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

The Startup Magazine

When we set-up our next business our first decision was to operate with a remote workforce. After all, you’ve likely given your employees stock options which make them part-time business owners as well. During his six years at AxleHire, Sokolovsky worked to push AxleHire into new verticals and sustainability partnerships.

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Target market advisory boards

Austin Startup

I tend to think of this group as distinct from the business advisors with whom you may discuss operational strategy, but all the better if there is an overlap in capabilities. 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.

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Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

Ben's Blog

At the time Jobs regained control of Apple, the conventional wisdom said that Apple was getting killed by “PC Economics” and had to separate the operating system from the hardware. Jobs not only killed all the commodity hardware and the horizontal strategy; he went radically vertical. He even added retail stores.