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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. During his six years at AxleHire, Sokolovsky worked to push AxleHire into new verticals and sustainability partnerships. And in times like this, give them more. They want the company to thrive just as much as you do.

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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

Jobs not only killed all the commodity hardware and the horizontal strategy; he went radically vertical. They are paid in terms of stock options that vest over 4 years and cash bonuses for quarterly and yearly performance. When Jobs came in and reversed those decisions, most industry analysts thought Jobs was insane.