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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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Talk to Your Heroes: How I Built a Virtual Board That Enhances My Decision-Making

Paul G. Silva

Using ChatGPT, you can create a virtual board of advisors that brings the wisdom and perspectives of your chosen mentors to your fingertips. Why Create a Virtual Advisory Board? Before I walk you through how to set up your own virtual board, let me share how mine is helping my decision-making process.

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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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The White Collar Revolution

Tomasz Tunguz

Automated book closing & reconciliation ; document ingestion Life, Physical, & Social Science Occupations 1.22 Automated document ingestion & reconciliation for closing books is changing accounting. But if a founder wanted a list of jobs to automate, the BLS’ white collar jobs boards is a wonderful place to start.

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How to Communicate Impact Metrics to Investors

StartupNation

Post-round, the same metrics framework became our quarterly board template, saving hours of prep. ” These aren’t vanity stats—they’re proof that we’re changing how families preserve legacy, have difficult conversations, and document care preferences before it’s too late. Tips for other founders: 1.

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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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Warnings about investor limitations!  

Berkonomics

The enlightened professional investor Most VCs today are becoming enlightened (as are organized angels), correctly forcing many decisions that might have been dictated by investment documents then to be decided by the corporate board of the company. White background. Realistic images.”