board meeting

“I've learned that the hard way as an entrepreneur, as an investor, you have to make sure that you're not wasting time of the entrepreneur. And too many board meetings might have the potential to waste time in very early stage companies.”

“The board meeting is really kind of a review of everything that's already been talked about. It's not supposed to be a place where you talk about brand new things That require a lot of heavy decision making. It's just a place for people to convene once those d…”

“When you give me information ahead of time, you as the entrepreneur should hold me accountable that I've read everything. I've digested everything. If I have any questions, I ask before the board meeting so that the board meeting becomes a strategy meeting, no…”

“Board meetings, I always feel entrepreneurs view them as a test, but they're really a chance for VCs to Provide their value.”

“Board meetings are rated most highly when people are energized and when the management team takes away a couple of good, useful ideas. So I think in a three hour board meeting, five ideas that the manager team writes down and tries to figure out what to deal w…”

“I think usually I'm a big fan of one-on-one advice, because then you can have a much more honest conversation about everything. It's kind of hard when you're in a room with 10 people or so to really dive in and discuss some really hard issues. I think that's m…”

“The company Domo runs itself on the product Domo, and the board has access to that product. So the result of that is the board meetings at Domo are not about reporting numbers.”

“I'd say that's a mistake I see first time entrepreneurs frequently make is that they make the board meetings all about themselves, when in fact, while scary, it's the right thing to do to give more exposure to your executive team, to the board.”

“I think that the best founders really do know how to use the board and make it productive. They don't use the board meetings as a status update or asking for permission. Instead, they use the board meetings to really get the people around the table to push the…”

“I think to me, the most important thing is to really understand the core drivers of the business. And there's a lot of people that like airtime. In board meetings, and I'm sure I talk too much in board meetings at some point, but I think it's about listening, …”

“I think, obviously, you don't want to surprise your board in stuff like this during the board meeting. I think board meetings are not for, or rarely, or really when she'd hit the fanart to make decision, most of the time, board should be used as discussion pla…”

“We actually go Back to the company. All a hundred people at ramp can see what was in the board meeting and his chance to actually distill down the strategy itself.”

“Now, what's super important is that before the board meeting, you say, these are the three things I would really love feedback on. I could use help on. Make, tell them what to help you with.”

“You know, I think too many boards are talking shops, but even good boards I think are inefficient. So, you know, with the board, you want to clarify any factual questions up front. Then, you know, so information should come out early, factual questions clarifi…”

“As a younger investor, you tend to talk too much and not listen, so I think that's the biggest mistake.”

“And sometimes you might have an investor which acts like the mob and tries to monopolize the entire discussion and you have to stop that as a founder. You control the board meeting, and it's on you to give everybody room.”

“What I found to be a very good strategy is to actually have the board meeting and non-board meeting and do a dinner the night before with a presentation sent out a week, but at least a few days ahead of time. At the board dinner, you discuss Any sort of tensio…”

“I've come to the conclusion that with good preparation, most board meetings can be finished in 45 minutes. There's real governance that needs to go on there. There's core strategic issues that you need to kind of pound on. But most of them can be finished in 4…”

“I like board meetings where there's one or two things that are talked about in detail. Meaning, like, you go deep dive into one or two things, because at any given point in time in a company's juncture, that moment in time, one or two things that really matter…”

“A lot of venture capitalists would say, hey, like, just cut it loose, you know, like, forget about this thing. It's like, we should double the frequency of the board meetings. It's like, oh, okay. And it's because we're here for as long as the founder wants to…”