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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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The 9 Worst Sales Mistakes Founders Should Avoid

Point Nine Land

Trying to Figure It All Out Yourself Without a Sherpa-Guide Okay, so you’re a technical or product founder. The best-performing startups led by technical or product founders also have investors or advisors who guide them through the early days (and often later years) of their journey. Which are you?

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The (New) New ABCs of Selling — Alignment, Belief, and Consistency

Sales Hacker

For salespeople, this means feeling aligned with why they’re selling a product or service and authentically engaging with customers. Norbert Orlewicz, business and marketing consultant, trainer, and cofounder of MyLeadSystemPro, says: “Sales can be a calling when it is an extension of a deeper purpose.

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15 Communities for Creators to Help You Connect, Learn, and Find Brand Partnerships

Buffer Resources

“While the Kitchen offers both, our main value, according to members, is the live and asynchronous coaching and collaboration with the Kitchen’s cofounders and other experienced, creative peers to ensure you produce stronger work.” According to their site, the community is a hybrid that goes beyond community and classes.

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Sales Hacker’s 35 Most Influential Women in Sales

Sales Hacker

An engaging speaker and innovative seminar leader, Joanne is changing the business of sales. Jo-Anne Jaspen i s a passionate growth strategist, B2B revenue leader, mentor, and startup advisor. Kasey Jones – Cofounder, CEO + Growth Strategist at BetterGrowth. She is a regular speaker in some of the top sales conferences.

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Digital Biology

Andreessen Horowitz

She left Stanford to cofound Coursera with Andrew Ng and is now the founder and CEO of Insitro, a tech bio company using AI to develop drugs in life sciences. You could start doing active learning or do experimental design, and it’s a really exciting technical discipline at this point. Engage means that we’re not siloed.

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The Stages Of A SaaS Company: When To Scale For Success

Chargify

Establishing relationships with advisors and/or mentors. The third stage is when other people can see what you are doing and now other companies try to copy and destroy you ,” explains Airbnb cofounder and CEO Brian Chesky. Master The SaaS Customer Lifecycle: Acquire, Engage, Retain. Seeking financing from friends and family.

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