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I am developing a standard format for these MBA Mondays series. I do five or six posts on a topic and then I solicit four or five guest posts to...

The Board Meeting is the primary way that Boards function. This post is about making Board meetings effective and helpful for everyone involved. A Board cannot be effective if it...

One of the least discussed elements of a Board of Directors is the chemistry among the Board members. It is critical to a well functioning Board but not always considered...

This is the first of a series of MBA Mondays posts on the topic of The Board Of Directors. I want to dig into the role and responsibilities of the...

Last June, I wrote about board diversity and suggested some things we are doing and that you can do to diversity your board. In the ten months that have passed...

I have had the great pleasure of working with Matt Blumberg and the senior leadership team of USV’s former portfolio company Return Path (which was sold in 2019) for much...

I’ve been asked this question a bunch in the last few weeks in response to my post about more diversity on Boards. My answer to this question is simple. A...

This is a topic of great importance and one that we in the tech/startup sector have not done a good job with. We wait until a company is ready to...

Mark Suster wrote a post this weekend laying out some rules for being a good board member before the meeting, in the meeting, and outside of the meeting. It is...

I am not reading Bad Blood, the book about Theranos, but many of my friends and colleagues are. One of the many “tells” that Theranos was not a good company...