This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

To put that timeframe in perspective, here’s a picture of analyst me taken at USV’s first office in 2005, dressed in khakis and a button-down shirt versus a picture of me, a GP at my own firm, over 100 deals later, now on my latest Zoom board call from my couch at home with my junior analyst of about a year and a half.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Have you ever thought of creating an advisory board? Usually, you would want to create an advisory board to fill in the critical areas of need not evidenced in the board of directors or within the company itself. What if an advisor acts as a consultant with more time? How about “chairman” of the advisory board?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Let’s say that your ideal clients are CEOs of mid-market companies that need your consulting services. Get involved with non-profits where CEOs serve on the board, attend their galas and events, and get to know the leadership. In other words, where do they congregate, what do they read, and what are their interests? None in your area?

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Human Resources The HR section should include consulting agreements, recruiting agreements, and any specific board/director expertise not already covered in your confidential investor deck. Board minutes & board decks Board minutes are often too general and don’t significantly aid in due diligence.

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David Teten VC

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

I’m presenting on May 3, 2022, to the Harvard Alumni Global Financial Markets Forum on “ How to Win Consulting, Board, and Deal Roles with Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds “ I’ve embedded below the slide deck.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 15, 2019

Sometimes a board member is valuable in teaching the “how” to get things done inside the company. But experience reinforces the usual fact that a board member telling the CEO or founder “how” to perform a function crosses a line and can diminish the CEO’s confidence and denigrates his or her ability, often in front of the board itself.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 22, 2020

By: Emily Angold, ACA Marketing Manager Three new board members were elected at the ACA Annual Members’ Meeting during ACA 2020 – The Summit of Angel Investing held virtually May 12-14, 2020. In addition to the election of the new board members, one current board member was re-elected for a second term and a Vice Chair was elected.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 7, 2023

This is when you get your staff on board with the overall systematization of your follow-up processes. This post originally appeared on the Business Success Consulting Group blog and is reposted here with permission. Understanding the ideal will help you get there more rapidly than trying only to fix bugs in your existing system.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

How to win consulting, board and deal roles with PE and VC funds. Consulting. David Teten. Contributor. Share on Twitter. David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. More posts by this contributor. 5 innovative fundraising methods for emerging VCs and PEs. Launch a new company.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 31, 2023

How to solve Quiet Quitting in the mandated return to office When I show this data to my consulting clients , they often ask what they can do to address this problem. They might face an inflexible Board of Directors, or the C-suite might be united in demanding that employees return to the office for much or all of the workweek.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 4, 2023

Over that time, the University has tallied a total of 39 top 10 finishes between the undergraduate and graduate divisions of the competition, which recognizes the best student consulting projects throughout the United States. In the course, students act as consultants to small firms or organizations.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 25, 2022

Free Early Stage Consult - Fox will hire an outside consultant to provide advice on pitch decks or executive summaries. Board Meeting Attendance - A Fox attorney will attend your board meetings at no cost, proactively identifying potential issues and providing experienced insight on business goals.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

We also manage Founders’ Next Move , a community for founders researching their next move: launching a new company ; angel investing/becoming a VC ; scouting for investments; buying a company ; joining boards ; consulting ; participating in expert networks ; serving as an interim executive; or just getting a job.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Yammine said that to date, climate risk is one of the biggest concerns for executives, boards and shareholders and this problem is not going away anytime soon. Avarni’s traction with some of the world’s largest consultancies and their clients put them in a great position to help decarbonize the planet, Zimmerman added.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

A successful entrepreneur, businessman and EO Bahrain member, Suhail Algosaibi had long thought about how he could use his position and his company—FALAK Consulting—to make real, radical and sustainable change in his corner of the world. Suhail Ghazi Algosaibi is the founder of Falak Consulting , a strategy and innovation consultancy.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

“Entrepreneurship provides opportunities: the opportunity to grow intentionally (I’m attending EO with Harvard Business School ); the opportunity to live flexibly (my family and I spent September hiking the Pacific Northwest); and the opportunity to give back consistently (mentoring other founders, serving on boards, investing in employees, etc.).

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HPA

MARCH 27, 2023

Caitlyn previously was the Managing Director, Financial Services at Accenture Strategy and has 20+ years of strategy consulting and industry experience. John has joined Zengines’ board as a Board Observer. With Zengines, there’s a better way.” Notably, Caitlyn is a Member of HPA.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 25, 2024

Board members or lead investors as coaches If you take smart money from a good angel or venture organization, the lead investor usually becomes your board member and has a vested interest in your success. How do you pay a coach?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

The global management consulting industry is worth billions of dollars but to this day it’s been tough to disrupt with technology. Traditional consulting firms provide high-quality services but the cost a lot and have rigid terms. We are addressing the gap in the market between traditional consulting firms and freelance portals.”

