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Bringing startup expertise to the boardroom

NZ Entrepreneur

Starboard’s maritime domain awareness software is used globally to monitor national waters and tackle illegal fishing, trans-national crime, prevent biosecurity outbreaks and protect at-sea assets. Recently, NZ Defence awarded Starboard a contract to improve NZ’s maritime awareness with immediate use across multiple government agencies.

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Interview: James Burnes, Ministry of Awesome

NZ Entrepreneur

We’ve got a lot of focus on presenting one-to-one advice that is very practical, very focused on commercial success, very focused on operational success. For us, it was not a good use of money. We have teams from across the North and South Island participating in our programs.

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Visual workflows: The ultimate guide, with examples and tools

The Zapier Blog

My own system was a chaotic mix of muscle memory and flagged emails. " The point is that the "visual" part of a visual workflow is the fundamental shift that drags your processes out of the dark ages of assumption and into the slightly less murky present of shared understanding. Before the next Ice Age?

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The 7 best Canva alternatives in 2025

The Zapier Blog

If you're throwing together a quick social media graphic, making a poster for an upcoming event, or even creating a presentation, Canva is one of the best design tools you can use—but it isn't the only one. It's not even the design app I use. I have no time or patience for design apps that are awful to use.

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How to automate ChatGPT

The Zapier Blog

Whatever your use case, we'll show you different ways to pull in the power of ChatGPT into Zaps—Zapier's automated workflows. Table of contents Which model should you use with our ChatGPT integration? Which model should you use with our ChatGPT integration? You can use AI and automation to bridge that gap.

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Female Founders: What the numbers mean and what they don't

This is going to be BIG.

Take the most widely used number--that way fewer women are getting venture funding than guys. That''s because if you''re funding 21 year olds, there tends to be less industry insight present so what makes up for it is a build. Why so many mixed teams? That, statistically, is true.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. The Present Era.