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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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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

This is going to be BIG.

In February of 2017, Susan Fowler’s description of the pervasive cultural issues at Uber, after the company’s abject failure to address her sexual harassment complaints properly, finally broke through in a way that garnered the tech community’s appropriate attention. Not in the “founder friendly” culture of tech anyway.

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Brazil’s Black Silicon Valley could be an epicenter of innovation in Latin America

TechCrunch

Over the last five years, Brazil has witnessed a startup boom. The main startups hubs in the country have traditionally been São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, but now a new wave of cities are building their own thriving local startup ecosystems, including Recife with Porto Digital hub and Florianópolis with Acate.

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NZVC creates fund for early-stage New Zealand ventures

TechCrunch

He says when looking at the New Zealand startup ecosystem, it is similar to Israel and Singapore, and has “fountains of talent.” He likened the country’s culture to what you might see in the U.S. Founders were coming in and messing up the cap table or the board structure.

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Reflections on Overnight Success

Founders Coop

It’s a different kind of milestone for me as an investor: 10 years ago I led the company’s Seed round and joined the board, where I served until the Series C. And the most enduring lesson of all is how long it takes to build anything of real value, whether it’s a company, a venture firm, or a startup ecosystem.

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How to Get Started Mapping Your Entrepreneurial Ecosystem [Updated]

Ecosystem Builder Hub

That was the moment when the idea for the Sacramento Startup Ecosystem Subway Map was born. A subway map visual metaphor isn’t necessarily the best way to represent your ecosystem. Their Stakeholder mapping tool works well to depict entrepreneurial ecosystems. There are a lot of other ways. Don’t go it alone.

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Sequoia debuts Arc, a London/SV program to find and mentor outlier startups, backing each with $1M

TechCrunch

” Lixandru’s portfolio includes leading the Series A for white-boarding and visual collaboration startup Miro (before she moved to Sequoia). “We think that great founders come from everywhere [and] we want to give these opportunities to founders everywhere.”

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