Management

While I know a lot of entrepreneurs and folks in small companies read this blog, I also know that there are plenty of folks in big companies that do also. [...]

Jack and Suzy Welch have a great article in this week’s BusinessWeek titled Directors Who Don’t Deliver. I’ve served on many boards and written plenty of board of directors, in

Eric Norlin – the organizer and host of the upcoming Defrag Conference (Denver – Nov 5 and 6 – hottest ticket in town since the World Series will be over) [...]

On Saturday, I called a director at a company I’m on the board of to get a reality check on something that is going on. Ten minutes on the phone [...]

My partner Chris Wand is finally blogging (even though he’ll deny it) over at AsktheVC – he’s writing a series on what should be in a “board reporting package.”&nbsp

Paul Kedrosky has a superb post up today titled Building the Perfect Board Package. The entire post is worth a slow and careful read as it’s “guidance on the subject from [&hell

My partner Greg Galanos forwarded me a great article from the Philadelphia Inquirer titled “The Economy Revealed: Why understanding economics is hard” that builds on the more difficult to

In the life of most companies with an active board of directors, it occasionally becomes necessary to recruit a new director. In the case of VC backed companies, a new [...]

Will Herman has an excellent post up titled Board Meetings – A CEO’s Point of View. While I’ve never been on a board where Will was CEO, he and I have [...]

I go to a lot of board meetings. As a result, I’ve reviewed a lot of board meeting minutes. In general, the philosophy among most VC-backed companies – promulgated by [...