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What Makes a Great Independent Board Member?

Both Sides of the Table

When you set up a board it is often initially a combination of the founders and the early investors. It can start 2–1 founders to investors and then sometimes moves to 3–2 but sometime around the A, B or C round the idea of “independent” directors comes up. When an entrepreneur takes on investors who take equity (i.e.

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11 Things I've learned from running a micro VC in the last year

Hippoland

And I enjoy working with founders immensely. In many cases, fund managers invest 1-5% of the fund size. They want you as a fund manager to be incentivized to make good investments, because you are staking your own cash too. And then later, when the fund needs money, the fund does a capital call.

Salary 48
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11 Things I've learned from running a micro VC in the last year

Hippoland

And I enjoy working with founders immensely. In many cases, fund managers invest 1-5% of the fund size. They want you as a fund manager to be incentivized to make good investments, because you are staking your own cash too. And then later, when the fund needs money, the fund does a capital call.

Salary 48