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Pascal Levensohn has been the ringleader of a group of 22 Venture Capitalists who have just released a white paper titled “A Simple Guide to the Basic Responsibilities of VC-Backed Company Directors” The white paper can be downloaded here. Since its release last week there has been some commentary on this project which Pascal has […]
Pascal Levensohn has been the ringleader of a group of 22 Venture Capitalists who have just released a white paper titled “A Simple Guide to the Basic Responsibilities of VC-Backed Company Directors” The white paper can be downloaded here.
Since its release last week there has been some commentary on this project which Pascal has responded to on his blog. It is interesting, useful, and thought provoking information for anyone that serves on the board of a VC-backed company.
I’ve gotten several emails recently from folks complaining that their VCs are wasting their legal spend on changing indemnification agreements. What is going on and why is this important? Mike Sullivan at Howard Rice has the best plain English explanation that I’ve seen: Let’s say you’re a VC and you sit on the board of […]
Question: Under what conditions would it make sense for a pre-seed stage CEO to give a board seat to his co-founder CTO/VP Engineering? What might be the positives/negatives? Especially if the CTO/VPE has more experience with dealing with VCs than the CEO? If you think your co-founder would make a good fellow director, then put […]
Q: We are in the process of raising early financing. Should the board be built after money is raised to meet the needs of the company and investors or should the board be used as a method to recruit angel investors? A: (Brad) I view the creation of a board and the raising of an […]
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