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Who Should be on Your Startup Board?

Both Sides of the Table

One of the things that founders have the most angst about is whom they should have on their board and at what stage of the business. This is smart because amazing board members can be transformative with important advice and access and can also help attract other great board members (and team members).

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Navigating Supply Chain Disruption: 7 Strategies for Small Businesses

StartupNation

Wherever your business sits on the spectrum, you’ll want to follow these tips to navigate supply chain disruption. So, how can one navigate the disruptions and mitigate the risks? Work with community resources and local workforce boards. So, how did we get here? Often the labor component of supply chain is overlooked.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. Pre-seed is just a narrower segment where you might raise $1–3 million on a SAFE note and not give out any board seats. Society is reorienting to a new post-pandemic norm?—?even So in a way it’s self selecting.

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Bill DeBlasio's Uber targeting is in danger of making NYC a tech joke

This is going to be BIG.

If DiBlasio really wants to prevent traffic fatalities and improve the air quality, as well as make it faster to get around here, he should take a look at plans to limit driving across the board instead of targeting one company.

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Why AI Won't Be the Investment Opportunity Everyone Thinks It Is

This is going to be BIG.

When I think about true disruptions in tech—the ones that enable huge investor outcomes because they create generational behavior change, entirely new markets, and populate whole business ecosystems out of nothing—location-aware mobile devices stand out to me as right up there with the web itself. Was this episode from five years ago?

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Local, Circular, Resilient: How Cambium is Shaping the Future of Material Supply Chains

Revolution

Years of offshoring, bottlenecks, and climate-driven disruptions have made it clear: we need to rethink where and how we source materials. billion board feet of usablewood. Now, as we double down on our investment, we know that this model isnt just a clever ideaits a necessary reimagining of American supplychains.

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14 EO Members Share The Best Thing About Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs' Organization

“Entrepreneurship provides opportunities: the opportunity to grow intentionally (I’m attending EO with Harvard Business School ); the opportunity to live flexibly (my family and I spent September hiking the Pacific Northwest); and the opportunity to give back consistently (mentoring other founders, serving on boards, investing in employees, etc.).