board culture founder 
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 19, 2015
.” The reason is that at a VC you have a group of partners who often have different focus areas of excellence, each pursues deals in their respective field, each makes investments and sits on boards and each spends their most difficult hours tackling problems at portfolio companies vs. solving the challenges at the VC itself.
Paul G. Silva
APRIL 1, 2025
As I shared in a previous post , when I was president of Click Workspace, a startup coworking space, our board chairman delivered feedback that hit me hard: I wasn’t paying enough attention to our financials. Many founders would leave board meetings with lengthy to-do lists. “Isn’t it obvious what I need to do?
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This is going to be BIG.
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
In February of 2017, Susan Fowler’s description of the pervasive cultural issues at Uber, after the company’s abject failure to address her sexual harassment complaints properly, finally broke through in a way that garnered the tech community’s appropriate attention. Not in the “founder friendly” culture of tech anyway.
Hunter Walk
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
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.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 4, 2014
I think as a tech industry we have bred a culture that places more emphasis on product excellence than managing human behavior. Nowhere is the politics more difficult than with co-founders, which is why for years I’ve spoken publicly about “ the co-founder mythology.” Equity for the future?
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 3, 2014
Specifically what is often not in the DNA of founders are sales skills. Founders think in options. Management always sets sales budgets that roll up to a number beyond the actual board budget. Most technology startups seem to be funded by product people or business people. My first startup was no different. Here are mine.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
MARCH 31, 2021
Sharing your company’s story can have a powerful and long-lasting impact on company culture —especially during times of change. We found a great example in Culture Renovation: 18 Leadership Actions to Build an Unshakeable Company by Kevin Oakes. Stories are a common component of any healthy company culture, especially when renovating.
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