The Zapier Blog

JUNE 26, 2025

This document serves as the definitive reference for all project participants. Plus, it gives you something to throw down dramatically when someone tries to "innovate" in the middle of QA. Establishing a work breakdown structure (WBS) is a good next step for improving clarity.

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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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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It was an opportunity to generate significant returns, momentum for rising startup markets, and innovation that would strengthen America’s dynamism and competitiveness. In a rapidly evolving business landscape, founder-market-geography fit serves as a multifaceted framework for assessing a startup’s potential. Let’s get into it.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

If Nuro is to become the generation-defining company its founders desire, it will be due as much to innovation in regulation as advances in the technology it develops. R2X is now referred to as R2). The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (now the Alliance Automotive Innovation), which represents most U.S. They were wrong.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Innovation Industries led a $27 million Series A in Axelera AI that closed this week with participation from Imec.xpand and the Federal Holding and Investment Company of Belgium. In addition, the Netherland Enterprise Agency awarded Axelera AI a $6.7 million loan commissioned by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy.

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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. Firstly, it must be understood that decentralization has to be the basis for all true innovation in what we refer to as web3.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

For today, we’ll refer to them simply as “studios.” Studios do this by using repeatable frameworks (imagine a factory) to test these ideas and back them with funding and resources in order to launch and grow powerful, scalable startups. Y-Combinator: 2,000+ Exit: Idealab: 35%. Y-Combinator: 13% Unicorns: Idealab: 5%.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 30, 2024

Our team at a16z bio + health has outlined several frameworks for thinking about AI applications in healthcare ( here , here , here ), and one I reference frequently is a simple 2×2 diagram of tasks that are easy vs hard for humans, and easy vs hard for AI. Which bicycles are worth building?

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 29, 2020

An ecosystem builder is a champion for others…” Whether they’re referred to as cheerleaders or champions, many of the Unsung Heroes we interviewed believe that singing the praises of others and amplifying the voices of others in the system is central to being an ecosystem builder. .” Advocating, Championing, Cheerleading. “An

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

The process of debating and agreeing the details of this startup ecosystem support framework is expected to take between six and nine months. Polo: Yeah, because looking at the full picture, it’s actually the first time in our history that we’re going to have a specific legal framework for startups. Which is much simpler.

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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. Later, Nicholas refers to SBIR as a program that encouraged “technology prototyping.” Clearly, it is. government policy.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2021

With an understanding of value creators and value inhibitors, the only thing left to know is the reference value of the best alternative, the price of what the customer views as the best substitute to Monica and Joe’s product. Or, it may be the learning required by the customer to adopt the solution. Let’s see what the board says!”

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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. Our mission is to build locally rooted and globally connected entrepreneurial communities for impact at scale. To date, our community has reached over 25,000 such impact-driven enterprises.

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Reforge

JULY 20, 2022

Early success drives innovation, excitement, momentum, and more success. Their main role in the Dream Team framework is to set a clear and compelling strategy, drive alignment, and liberally share context. Relationships: Highly Aligned, Loosely Coupled The way teams interact with each other is the key to this framework’s success.

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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. It ensures that innovation is deeply embedded in local contexts and also understood for its potential to scale globally.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

s innovative potential come to life. Investing in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Decentralized finance, commonly known as DeFi, is transforming the landscape of financial transactions by harnessing the potential of smart contracts within a peer-to-peer framework. But what approach should an investor take to participate in DeFi?

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jonathan sometimes refers to their investments as “micro-mezzanine” because “mezz is typically structured as a contractual periodic payment, with some equity-like upside, but subordinate to other debt… so most lenders look at it like equity.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jonathan sometimes refers to their investments as “micro-mezzanine” because “mezz is typically structured as a contractual periodic payment, with some equity-like upside, but subordinate to other debt… so most lenders look at it like equity.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 8, 2021

They both reference the writing of Dror Poleg on this topic so I will link to his blog as well. We call it FrameWork and it will be opening next month. FrameWork is just an example of the many ways that knowledge workers will choose to work going forward. We’re Never Going Back – Packy McCormick. But guardrails?

