Entrepreneurs' Organization
APRIL 20, 2022
Carrie Santos, traveled to Poland and Romania, along with EO’s Chairman of the Board, David Anderson, to support the selfless volunteer efforts of EO members from Poland, Romania and greater Europe, who are sharing their time and resources with thousands of Ukrainian families displaced from their homes. I’m not afraid.”.
TechCrunch
MARCH 21, 2023
” Rajaram, who sits on the boards of Pinterest and Coinbase, added on Twitter that an early shut-down can be a “graceful way out” for stressed-out founders, so we asked him whether it’s also practical considering the current market. Whether and when a company shuts down used to be a board decision, wasn’t it?
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Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
Just ask anybody who was trying to close funding the fateful week of September 11, 2001 or even March 2000. As a personal story, I sat on the board of one company with a very unhealthy burn rate relative to revenue or expected growth. disclosure: I am thankfully no longer on this board). I only had one board with this problem.
Tomasz Tunguz
SEPTEMBER 9, 2012
For a long time, I believed and wrote supporting arguments underscoring the idea that the principal causes of this decline were Sarbanes-Oxley costs, decreasing equity coverage and decimalization of exchanges. First, board directors are encouraging companies to remain unprofitable longer to pursue bigger outcomes. But that’s wrong.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 2, 2009
In my first company I had to raise money in April 2001 or die. By then I was still on the board of my first company but it hadn’t yet sold (it ended up selling in 2007 to a publicly traded French company). The VCs basically have liquidity in management fees along the way, in the sense they get paid decently along the way.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 31, 2010
Our existing investors supported us and a new lead came in. Then I got engaged to be married in late 2001 and had the motivation to get really serious. I started my second company while retaining a board seat at my first company. We found a way to get a round of venture capital closed after all of this.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
JULY 15, 2019
One factor was the realization that, since I was the only female Global Board member at that time, not seeking the position would mean there would be no female Global Chair again for at least four years. I really wanted the board to unite toward moving EO forward. Set your goals as a board at the beginning of the year.
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