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Managing your Board; Give ‘em a job!

By Derek Pilling on November 11, 2009

In a post last week, I addressed the notion that everyone needs someone to report to. After all, you can’t report to yourself.  The reporting relationship between a CEO and a Board is critical for a Company’s success. That relationship must be based on trust, candor, and transparency. While that hierarchical reporting relationship is necessary and […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged Boards, Entrepreneurship, governance, lessons learned, reporting, startups, venture capital | 1 Response

You Can’t Report to Yourself

You Can’t Report to Yourself

By Derek Pilling on November 6, 2009

Everyone needs someone to report to; even VCs. This may sound strange coming from a VC. Some entrepreneurs who choose to raise venture capital have great disdain for the necessary evil of reporting to their investors. That disdain is appropriate to the extent investors are asking for mundane information that creates a reporting burden and […]

Posted in General | Tagged advisory board, Boards, lessons learned, limited partners, reporting, venture capital

I have seen the enemy

I have seen the enemy

By Derek Pilling on August 21, 2009

Earlier this week, I attended a Board dinner for one of my investments. The Board dinner is always one of my favorite parts of the Board meeting ritual. If you are an emerging growth player and have a formal Board, whether venture-backed or not, you should have Board dinners. I say they are one of […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Strategy | Tagged board meetings, Boards, incrementalism, management, vc idustry, venture capital

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