Following are some board meeting rules that were recently presented to me and my fellow board members by a CEO at one of his first board meetings at a newly funded early stage company.  I thought they were brilliant.  Feel free to pass them out at your next board meeting. Be supportive of the company: Tell us the […]

Scott Converse – the CEO of ClickCaster – has a long and very personal post about his experience in the run up to his first board meeting.  I’m sure he’ll have a follow up post after the meeting today.  If you are a first time entrepreneur who has just raised money, or are just starting […]

Pascal Levensohn – the founder of Levensohn Venture Partners – wrote a comment to my post title The Agenda (in the Board of Directors series) that I wanted to promote to a full post (since I expect only some of you read comments.)  Pascal linked to a presentation he used to moderate a panel on Best Practices […]

As Jim and I continue our Board Meeting series, we’ve decided to address a question that we are often asked – “How Many Board Meetings Should A VC-backed company have?” Our general answer is “as many as you should for the stage of the company that you are.” We define stage loosely, where you evaluate […]