num_pages: 256
description: 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.
language: English
title: Startup Boards: A Field Guide to Building and Leading an Effective Board of Directors
publisher: Wiley