The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

There's one for the sound bar, one for a Blu-ray player (RIP), two for gaming systems I don't use, and one that might control a ceiling fan in someone else's house for all I know. And anyone can set it up using a tool like Zapier. " This guide will teach you everything you need to know about AI orchestration.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

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 Zapier Blog

JUNE 4, 2025

You use templated, predefined rules and let machines do the work, so every onboard is fast and consistent. You can also use specialized mobile device management (MDM) solutions to handle similar configurations for mobile phones or tablets. But many can support different provisioning needs and use cases.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

Get started AI buzzwords are everywhere, but knowing what they actually mean can help you use AI better. For a simple example, the idea is that your AI assistant agent would be able to book flights using a travel comparison website's AI agent. You can build your own AI agents using tools like Zapier Agents.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

Over the past few years, it's continued to develop large language models , multimodal models , and text-to-image models. That means you can also use them to develop your own AI-powered tools and connect them to thousands of other apps using Zapier. If you aren't sure which model to use, GPT-4.1

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Support the student club ecosystem. If anything, the business school students need to figure out what their value add is to a design or software development student. That means making it easier for meetups and innovation conferences to use your spaces. Give them that and they'll decide on their own to be a founder.

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Dream It

AUGUST 6, 2020

Today, the company announced a $10M Series A financing round led by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and digital health fund Heal Capital , with participation from existing investors Karma Ventures, Inovo Venture Partners, and Dreamit Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

And contrary to media reporting, YouTube has been incredibly supportive of networks like Maker & MiTú in building out our businesses. We’ve had tremendous support from Robert Kyncl , Courtney Lischke, Malik Ducard and Alex Carloss and many others. This was a marked change from the previous leadership of YouTube.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Twitter seems to have become a bit allergic to third-party developers (or maybe vice-versa).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

On Wednesday, the company announced that it snatched up Active Replica , a Vancouver-based startup developing a “web-based metaverse.” ” According to Mozilla SVP Imo Udom, Active Replica will support Mozilla’s ongoing work with Hubs, the latter’s VR chatroom service and open source project.

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 21, 2023

What Is Your Process for Developing New Business Ideas?: And I use automation tools to have the videos come out simultaneously everywhere. I rank for dozens of them—just creating landing pages for every use-case keyword imaginable. That’s the idea—unbundled from a large company. Within a year, I had a great MRR.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

A successful entrepreneur, businessman and EO Bahrain member, Suhail Algosaibi had long thought about how he could use his position and his company—FALAK Consulting—to make real, radical and sustainable change in his corner of the world. We hardly invent any new technologies and don’t invest enough in research and development,” Suhail says.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

How can you get free money and other support for your business idea? . I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. Participants have a chance to win more than $250,000 in cash and other support.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 18, 2022

What used to be a highly organized, cold, productive-oriented environment is now striving toward flexibility, collaboration, and empathy. Empathy and productivity: How do they mix? People who like working with each other will also support each other in times of need. Let’s take the workplace as an example.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Maintaining source code is one of the toughest challenges that software developers face. In a 2020 survey from Sourcegraph, 51% of developers said that they have more than 100 times the volume of code they had ten years ago while 92% say the pressure to release software faster has increased. It’s an acute problem.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

The new funding will be used to further expand the reach of its online courses. Kodland’s latest tranche of funding — which brings its total raised to date to $11 million — will be used for market expansion, with courses in a further eight languages planned over the next two years. Ireland, the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

That said, it’s not clear how much of the $115 million tranche is equity versus debt — a spokeswoman for the startup declined to provide a break down or a clear answer when we asked, saying only: “This round is a mix of equity and debt funding.” The final tranche of the D round was led by U.S. based rival NexTravel.

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Startup Grind

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

My history being in product development and category management, taught me that. Also, from it, I knew that about a year, would do, for us to launch the next product. People were starting to buy and love Musgrave, and they wanted something more from us. But I was at a point in my career where, they weren’t using me that much.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“Despite ethnicity usually being a self-determined categorisation, we believe this is justified because the data we collect is subsequently anonymised and is being used to improve access to capital,” they note, adding: “Ethnic or gender prejudice is dependent on the perception of the person holding the purse strings to funds.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In order to support a buildout of renewable energy, which tends to over-generate electricity at certain times of day and under-generate at others, the grid is going to need a lot of batteries. The company is planning on using the funds to scale its nickel-hydrogen battery production, including a Gigafactory in the U.S.,

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

My advice would be to pick and develop a focus in which you have competency and passion. Also, utilize our ecosystem and engage support systems available such as our growing network of business accelerators, and the University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program, a support system from which AireHealth has benefited.