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

This is arguably the primary job of the CEO, with agreement from the board. Many entrepreneurs after taking outside investment defer to their board for matters of direction that include setting the vision, as well as executing the plan. Email readers, continue here.]

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Register According to the “2022-2024 Global Semiconductor Revenue Forecast” report released in April 2023 by Gartner, a global IT research and consulting firm, the semiconductor market is expected to decline in 2023 due to declining demand for electronic products and oversupply of semiconductors.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

More recently, Hazlehurst served as head of Uber Money, chief operating officer at Postmates, senior director of product management at Google, CEO and board member of Google Payments Corporation and chief product officer at Yodlee. She has more than 20 years of experience as a bank examiner, consultant, BSA officer and compliance officer.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

As a consultant at Bain and Company, Case worked with clients in technology, private equity and education. She is currently a board director for Workwhile and a board observer for Outschool. . Annie Case, a partner at Kleiner Perkins, focuses on investments in consumer, healthcare and marketplaces.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 5, 2014

.” I said I learned this 15 years ago because that is when I stopped being a consultant. I enjoyed the first half of my time at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) because I was a computer programmer and had to build stuff that actually worked. Consultants spend all of their time pretending to know these answers.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

I just hosted a presentation and discussion last night for GoingVC on “How to Win Consulting, Board, and Deal Roles with Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds” I’ve embedded below the video and slide deck. You can see an essay summarizing my advice here.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2020

Pinterest has forever changed our consultation game. We can make different boards that represent cuts, color, up-dos and makeup and show them to our guests, or have them make their own to show us. I hired a consulting group called Summit that changed my life. It’s an extremely beneficial tool, especially for a first-time guest.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

For companies that require FDA approval, commercial advisors, consultants and board members fully take on the partnership strategy work (which represents the bulk of the marketing needs) prior to the Series A round. Similarly, external consultants, such as marketing agencies, can take over major projects like launch strategy.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Give one percent equity to each outside board member vesting over four years of service. Many early stage CEOs and board members have asked for some guidance regarding pay and time commitments for board members. Here is my best advice, based upon many boards and many years.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 25, 2021

We consulted with a few YLAI Fellowship alumni to illustrate their best practices for building an inclusive business. González: Within our board, managing team, and program participants the majority are women. These best practices may seem self-evident, but it is important to see how these steps look in action.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2021

“95% of the population will never understand why we do it” Raymond Chou, founder and CEO at Infront Consulting APAC and a member of EO Malaysia. I was running my security company and I had an Advisory Board. I now feel more connected to myself, my purpose, my family, and my team.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 23, 2023

offers training based on the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) syllabus, which is widely acknowledged as the industry standard by software testers. Recently, AITest.AI launched an innovative AI-testing training course on Udemy , a global e-learning platform, and has attained the topmost position in this field.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

MAY 21, 2021

Develop program-specific advisory boards from under-represented backgrounds. Our advisory boards influence program design – particularly recruitment and selection – and represent a wide range of backgrounds, including corporate, entrepreneur, investor, and other sector experts. Ongoing third-party consultation.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Most recently, Marc co-founded analytics software company Looker Data and currently serves as an advisor to multiple other startups, serving variously as a mentor, CEO coach, and/or board member. We are an independently-owned forward-obsessed brand experience consultancy based in the United States.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

I began my career at Oracle in the mid-1980s and have since been around the proverbial block, particularly in Silicon Valley working for and with companies ranging from the Fortune 50 to global consulting companies to leading a number of startups, including the SaaS company I presently lead. Wait ‘til we go public!”.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

Register Bain & Company, a prominent global management consulting firm, has revealed its plans to acquire the Asia-Pacific division of Rainmaking, a renowned venture-building and startup development studio. program, a SGD 20 million initiative introduced by the Singapore Economic Development Board.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

When we were thinking of raising, he was the first I called, and after talking to Benchmark, Accel, August, and a few other tier 1 firms, it came down for me the person who was going to join the board. Many years ago I worked at Andersen Consulting, originally developing software for large corporations and then as a strategy consultant.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Early-stage companies shouldn’t: outsource core product development, have consulting firms build it for them to speed up time-to-market, shouldn’t hire too many business people until product is complete and early product/market fit tested. Your first sales people should be consultative sellers who can fuel evangelical sales.

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