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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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Why Emmy Award-winning documentarians focused their lens on 5 GSEA student entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs' Organization

We wanted to tell a story of people from all different parts of the world, with different upbringing, backgrounds, and cultures. The creativity of all the students, the diversity of their business ideas, and the number of countries represented made GSEA the right choice for us.”. GSEA has that; it stood out from other competitions.

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Thinking About Berlin: Unleashing a Creative Opportunity

This is going to be BIG.

I've spent the last few days touring the city and researching the startup culture here and I'm impressed on both fronts. If they are out there, others need to hear about them more--not in a pitch but in a better way to share cutting edge ideas. There are a ton of fantastically creative people here.

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What do your VCs care about and does it matter?

This is going to be BIG.

Besides, there were a limited number of places where I could do my job in venture capital anyway—and while I might be a go to for a pitch from super early stage pre-seed and seed founders looking for quick answers and decisive term sheets in New York City, the reality is that I would be pretty far down the list in the Valley.

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3 Lessons Learned from Living in Adventure Mode

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Like most entrepreneurs, I started as an underdog, and it remained a key part of company culture as we grew. As a firm, we pitched campaign ideas and strategies to huge, internationally recognized brands, going up against big network agencies. I traveled, collected experiences and explored new cultures, places and people.

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Ample’s John de Souza on the merits of B2B, company culture and investors who get it

TechCrunch

Both de Souza and Hassounah come from immigrant backgrounds, which de Souza said affords them with that creative entrepreneurial mentality. We sat down with de Souza to discuss the merits of a B2B go-to-market strategy, how to create a fun and functional company culture, and what it takes to go after an idea most people say won’t work.

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

This is going to be BIG.

The main driver of the skew towards men getting venture capital, statistically, is that far more men are pitching. That means you actually have a *better* shot, statistically, of getting VC investment at these firms, statistically, once you actually pitch. Ellen Johnston of Makr has a decade of senior creative experience.

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