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Meet the Designer Helping AI Startups Go from Demo to Daily Use

Jason Malki

He mixes strategy, research, and hands-on design to make AI feel intuitive, useful, and above all, trustworthy. where he helped shape UX patterns for clinical AI tools used by tens of thousands of clinicians. Granted, there are experts who definitely do. Thank you so much for joining us! This was very insightful.

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Visual workflows: The ultimate guide, with examples and tools

The Zapier Blog

My own system was a chaotic mix of muscle memory and flagged emails. Visual workflows, on the other hand, use diagrams, standardized symbols, colors, and flow lines. Using a visual map to define roles and responsibilities, similar to a RACI chart , eliminates confusion. Before the next Ice Age?

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The 9 best accounts payable software in 2025

The Zapier Blog

How we evaluate and test apps Our best apps roundups are written by humans who've spent much of their careers using, testing, and writing about software. One size definitely does not fit all in this world. With that, let's dive into the top accounts payable software available today. " follow-ups.

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“I think CEOs that are interested in a future acquisition need to be building relationships or at least awareness with potential buyers at least 2-3 years in advance, especially with strategics. If you’re not on the list, it’s rare for a deal to happen.” Joe Hyrkin on Selling Issuu to Bending Spoons, and More….

Hunter Walk

These events are organized as a conference format, so the discussions are casual and mixed with networking, planned appointments and good content. The point here is to build a partnership with the companies whose products are also used by your customers. Facebook is a great model to use for learning from the past.

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Female Founders: What the numbers mean and what they don't

This is going to be BIG.

Take the most widely used number--that way fewer women are getting venture funding than guys. If you go for people with some experience and insight, you are definitively going to get more females. Why so many mixed teams? You would probably be surprised on where my views are on some of those conversations.

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Behind the scenes: The challenges of building an EdTech startup

Startup Grind

I would definitely recommend UCL educate program for that side. Challenges: It’s not really that hard to acquire users for your product at this stage given your value proposition is clear and the product is somehow useful. Startup Failure Reason SharpScholar Layers of approvals needed for the product to be used.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

It seems the focus on “virtual&# goods has been both the demo of the consumer as well as the fact that by definition virtual goods have almost no marginal costs to the seller so giving a huge slice to the carrier (and Zong) isn’t a problem since actual costs are ~ $0. Add this new model to the mix. 15mm in Series A.