The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

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. Frameworks give teams set guidelines, processes, and best practices for finishing projects on time and under (or at least within) budget.

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Paul G. Silva

APRIL 29, 2025

Is there a logical sequence or framework that connects them all? This framework isn’t just theoretical; it’s grounded in rigorous research comparing companies that became great to similar companies that didn’t. This amplifies all the other principles in the framework. But how do these pieces fit together?

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StartupNation

JULY 22, 2025

Instead of relying solely on one’s own capabilities, learning to delegate effectively using frameworks like the 5 W’s, whether to a person or to AI, has become crucial. It also increasingly involves using AI as a tool to handle mental effort and labor, dramatically reducing the time it takes to get things done.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

Version control for AI models enables tracking changes, rollbacks, and consistency. When your AI systems are properly orchestrated, adding new capabilities or handling a sudden deluge of data becomes much easier because the framework for integration already exists.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO)’s purpose is to help entrepreneurs achieve their full potential by enabling life-enhancing connections, designing shared experiences and providing collaborative learning. The following is a summary of EO’s sustainability framework. EO member engagement is key. Email EO today. .

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2014

The biggest opportunity to innovate is probably on the consumer facing side of things--the medium of creation. It''s also the same bet that Brooklyn Bridge Ventures made with Makr --that enabling more people to be more creative could be revolutionary. That unleashed an explosion in innovation.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2021

In the book Alien Thinking , three innovation professors at IMD Business School argue that people who generate truly breakthrough ideas look at their world like aliens–outsiders unburdened by the assumptions, biases and conventional thinking that constrain imagination. Two types of breaks can foster innovation.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

They were mostly a B2B platform enabling game publishers to deliver via Internet streaming their traditional games built for game consoles. We spent a bunch of time in the video talking about “disruption” as described by Clay Christensen in his seminal book, “The Innovator’s Dilemman” which I profiled here.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Two firms stuck out in recent days, including Urban Innovation Fund , which closed with commitments of $101 million for its Fund III and $20 million Opportunity Fund, and VMG Catalyst ‘s $400 million Fund II. Both firms are led by women, Clara Brenner and Julie Lein at Urban Innovation Fund, and Brooke Kiley over at VMG.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 12, 2023

Register Leading entrepreneurs and investors gathered at the ORIGIN Conference, a side event of the BEYOND International Technology Innovation Expo (BEYOND Expo) 2023, to discuss and emphasize the importance of balancing a sustainable future with business profitability in Southeast Asia.

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Impact Hub

MAY 23, 2022

Within the framework of the European Union-funded “Coworking spaces for social innovation” program, Impact Hub is joining the Greek Higher Incubator Giving Growth & Sustainability (HIGGS) and other key organisations from the region in a hybrid conference to wrap up a whole year of activities.

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Ian Hathaway

AUGUST 6, 2020

It’s a collection of frameworks, principles, and action points that guide and inform practitioners and observers about the key characteristics, behavioral patterns, and basic function of startup communities and entrepreneurial ecosystems. Entrepreneurial successes are an engine for innovation, growth, and job creation.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 27, 2023

Sunrate’s recent series D2 funding round has provided the necessary financial impetus for the company to further enhance its global expansion and innovation efforts. The company enables businesses to conduct cross-border payments, global cash collection, commercial card issuance, and efficient treasury management.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

The models of these B2B companies mirror their retail e-commerce counterparts such as Wasoko and TradeDepot, as they use tech-enabled solutions to digitize medicine distribution to underserved pharmacies, drug shops, clinics, and hospitals. As such, their growth has been rapid, Salient says.

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Startup Blogpost

JANUARY 5, 2024

Antony Deroshan , Founder, Domain Coasters Implement the OKR Framework Accountability is a crucial attribute that a startup team must possess to achieve success and maintain productivity. To help achieve this, the ‘OKR’ (Objectives and Key Results) framework can serve as an effective technique.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This evolution has been accelerated by regulatory changes that are fostering innovation and competition within the financial technology landscape. A diverse range of startups and companies are offering innovative financial solutions to consumers and businesses. The most prominent of these changes was the Fintech Law of 2018.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Modern cloud architectures provide many benefits such as increased innovation, faster time to market, improved reliability and reduced costs. It is important to take advantage of new cloud innovation to accelerate innovation and leverage IaC to more build products to efficiently meet customer needs.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Please give us your web3 elevator pitch: What is it, and what role does it play in today’s internet framework? . Web3 symbolizes a massive societal shift, infused with innovation and supercharged with values. Protocols like Vega Protocol aim to enable decentralized derivatives at scale through fair and efficient markets.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 7, 2023

This round of funding has gained support from Contents Technologies, Transcend Capital Partners, and existing backers Investible and eWTP Tech Innovation Fund. BintanGo’s operational framework centers around a platform that leverages creator-powered marketing and user-generated content. million in funding support.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 17, 2023

