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How Early-Stage Startups Can Utilize the SVB Collapse as a Wake-Up Call

The Startup Magazine

And they probably never will be unless business model viability is reassessed across the board. We didn’t have to change our business model entirely, we just realized what was working and what wasn’t and moved on from there. they still aren’t profitable. And in times like this, give them more.

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Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

Ben's Blog

Jobs not only killed all the commodity hardware and the horizontal strategy; he went radically vertical. They were proficient at running the current business, but lacked both the courage and the moral authority to jeopardize the old business model by embracing the new technology. He even added retail stores.