www.instigatorblog.com

MARCH 2, 2010

The Importance of Advisory Boards for Startup CEOs Tweet When a startup receives financing it will need to setup a Board of Directors. The Board probably existed beforehand, but was made up only of the founders. Mark Macleod spells it out beautifully in his post on Advisory Boards. Why wouldn’t you?

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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.

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Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2015

While he kept bringing the conversation back to their big valuation I tried to steer the conversation back to how they were going to deal with: training the influx of new hires – in both culture and job specific tasks. retaining their existing hires who were working for intern-like salaries with little equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2022

Hire the best, and provide necessary training and tools. Too many busy business leaders I know take shortcuts in hiring, looking for a quick fill, assuming new employees can learn on the job, with minimal training and old tools. Establish an advisory board of experienced peers. Don’t sell what you don’t have.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2019

When the time comes to hire a complete management team or other personnel needed to scale, the right personality and experience fit are critical. Often, the wrong people are hired for the wrong roles, or early team members can’t evolve in line with the company. One of the biggest causes of startup failure is related to team dynamics.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

When the time comes to hire a complete management team or other personnel needed to scale, the right personality and experience fit are critical. Often, the wrong people are hired for the wrong roles, or early team members can’t evolve in line with the company. One of the biggest causes of startup failure is related to team dynamics.

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Board Effect

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Your founders and board members won’t always have the necessary expertise you need in every area to be competitive and sustainable. An advisory board can be of great assistance to your startup by filling crucial gaps in your leadership talent. Let’s begin with the definition of the role of a startup advisory board member.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 12, 2021

#3- Helps employees develop skills. We practice career pathing in our company and mentorship helps ensure that our employees are on the right track to the next step in their path. So, mentorship helps each individual employee develop their personal skills and examine how to advance in the direction they want to go. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2010

“When I get funded,” the entrepreneur thinks, “I can build a prototype, hire a development team, go to market, scale more quickly, and beat my competition.” Many startups have an advisory board of sympathetic people with industry expertise, or people who enjoy mentoring, or people who donate a few services on the come.

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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. Google also unveiled plans to double its NYC employee base to 14k.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

You should know that about two-thirds of businesses with employees survive 2 years and about half survive only five years. If you plan to seek funding, you should describe your advisory board here, as well. Your business location, facilities, equipment, and what kind of employees you’ll need are in this section.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

If you plan to seek funding, you should describe your advisory board here, as well. Your business location, facilities, equipment, and what kind of employees you’ll need are in this section. If you’re a sole owner and don’t have employees, this is not required. salaries or wages for any employees. Operating plan.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2017

What criteria will you use in hiring staff? What employee childcare discount will you offer? What are the details of your ownership structure, board of directors, investor list, partners, and so on? What’s your curriculum based on? Write about the market and how you’re fulfilling demand.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2013

Chapter 10: The Hiring Challenge…Unique Challenges for Startups, Recruiting Outstanding Talent, Staying “In-Market”, Recruitment Tools, The Interview: Filtering Potential Candidates, Two Ears One Mouth, Who Should You Interview? Chapter 8: The CEO as Functional Supervisor…Rules for General Managers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2016

In my role as an advisory board member for several startups, I’m always excited to see that initial surge of revenue from a great rollout campaign. Too busy to focus on hiring, training, and managing employees. Hiring the wrong people, or not training them, will destroy your business faster than running out of cash.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2013

According to the Small Business Administration (SBA), small businesses have generated 64 percent of net new jobs over the past 15 years, hire 40 percent of high tech workers, and produce 13 times more patents per employee than large patenting firms.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 11, 2022

Exclusive Content or Advisory Board You can create exclusive content or an advisory board of your champion customers. For example, the advisory board could facilitate a quarterly meeting to brainstorm ideas on topics such as expand your target market or unique ways to broaden your customer reach.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Unfortunately as you hire more people, the casual, informal “do what it takes” culture, which worked so well at less than 40 people, becomes chaotic and less effective. This Build phase typically begin with around 40 employees and will last to at least 175 and in some cases up to 700 employees. If not, start one.

