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Vinod Khosla’s advice for top VCs? Don’t sit on your founders’ boards

TechCrunch

Serial entrepreneur and seasoned investor Vinod Khosla has some strong, contrarian advice for the venture capital industry: don’t sit on your founders’ boards. Khosla, who spoke onstage at the Upfront Summit in Los Angeles this week, spoke about the culture of capital. We don’t — no matter how important an issue.”

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

Within 5 years I was on the board of real businesses with meaningful revenue, strong balance sheets, no debt and on the path to a few interesting exits. I wrote a post in 2015 that memorialized at the time how I felt about all of this, titled, “ Why I F **g Hate Unicorns and the Culture They Breed.” And it changed the culture.

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The 7 Business Lessons We’ve Learned in 7 Years

StartupNation

Founded in 2013, my online interior design company, Decorilla, is now celebrating its seventh year. Looking back, in 2013, most people couldn’t even comprehend what online interior design was. We shared our gratitude and life hacks, as well as personal advice and memories from good times we have had together in person.

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New Belgium Brewing’s Kim Jordan On How To Get Your Team To Own It

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In 2013, Kim sold the company to her co-workers, making it 100% employee owned at a moment of growth and expansion. Later, I went to a Quaker high school that was a boarding school, although I was a day student. I would also do things like organize kids to clean up the creek that we played in. How did the notion of ownership evolve?

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How did she do it? A Q&A with Rita Hansen, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Onboard Dynamics

Angel Capital Association

In October 2013, we incorporated and established Onboard Dynamics. As a transportation fuel, it’s the cleanest alternative fuel available today, according to the California Air Resources Board. KP and CA: What advice do you have for early-stage founders? This will also play into your company culture.

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