Board Effect

JANUARY 6, 2021

It’s not uncommon for nonprofits to recruit experienced and qualified businesspeople to serve on their boards. While they’re experts at running nonprofit organizations, nonprofit board members don’t always understand their communities or the social context of the issues that affect their constituencies.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Across the world, work spaces, maker spaces, incubators, and accelerators are opening, expanding, and making an impact on their communities, and beyond. The Endeavor Miami group is one scaleup accelerator that is overcoming those challenges and having an impact on both their community and the broader world. Scaleup Challenge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

If you are a new entrepreneur, or entering a new business area, it’s always worth your time to assemble an Advisory Board of two or three executives who have travelled that road before. Here are some tips on finding and using your advisory board effectively: Select people who complement your experience. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2022

With all that said, here are some “rule of thumb” guidelines on what might be a reasonable offer, as summarized from a classic article by Guy Kawasaki , and based on discussions I hear rattling around the investor community. Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3%

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2013

If you are an entrepreneur for the first time, or entering a new business area, it’s usually worth your time to assemble an Advisory Board of two or three executives who have travelled that road before. Here are some tips on using your advisory board effectively: Select people who complement your experience.

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Jeff Hilimire

MAY 2, 2014

Several of those near-misses were the result of advice from our amazing advisory board – Bill , Ken , James , William , and Mike. ” Then as if they had rehearsed their responses, each of the advisory board members expressed their reasons why it would be a very bad idea for us to do this. Entrepreneurship'

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 8, 2015

Are you looking for a sounding board in general? Done great work in the community? Advisory Boards. When it comes to advisory boards, I’m a big fan. But, I think an entrepreneur needs to be careful about how and when they create an advisory board. Great businesses? Entrepreneurship'

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2014

If you are a new entrepreneur, or entering a new business area, it’s always worth your time to assemble an Advisory Board of two or three executives who have travelled that road before. Here are some tips on finding and using your advisory board effectively: Select people who complement your experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

With all that said, here are some “rule of thumb” guidelines on what might be a reasonable offer, as summarized from a classic article by Guy Kawasaki , and based on discussions I hear rattling around the investor community. Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3%

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2012

And with advances in technology and social media — along with the current boom in personal and professional communities — those who adopt customer reference programs must think much more broadly about the forms advocacy can take.

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Board Effect

JULY 14, 2021

Voluntary Board Model – This is the most common type of model. Board members often work within the community. Advisory Board Model – Some nonprofits begin with one person who becomes the CEO or executive director. Nonprofits must have a board to qualify for nonprofit status.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

One of the best ways to promote your business and increase its name recognition is by joining business organizations and/or communities or associations. For me, that’s where professional communities come in. I have used such communities even when starting my own company, and they have always proven invaluable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In the investment community, this work is called proving the business model. A small advisory board of outside people with experience in your domain can give you the unbiased feedback you need, as well as connections for setting up distribution and sales channels. Here again is your chance to make pivots for almost no cost.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 24, 2018

With SXSW bringing together the world’s tech, film, and music community in Austin, TX, you can’t ask for a better platform. 6) Eliminate Empty Buzzwords If you’re heavily relying on jargon or buzzwords to communicate, sub in some more accessible language. Here’s a shot from my 2018 SXSW Interactive solo-session.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 12, 2021

We have a handful of trusted mentors we utilize sort of like an advisory board. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. Photo Credit: Ryne Lambert. Mentors have played a vital role in our business in the last three and a half years. Each of them provides subject-matter expertise in a specific area of our business.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I was excited to see that GLG (formerly Gerson Lehrman Group), the industry leader, is now offering a professional network service geared to the needs of the startup community: GLG Share. Prabhdeep Singh: We become their learning partner and they become part of a special and vast community of professionals.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

We co-founded MState (fka hyperfab, read Coindesk article ) with Rob Bailey to help bring enterprise company building expertise and Fortune 500 connections to the blockchain community. Our partners include IBM and one unannounced Fortune 50.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2021

In the investment community, this work is called proving the business model. A small advisory board of outside people with experience in your domain can give you the unbiased feedback you need, as well as connections for setting up distribution and sales channels. Here again is your chance to make pivots for almost no cost.