It may be a hobby or something of personal interest that enables you to develop a level of expertise that other people value. Here is a framework that can help you delve deeper into your quest to choose the right startup business: Self-Evaluation : What interests, hobbies, and passions do you have?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Read on to learn why Joachimsthaler believes this framework encourages innovation more than any other business model. Fourth, interaction field companies enable sharing of value creation. Tesla has offered to share its innovative battery technology and other software with the automotive industry. I like Flatiron Health.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In the epicenter of tech, where innovation thrives, Alex Luce bridges materials science and venture capital, carving a niche as a Partner at Creative Ventures. However, what drove him relentlessly was the realization that scientific innovations needed a clear path to translate into real-world solutions.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

“The funding will be used to accelerate scaling of the engineering and business teams globally, and to continue investing in both hardware and software innovation,” founder and CEO Krishna Rangasayee told TechCrunch in an email interview. It brings Sima.ia’s total capital raised to $150 million. As over-100-employee Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In a reflection of investor confidence — or perhaps simply the demand for supply chain security solutions — Eclypsium today closed a $25 million Series B round led by Ten Eleven Ventures with participation from Global Brain’s KDDI Open Innovation Fund and J Ventures, bringing the company’s war chest to $50 million.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

The Singularity Platform is essentially a combo of three tools that Koop built: Koop API, Portal By Koop, and Insurability Sufficiency Framework (ISF). “Boston Materials is a high-performance materials company enabling manufacturers of industrial and consumer products to break through their design trade-offs with new materials.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 18, 2023

Ewen Finser , Founder, The Digital Merchant Utilize a Hypothesis-Driven Framework One essential strategy that we’ve utilized to manage risks in our startup journey is the adoption of a hypothesis-driven framework. This way, we made more informed decisions and reduced the risk of failure.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

I propose here a framework for prioritizing your platform buildout. Adding full lifecycle data and industry exposure tags to that, across such a large number of companies, often enables us to see trends ahead of the market, such as retail decimation a few years ago.” All content is developed and delivered by the Real Ventures partners.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Compatible with existing cloud environments, machine learning frameworks like Google’s TensorFlow and Meta’s PyTorch and even other AI accelerator engines, Modular’s engine, currently in closed preview, lets developers import trained models and run them up to 7.5 ” Ambitious much?

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Ian Hathaway

MARCH 31, 2020

The Act, which allocates $2 billion to states under the “Innovation and Startups Equity Investment Program,” enables investors in undercapitalized regions to leverage federal dollars into startup investments. That is not to say that Silicon Valley isn’t the product of human ingenuity and agency. Clearly, it is. government policy.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

This innovative technology offers a deep level of immersion that creates a long-lasting emotional impact for employees. For example, Moth+Flame , a Brooklyn-based virtual reality developer and production studio, has already developed successful DEI programs for the U.S. The MLT program isn’t another pledge, index or disclosure push.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

The system has within it a lot of work that is repeatable across many different companies, specifically in areas like analytics, supply chain management, marketing and more: building a framework that could handle those processes for many at once makes sense. “The top 1.5%

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Car sensors like cameras and radar capture data, translate it and send it the powertrain to enable features like emergency braking. These so-called software-defined vehicles contain myriad systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) running anything from electric powertrains to driver assistance features to infotainment.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Kentico was the brainchild of Petr Palas, who saw an opportunity to build a content management system (CMS) for developers using Microsoft’s.NET framework. has been a first mover and innovator in the space.” Kontent launched in 2015 as an internal startup of 18-year-old bootstrapped software developer Kentico.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 2, 2021

” Reilly: You’ve been co-leading a research project on innovation in the investment management industry , which became an Institutional Investor cover story: “ Asset Managers, Prepare to Have Your Business Disrupted ”. Reilly: In your research, you use the Clay Christensen framework of “jobs to be done”. Can you explain that?

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Impact Hub

APRIL 15, 2020

We promote the interoperability of frameworks (being able to transfer seamlessly from one system to another) such as IRIS, SROI and several others; . But our platform goes one step further, producing regular comprehensive reports that assess and measure the social impact of those initiatives, providing key performance indicators: .

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 29, 2020

. “An ecosystem builder is someone who: looks at challenges and opportunities in the context of the larger systems in which they occur; designs solutions that are grounded in self-sustainability; and takes actions to connect stakeholders and seek funding to enable local leaders to do the work.” ” Eric Renz Whitmore.

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Impact Hub: Our policy approach At Impact Hub, we are committed to accelerating global impact through collaboration, innovation, and inclusivity. And finally, we fuel the process of policy development, with the power of innovative new solutions, data insights and relevant benchmarks from around the world.

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