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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million. The Agile Board. That in itself is quite a challenge. Board Meetings. Between Board Meetings.

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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

This required a repeatable and scalable sales process, which required a professional sales staff and a product stable enough that customers wouldn’t return it. Hire a CEO to Go Public. The VCs would hire a CEO with a track record who looked and acted like the type of CEO Wall Street bankers expected to see in large companies.

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