Marcus Smith, cofounder of contracting and resource networking company Axon Collective, had just moved with his wife to the Philly area, eager to tap into the business scene here, when a global health crisis began.

He’d been developing his idea for Axon, a community for aspiring entrepreneurs, with a few friends down in Austin in what Smith called “the nerd house.” He’d moved to the city from Longview, Texas after graduating from college to understand the entrepreneurial scene there.

He and three friends-turned-cofounders took engineering roles after college, but began talking about an online community that could exist in ways that networking groups or coworking spaces did. After paying off his student loans, he jumped into the business full-time about a year ago.

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