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

The Startup Magazine

If the answers are no, have an honest conversation with your VCs today. Ten back and forth emails can often be resolved in a 30-second phone conversation. If the best client success person is in Oklahoma instead of LA, we’re going to hire her, (in fact, we did). Can you produce venture returns in this new economic reality?

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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

These connections are likely best when firms are networked with other sources of capital vertically (angel groups, venture debt, private equity and investment bank relationships) and horizontally (in-market and out-of-market venture capital firms). As the local capital base grows the opportunity to attract non-local funding sources increases.

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Out There Bets and Insider Games: The Social Barriers to Funding Big Ideas

This is going to be BIG.

Not only were you rude in our conversations but you ghosted me entirely when I asked to sit down with you.” In fact, I absolutely assumed that he was white because the only Braden I had ever known was a terrible Mets reliever from Oklahoma who was not a person of color. Nevermind that I had no idea what his background was.