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

Andreessen Horowitz

Cultural leaders—athletes, entertainers, and executives—have evolved beyond mere financial backers to highly-engaged strategic partners and advisors for a company’s growth. For example, an executive may have a large and engaged following on LinkedIn but not be active on Instagram. Customers can smell inauthenticity a mile away.

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Ten Ways to Get the Most out of Conferences

Kellblog

And that’s good — you’re going to get leads and engage with people in your market, not win a design competition.). While I included a picture of Slack’s Dreamforce booth, which is very fancy for most early-stage startup situations, imagine what Slack could have spent if they wanted to.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

A Vietnamese immigrant, dedicated mother, and seasoned technology executive, Hang Black has an extensive background in engineering, marketing, sales, and entrepreneurship. Nikki Ivey is Cofounder of SDRDefenders and Head of Growth Development at Cultured Perspective, a Black owned Startup Consultancy. Hang Black. No one does it alone.

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