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

The Startup Magazine

After all, you’ve likely given your employees stock options which make them part-time business owners as well. His vision is to create a logistics company that curates trust from its employees to the shippers and carriers they partner with. And in times like this, give them more. We know that it’s tough out there.

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Target market advisory boards

Austin Startup

In other cases, they may come from your channel partners or elsewhere. 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. As for compensation, stock options in the range of 0.1%

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Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

Ben's Blog

When my partner Marc wrote his post describing our firm , the most controversial component of our investment strategy was our preference for founding CEOs. Jobs not only killed all the commodity hardware and the horizontal strategy; he went radically vertical. “You’re just a rent-a-rapper, your rhymes are minute-maid.