board Related Topics 
Berkonomics
MARCH 28, 2024
All other board functions are secondary. Even venture capitalists who sit on boards where they have significant investments often forget this point. Actually, there are two legal duties of board members. Sometimes, there will be a conflict of interest between the people representing the various shareholder classes on a board.
INBIA
JUNE 28, 2023
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE InBIA Welcomes New Directors June 22, 2023 ORLANDO, FL – Members of the International Business Innovation Association (InBIA) have elected five individuals to the board of directors to serve three-years terms. The new member of the InBIA board is: • Marc Alessi, Executive Director, Business…
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This is going to be BIG.
JULY 25, 2022
Typically, investors don’t take a board seat until you raise your first equity round—which means that it could be *years* before you have a real board meeting: A year of nights/weekends work researching, prototyping, and fundraising. I’ll make it simple. How many is too many, for example?
Ben Franklin Technology Partners
APRIL 23, 2024
Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern PA (Ben Franklin CNP) is pleased to announce the appointment of Angie Singer Keating to its Board of Directors as President. Her thought leadership extends to her role as the former board president of i-SIGMA, the International Secure Information Governance and Management Association.
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
JUNE 25, 2020
The board diversity problem is a symptom of a much broader problem around lack of diversity in founders that get funded and lack of diversity in VC firms. Most startup boards are made up of a few founders and a few VCs. No wonder you have no diversity on the board. Boards don’t need three or four VCs on them.
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
APRIL 22, 2021
Last June, I wrote about board diversity and suggested some things we are doing and that you can do to diversity your board. In the ten months that have passed since I wrote that I am pleased to say that we have seen a noticeable increase in board diversity in our portfolio. It is that important to me and USV. Just do it.
The Seraf Compass
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
As a director on an early stage company board, how do you deliver on your main responsibility as a board member - maximizing shareholder value? Those are very important questions that very few early stage company boards take the time and effort to ask early on when it is still possible to have the biggest impact.
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