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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

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Partly out of the fact that in 1 week I depart for England to speak at LeWeb, attend our DataSift board meeting and generally make myself available to the DataSift team to meet their customers, partners and employees. He sets goals for revenue diversification (can’t get all revenue from few customers or few partners).

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Why I Don’t Like Board Observers

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I wrote recently about the role of Advisory Boards in startups , which I expected to be a bit controversial. It’s just that many companies waste equity on advisory boards, pick the wrong advisers or set up advisory boards with the wrong expectations. This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice.