One of the functions of a board meeting should be to discuss any issues or problems, no matter how prickly. That means addressing the elephant in the room.
Read Full Article about Why One of Your Board Meeting Goals Should Be Addressing the Elephant in the RoomBuilding a good team should start with defining your corporate aspirations and asking yourself some tough questions, first.
Read Full Article about Building Your First Senior Management TeamHave you been following the intense discussion this week regarding VC funding for female-led startups? If for some reason you haven’t caught wind, a recent guest post on TechCrunch by Penelope Trunk set the great debate ablaze. In her post, she suggests that we, as a venture capital community, are obsessed with the idea that…
Read Full Article about Women, Venture Capital & Startups: The Great DebateI tend to work with companies that are at the very early stages of developing their finance function. I have worked with companies with no finance resources, ones with experienced controllers, ones with experienced CFOs, and (the Nirvana) ones with experienced operating CFOs. And I have seen companies come into the portfolio with very basic…
Read Full Article about Have You Hired Your CFO Yet?When OpenView Partners invests growth capital in an expansion stage software company we work closely in developing the CEOs and their management teams in order to help them execute their strategies and build great companies that achieve strategic exits for everyone. As the CEO you should spend your time working with the management team setting…
Read Full Article about CEOs: Teach Your Team The No Whining RuleWhenever OpenView Partners invests growth capital in a new expansion stage portfolio company, we work hard with the CEOs and their management teams around building out the board with the right independent board members and governance processes. We also focus on how to work with the board to gain the most benefit and value for…
Read Full Article about Working with Your Board: 10 Tips for CEOsA few months ago, I wrote a series of blog posts to educate entrepreneurs and startup company executives on exit options and how to plan ahead for a market exit. In that series of entries, I spoke at length about how to identify potential acquirers and integrate their IT needs into their company’s long-term product…
Read Full Article about Market Exit Positioning: Lessons From Netflix on Prepping Your Company for AcquisitionOne of the first questions we ask any investment prospect during our due diligence is very simply: “How well do you know your market?” A follow up question is typically: “In this market, who are your targets?” By asking these questions, we are really just looking to understand the company’s maturity in its understanding of its market,…
Read Full Article about Customer Focus: Are Customers Truly the Focus of Your Organization?As many of you know, the Dallas Mavericks recently upset the Miami Heat in the NBA finals. It was a David vs. Goliath matchup with Miami being lead by “the big 3” and highly favored. Dallas was not supposed to be there and Miami already had dusted off the trophy case and ordered champagne to…
Read Full Article about What CEOs can learn from Mark Cuban and his MavericksI was just giving some more thought to Brad Feld’s recent post on reinventing board meetings. Go ahead and read it and come back for some more of my thoughts. As I reflected on Brad’s post, one thing suddenly jumped at me. Brad has a 100 board meetings a year??? Are you kidding me? That’s…
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