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

The Startup Magazine

If the best client success person is in Oklahoma instead of LA, we’re going to hire her, (in fact, we did). During his six years at AxleHire, Sokolovsky worked to push AxleHire into new verticals and sustainability partnerships. Hire versatile players and lean into your team The SVB collapse reminded us that staffing matters.

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2012 Valuation Survey of Angel Groups

Gust

SeedStep Angels (Oklahoma). Others were able to provide additional data for one or more business verticals. Boise Angel Alliance. Centennial (Missouri). First Angel Network (Halifax). Atlanta Technology Angels. Queen City Angels (Cincinnati). Robin Hood Ventures (Phila). Vancouver Angels. Ohio TechAngels (Columbus). Median: 2.75.

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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.

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. As a vertical take off and landing vehicle (VTOL) whose engines turn, you need little more than a helipad or an empty lot. I’m not particularly flowery with my responses.