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At the Center of Creative Entrepreneurship

Paul O'Brien
4 min readAug 14, 2021

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There are few industries in the world in which public and private interests align as much as they do when it comes to our creators. It’s in and through media, that the arts, entertainment, and communication converge, painting a picture for all industries of what it might look like to fully realize what many today aspire to, in rethinking the role of capital in our communities of entrepreneurs.

“Social impact investing, which combines the tech/ Venture Capital (VC) startup funding model with the need to deliver against social goals — could be a way to address structural challenges and increase the number of truly innovative projects out there.”

- Jakub Parusinksi; The FixEarly 2020

In a wonderful perspective, just as the world quieted for quarantine, media industry journalist, Parusinksi noted, “ Time to rethink the media funding model,” exploring a motif increasingly common in startup circles — that Venture Capital’s typical model fails to meet the needs of the economy and it’s time for that to change.

How does the media industry lead the way? In appreciating how the arts, entertainment, and communications, converge in our space, directly or indirectly thanks to Public-Private Partnerships; agreements between private entities like companies, and government organizations, so that they can

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Paul O'Brien
Paul O'Brien

Written by Paul O'Brien

CEO of MediaTech Ventures, CMO to #VC, #Startup Advisor. I get you funded. Father, marketer, author, #Austin. @seobrien & @AccelerateTexas. https://seobrien.com

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