Management Operations Strategic Investors 
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 30, 2010
I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). This is his third company that is in this related space and he was an early investor in Adconion.
OnlyOnce
JULY 9, 2013
Chapter 8: The CEO as Functional Supervisor…Rules for General Managers. Chapter 13: Promoting …Recruiting from Within, Applying the “Peter Principle” to Management, Scaling Horizontally, Promoting Responsibilities Rather than Swapping Titles . What About Sales & Marketing?, Scaling Your Team Over Time.
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David Teten
SEPTEMBER 6, 2015
Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. A corporate investor can provide diversity on the Board as someone who thinks differently from independent VCs. Corporate venture funds are often referred to as ‘strategic’ investors because of the unique benefits they bring to the table.
Austin Startup
OCTOBER 8, 2017
Personnel management has its own timeline. There’s likely to come a time when you need to hire an industry veteran, or the best rainmaker in the field, or a hands-on and wizened operations person to make sure you are meeting customer expectations. This essay is not about personal time management.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 14, 2009
As an entrepreneur you don’t want 5 investors on your board because then board decisions will be more representative of investor concerns than management concerns. The third scenario I’ve seen is with “strategic&# investors. I’ll cover strategic investors in a different post.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 24, 2016
A find many board meetings highly unproductive in that they are often just a date in the calendar where management is set to update its investors and other board members of its performance over the past time period. Make sure you ask if there are any strategic concerns or topics they want to discuss at the board meeting.
Seeing Both Sides
AUGUST 28, 2017
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. Who sets the policy for token sales—management or the board of directors?
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