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Reinventing the Board Meeting – Part 1 of 2

Steve Blank

Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model. Yet boards of large companies exist to monitor efficient strategy and execution of a known business model. 1) It’s an obligation that came with the check.

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Why Board Meetings Suck – Part 1 of 2

Steve Blank

Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model. Yet boards of large companies exist to monitor efficient strategy and execution of a known business model. 1) It’s an obligation that came with the check.

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What's Wrong With Today's Board Meetings: Part 1

ReadWriteStart

Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model. Yet boards of large companies exist to monitor efficient strategy and execution of a known business model. What's Wrong With a Board Meeting?

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ProfessorVC: Do you have a U.S. Strategy?

Professor VC

I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught? ► October. (1). Watch Out for the Red W(h)ine. ► September. (1).

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

Corporate America could learn from this. We’d love to see these given the number of businesses you see and ultimately invest in. I was about to become the first person in America to sell condom key chains. We had the wrong business model. Dave Jones made a virtue of having no business model for APB.

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ProfessorVC: Rebuild our Inner Cities one Venture at a time?

Professor VC

As an active participant in the Silicon Valley new venture ecosystem and entrepreneurship educator, Im intrigued by the recently announced program Venture for America (VFA). VFA is sending high achieving recent college grads into small businesses and start-ups in inner cities. Back to Venture for America. ► October. (1).