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HPA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

While the University of Michigan has been formally educating students on entrepreneurship for decades, the region’s entrepreneurial ecosystem has notably ramped up in the last ten years and has effectively used its powerful alumni network to amplify its growth.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. I worked with outsourced research firm Wonder * to identify all of the institutions we could who support tech impact startups with cash and community, and in many cases without dilution. Aspen Tech Policy Hub.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

Use discount code BELFAST to save 25% off an annual or two-year Extra Crunch membership. New developments are popping up all over the city, from student accommodation to hotels and nice apartments. Public funding supports are good, but too fragmented and hard to access. This offer is only available to readers in the U.K.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 14, 2019

Our members are working side by side in one of our 100 Impact Hubs around the world, connecting digitally through our global Community App, or using their Impact Hub Passport, which gives members the possibility to work and meet three days per year at any Impact Hub. Meet more changemakers on the Dopper Changemamer Challenge blog !

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Feedough

MARCH 22, 2021

A solopreneur is an individual who owns, manages and runs a venture independently without the support of co-founders, partners, and employees, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so. For example, an independent App Developer is a freelancer. For example, a Chartered Account is a professional.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Israel’s heady mix of questioning culture, tradition of national military service, higher education, the widespread use of English, appetite for risk and team spirit makes for a fertile place for fast-moving companies to appear. A significant event came with acquisition by AOL of the the ICQ messaging system developed by Mirabilis.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

Founders seeking to tap into this rare mix of reach, influence, and capital must navigate this terrain with an immense amount of intention and foresight. CLF has seen (and been honored to support) real magic coming together when founders and cultural leaders build upon shared passions, interests, and strategic goals.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

He thinks that early use cases may center on customer service, but is certain that more will follow. Every time a big name enters insurance, there is always a mix of skepticism from incumbents and a reminder that change is needed. And their huge customer base could be a competitive edge. They own a lot of data on their customers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

But Martin says the proof is in the pudding: thousands of hybrid and remote teams use Kumospace today, some for more than five hours per day. We’ve built three businesses together, all focused on using technology to connect people — Sonar , Switch , and Kumospace. Supporting evidence is mixed.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

It plans to use the funding to expand its own technology tools, as well as grow internationally. The company makes revenues in the mid-eight figures (so, around $50 million annually) and some 10% of its revenues currently come from the U.S. Older companies then have to become marketplaces themselves to remain competitive.”

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 23, 2022

DELOS’ founder mix brings a multidisciplinary team that includes aquaculture, marine and microbiology, technology, and business backgrounds working in concert to accelerate the growth of the Indonesian aquaculture industry. It is targeting at least 200 hectares under management in a year’s time.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Snickerdoodle Labs – Uses blockchain to build agnostic data-sharing layer that enables individuals to control and even monetize their personal data through a tokenized data architecture. Fast Sense H2 – Nano-sized quantitative, mixed-gas sensor and analyzer for industrial, environmental and security applications.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

Unit itself is not a labor union, but instead helps worker-organizers set up, affiliate and manage a union with a mix of software and human resources. The startup has a step-by-step process of how to virtually unionize a workplace that it offers for free public use on its website. Janitorial entrepreneurship.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Hezarkhani’s early energy brought him to Carnegie Mellon, where he studied electrical and computer engineering, and Google, where he spent time on developer programs and Google for Education. Is success defined by saving someone money three months after using the service? Or making them NFT-fluent in 30 days?

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JUNE 15, 2022

The team of Seth Pheng and Soph Horn at Control LTD, took first place with their concept for a patented, healthy dosing system for patients using cannabis. Daniel Dotterer is developing a remote veterinarian service that solves the problem of vet shortages especially in rural areas. What an amazing group of entrepreneurs.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Post this, it had decided to shift to a network design, co-owned by its subsidiaries and appointed a small global secretariat to steward its development. Here are 10 impactful moments that led us to become the largest global network that supports social entrepreneurs and innovators. The rest is now history.

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