The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

These systems can practically think on their feet, analyzing information, learning from experience, and constantly getting better at what they do. People don't follow structured algorithms to the T quite like automated tools, and AI can analyze huge amounts of data to inform decisions.

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StartupNation

MAY 22, 2025

Contingency Planning : Prepare for the most likely scenarios that would cause disruption and focus on robust backup systems. Working Hours: This information must be sent explicitly to clients and team members and family, to greatly enhance coverage.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 13, 2013

I follow people I don''t necessarily know and get inspired and informed. Google is my connection to everything--it feeds me information--answers just about any question I might have. Despite everything it theoretically knows about me, Facebook ad units disrupt my feed. Vine, for lots of people, is similar.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

For founders and investors, there’s no platform like TechCrunch Disrupt. Just as the industry is always evolving and innovating — especially in recent months — we’re doing the same to keep Disrupt on the cutting edge for first-time founders, seasoned investors, visionaries and everybody in between.

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HPA

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Pimly is the industry’s first fully Salesforce-native solution making Salesforce the source of truth for critical product information allowing employees, prospects, partners and customers to become experts on product information. The post Pimly Raises $5M to scale its product information management platform appeared first on HPA.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 11, 2022

A few years ago, I was at Techcrunch Disrupt and this guy taps me on the shoulder as I was chatting in a group. Bottom line is that they’re going to need to do more work anyway and ask you to follow up—so why push a firehose of information at them now? He simply extended a handshake and said: “Hi, sorry to interrupt. My name is Alan.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

Here’s a look at just some of the ways early-stage founders can learn to build, grow and fund their startups at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco. Let’s kick off the Disrupt opportun-a-palooza with a time-sensitive reminder to apply to the Startup Battlefield 200 (SBF 200) by July 31 at 11:59 p.m.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

We’re just a few short weeks away from the first in-person TechCrunch Disrupt in three years. The agenda is absolutely bursting with expert insight and information from the leading voices in the early-stage startup universe. Great partners make Disrupt possible, but they do more than just write a check. Buy your pass today.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 takes place September 21-23, and we’re here to call out just some of the awesome content we have scheduled over three very busy days. The Disrupt agenda so far features more than 80 interviews, panel discussions, events and breakout sessions that span the startup tech spectrum… with more to come!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

To meet the changing startup landscape, we’re refreshing and re-imagining TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in a big way, with more of what you love and new ways to accelerate your growth. What’s new at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023? It’s one of the world’s highest-quality company showcases and it’s right there inside of Disrupt.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Docracy, born out of Techcrunch Disrupt's 2011 Hackathon, just brought legal negotiations into the cloud with their new Super Signing feature release. But there's way too much information to decode the Matrix. Imagine if we had perfect information about what the best forms of contracts where--and which parts were non-standard.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

The ability to interact, transact and disrupt is an order of magnitude greater at broadband speeds than at 56k dial-up modem speeds. THAT is disruption. The video industry will be disrupted just as books, newspapers and music before it. Just how transformative is broadband? This never existed a decade ago.

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Revolution

MARCH 28, 2023

The platform continues to achieve historical milestones, garnering more than 100 million users in its first two months, marking the beginning of a new era of disruption. There is inevitably upheaval and unforeseen pitfalls that come with disruptive new technology, but there are also many reasons for optimism.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 19, 2024

With his extensive industry experience and visionary leadership, Jordan has established Equifund as a pivotal player in disrupting middle market investment banking. He is committed to fostering an informed, engaged investment community, aligning business growth with investor education.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

These changes will create opportunities for founders across the entire stack of computer-aided design tools for architects, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools, and finally integration with 3-D environmental models to understand and design the lifetime impact of the buildings.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

This spring is when that information comes forward to the CDAO and then to me and the Secretary thereafter. The system-level information comes forward in the next several days, as I said in my remarks. What are the issues it’s looking at, if you could expand on that? Kathleen: Sure.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 21, 2020

While the desire and intention to create disruptive digital customer experiences grows, however, the majority of B2B companies struggle to deliver. While demographics, personas and psychographics may provide helpful information about customer preference, those things alone won’t point to the best opportunities for innovation.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 4, 2021

Honestly, I didn’t take it that seriously—mostly because I was starting with no information. Even for VCs like myself that want to be accessible and inclusive, it’s hard to evaluate someone who doesn’t communicate with the same package of information that everyone else is sending you. They helped him refine his idea.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Startups typically rely on innovative ideas and technologies to disrupt and revolutionize their respective industries. If you store, manage and use your clients’ personal information, your company could be held liable by the victims in the event of a data breach or cyberattack.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