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

And, especially when you’re considering integrating a new technology platform into your business—like AI today, or cloud a decade ago—how do you invest in innovation without losing control of your runway and budget? The problem with the 70–20–10 rule is that product is so multifaceted that it defies a generalizable rule or framework.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The name RenderMan was coined in reference to the Sony Walkman for a futuristic rendering software that was so tiny it could fit inside a pocket. Of course, this vision came to reality through the games industry (which is often the tip of the spear for technological innovations).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

With so much of the startup news cycle focused on unprecedented funding round sizes and record amounts of time bootstrapping , we don’t often step back from the numbers to have a hard think about innovation. “We want to back disruptive innovation, rather than incremental innovation,” he said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

The round is led by Central and Eastern European VC Kaya, with Nina Capital, Nova Capital and Innovation Nest also participating. It also says it allows GPs and smaller practices to offer ECG analysis to patients without needing to refer them to specialist hospitals. Poland-based health tech AI startup Cardiomatics has announced a $3.2

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The MEDDICC Sales Framework To share what we’ve learned from the fintech founders and operators we’ve spoken to about this topic, we have collated their advice under an overarching sales framework known as MEDDICC. Keep in mind: this sales framework is not linear , and these steps should be taken in tandem, not sequentially.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

Jewell said account-to-account (A2A), which refers to bank account-to-bank account transactions, is no need for a card or pin. “With open banking and the NPP, Australia has found itself at the centre of this disruption – and Zepto is the leading innovator in this space. . After New Zealand, Zepto wants to enter the U.S. .

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 22, 2024

We’re in the very early days of genAI and until adoption curves and costs stabilize, there won’t be any tried-and-true pricing or packaging frameworks. Packaging as an add-on can: Monetize your innovation directly, which leads to more sustainable margins over the short term. (If

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 20, 2012

It’s all thanks to you, bold entrepreneurs and intrepid founders who continue to chase big ideas, tackle challenging problems, dare to dream of disruption and innovation - and provide an unending supply of inspiration. Six-step framework to make strategic decisions. Anatomy of a Reference Check. All great managers are alike.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The team behind the app, which is comprised of 30% PhDs, has been working on the core privacy vs convenience problem for some six years (though the company was only founded in 2017); initially as an academic research project — going on to offer an open source framework for masked federated learning, called XayNet.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

ABOUT IN THE VAULT “In the Vault” is a new audio podcast series by the a16z Fintech team, where we sit down with the most influential figures in financial services to explore key trends impacting the industry and the pressing innovations that will shape our future. Follow this show on our podcast feed so you don't miss an episode.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

My goal is to lay out a basic framework for anybody unsure whom to listen to as a way of helping you think about a way to orient your own views. The crypto in cryptocurrency is of course referring to cryptography on the ability to encrypt your transactions so they can’t be modified after they have been written to the blockchain.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

The landscape is dynamic and the rate of change is accelerating — catalyzed by new cloud-based technologies … The challenge, however, is not how to innovate once but continue innovating, as last year’s innovation is this year’s table stakes. ”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

At least one study finds that congressional gridlock contributes to income inequality, while another implies that political stalemates have a greater negative impact than even hostile government policies on a company’s ability to innovate. Consider how a recession might play out. billion valuation. billion valuation.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 18, 2022

Following Geoffrey Moore’s market segmentation for pre-chasm companies, your marketing strategy should focus first on innovators, then on early adopters who will become design partners to help improve your product, and lastly, on an early majority that will begin to drive sales. Why start with innovators? The bottom line.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

5 key questions in our pricing strategy framework. When founders attempt to release a new pricing model, they’re faced with many challenging questions: How can innovative companies price their products in a completely new category? Here’s a closer look at the questions we ask to begin laying the foundation for a pricing strategy.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

V7 — named in reference to AI being the “seventh” area for processing images after the six areas in the human brain that form its visual cortex (V1 through V6) — and the others are banking on the fact that the training model is inefficient and can be improved. Image Credits: V7 Labs (opens in a new window).

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Feedough

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The value system includes all components that form a business’s regulatory framework – organisational culture , climate, work processes, management practices and organisational norms. Technological Factors pertain to innovation in technology that affects the operations of the business.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

The following is not meant to be a deep dive but rather a framework for understanding the issues. The created a hegemony that delayed innovation until January 2007 when the iPhone was introduced. And this will be real innovation & revolutionary in the way that the iPad is rather than just incremental.

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