Over the last five years, there has been an incredible shift in leverage from investors to founders.  It’s good in most ways, but bad in an important few.  Founders’ desire for control is good in...

Last month Sam Altman wrote a post about board members and why you should want them...

If you’ve listened to parts 1 and 2 of this 3-part podcast series (which originally aired on YouTube), you learned whether venture capital is the best …

“There was never any trust there. He was constantly conspiring behind my back with the other board members. At the board meetings, it was clear that he was leading a bunch of side conversations…” MORE

Thinking about boards makes entrepreneurs imagine spending hours drafting lengthy board presentations and potentially losing control of their startups.

Amazon veteran Michelle Wilson serves as an independent board member for Pinterest, Okta and Zendesk...

Your independent board members will typically be other operators or entrepreneurs with relevant functional experience (e.g., a former CFO) or industry experience...

There are several tactics—including a small number of emerging resources—that can help you find women, minority, or other board members:

Angel investor Paul Arnold has seen many companies fail to capitalize on the wisdom and resources of their investors. Here's how others have succeeded.

Build a great board meeting deck with this resource from NextView Ventures, featuring commentary from VCs on how to make the most of it.

Jeff Bonforte, former CEO of Xobni (now SVP at Yahoo), provides a step-by-step guide to running a painless, productive board meeting.

In my new book, Startup Boards: Getting the Most Out of Your Board of Directors, in addition to decomposing and explaining a lot about the functioning of board meetings, I also describe my ideal bo...

We tend to get started with companies at the Seed or Series A Stage—before board meetings come into the picture...

The Board Meeting is the primary way that Boards function. This post is about making Board meetings effective and helpful for everyone involved...