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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

Both Sides of the Table

It’s a new year – 2016. Great leaders communicate early and often with boards and investors. They are clear about what is working and what is not and how the board and investors can help them. 2016 is going to be a tough year. They open up about what their challenges are and they seek advice and input.

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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve written a few posts about boards recently as part of a series on the subject. I admit that I haven’t yet read it but I’ve had numerous discussions with Brad over the years about board structure & conduct and consider him a mentor on the topic. Offering a sparring-partner function on strategic decisions.

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Startup’s Advisory Board Draws in Eight Unicorn Founders and Executives

American Entrepreneurship

Their two plus year old startup just raised $20 million in funding and set up an advisory board comprised of eight unicorn founders and executives. Eber completed his PhD in 2016 and Wehmeyer was a Research Associate for a year, 2016 to 2017. Possibly the co-founders of Taktile, Dr. Maximilian Eber and Maik Taro Wehmeyer know.

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Sounding Board raises cash as startups wake up to executive coaching

TechCrunch

Christine Tao and Lori Mazan , the brains behind Sounding Board , want to train any leader within an organization to be a better leader. Revenue has doubled or tripled every year since 2016, which the company says hovers in the “multi-millions” range. Quarterly bookings have increased 3.4 Tao admits that the startup isn’t for everyone.

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The Theranos fiasco shows how much startup advisory boards matter

TechCrunch

For pharmaceutical companies, especially medical affairs, the important lesson from this sad and sordid affair is as simple as it is powerful: Your advisory board matters — a lot. Those five words characterize Theranos’ board. focused on cardiac transplants who switched to politics long before he joined Theranos’ board.

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Fewer CEOs are serving on outside boards. That’s good (and bad)

TechCrunch

He is a member of the boards of directors at SumoLogic and Generac Power Systems. It used to be a heavily traveled two-way street in corporate America: CEOs joined other companies’ boards to broaden their experiences, expand their influence, or simply because it felt good. I’m on two outside boards. Interestingly, it’s both.

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Boardable secures $2.6M to fund product innovation, welcomes Jon Schwander as CFO

AsiaTechDaily

Register Boardable , an online board management and meetings platform , secured another $2.6 million to fund product innovation and accelerate its growth in the markets that need board management tools the most. The online board management portal announced that it closed $2.6 Username or Email Address. Remember Me.