The Zapier Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

You'll find a bit of everything here, including ChatGPT alternatives that'll help you create content, AI chatbots that can search the web, and a few just-for-fun options. Have fun—I know you will. Still, be sure to fact-check everything, as it's still prone to be overly confident with "facts."

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Try this fast, fun questionnaire to discover your ideal leadership role in EO. onelevelextra in fact. EO Path of Leadership (PoL) offers members who have served in local or regional leadership positions an opportunity to grow their leadership skills as a leader of leaders while serving the organization as a whole. I was—and am—all in!

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MAY 31, 2022

The fact that it’s a registered dietician is key. That was a fun science rabbit hole to go down and we’re doubling down on addressing that issue in my diet because of it. Plus, they make insurance-covered nutrition care accessible. I never knew about the potential connection until I spoke to my Culina RD about it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

In fact, the company assigns fun personalities to each pet, including “Golden,” “Vibrant” and “Brave.” If your pet is ‘Golden,’ throughout your experience on the website, it’ll say #goldenaf, so it’s just a more fun way of focusing less on the chore of pet food and more on the joy that comes with engaging with our pets.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

But a new startup called Ghost believes that putting in extra guardrails around the anonymous experience will allow users to have fun, without the usual downsides. The idea, explains Ghost’s founder Cem Kozinoglu , was to make something that was fun to use but that still respected a user’s desire for privacy.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Here’s a fun fact: For a time, Dave recorded the EO 360° podcast in his car when construction forced him out of his home office! But this typically comes with a hefty price tag. On the other end of the spectrum, you can create your own studio in a small space and invest in a good microphone and headset. Double down on video.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It’s my last day of work for the year, so we’re going to have some fun. On who will own web3: Elon Musk jumped into the fun to ask where web3 is, as he is struggling to find it. Still, Jack managed to point out that a bunch of naked wannabe emperors are, in fact, au naturel. Merry Christmas.

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StartupNation

JULY 19, 2021

Fun fact: Gen Xers make up the highest percentage of startup founders at 55%. They seek challenges that push them to grow and a fun work-life balance. While fun company perks, such as game rooms and bringing your pet to work, are appreciated, defining a company culture goes beyond office perks. Generation Y.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

It’s a fun, and good mix of news. power grid as I do – I am, of course, very fun at dinner parties – the fact that bitcoin mining has been growing in Texas, a state that has its own power grid, has been in the back of my mind for a bit. And the first live Equity taping of the year was this week, which was good fun.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2022

While I do like warm weather and the beach—and I did have a heck of a lot of fun the eight years I attended SXSW and ate my way through nearly every Austin area BBQ, these past few weeks added another consideration. Could I ever live in either of those places? I have a daughter. They just care about making money.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

” Using Typeface, customers can type in a command like “Write a fun blog post about apple juice” to have the platform execute it, writing a several-paragraph draft piece complete with images. Even the best text-generating AI today have been shown to make up facts and spout toxic content , content filters or no.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

It’s hard to come up with a good reason for why it’s still private, other than the fact that it can get away with it. You can do fun math at this juncture. The fact that it is still a private company does not. Anyhoo, are those reported, possible prices bonkers? But there is some logic to them. Stripe charges 2.9% plus $0.30

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MAY 5, 2023

I’ve decided that this is long enough for me—especially given the fact that when you’re in venture capital, you don’t just stop. No matter how you slice it and what endpoints you measure, this is a very long time to have been doing one thing.

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MARCH 16, 2020

We tried selling fun new square pints—memorable and meant for sharing, with two scoops under the lid—but the square pint filling machine never quite worked as intended, despite promises from the manufacturer. Along the way, each undertaking proved more complex than expected. The answer, unfortunately, was to declare bankruptcy.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 18, 2019

I was constantly busy—no time for fun and games. I thought of myself as a nice, fun guy, ready for a good time and hanging out with good people, though I was never much of a conversationalist. I was starting to have fun. Though I enjoyed it all, by the time I went back to work each Monday, the weekend had just flown by.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

But maybe you have data that shows that only 20% of adults can do one pull-up – that’s a fun fact that people might share with their networks. Include a shareable fact or exclusive offer and you’ll see them spread the story. Give them an experiment.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Unfortunately, ‘fun cereal’ is associated with being unhealthy, and I wanted people to have fun with their food again, but in a healthy way,” Miller told TechCrunch. We are one of the few that are all plant-based, which was both a disturbing and surprising fact to find out. We want something all chefs can be excited about.”.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 13, 2020

In fact, my wife Bonnie had to get accustomed to this new guy that was out tooting his horn. They got to talking, and Pratt told him about traveling the world and helping people become better at their jobs, which sounded like a lot more fun. After a series of disappointments, he decided to switch things up. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

In fact, you’ve likely been annoyed by his work dozens and maybe hundreds of times over the years. It may seem like a radical pivot, but in fact, the lessons of how to create useful security tests at scale for consumers would one day offer the core DNA for building one of the most successful edtech companies in the world.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Drafting a will and planning for what happens to your estate once you pass away is well, not exactly fun. In fact, one 2022 survey found that about two-thirds of Americans have no estate plan. Both tasks can also be very pricey endeavors, not to mention just painful to do for many reasons.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

You don’t all need to think the same (in fact it’s better if you don’t) and you don’t need to be a ‘family’, but things are 100 times faster and fun if you truly are excited to pick up a call with anyone in your team, at any time of the day. Truly enjoy the company of the people you work with.”.

