The best chairman or chairwoman is a mentor, sounding board, and listener. If you're constructing an advisory board for your business, you need to be clear about its role and judicious in the choice and range of directors. People quickly came to trust him because he stopped the board from being too conformist. Why not? MORE >>

The team at the DOE and City Hall that has brought this school to life and the Advisory Board of educators and industry leaders (led by Evan Korth of NYU) should get way more credit for what has happened to date. So I did that and thus begun my education into the world of computer science education in the NYC public high school system. MORE >>

Forming an advisory board composed of key potential customers is a good place to start. An advisory board gives you the benefit of true, unfiltered feedback plus the opportunity to earn a public endorsement from an "insider" down the road. Connecting with customers is critical to business growth. MORE >>

However, most advisory relationships end up being a complete waste of time for both the advisors and the entrepreneurs. This is where most advisory relationships fall down. The three main problems that come up with advisory relationships: Start out energetic and quickly fades. Most startups have advisors.  Some are inaccessible.  MORE >>

Some other thoughts on this: Active advisors can play a role : Many startups put together “ advisory boards ” filled with people who have a sprinkle of options and provide no value. In this World of seed / micro VC funded startups, round sizes are smaller than they used to be. That’s a good thing. MORE >>