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Up and Running

MAY 20, 2014

There is a tendency in the start-up community to be skeptical towards MBAs. That’s why companies have advisory boards that get compensated — you usually have to pay for that kind of support and knowledge. Unlike medical school or law school, you don’t need an MBA to go into business.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 12, 2019

I was able to travel from coast to coast, Boston to LA, Chicago to Florida, to meet investors and other interesting people who ended up joining our advisory board or are some other way involved with my company. I also love that it’s a community, and how entrepreneurs help each other. Louis and now Texas.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. Lower level of community familiarity. Disclosures: Blue Future Partners is a member of the Advisory Board of ff Venture Capital , where David Teten was formerly a Partner. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% raised money from VCs and 7.7%

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 17, 2018

We are significant LPs in the fund and my partner Lindel is joining the PSL advisory board. In addition to being LPs in PSL Ventures , we are major investors in PSL Studio and I’m on the board. At some point Dan’l Lewin invited me to join the Microsoft VC Advisory Board where I had even more reasons to hang out in Seattle.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 11, 2022

I like to group client referrals into four main types; direct, implied, tangible and community. Exclusive Content or Advisory Board You can create exclusive content or an advisory board of your champion customers. So what do these referrals look like? How can you make them successful?

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

While I’m fortunate to have this blog, and other writing opportunities as a platform to give voice to these stories, I also realize that to really have a meaningful impact, we need the startup community to be involved in government. Let’s make the startup community a stronger voice in Washington. That’s where Engine Advocacy comes in.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2017

With all that said, here are some “rule of thumb” guidelines on what might be a reasonable offer, as summarized from a classic article by Guy Kawasaki , and based on discussions I hear rattling around the investor community. Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3%

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2013

Even if your startup is a one-man show, you can find an intelligent outside mentor or advisory board member to bounce ideas off. Work to keep up on your own hobbies, and participate in community action events. Most people by nature get some satisfaction from team interaction, working toward the same goal.

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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. Craftsy is a community of people who love to make things - knitters, quilters, sewers, jewelers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2013

With all that said, here are some “rule of thumb” guidelines on what might be a reasonable offer, as extracted from an old article by Guy Kawasaki , and based on discussions I hear rattling around the investor community. Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3%

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2012

Even if your startup is a one-man show, you can find an intelligent outside mentor or advisory board member to bounce ideas off. Work to keep up on your own hobbies, and participate in community action events. Most people by nature get some satisfaction from team interaction, working toward the same goal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

With all that said, here are some “rule of thumb” guidelines on what might be a reasonable offer, as extracted from an old article by Guy Kawasaki , and based on discussions I hear rattling around the investor community. Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3%

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2017

Are you in a bedroom community of a nearby city? What are the details of your ownership structure, board of directors, investor list, partners, and so on? List an advisory board if you have one, list all employee salaries, incentives, referral bonuses for recruiting, and all such details.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2013

The book is part of the Startup Revolution series that Brad has been working on for a couple years now, including Do More (Even) Faster , Venture Deals , Startup Communities , and Startup Life (with two more to come, Startup Boards and Startup Metrics). questions”. Writing a book is a LOT harder than I expected!

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 29, 2018

So too with community voting and commenting on the 5000+ speaking proposals on a multitude of topics in the 2019 SXSW PanelPicker. Community voting accounts for 30% of the total score that each speaking proposal receives. Other inputs for this total score are Advisory Board judging and SXSW staff analysis.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2011

With all that said, here are some “rule of thumb” guidelines on what might be a reasonable offer, as extracted from an old article by Guy Kawasaki , and based on discussions I hear rattling around the investor community. Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3%

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Even if your startup is a one-man show, you can find an intelligent outside mentor or advisory board member to bounce ideas off. Work to keep up on your own hobbies, and participate in community action events. Most people by nature get some satisfaction from team interaction, working toward the same goal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2015

With all that said, here are some “rule of thumb” guidelines on what might be a reasonable offer, as summarized from a classic article by Guy Kawasaki , and based on discussions I hear rattling around the investor community. Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3%

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