HPA

JANUARY 8, 2025

Chicago, IL – January 8, 2025 – Hyde Park Angels ( HPA ), a premier early-stage venture capital group specializing in investing through its unique People First model, is pleased to announce that its portfolio company, Simple Mills , has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Flowers Foods , Inc.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Here we expand the definitions a bit to encompass businesses that are still early stage, but perhaps beyond startup. You may recognize these five as a slight variation on the “Berkus Method of Valuation” which is often published and used by investors when valuing pre-revenue businesses.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

Problem to outcome arc : The ad clearly sets up the challenge (slow growth and limited business) and closes the loop with a clear result: "Slack has definitely helped us grow and get more business." It makes you think, "If this works for him in extreme conditions, it'll definitely hold up for me."

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NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

This is a significant achievement given the complexity of the R&D definitions, and the challenges when we sometimes begin work with a client part-way through their claims process. We are proud to have maintained a 100% funding rate to date, for NZ applications to R&D grants and the Research and Development Tax Incentive.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 5, 2025

It's definitely helpful if you have some programming experience, but it won't tank you if you don't. Driven by natural language, not code. English is the programming language. You don't need to code if you don't want to. Minimal programming skills required. Guardrails.

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Jason Malki

JUNE 18, 2025

Granted, there are experts who definitely do. If you had to share, “words of wisdom,” with a Founder who’s about to start their own startup, what would they be? Nobody really knows what they’re doing. But for the most part, we’re all just learning as we go and trying to figure it out. That’s worked well for me so far.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Try Zapier Related reading: Workflow automation: What it is, why it matters, and how you can use it Workflow management: Definition and best practices 7 creative ways to visualize your to-do list How to make mind maps: Visualize your ideas for better brainstorming Workflow vs. process: Key differences and examples Not sure where to start?

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Founder Bounty

JANUARY 21, 2025

If its a top tier accelerator like Ycombinator you should definitely do it. But not ALL are equity, however if its YC definitely take it or apply if you have not done so. The answer is YES. I have worked in finance and well as been though Techstars and have seen it all in the world of startups.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

Whatever my underlying consumer psychology profile might be, Salesmate is definitely in the former camp.

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Red Rocket

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

So, the point here is: discounts definitely play a major role in the psyche of the mainstream consumer, and you need to decide when and how best to use them. This “no discounting” strategy may work well for a high-end brand like Nordstrom, serving an affluent demographic that is less price conscious.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

The interface for managing all of these sections is so straightforward that you definitely don't need to be a pro at creating landing pages to configure the knowledge base. Zendesk allows you to add FAQs, community discussions, feature requests, and announcements.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Here are some of the situations where a RACI chart would come in handy, but you can definitely use it for lots of other use cases. RACI chart examples and use cases You might ask yourself, "Self, how do I know when a RACI chart is needed?" " Let's sort that out. It's about understanding the decision-making hierarchy.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

I didn't, but I'd definitely buy one. Who'd have thought before we started brainstorming that Alice Cooper flipping burgers at a family BBQ (or maybe in a fast food joint?) could make for a killer summer ad? What makes the best mind map software?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 13, 2025

One size definitely does not fit all in this world. There's no magical scan that reads your invoices, and getting purchase orders to match up perfectly with bills is definitely a manual exercise. I've definitely experienced the frustration of chasing down approvals or trying to figure out why an invoice is stuck.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

It's time-consuming, and it's definitely not why you got into your business in the first place. Getting paid is great, but sending invoices can be painful. You have to itemize charges, add taxes, track who paid, and chase down clients who don't pay. Free invoicing software makes the billing process a whole lot easier.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

This quiz will give you a result ranging from "definite morning" to "definite evening" person. From there, you can self-identify as one of Breus's chronotypes. How each chronotype should schedule their work Now that you know your chronotype, it's time to figure out when you should work on different tasks.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 26, 2025

Sure, it's inclusive, but we're definitely crashing into a mountain. This document serves as the definitive reference for all project participants. That's definitely outside our current scope, but we could explore it as a Phase 2 initiative." It's like letting everyone in the plane take turns flying it.

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Hunter Walk

APRIL 17, 2025

HW: Debt financing for startups can sometimes seem like ‘cheap money’ but its definitely more complicated than most founders realize. I saw your essay about this form of capital being a Growth Engine or Growth Killer?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Wix is the definite winner when it comes to quantity: with 2,000+ templates, you can find pre-built options for every niche. (I As spiffy as Squarespace's and Wix's new AI features are, old habits die hard: most users are accustomed to interacting with website builders via templates.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

If it can reply to emails without your input, add events to your calendar, and unsubscribe you from annoying email newsletters, then I'd say that counts as agentic AI, but just sorting emails falls into that awkward gray area where the marketing team will probably call it agentic AI, but it doesn't quite meet the definition.

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NZ Entrepreneur

APRIL 2, 2025

Within this application you will also be describing how your activities meet the definitions of R&D. This is like the RDTI, but oddly enough the definition of R&D is different in each program. This describes how your work meets the definitions of R&D for RDTI.

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Founder Bounty

JUNE 24, 2025

If you can present yourself as the best person for their team and a solution to their needs, you will definitely get the offer. That is the time to impress potential employers, both with your experience and skills, but also with the attitude, confidence and research done about the company and the challenges they are facing.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

Types of unstructured data So unstructured data is less definite than structured data, and while it's often just called "unstructured," it typically has its own kind of internal organization—just not in a standardized, predictable format.

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Hunter Walk

MARCH 24, 2025

I received a decent amount of advice from people more powerful than me in my first few years in Silicon Valley (mostly because of my Twitter) and while I was lucky to get the attention, it definitely made my head spin.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

It's a pretty serious, AI-driven system designed to manage the whole product lifecycle, which is definitely a different league than your average spreadsheet could ever hope to play in. Again, Google Sheets can't compete when it comes to this kind of use case, but it also wasn't built for it.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 14, 2014

If you go for people with some experience and insight, you are definitively going to get more females. I tend not to back the type of founder who thinks that code and design alone breaks down all industry barriers--which means that the average age of the founders I''ve seeded has been around 33.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2015

I will start from a passage from the Wikipedia definition because I think it does a great job of summarizing. Need to Talk More than Listen – If I attend meetings where I’m not speaking my brain will definitely wander. I sat down with Kati Morton (who does YouTube videos on mental health) to talk about ADD.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 5, 2022

What this tech definitely does is that it expands the size of the creator market. As it is, I’m a paid Canva user and you definitely wouldn’t have counted me in that target demo as narrowly defined by Adobe’s core audience ten years ago. That being said, I’d hate to be a stock photography model these days.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

The more specific you can get in your definition the better. If you can’t get named competitors then I recommend you try to define a really narrow industry grouping, which when coupled with time-based exclusivity, gives you enough comfort. Geography Bound – Finally, another natural limiter for you will be geography.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

It is definitely important. Promote women’s participation in leadership positions. Do you think it is important for women to pursue education and professions in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics), and why?

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 6, 2015

I can definitely think of a few people I met with and said, "Well, that person was kind of a jerk" or they just had a bad personality--and they went on to build seemingly successful businesses.

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