Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Here are some key reasons why I believe every entrepreneur should create a formal Advisory Board or Board of Directors before they ask for funding, or even build their business plan: We all need a bit of reality to balance our passion. Board members provide inexpensive expertise. Bandwidth is a constraint we all feel.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This “whole of government approach” is known by the acronym DIME -FIL. Andrew Inkpen, “ The Global Semiconductor Industry ” Thunderbird School of Management , 2021. [It the government is painfully learning how to reorient its requirements and acquisition process to buy these commercial, off-the-shelf technologies. In the U.S.,

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 26, 2009 A real Customer Advisory Board A reader recently asked on a previous post about the technique of having customers periodically produce a “state of the company&# progress report. One example is having a real Customer Advisory Board. It was absolutely worth it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2021

Most entrepreneurs avoid setting up a board of directors for their new business unless or until they sign up an investor who demands a seat on the board. Too many members are difficult to schedule and manage, and cost too much. Less than three is not a board. Expect the board to always support management.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Within the entrepreneurship ecosystem, “scaleup” challenges differ from startup challenges and demand unique solutions. According to Endeavor Miami Managing Director Laura Maydon, the selected Entrepreneurs are leaders with a clear vision of their company’s potential, a broad skill set to lead, and a commitment to give back to the ecosystem.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

We are purpose-built to not only invest pre-product but also to help accelerate your path to product-market fit with our decades of entrepreneurial and investing experience along with our active CXO advisory board. ABM/Demand Gen), Richard Crowley (Slack, Ops Architect), Misha Brukman (JanusGraph, co-founder).

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. As two fund managers employing Flexible VC, we think it is a healthy addition to the ecosystem and will yield more predictable and stable healthy returns for investors. Our categorization is not a technical one.

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