Startup Boards A Field Guide to Building and Leading an Effective Board of Directors
John Wiley and Sons
A comprehensive guide on creating growing and leveraging a board of directors written for CEOs board members and people seeking board roles The first time many founders see the inside of a board room is when they step in to lead their board But how do boards work How should they be structured managed and leveraged so that startups can grow avoid pitfalls and get the best out of their boards Authors Brad Feld Mahendra Ramsinghani and Matt Blumberg have collectively served on hundreds of startup and scaleup boards over the past 30 years attended thousands of board meetings encountered multiple personalities and situations and seen the good bad and ugly of boards In Startup Boards A Field Guide to Building and Leading an Effective Board of Directors the authors provide seasoned advice and guidance to CEOs board members investors and anyone aspiring to serve on a board This comprehensive book covers a wide range of topics with relevant tips tactics and best practices including Board fundamentals such as the board s purpose legal characteristics and roles and functions of board members Creating a board including size composition roles of VCs and independent directors what to look for in a director and how to recruit directors Compensating onboarding removing directors and suggestions on building a diverse board Preparing for and running board meetings The board s role in transactions including selling a company buying a company going public and going out of business Advice for independent and aspiring directors Startup Boards draws on the authors experience and includes stories from board members startup founders executives and investors Any CEO board member investor or executive interested in creating an active involved and engaged board should read this book and keep it handy for reference About the AuthorsBRAD FELD has invested in startups for over 25 years and co founded Foundry and Techstars He is the author of multiple books including Venture Deals Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist and Startup Communities Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City MATT BLUMBERG is the CEO of Bolster an on demand talent marketplace that supports startup and scaleup CEOs He is the author of Startup CEO A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business and Startup CXO A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company s Critical Functions and Teams MAHENDRA RAMSINGHANI is the founder of Secure Octane a cybersecurity seed fund in the San Francisco Bay area He is the author of The Business of Venture Capital and The Resilient Founder Lessons in Endurance from Startup Entrepreneurs Tanıtım Bülteninden
