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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve written a few posts about boards recently as part of a series on the subject. I admit that I haven’t yet read it but I’ve had numerous discussions with Brad over the years about board structure & conduct and consider him a mentor on the topic. Offering a sparring-partner function on strategic decisions.

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How Great, Operationally-Focused CFO’s Can Transform Your Business

Both Sides of the Table

Clearly the founders and senior executives of a company are the most valuable resources and their time should be maximized on the most valuable tasks. One area I’ve had much discussion with the companies in which I’ve invested in is bringing on board an operationally focused CFO. Board Preparation. Board meetings.

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Please Help Me Congratulate Jordan Hudson as @UpfrontVC’s Newest Investment Principal

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Associates often shadow partners at board meetings so that they can help follow up with the company on important initiatives between board meetings. Smart founders use this extra resource to their advantage. Our theme for 2014 is “teach a firm to fish” where we build more scalable support for portfolio companies.

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What Should Founders Be Focusing On? SSRL Can Be Their Guide.

Paul G. Silva

In 2014 the great Steve Blank gave the startup world its first widely-respected quantitative assessment system: the Investment Readiness Level (IRL). She fills it in and shows it to her board of advisors. Her board help her reorganize her strategy and ToDo lists to focus obsessively on these milestones. Hopefully, so can you.

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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

Both Sides of the Table

And this era ushered in by Amazon changed everything from the age of founders to the skill sets required to the structure of the VC industry and even to the layout of cities (yes, I would proclaim that boldly that Amazon AWS affected city development). As you can see below the number of seed funds shot up dramatically between 2006 and 2014.

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The Uber that Never Was

This is going to be BIG.

I have a portfolio where 50% of the investments have founders that come from diverse backgrounds—and yes, I want them to get money from all of the still-active funds on Uber’s cap table that benefitted from the IPO.

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Creating a forever home for this Trinidadian community and the endangered animals within it

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

2018 YLAI Fellow Rondell Hamilton is the founder of Rennie’s Orphanage and Animal Rescue (ROAR) in Trinidad, a nonprofit organization managing the rehabilitation, repopulation, and rescue of wild animals. By Jewelle Saunders. Rondell was trying to become a medical missionary when he was diagnosed with brain tumors.