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Extra Crunch roundup: Build a founding team, choose a VC and recruit your board

TechCrunch

.” In a related article, Gregg Adkin, VP and managing director at Dell Technologies Capital, shared the framework he’s developed for helping founders set up their board. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. The composition of the board can also impact your fundraising.

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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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Vue Storefront snaps up $20M to grow its open source based ‘frontend-as-a-service’ e-commerce toolkit and platform

TechCrunch

The current slowdown in e-commerce growth, and in some pockets straight declines in spend , might not seem like the most opportune time to build an e-commerce tooling startup, let alone invest in one. Julien Codorniou, an ex-Facebook exec who is now a partner at Felix, is also joining the board.

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How Monica and Joe priced their new enterprise product?

Entrepreneur's Handbook

After all the effort into the user interface, we really need to weigh the price point, especially as we promised the board to launch next month! As a VC and Board member, I am usually involved in this topic thanks to my experience as an entrepreneur and business operator. Let’s see what the board says!”

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Sanity, a platform to build and manage content flows on sites, raises $9.3M from Ev Williams, Threshold and more

TechCrunch

But all that opportunity also has a flip side: how can you say what you want, just how you want to say it, without technical hurdle after hurdle getting in your way? Sanity stands out partly by keeping its focus wider than e-commerce and by not using the words “content” or “commerce” in its name.

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IdeaPAD case study: How do you define and build value for an existing product?

Paul G. Silva

The PixelEdge] workshop and canvasses provided an easy structured framework to work through our evaluation and customer discovery process. It was clear that there was more opportunity for their research and data products, but they wanted to invest their resources in promising ideas for their target market.

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Recruiting and Retaining the Right Executive Talent

Andreessen Horowitz

Who are the best search partners to use, and let then letting you and that search firm run with the execution. I think it’s the best framework for executive hiring that I’ve seen. Can you just describe the MOC to our audience, what it is, and why you guys are so passionate about using it? We do back channels.

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