Fri.Jul 11, 2025

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What is a project management framework? A guide with 7 examples

The Zapier Blog

I've worked on projects that had a distinct "No one knows what they're doing" vibe, and others that were so tightly controlled it felt like coming up for air whenever I left my desk. In both cases, I dreamed of a happy medium. A good project management framework run by a strong project manager feels like that happy medium—a sweet spot between structure and freedom, planning and flexibility.

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What Investors Look for in a Small Business Acquisition Deal

StartupNation

Everyone’s heard the stories. The solo founder who raised $2 million in two weeks. The startup that went public five years later. These stories get passed around like proof that success is just one smart pitch away. However, they’re not the norm. They’re the exception. The truth is that most investors aren’t interested in throwing money at a dream and hoping it works out.

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Hack your CRM: Build your own custom reporting without the enterprise costs

The Zapier Blog

CRMs do a lot of things well. And they're a must-have for sales teams to track leads and convert them into paying customers, keep pipelines organized, and make sure every interaction stays neatly in one place. But the minute you try to build a report that's even slightly custom, you can hit the limit of what the tool offers or a big "Upgrade" button.

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Lightspeed’s Dax Dasilva on 20 Years of Company Building, Strategic Acquisitions, and How Spirituality Shaped His Leadership Philosophy

Mark MacLeod

In this candid conversation, Lightspeed Commerce co-founder and CEO Dax Dasilva opens up about the company’s remarkable 20-year journey from a bootstrapped startup in Montreal’s Gay Village to a billion-dollar public company. Dasilva discusses how authentic workplace culture became Lightspeed’s […] The post Lightspeed’s Dax Dasilva on 20 Years of Company Building, Strategic Acquisitions, and How Spirituality Shaped His Leadership Philosophy appeared first on Mark Ma

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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AI terms: An AI glossary for humans

The Zapier Blog

I've been writing about AI since before most people knew what it stood for, and still, barely a week goes by where I don't have to look up some new term or technical topic. Try Zapier's AI features Discover how AI gives you automation superpowers. Get started AI buzzwords are everywhere, but knowing what they actually mean can help you use AI better.

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[ZutaCore in Data Centre Solutions] Waterless liquid cooling for AI factories

OurCrowd

Andreas Keiger, Chief Revenue Officer at ZutaCore, discusses the AI power density challenge facing data centre owners and operators, looking at the various liquid cooling options available to address the increasing heat levels being generated in racks and cabinets, before explaining the company’s HyperCool, two-phase, direct-to-chip, waterless liquid cooling solution, designed for both AI factories […]