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Influence Meets Innovation: How Founders and Cultural Leaders Can Work Together

Andreessen Horowitz

The Cultural Leadership Fund (CLF) team is often asked by portfolio founders how exactly cultural leaders can be a game-changing asset for their companies. The benefits of founder x cultural leader partnerships work both ways. For Founders Make It Make Sense Venture capital is where innovation meets investment.

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How to Foster Innovation and Creativity in Startup Teams

Startup Blogpost

How to Foster Innovation and Creativity in Startup Teams To shed light on how to foster innovation and creativity within startup teams, we asked seventeen founders, CEOs, and other leaders to share their experiences.

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Attract Talent by Creating an Empathetic Company Culture

StartupNation

What used to be a highly organized, cold, productive-oriented environment is now striving toward flexibility, collaboration, and empathy. However, even with more focus on values such as inclusion and flexibility, we still have a strong hustle culture that puts productivity and success above all else.

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3 Things You’ll Need to Launch a Creative Business

StartupNation

Have you dreamed of starting a creative business? After the collective trauma that was 2020 and 2021, many of us are feeling burnt out, both creatively and mentally. It‘s possible to build a business and a life you love out of your creativity that is both fulfilling and profitable. . Here’s how to get started.

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Meme Mapping: Learn to Run Better Creative Tests by Reverse-Engineering Hollywood

Reforge

As platforms like Meta and Google automate most targeting, attribution, and optimization decisions with machine learning, soon the last growth lever left will be creative testing: Which concepts, copy, colors and artwork drive the best results? In this post, I’ll make the case for the rising importance of creative testing.

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An Early Investor's Postmortem of The Wing

This is going to be BIG.

Ambition should get rewarded if you’re trying hard to innovate in difficult areas—and gender equality is certainly one of the most difficult problems we have. This drew the attention away from companies in the space that weren’t trying to be anything but what they are—cultures that employees have very low expectations of.

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Yes Is the Answer—and Other Ways to Succeed in Business

Entrepreneurs' Organization

How Faith In People and a Culture Of Hospitality Built a Modern American Restaurant Company, Mitchell shares the keys to his company’s 25 years of success: including a steadfast commitment to a nurturing culture, a “people first” philosophy, and the humility to recognize reckless and ego-driven decisions. WHAT IS THE QUESTION?: