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A real Customer Advisory Board

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 26, 2009 A real Customer Advisory Board A reader recently asked on a previous post about the technique of having customers periodically produce a “state of the company&# progress report. One example is having a real Customer Advisory Board.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 4- Semiconductors

Steve Blank

Steve Blank, “ The Secret History of Silicon Valley ” Steve Blank , November 20, 2008. Our guest speaker for our fourth class was John Hurley , former Member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, an expert on semiconductors and supply chains, and former Captain, U.S. Class 4: Guest Speaker.

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The Importance of Advisory Boards for Startup CEOs

www.instigatorblog.com

The Importance of Advisory Boards for Startup CEOs Tweet When a startup receives financing it will need to setup a Board of Directors. The Board probably existed beforehand, but was made up only of the founders. Mark Macleod spells it out beautifully in his post on Advisory Boards. Why wouldn’t you?

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How Employee Experience Shapes Brand Perception

Duct Tape Marketing

And we did that all the way back in 2008 and we said it, everyone went, you know, absolutely no way not gonna happen. (03:03): Now, you know, in 2023, people are going, well, you know, that's nothing new like Tiffani, like we've been doing this a while, but remember this was 2008. Do you have an employee advisory board?

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A close call that we avoided thanks to our advisory board.

Jeff Hilimire

Several of those near-misses were the result of advice from our amazing advisory board – Bill , Ken , James , William , and Mike. ” Then as if they had rehearsed their responses, each of the advisory board members expressed their reasons why it would be a very bad idea for us to do this. Entrepreneurship'

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

We are purpose-built to not only invest pre-product but also to help accelerate your path to product-market fit with our decades of entrepreneurial and investing experience along with our active CXO advisory board. Look at 2001 and 2008’s Lehman collapse and Sequoia RIP Good Times deck for lessons learned.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. October 13, 2008 6:47 PM Luke G said. December 4, 2008 4:43 PM Valto said. Eric, love the blog. Connect (off)line? Thanks much.