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So many people in all these threads that are doing the Monday morning quarterback of startup founders and believing that they would have done things differently if only THEY had been the CEO.


Obviously the #1 top priority of the CEO of an early stage startup is to spend time assessing and countering risks such as bank runs, gross mismanagement at their bank, earthquakes


This is reducto ad absurdum. The kind of risk management that would have saved startups here is basic, elementary business. Parking money at treasurydirect, firms that handle this kind of thing as a service.




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