The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

If the answers are no, have an honest conversation with your VCs today. Returning money or exploring a pivot that you truly believe in are the only options. Ten back and forth emails can often be resolved in a 30-second phone conversation. As a founder, ask yourself – does your business actually warrant VC funding?

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

This is useful for a number of reasons, the most obvious of which is to help you navigate the right channels in your vertical and open doors to potential customers. And founding teams with limited operational backgrounds in their vertical or domain will create doubt. (An As for compensation, stock options in the range of 0.1%

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Conversely, founding CEOs are excellent at finding, but not maximizing, product cycles. Jobs not only killed all the commodity hardware and the horizontal strategy; he went radically vertical. Conversely, Netflix, run by founder Reed Hastings, provides an excellent counter-example. These innovations are product cycles.

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