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Why You Shouldn’t Decide Anything Important at Your Board Meeting

Both Sides of the Table

The same can be said of critical decisions in a board meeting or frankly any other meeting where major decisions are ratified. This is a classic mistake many entrepreneurs make so I’d like to offer some constructive advice on how the savvy hand would be played. Why You Should Pre-Meet Board Members.

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Do VC Platforms Make Sense?

Both Sides of the Table

While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros. They offer leadership conferences, regular content articles on leadership, board pack templates and the like.

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Mendel raises $18M to tease out data structure from medicine’s disparate document trove

TechCrunch

It’s also going to be using the funding to hire more talent — technical and support — for its two offices, in San Jose, California and Cairo, Egypt. 3 golden rules for health tech entrepreneurs. “There is a lot hidden between the lines, and problems can be specific to a person,” or to a situation.

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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten VC

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. Though RBI will displace some traditional equity VC, its much bigger impact will be to expand the pool of capital available for early-stage entrepreneurs. .

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Recruiting and Retaining the Right Executive Talent

Andreessen Horowitz

A MOC document can help you prioritize what jobs you need an executive to do so you can hire against those needs. Who are the best search partners to use, and let then letting you and that search firm run with the execution. Can you just describe the MOC to our audience, what it is, and why you guys are so passionate about using it?

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them & entrepreneurs that run them. I used to think you could use convenience and common sense to predict markets. We think it’s a matter of products, but history shows us it takes more than just products and technology to create the sweeping changes. I like that.

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23 Profitable Recession-Proof Business Ideas

OkDork

Business Idea #5: Employment Coaching Sadly, there's lots of layoffs across the board in many different companies, and more and more people are looking for work. Refer them to an AppSumo tool that replaces whatever subscription they’re currently using, and they’ll save a bunch of money and you’ll get a fat referral fee.