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“I think viewing your board as an audience to be ‘sold’ to instead of a partner in your journey will orient your board to be less trusting and collaborative.” Five Questions with Nilam Ganenthiran, Former President of Instacart

Hunter Walk

For startups, a good Board is better than no Board, but a bad Board is worse than anything. One component of a good Board is a high value add Independent Board Member, which in my experience, often doesn’t get added early enough (for a variety of reasons). I knew I wanted to help build it from the ground up.

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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of audiovisual startup Chroma

TechCrunch

Chroma , a startup working to build a new type of audiovisual entertainment specifically for mobile devices, is now adding a Twitter co-founder to its board. However, in 2013, Stone and the others shifted their focus to individual startups. “The [web3] culture doesn’t appeal to me. million in seed funding (5.1

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Vinod Khosla’s advice for top VCs? Don’t sit on your founders’ boards

TechCrunch

Serial entrepreneur and seasoned investor Vinod Khosla has some strong, contrarian advice for the venture capital industry: don’t sit on your founders’ boards. Khosla, who spoke onstage at the Upfront Summit in Los Angeles this week, spoke about the culture of capital. We don’t — no matter how important an issue.”

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Bringing startup expertise to the boardroom

NZ Entrepreneur

The immersive three-and-a-half-day programme is based around three key themes – board leadership, cultural intelligence and climate awareness. Each day focusses on a different facet of being a director – you, your board and practical governance. Would I attend another ADC which focussed on other topics? Absolutely!”

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

Within 5 years I was on the board of real businesses with meaningful revenue, strong balance sheets, no debt and on the path to a few interesting exits. I wrote a post in 2015 that memorialized at the time how I felt about all of this, titled, “ Why I F **g Hate Unicorns and the Culture They Breed.” And it changed the culture.

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The 7 Business Lessons We’ve Learned in 7 Years

StartupNation

Founded in 2013, my online interior design company, Decorilla, is now celebrating its seventh year. Looking back, in 2013, most people couldn’t even comprehend what online interior design was. Not only was it the first online interior design platform, and the first to offer VR , the foundation has grown stronger as time has passed.

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4 keys to international expansion

TechCrunch

Finding the right balance between keeping costs in check and not underinvesting can mean doing things more slowly than your board would like. Analyze the competitive environment, partner availability, infrastructure, culture, regulation and synergies with your home market. Where should you internationalize?