Startup Boards, Brad Feld
Startup Boards, Brad Feld
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Startup Boards
A Field Guide to Building and Leading an Effective Board of Directors

Author: Brad Feld, Matt Blumberg

Narrator: Scott R. Pollak

Unabridged: 6 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/24/2024

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

A comprehensive guide on creating, growing, and leveraging a board of directors 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 audiobook 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 listen to this audiobook—and keep it handy for reference.

Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

©2022 Brad Feld, Matt Blumberg, and Mahendra Ramsinghani (P)2023 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

Reviews

Goodreads review by Eric on June 18, 2021

I read this book several years ago and I just read it again as a refresher. I've been lucky enough to sit on a couple of boards with Brad (as a co-founder observer and an outside independent) and he's really the best. This book is filled cover-to-cover with practical advice. So if you're just gettin......more

Goodreads review by Ryan on December 29, 2019

This is a good summary of startup boards for executives (and startup founders), although not as useful for boardmembers themselves or counsel. Overall, Scott Kupor's book ([URL not allowed]) is better for "professionals" -- this is a very simplified version for startup founder......more

Goodreads review by Tim on January 28, 2019

Startup Boards is a great background document on how to run a venture capital backed board in the US. (I'm CEO of a self funded business in the UK). It explains the procedures you need to follow, how to work out who should be on the board and the etiquette of meetings. If you are outside of the US t......more

Goodreads review by Petr on June 13, 2018

I'd probably suggest reading Venture Deals first, and if you're still hungry for more information, or have specific questions about forming a board, continue with this one.......more

Goodreads review by Danny on June 19, 2018

Good overview of the board duties with a lot of comments from past bard members. I thought that some of the things were a bit repetitive but overall covers the main things......more