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Target market advisory boards

Austin Startup

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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Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

Ben's Blog

Looking across these nearly 50 companies, the study finds that founding CEOs consistently beat the professional CEOs on a broad range of metrics ranging from capital efficiency (amount of funding raised), time to exit, exit valuations, and return on investment. He even added retail stores.