Angel Capital Association
JANUARY 3, 2024
Angels often make their first real impact post-investment by helping a portfolio company develop a “real” Board, by insisting on documented processes, key metrics and measures and a more rigorous approach to corporate oversight and accountability. In the latter case, returns improved by 20%. with an average of 5.7 Director seats.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
One of the things that founders have the most angst about is whom they should have on their board and at what stage of the business. This is smart because amazing board members can be transformative with important advice and access and can also help attract other great board members (and team members).
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Paul G. Silva
DECEMBER 15, 2023
There are a lot of tools that can help, but each has limitations: The Business Model Canvas identifies the big picture hypotheses of your venture… but struggles to help you ID what is needed to get all your key stakeholders on board. As you validate hypothesis, you mark them, highlighting what work is done and what is yet-to-be done.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet. What used to be an “A” round in 2011 is now routinely called a Seed round and this has been so engrained that founders would rather take less money than to have to put the words “A round” in their legal documents.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 24, 2019
When you set up a board it is often initially a combination of the founders and the early investors. This post sets out how I believe founders (and investors) should think about independent board members having worked with many of them for the past 20 years. The board is where large equity investors get their representation.
Ecosystem Builder Hub
AUGUST 14, 2020
We knew that when her fellowship ended, we needed to bring someone on board who was solely focused on this work. We will vigorously document the structure, projects, programs, relationships, strategies and tactics used by the coordinator. Not all service providers will be on board with the initiatives. Challenges.
David Teten VC
MARCH 14, 2023
We mostly use it for collecting votes and gathering signatures on documents. It also provides us a “big board” capability where we can get an overview of a meeting. Below is a screenshot of an AngelSurvey big board from one of our recent meetings. This is essentially a DocuSign alternative that is a portfolio company.
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