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The Border Tax No One Warns You About: A Canadian Founder’s Framework for Entering the US B2B Market
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You hit product-market fit. Revenue is real — somewhere between $50K and $3M ARR. Then a venture studio slides a term sheet across the table: capital, plus a full operational team, in exchange for a slice of equity that makes your stomach drop. Understanding the pros and cons of investing in a venture studio is
An athlete-led startup playbook is a structured approach for translating the disciplines that make athletes elite — repeatable systems, performance feedback loops, recovery, and outside instruction — into the messier, ambiguous work of building a company past product-market fit. It exists because the instincts that win games do not map cleanly onto scaling a business,