innovation networks.

coworking spaces

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I’ve always been interested in tapping into the “crowd” to fund things that need to happen and that our current institutions can’t figure out how to support. Our interest in web3 which started back in 2011 was also grounded in the idea that new forms of funding are necessary to finance innovation and creative work.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 1, 2020

How long can you support your team? Ask yourself: Are there new ways for you to support your goals? Health care laboratories innovate, collaborate and share findings like never before. Lean on industry peers for creative ways to support your staff and stay informed about the latest laws and resources in your area. •

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