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The Pre-Board Board: How to Create Accountability Before You Give Away a Board Seat

This is going to be BIG.

Typically, investors don’t take a board seat until you raise your first equity round—which means that it could be *years* before you have a real board meeting: A year of nights/weekends work researching, prototyping, and fundraising. I’ll make it simple. How many is too many, for example?

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Board Diversity

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

The board diversity problem is a symptom of a much broader problem around lack of diversity in founders that get funded and lack of diversity in VC firms. Most startup boards are made up of a few founders and a few VCs. No wonder you have no diversity on the board. Boards don’t need three or four VCs on them.

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Seraf Toolbox: Exit Planning for CEOs and the Board of Directors

The Seraf Compass

As a director on an early stage company board, how do you deliver on your main responsibility as a board member - maximizing shareholder value? Those are very important questions that very few early stage company boards take the time and effort to ask early on when it is still possible to have the biggest impact.

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The Bolster Board Diversity Survey

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Last June, I wrote about board diversity and suggested some things we are doing and that you can do to diversity your board. In the ten months that have passed since I wrote that I am pleased to say that we have seen a noticeable increase in board diversity in our portfolio. It is that important to me and USV. Just do it.

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How Top Tech CFOs Solve Annual Planning’s Biggest Challenges

Learn from senior executives at high-growth tech startups as they outline financial planning strategies, align CEO and board goals, and coordinate budgets across departments. Discover real-world solutions and best practices shared by top CFOs, drawn directly from discussions within OG’s vibrant online community.

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InBIA Announces New Board Members

INBIA

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE InBIA Welcomes New Directors June 20, 2024 ORLANDO, FL – Members of the International Business Innovation Association (InBIA) have elected four individuals to the board of directors to serve three-year terms and re-elected one current member for a second term. The term will begin October 1, 2024.

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InBIA Elects Board Members

INBIA

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE InBIA Welcomes New Directors June 22, 2023 ORLANDO, FL – Members of the International Business Innovation Association (InBIA) have elected five individuals to the board of directors to serve three-years terms. The new member of the InBIA board is: • Marc Alessi, Executive Director, Business…

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