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Ben Dyer Joins Austin-based Enola Labs’ Advisory Board

SiliconHills

Ben Dyer, a serial technology entrepreneur and entrepreneur in residence at the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, has joined the advisory board of Enola Labs. The Austin-based mobile and web development company is run by Marcus Turner, its president and chief technology officer.

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What Startup Advisors Do I Need?

SoCal CTO

A little while ago, I suggested that Every Web/Mobile Startup Should Have a Technical Advisor. In some cases, Founders are building an Advisory Board with the purpose of padding their investor deck. I side more with Mark Suster who says : “advisory boards are an expensive equity proposition for merely introductions.”

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5 Lessons Every Entrepreneur Should Know

YoungUpstarts

Our intention from day one was to have both an executive board and an advisory board. Unfortunately, a formal advisory board was something we never fully formed. The goal of this group should be to challenge perspectives and ensure a higher level of accountability than one that can be implemented among peers.

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3 Customer Retention Strategies All Businesses Can Benefit From

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Invite Loyal Customers to Join an Advisory Board. To take this a level further, you could consider asking long-term customers to join an “advisory board” for your business. If a customer has been buying from your business for a long time, then it is reasonable to expect that they feel somewhat invested in your brand.

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The Pop-Up Advisory Board

Jeff Hilimire

Earlier this week, I hit on the topic of co-founders / business partners , and advisory boards / mentors. Today I wanted to address a new concept that I recently tried out: The Pop-Up Advisory Board. It’s important to note that advisory boards are not ACTUAL voting boards. Entrepreneurship'

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Organizational Debt is like Technical debt – but worse

Steve Blank

They had reinvented a traditional print media category onto web and mobile devices for a new generation of users who were no longer buying magazines but reading online. Finally, since this is new territory for Tom and board, create an advisory board of other CEOs who’ve been through the “build” stage from a startup to growing company.

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Best of Breed

thebarefootvc

Client-server has moved to the cloud (dramatically decreasing the cost of software development and deployment), and mobile apps are everywhere. Or at least get some of them on your advisory board. Fast forward to 2013. Best of breed solutions have exponentially multiplied, in both the enterprise and consumer sectors.