Competitors can leapfrog you on features or outspend you on customer acquisitions but communities are very hard to disrupt. Maybe we hear from one droning speaker and the rest of us are passively consuming information. Community-building is advice I give to nearly every startup team with whom I work. It’s the opposite of community.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 28, 2024

Now, with the advent of large language models, such previously shackled information might soon be easily and widely available to everyone, ushering in a new LLM-powered era that could shift the financial services landscape. In doing so, each built the beginnings of what are now category-defining businesses.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 23, 2023

Now a young startup wants to disrupt that. Users need to sign up if they want to message a user or get their contact information. This will give the professionals a deeper understanding of the company’s culture and technical capabilities and help them make more informed decisions about job opportunities, he said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Christian Müller, chief information officer at Schwarz Group, says that adding a security piece to the portfolio is essential, especially as more shopping moves online. “Finding and closing security gaps from an attacker’s perspective is a disruptive approach to the way organizations can proactively protect their networks.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Our goals are to activate accredited investors and fund innovative, early-stage companies developing potentially disruptive products and services. Information about the SDAC VI fund and participating in investor education, networking, and USD President’s Club events, visit www.thesdangels.com/angel-investor.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 26, 2022

There’s no hiding from it: The metaverse is coming, and it’s on track to disrupt the world of business as we know it. I hope this guide has made clear that the metaverse needn’t be seen as a threat or a disruption to your business processes. Build productive relationships in your team . Making the metaverse work for you .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

According to a recent survey from Capgemini, companies see disruption in the supply chain as the top risk to their business growth, ahead of rising raw material prices and the energy crisis. And parts of Europe faced uncommonly high temperatures and drought conditions. “Our customers are made up of some of the world’s largest brands.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 8, 2023

SDAC angel investors build social capital as they work together to discover investable companies with the potential to disrupt industries and solve real-world challenges. SDAC angel investors can expand their network through structured seminars, and socials, and by becoming a member of the USD President’s Club.

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Revolution

JUNE 15, 2023

Their parents worked in kitchens, and they too, had jobs in food that informed their thesis of how service employees should be treated and set up for success. The resulting approach was risk tolerant but thoughtful: CAVA opened its first store beyond the D.C.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 26, 2021

Consumer feedback can help you find in-depth information and discover any commonalities among your customers that can help you narrow your niche even further. For e-commerce brands, a great way to do this is by clearly and explicitly communicating order information. Today’s consumers want customization. Updating transaction emails.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

What started with longer-lasting fruits and vegetables, is becoming how we provide information to empower them to do it without adding to food waste.”. (where approximately 40% of food is wasted ), the U.K. and Europe.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

To use dipp, brands first set up a brand guideline with information including fonts, colors and layout (or they can upload an Adobe Photoshop file). Then prices and other information for ads are uploaded into a spreadsheet, with each row representing a product, so visual assets can be edited in batches.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

By staying vigilant and knowing what to look for, you can make informed decisions and stay away from opportunities that you determine aren’t worth the risk. Turnover disrupts the company’s operation, culture and growth trajectory. It’s a red flag that drama is consuming the company while its mission is mostly sidelined.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 4, 2023

When 500 small business decision makers were asked to list their top challenges, they made high inflation (63%), economic recession (39%), and supply chain disruptions (30%) their top three. For additional information and to apply, visit this page on Amazon Small Business Grants. Winners will be announced on July 17.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Back to the round, a noteworthy event is that most investors who took part are based in Nigeria, and from publicly disclosed information, this is arguably the largest round led by investors from the country. . “ Obi Emetarom, co-founder and CEO, Appzone. Image Credits: Appzone.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

” “The legacy videoconferencing players are struggling to innovate across the disruptive shift from client-based messaging architectures to low-latency, hardware-accelerated, cloud-based real-time AI on real-time communication streams,” Green said via email. “There has been a slow rollout of AI features (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

A wave of disruption of digitizing informal retail stores is sweeping across emerging markets this year, and Chari is joining in on the action. Another digitizing-informal-retail-stores play, this time from Nigeria. Chari (Morocco). Sophia Alj and Ismael Belkhayat founded Chari in 2020. Suplias (Nigeria).

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2021

Our name is in the news a lot and when it comes to foodtech or agtech SEO all roads lead to AgFunder — this builds the audience and established trust for when we do announce and because we already publish a lot of information, it doesn’t seem orthogonal for us do be doing it. Ongoing information rights. Further reading: .

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