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Innovation Insights #1 - with Sophie Schimansky & Christian Meermann

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This episode is the first of four in the limited, English speaking "Innovation Insights" series. Together with “HubSpot for Startups” and Forbes Magazine, Listen&Grow hosted a live podcast festival in Berlin. Four selected personalities from the German start-up scene were invited to talk to Forbes Deputy Editor in Chief, Sophie Schimansky - two investors and two young entrepreneurs.


In Innovation Insight #1, Sophie Schimansky talks to Christian Meermann, Founding Partner at Cherry Ventures, about their “Founders first, investors second” approach. Christian Meermann was previously CMO at Zalando and knows the side of start-ups and entrepreneurs and why it's so important to see their perspective first. 


Topics:

  • [02:20] Founders First - Investors Second 
  • [07:47] How do you measure passion?
  • [10:00] Founders - What's the biggest challenge? 
  • [13:56] Is there a market where you would like to see more activity? 
  • [17:03] Zalando vs. Cherry Ventures 
  • [21:22] Which qualities have improved in today's founders 
  • [24:08] How to be a resilient founder
  • [26:02] Can founding be contagious?



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