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

Andreessen Horowitz

For Founders Make It Make Sense Venture capital is where innovation meets investment. Cultural leaders—athletes, entertainers, and executives—have evolved beyond mere financial backers to highly-engaged strategic partners and advisors for a company’s growth. Assessing your risk tolerance is key before making an investment.

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Career Decisions: What To Look For In a Software Startup

Kellblog

In venture capital (VC) land, you should view investors as long-term partners in value creation. While the sales-and-marketing types will emphasize “its proven-ness” you will want to know how much technical debt there is associated with this old architecture. You might well be doing so. Strong investors.

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What does Peloton's IPO mean for startups?

ProfitWell

our good pal Hiten Shah, a master in the startup community—who shaped FYI, Crazy Egg , and Kissmetrics into the successes they've become, not to mention an advisor to 120 additional startup endeavors. But how misaligned are venture capitalists in the private market and stock traders in the public? Pagely drops a podcast episode feat.

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