Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

So operating at a higher level, helping to set the framework for decision making and then sitting down and watching the game be played, is certainly the way to go.” I see this in cases where sometimes board members don’t want to take on the “Pottery Barn Rule” that if you break it, you fix it.

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APRIL 17, 2016

It is a hugely compelling show because Zakaria covers world issues that will affect all of us in ways that are accessible and with frameworks for processing disparate information. I have a board meeting coming up this week and I just reviewed the agenda. Is she getting enough board exposure? Is she feeling motivated?

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Y Combinator

JULY 15, 2019

One of the most common questions we hear from founders is “How do I manage my board?” It’s something that provokes anxiety, because this is the first time the founder/CEO is subject to external supervision, and the board has powers that include the firing of the CEO and the senior management. But first, what’s the purpose of a board?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

I apply visual thinking for nearly everything I do: preparing for important phone calls (I imagine my opening lines, I imagine the responses), writing keynote presentations, deciding whether or not to invest in a company, preparing for board meetings – you name it. My framework gives me a deeper understanding of the sector.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Under an advice framework, my Forum-mates take turns telling me what I should do in my specific situation. However, with an experience sharing framework, everyone in the group will instead share a personal story related to my presentation. In my experience.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

“There was no real framework for a $15 million fund at the time so I had to make one up … it was really sort of an experiment … I invested across Funds I & II in 90 companies” Jeff then raised $55 million in 2010 and $85 million in 2014.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 16, 2012

People who just weren't inspiring at all and couldn't get me on board for any kind of ride. Stories create a construct-a framework to make sure we've accounted for all the parts. The movie centers around a lawsuit. Not exactly Braveheart. That being said, I've clearly been on the wrong side of anti-hero pitches.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The 4 states of an engineering team is a mental model that resonated with me, and I think it provides a framework for leadership teams and boards to understand the state of a developer team. The state of an eng team can be opaque from the outside, and this framework illuminates the status in a simple way.

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Source Link

JANUARY 29, 2022

The conversation introduced a new framework for inclusive community development that incorporates cultural understanding, talent development and new venture creation. Showing support and being a sounding board may be the only thing needed for the entrepreneur to build something amazing,” said Keller.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

If you ever have to interview, hire, judge the performance of, decide whether to promote, assign clients/regions to them or have to decide whether to fire sales people, I think having a framework for thinking about them is helpful. But in the end they know how to put the big wins on the board. They’re unmanageable. Enough said.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

And it was convenient for me because we also held our annual London board meeting of DataSift , who helps companies processes and analyze large volumes of social plus enterprise data in realtime. I spoke this past week at the LeWeb conference in London, which was a superbly well run event with a very quality production team.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

Of all the things an early-stage founder has to figure out, one of the most unexpected is how to get the most from your board. But effectively leveraging your board for guidance and support is essential. The slides you use can help you run efficient, effective board meetings that get the most out of the discussions they elicit.

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NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A budget, on the other hand, provides a financial framework for the startup’s operations. Beyond technical expertise, a good accountant can be a valuable sounding board for your business decisions. They can offer objective advice on everything from managing cash flow to securing funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

I’m never right the first time so I spend time adjusting my frameworks. And few people in my experience do this well so many board meetings wander. I start with answers and structure what I think the organization of the problem is. I then try out my solutions by interviewing people to “prove or disprove&# my conclusions.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

He serves on the advisory boards for entrepreneurship at Cornell University and the California Israel Chamber of Commerce. Conventional DLP solutions are built on a castle-and-moat framework in which data centers and cloud platforms are the castles holding sensitive data. Sid Trivedi. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Mark Settle.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

So I thought I’d try to lay out a framework for how you should think about it as many you will inevitably be faced with this experience. One was the hardest working guy on our board and the biggest mensch. I will be on your board but don’t ask me for anything.&# He literally said it that bluntly.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 3, 2015

I watch founders who want to get “air cover” for hard decisions by getting too much input from their teams or boards. Then they need to take all the input they received, mix it up, apply a framework for how the information affects your decision and decide. I am amazed at how some entrepreneurial teams dither.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2018

Decision Dynamics Each firm makes decisions in different ways so understanding the firm’s decision framework matters. These can be called: Operating Partners, Venture Partners, Board Partners or similar. We also take input from our board partners and from our non-partner investment staff.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

