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The first is a “board member.&# This is a person who had legal, corporate governance rights to vote on initiatives that require board approval. The third scenario I’ve seen is with “strategic&# investors. I’ll cover strategicinvestors in a different post.
Perhaps, when things settle down a bit more, those companies will even raise series A capital from traditional institutional sources to expand the product features, beef up the operations team more fully and make progress in finding initial product-market fit. Fuzzy Governance.
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