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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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BE 2.0: Focus on Responsibility, Not Tasks – The Mindset Shift That Changes Everything

Paul G. Silva

As I shared in a previous post , when I was president of Click Workspace, a startup coworking space, our board chairman delivered feedback that hit me hard: I wasn’t paying enough attention to our financials. Many founders would leave board meetings with lengthy to-do lists. What are the biggest risks to the company?

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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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The BSList: You Need a Co-Founder (No. 93)

This is going to be BIG.

Let’s first talk about the definition of a co-founder. I would control all the board seats and voting power, but you’ve got this fancy title you can put on your LinkedIn and use when you speak at conferences later after we IPO. They’re people you would give board seats to and that you want in the trenches for foundational decisions.

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The Mainstreaming Of Crypto

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

It has been enlightening, exciting, rewarding, but definitely not mainstream. Though I am on the board of Coinbase, I had not been aware of this partnership until I saw the tweet. We started looking at crypto ten years ago, starting investing nine years ago, and have had a front-row seat to its development ever since.

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One Reason Why Your Technical Recruiting Isn't Working

This is going to be BIG.

Yeah, I definitely wasn't putting in that kind of volume. The other day, I was in a board meeting and we were talking about the need for a software engineer. The team already had a lead on board. I couldn't figure out how anyone could fill their calendar with that many qualified people.

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Is @AngelList Syndicates Really Such a Big Deal?

Both Sides of the Table

But Jason is one of the smartest thinkers in our industry so while style points in his eye-poking post might be low, he’s definitely scratching at something important. They will have to sit on boards. ” That means sitting on boards and helping entrepreneurs to handle the most difficult things that pop up like: lawsuits.

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