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OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Their CEOs spend a ton of time hiring and coaching their leaders and shaping the complexion and direction of the team. They stress out about big expensive new executive hires when sometimes they just need to level-up an existing manager or “try before they buy.” We are here to make it easier for you to: Bolster your executive team.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Step Five: Have the humility and self-awareness to surround yourself with great mentors, from your angel investors, to your VC investors, to your Advisory Board, to your Board of Directors, and to your CEO or executive coach. You are really going to need them.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

I’m actually very fortunate because I’ve had the same employees pretty much since day one. So, we’re trying to systemize it so I know I have 10 minutes here, so actually, I’m not going to ask you that question, because I’m more interested in my other question, which is how do I build a board of advisers?

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OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Their CEOs spend a ton of time hiring and coaching their leaders and shaping the complexion and direction of the team. They stress out about big expensive new executive hires when sometimes they just need to level-up an existing manager or “try before they buy.” We are here to make it easier for you to: Bolster your executive team.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. That institution will touch many people in its life: customers, investors, employees, and everyone they touch as well.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

doing postdoctoral internships, supervised by faculty members or hired staff (many from Fred Terman’s WWII Electronic Warfare lab.) Many of the other staff in the applied program were full-time employees hired to work solely on these military programs. The labs basic research was done by graduate students or Ph.Ds

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

So they're not necessarily say you should, you should hire these people. John Jantsch (05:20): That's not why I told my friend that they should hire you. Well, what about your best customer is about having a special offer just for them exclusive content, you know, maybe put, maybe build a, a, an advisory board for your business.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees. The part that I’d like to zero in on is when you’ve got a high growth company what are some of the best practices out there to distribute equity to the founders, advisors, and employees? Equity for Board of Directors and Advisory Board.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

So, new employees who join the company may not know the principles and values you use to run the business and may take them for granted. If you start a new company, you will have the opportunity to hire people who may not have had the chance for respectable positions in the past and provide them with training at the same time.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

I’ve seen so many of my colleagues are hiring entrepreneurship directors, creating new programs. What do you do with an advisory board?” If you don’t know about it your first year, you certainly will find out about it by meeting your peers. …. … They want to collaborate.

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Transformify

AUGUST 2, 2019

‘’Diversity Hiring’’ series features world diversity and inclusion leaders and their thoughts on diversity recruitment, cultural diversity and equality. She also serves on the boards of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, Seattle Goodwill, The Institute for Sustainable Diversity and Inclusion and Building Changes.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 2, 2023

Key Takeaway: Fractional CMO can be a cost-effective solution for businesses to access top-level marketing expertise without the burden of hiring a full-time executive. You know, I, I don't think that most founders are entrepreneurs who are mostly who hire people like us, U n I as CMOs, fractional CMOs. For a full-time person.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Things Change In 1956 Hewlett Packard (HP) was a 17-year old company with $20 million in test equipment sales with 900 employees. Army Signal Corps advisory board, and the Army was going to acquire their first computer for research. (I’ll show you the memo in a second. But first some background.)

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

How to give away too much too soon: Most early-stage companies make the mistake of making option grants to new hires at all levels that are too aggressive and distort the capital structure of the company to a degree that damages future professional investment. Director level employees are typically granted ½%.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

You are all frustrated when that never happens, even after years of 16-hour days, repeated efforts to hire the right people, and multiple campaigns to delegate more and sign up for less. For example, I was on the Advisory Board of a small company whose founder was killing his health through overwork, even though he felt high focused.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Advisory Board. 8220; His three things (worth reading his whole post anyway) are set vision/strategy and communicate broadly, recruit/hire/retain top talent, and make sure there’s enough cash in the bank. Along the way I also learned yet another way entrepreneurs see the world differently from their investors. Carpe Diem.

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Austin Startup

MAY 19, 2018

If we think you may be cutting a sizable check and joining the board, we are evaluating you as a potential employee of our company. If you have some common friends, feel free to ask around about them, but if you want to talk to former employees, colleagues or other investors, don’t until you are fully committed.

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2013

(However, in some industries such as life sciences, founders may be tenured professors who are not going to give up their faculty positions, so they often become the head of a startup’s scientific advisory board, but aren’t part of the founding team.). If any of the answers are “Yes,” then hire them a bit later as an early employee.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

We do not develop a product until we get a paying customer," says Orit Pennington , who co-founded the six-employee company with her husband in 2002. We do not develop a product until we get a paying customer," says Orit Pennington , who co-founded the six-employee company with her husband in 2002.

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