Bijan Sabet – investor & board member in some small companies you might have heard of like Twitter, Tumblr, Boxee & OMGPOP – took issue with the whole notion that you even need a Powerpoint deck anymore. Use it as a framework for a dialog not a script. The white board is a great way to make this happen.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Founded in January 2020, Opsera lets developers provision their CI/CD tools through a single framework. Using this framework, they can then build and manage their pipelines for a variety of use cases, including their software delivery lifecycle, infrastructure as code and their SaaS application releases.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

What’s the board’s role in an early-stage startup? Startup founders frequently ask me about the role of a board of directors. A board can be a crucial asset in an early-stage startup. What is a board of directors, anyway? What is a board of directors, anyway? What exactly can a board help you do?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 5, 2020

Anticipate their concerns, and the framework of your message becomes clear. She participates in EO’s Accelerator program in Los Angeles, California and also sits on the EO Accelator Board there. When crafting your messaging, frame it through the lens of the recipients. Their question is always the same: “How does this affect me?”

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Board will work to increase capital to minority-owned startups, create diverse innovation economy WOODBRIDGE, N.J. The board will provide knowledge, guidance, and insights on ways to best increase capital, access, and investments in New Jersey’s diverse entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 7, 2021

Kate is president of the EO Winnipeg chapter and serves on the EO Canada Board as Canada’s MPD (Member Products Director). I realized that for so many entrepreneurs, “design” was a mindset: our lives and businesses could be designed with the right series of decisions, habits, systems, processes and frameworks.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In board meetings, we scrutinize the efficiency of sales and marketing (S&M) spend, costs of goods sold (COGS), and general and administrative costs (G&A). The problem with the 70–20–10 rule is that product is so multifaceted that it defies a generalizable rule or framework.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

They should act as a liaison between the founders, the C-suite, investors and the board of directors with the development team — making sure everyone is asking the right ethical questions in a thoughtful, risk-averse manner. It is an end-to-end governance framework focused on the risks and controls of an organization’s AI journey.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

We short-handed this marketing mix as “ the four P’s ” – product, price, promotion and place (distribution) – this was devised in 1960 and while a little bit dated is still a useful framework.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 17, 2023

Once we have taken stock, we can arm ourselves with the new data and use it to challenge the thinking of our boards or investors. We learned how the RAWI framework can be a simple but powerful method of taking control of the situation. Now is the time to reassess our options, challenge our assumptions and reconsider the status quo.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

Caryn Marooney is general partner at Coatue Management and sits on the boards of Zendesk and Elastic. RIBS: The messaging framework for every company and product. Bottom-up SaaS: A framework for mapping pricing to customer value. Bottom-up SaaS: A framework for mapping pricing to customer value.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 4, 2014

At a board meeting last week, one of the VPs of Marketing I’m lucky to work with presented a brilliantly simple way of explaining the evolution of a startup’s marketing tactics. I’ve drawn a diagram of the idea above, which borrows heavily from McKinsey’s 3 horizons.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Meanwhile, FI senior leaders and board members are intrigued by new products like Microsoft 365 Copilot and how generative AI can automate their internal workflows (and improve their bottom lines). Keep in mind: this sales framework is not linear , and these steps should be taken in tandem, not sequentially.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 23, 2023

offers training based on the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) syllabus, which is widely acknowledged as the industry standard by software testers. Recently, AITest.AI launched an innovative AI-testing training course on Udemy , a global e-learning platform, and has attained the topmost position in this field.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 20, 2022

Entrepreneurs are using the legal frameworks, supply chains and customs logistics once used for business to solve the refugee problem, because many of the needs are similar. Carrie Santos, CEO of Entrepreneurs’ Organization. And someone in the network responds and delivers. It’s impressive.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2019

Start with a hard sell to get others on board. Determine frameworks for communicating ROI and benefits to different stakeholders, from the C-suite, to finance and procurement teams, to R&D. To succeed in a reorganization, companies should consider these key steps: 1.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

Nuro’s delivery autonomous vehicles (AVs) don’t have a human driver on board. “We need the confidence of a clear regulatory framework to invest the hundreds of millions or billions of dollars necessary to manufacture vehicles at scale. government had relaxed vehicle safety requirements for an AV. ”

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Startups that are backed by professional financial investors almost always have a Board of Directors that consists of some set of founders, investors and sometimes independent directors. What exactly is the purpose of a Board of Directors and how do boards best function? I plan to write a series of posts on the topic.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2012

This framework has helped me many times simplify strategic questions and shift from questioning to analysis to action. By using an analysis framework like the one above, you can bring clarity and a common language with your board for evaluating and making the right strategic choices.

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