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Extra Crunch roundup: Build a founding team, choose a VC and recruit your board

TechCrunch

.” In a related article, Gregg Adkin, VP and managing director at Dell Technologies Capital, shared the framework he’s developed for helping founders set up their board. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. The composition of the board can also impact your fundraising.

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How to Manage a Board

Y Combinator

One of the most common questions we hear from founders is “How do I manage my board?” It’s something that provokes anxiety, because this is the first time the founder/CEO is subject to external supervision, and the board has powers that include the firing of the CEO and the senior management. But first, what’s the purpose of a board?

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Here is How to Make Sense of Conflicting Startup Advice

Both Sides of the Table

There are some smart if not somewhat cerebral bloggers I read who say that you shouldn’t take any startup advice at all because it’s too generalized to be useful to your situation. Draw from Frameworks. The most helpful type of advice in my mind are frameworks for how to solve a problem. So what IS one to do?

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How to Think of R&D Spend

Andreessen Horowitz

In board meetings, we scrutinize the efficiency of sales and marketing (S&M) spend, costs of goods sold (COGS), and general and administrative costs (G&A). The problem with the 70–20–10 rule is that product is so multifaceted that it defies a generalizable rule or framework.

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Sylvera takes $32M to build trust in carbon offsetting ratings

TechCrunch

based startup which uses machine learning technology to analyze a variety of visual data like satellite imagery and lidar with the goal of boosting accountability and credibility around carbon offsetting projects, has fast followed a $5.8 “We have a mix of customers spanning corporate buyers, traders and exchanges,” it adds.

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Build.security raises $6M for its authorization policy management platform

TechCrunch

” In addition to using code to declare policies, though, build.security also offers a drag-and-drop user experience. Currently, the company’s focus is on containers and the company uses a Kubernetes sidecar container that fetches the configurations and policies from the build.security control plane.

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Vue Storefront snaps up $20M to grow its open source based ‘frontend-as-a-service’ e-commerce toolkit and platform

TechCrunch

Vue Storefront , which is building what it describes as “frontend-as-a-service”, has closed a $20 million round, which it plans to use for R&D, to bring on more tools targeting B2B e-commerce businesses, and for business development after seeing revenues grow 300% in the last 18 months.

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