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When you are Designing the Perfect Advisory Board™, there are a lot of moving parts. Links below to details to help you create a powerful Advisory Board to help accelerate your success.
Advisory Board Member Selection – Designing the Perfect Advisory Board™ Identifies characteristics and actions of helpful Advisory Board members as well as some “interview” questions you can consider to get to know potential Advisory Board members.
Advisory Board Agreements – Suggestions and Templates includes a discussion of and links to potential agreement templates that you can look at to strike an agreement with potential Advisory Board members.
Getting the Most Value from an Advisory Board – Part 1 and Part 2
These articles discuss the value and power of a high quality Board of Advisors or simply Advisory Board. What’s different? Advisors do just that, they advise. They are not fiduciaries (which takes pressure and liability off of them and off of you), but since you are going to give them equity, they have your best interests at heart. Includes a lot of detail about identifying and recruiting Advisory Board Members including compensation.
Article – How a Board Can Support Founder & CEO Success
My article – How a Board Can Support Founder & CEO Success – on Switch (formerly Women 2.0). It builds on my previous podcast “Get the Most Value From Your Board”
More Content to help you with your Raise!
Designer Investor Resources – Fundamentals of Raising Startup Capital
is a summary page of great resources to help you if you are raising capital from investors.
If you’d like resources to help you on your StartupTherapy™ Journey, building a successful company culture, they are available on our StartupTherapy™ Resources and Help page