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APRIL 4, 2021

While those things are fun and exciting (well, maybe except for school), many argue that those things come at a cost—the monetary cost of living in NYC. In fact, some studies show that a 20-minute addition to your commute each way makes you just as miserable as a 19% pay cut. Kids are back in school.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

At TechCrunch, it often seems as if every other startup story is about yet another fun company raising satchels full of venture capital. In fact, there are significant downsides to raising money from VCs. One truth is that successfully raising capital from a VC firm is a huge milestone in the life of a startup. I have two day jobs.

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

The partner at the fund, the VC, gets to do the fun part—the meeting with founders, vetting deals, negotiating, helping, etc. In fact, that number is probably even more than the average VC fund has the bandwidth to make. In fact, those deals are actually set up as mini-funds. Fund investing, like adulting, is boring.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The food is high on the list of comfort foods, but has been advertised specifically to children for decades, despite the fact that 59% of adults eat at least one noodle dish each week , Gooder Foods co-founder and CEO Jennifer Zeszut told TechCrunch. It has been a fun opportunity to disrupt everything.”. billion dry noodles category.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In fact, it’s thriving! If you want to earn some extra money from home, there are a tremendous number of opportunities for you to pursue, many of which are fun, creative and a great way to network. With all of the economic changes underway, you’ve probably been experiencing plenty of uncertainty recently. The bottom line.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Mayer outlined that the COVID-19 pandemic brought to light the fact that a well-designed home can make an impact on our lives. We envision building on the Inside’s assortment to offer a growing selection of products both to Havenly and The Inside customers, but also to the ever-growing community of home enthusiasts.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

The company, Haddad explained, has been made possible in part due to advances in the larger space economy, and the fact that major cloud providers AWS and Azure have both built out services to handle satellite data — “AWS Ground Station” in the case of the former and “Azure Orbital” in the latter.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Bring food and a question; we’re going to have fun! More Picsart news that isn’t an S-1 filing : Picsart is a fun company to cover. So the fact that the service is rolling out tips caught our eye. I just got a look at the initial run-of-show for Early Stage in April , and it looks wicked good. The TechCrunch Top 3. Big Tech Inc.

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APRIL 21, 2013

In fact, the one area I was pretty set on eliminating from my consideration set--leveraged buyouts--was the area where partners seemed to make the most money. In fact, they don''t make much of anything, other than money. Now that I''m gathering capital, that seems to have been a missed opportunity.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

And, we’re looking ahead because we’re doing a lot of really fun live podcasting this year. Sadly, not all capitalists are able to not lose their mind when it does, in fact, work. TCV has a new $460 million fund ready to go as early as Series A, despite the fact that it raised a multi-billion fund not many quarters ago.

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Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

Social shopping may seem like a new concept, but the reality is that in the physical world, shopping is meant to be “interactive and fun” and purchases are regularly informed by friends and family. It means investing in creating physical world experiences online — specifically bringing the fun of shopping offline to online platforms.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The buying journey is about having fun,” Vivas told TechCrunch. In fact, many of the experts Sturdy spoke with said they were excited about the prospect of being able to get paid to talk about the things they love. You enjoy the process just as much as imagining what you are going to get.

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Gust

DECEMBER 14, 2014

For most people, execution is one of those things that seems obvious after the fact when done correctly, but is hard to specify for those trying to learn to do it better. Hold the lagging measures for later (results available after the fact), and focus on lead measures first (predictive of achieving a goal).

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

For most games to be “fun” or “good” in the blockchain, they need to be highly scalable with high transaction speed and low or zero gas fees for users, Moriyama suggests. Infrastructure developers like Solana, Avalanche and Polygon are trying to make blockchain services more scalable.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2014

In fact, as I look through the photos from back then, I realize that I funded two nobodies from that group--the other being Michael Galpert at Super.cc. I''ve got some local chefs lined up to make some fun and authentic meals and I''m putting the coolest folks I can find around the table. I didn''t meet Rob at a big flashy party.

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Jason Malki

MAY 3, 2023

Fun Fact — Radha loves yoga and meditation and is an amateur hypnotist. She was managing Global Business Partnerships at Meta and is now Vice President of Sales at Immutable, a leading Web3 Gaming Technology company. She is based out of New York.

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