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How to Manage a Board

Y Combinator

One of the most common questions we hear from founders is “How do I manage my board?” It’s something that provokes anxiety, because this is the first time the founder/CEO is subject to external supervision, and the board has powers that include the firing of the CEO and the senior management. But first, what’s the purpose of a board?

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Why regulators love Nuro’s self-driving delivery vehicles

TechCrunch

Nuro’s delivery autonomous vehicles (AVs) don’t have a human driver on board. R2X is now referred to as R2). There are multibillion dollar industries that can be disrupted if autonomous vehicles become successful.” “And that’s understandable. .” “And that’s understandable.

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H Twenty Capital aims to be ‘go-to fund for pre-seed investments’ in Latin America

TechCrunch

Mauricio and I had this bold vision of backing as many disruptive entrepreneurs as we could, and leveraging our previous backgrounds and experiences.”. “The market wasn’t so established and meal companies, such as Rappi, were just getting started and reaching their growth phase,” Lloreda added.

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Impact Hub: Our policy approach

Impact Hub

Our 110 communities are diverse yet they all need an enabling environment of supportive regulatory frameworks, inclusive economic development initiatives, stronger social and environmental sustainability standards, and a brave impact funding environment. To date, our community has reached over 25,000 such impact-driven enterprises.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten VC

Jonathan sometimes refers to their investments as “micro-mezzanine” because “mezz is typically structured as a contractual periodic payment, with some equity-like upside, but subordinate to other debt… so most lenders look at it like equity. Collab Capital. We are committed to open-sourcing our learnings and materials.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten VC

Jonathan sometimes refers to their investments as “micro-mezzanine” because “mezz is typically structured as a contractual periodic payment, with some equity-like upside, but subordinate to other debt… so most lenders look at it like equity. Collab Capital. We are committed to open-sourcing our learnings and materials.

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

Both Sides of the Table

My goal is to lay out a basic framework for anybody unsure whom to listen to as a way of helping you think about a way to orient your own views. The crypto in cryptocurrency is of course referring to cryptography on the ability to encrypt your transactions so they can’t be modified after they have been written to the blockchain.