Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS Everything you ever wanted to know about advisors, Part 2 by Nivi on February 27th, 2008 Here are more frequently asked questions about advisors. Should I put together a board of advisors? What are advisory shares? Should I give advisory shares to my investors? MORE >>

» View Comments to Talk to your target customer in 4 easy steps Subscribe to comments with RSS Great post. You can invite them to be part of a 'customer advisory board&# that you can gather informal feedback from everything from company policies to new products. @AndrewChen New here? Like really talked to them? MORE >>

Perhaps the solution to the “punt on the topic&# is to try to get a marketer who has a feel for the “Market Type/Positioning&# question on a startup’s advisory board once the Discovery data is in. Dancing Around the Question Union Square Ventures was kind enough to sponsor a meetup the night before my class. Agreed. MORE >>

I've experienced first-hand the kind of verbal clusterf*&k that goes on during a funded start-up's board meeting when all or most of the investors know jack about contemporary forms of marketing, or worse were EVP or CMO of such and such B2B enterprise software 5-10 years ago (and think they are mktg gurus). Part II! er, Dorsey. MORE >>

Army Signal Corps advisory board, and the Army was going to acquire their first computer for research.  It had nothing to do with the subject I was looking for, so I read it, chuckled, put it back in the file and kept leafing through the other papers. About a minute later I did a double-take as it hit me what I had just read. firmoje“. MORE >>