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“I think viewing your board as an audience to be ‘sold’ to instead of a partner in your journey will orient your board to be less trusting and collaborative.” Five Questions with Nilam Ganenthiran, Former President of Instacart

Hunter Walk

For startups, a good Board is better than no Board, but a bad Board is worse than anything. One component of a good Board is a high value add Independent Board Member, which in my experience, often doesn’t get added early enough (for a variety of reasons). I knew I wanted to help build it from the ground up.

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How to Streamline Your Small Business Operations with Simple Tools

American Entrepreneurship

Trello allows you to create boards for each project, break tasks down into cards, and assign deadlines and responsibilities. With Slack, you can create channels for specific projects or teams, making it easier to share updates, documents, and ideas in one place. email, software tools) and document management.

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How to Grow Your Chapter’s Accelerator Program

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Brad Stevens is an EO Atlanta member, Chair of that chapter’s Accelerator program, and founder and CEO of Outsource Access , which helps companies grow by providing highly skilled virtual assistants. Here, he shares his experience and insights for growing Atlanta’s Accelerator program.

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How to Win Consulting, Board, and Deal Roles with Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds

David Teten VC

You can work as a consultant, an interim executive, a board member, a deal executive partnering to buy a company, an executive in residence, or as an entrepreneur in residence. . As a next step, we recommend that you register at the major expert network websites, as well as LinkedIn and job boards, if you haven’t already.

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Newly minted unicorn Tackle plans to use $100 million Series C to accelerate the future of software sales

TechCrunch

A document sent to the press describes this figure as “a significant uplift” from its $35 million Series B , whose valuation wasn’t disclosed when it took place a mere nine months ago. The investor joined Tackle’s board when his firm led the startup’s Series B round, and sees it as a category leader.

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This is the Dumbest Op Ed I’ve Read in a While

Both Sides of the Table

But I hate worse when I let down the people for whom I’ve totally committed my time to: the boards I set on, my limited partners, my colleagues at Upfront, companies that are pitching me and looking for feedback and my family. I try to speak at universities, high schools, startup accelerators?—?as I just can’t make everybody happy.

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How to Move Beyond Resolutions to Sustainable New Habits

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Visualize Your Goals: As part of an annual tradition, we started off January 1 in my family by making family vision boards. A vision board is a great way to document your goals for the year and keep those objectives front of mind. Make A “Stop Doing” List: Achievement is not about doing more.