Austin Startup
SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
For startup founders, it’s never too early to start thinking about putting together a target market advisory board. The target market advisory board should consist of 2–4 industry veterans who have connections to C-level execs and VPs in your target market. Never discount the power of a warm intro.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 19, 2009
Building an Advisory Board In my travels outside the building I kept my eyes out for articulate and visionary scientists and engineers who had expertise we lacked, and were willing to help in an advisory capacity. I set up an advisory board as a vehicle to get these industry experts engaged with the company and product.
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thebarefootvc
AUGUST 13, 2013
These vertical solutions would focus on specific pain pain points in the enterprise, such as logistics or customer relationship management. Or at least get some of them on your advisory board. When I invested in enterprise software in the late 1990′s, I saw a proliferation of “best of breed” solutions.
Feld Thoughts
APRIL 19, 2012
We have a straightforward meeting – a dinner for our advisory board the night before, drinks after for all LPs, our advisory board meeting first thing in the morning, and then the full meeting until lunch time. I enjoy our annual meetings – we get to spent a focused chunk of time with our investors.
Austin Startup
FEBRUARY 23, 2019
One worked at a different quantum dot startup based in the UK that’s now publicly traded, another built a vertically integrated cannabis company in Oregon. We have co-founders of QDVision and Innovalight, both nanocrystal technology companies that were acquired on our advisory board.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 7, 2017
First, build an advisory board. Industry insiders with domain and technical experience in your vertical markets can be excellent “sounding boards,” and their feedback is essential. Maybe your idea is a diamond in the rough. How do you make sure that this concept is one that really resonates with customers?
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 5, 2009
The VP of Sales and I flew to Providence to convince Andy van Dam at Brown to join our company, or at a minimum lead our advisory board. With a bit of research it turned out that a professor at Brown University had invented something close to what we had in mind.
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