{"product_id":"brad-feld-startup-boards-getting-the-most-out-of-your-board-of-directors-9781118443668","title":"Startup Boards: Getting the Most Out of Your Board of Directors.","description":"Praise for Startup Boards \"In addition to walking you through, in great detail, how a board functions, Brad has adopted many of the Lean Startup approaches to building, operating, and managing your board in a way that resembles continuous deployments. Any practitioner of Lean Startup would do well to use this approach to building their board.\"\n\u003cbr\u003e\n-Eric Ries, author of the New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup \"I've had the opportunity to serve on a range of boards for companies at various stages in their lifecycle-so I know firsthand that building an effective board, and leveraging it wisely, is both a challenge and an opportunity. This new Brad Feld book will help you get it right.\"\n\u003cbr\u003e\n-Steve Case, Chairman and CEO, Revolution; cofounder, AOL \"I've been fortunate enough to sit on a few startup boards with Brad. His 'less is more' approach to board meetings keeps the process efficient and focused on strategy. If you have any role on a board of directors, stop messing with PowerPoint and read this book right now. I guarantee that you'll get far more satisfaction from your future interactions.\"\n\u003cbr\u003e\n-David Cohen, CEO, Techstars \"Having sat on multiple boards with Brad and his partners at Foundry Group as well as currently being the CEO of GetSatisfaction, I greatly appreciate the power of an effective board for a fast-growing startup. This book shows you the way.\"\n\u003cbr\u003e\n-Wendy Lea, CEO, GetSatisfaction \"An excellent board can dramatically help an entrepreneur while a lousy board can sink a company. This book can help you learn how to be on the right side of that equation.\"\n\u003cbr\u003e\n-Craig Dauchy, Partner and Head of Venture Capital Group, Cooley LLP \"Having been involved early on the Zynga board with Brad, we both experienced a radically new board approach while scaling up a company at an unprecedented pace. While there is a time and place for traditional board governance, an active, involved, and engaged board is required for any startup. Learn how to do it right in this book.\"\n\u003cbr\u003e\n-J. Sanford (Sandy) Miller, General Partner, Institutional Venture Partners \"Brad is a powerful force in the universe and his board-level membership was a booster rocket that helped us grow so fast. This book will help make CEOs more effective at dealing with the personalities that can be on a board, and I would consider it required reading for any board member so they can amplify their impact.\"\n\u003cbr\u003e\n-Bre Pettis, CEO, MakerBot \"While board meetings should be helpful to entrepreneurs, many find them to be worthless and tedious. This book creates a framework for developing a high-functioning board that is a real asset to a company's success.\"\n\u003cbr\u003e\n-Jason Mendelson, Managing Director, Foundry Group","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons Inc","offers":[{"title":"Used - like new","offer_id":53827249635670,"sku":"9781118443668-N","price":21.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9781118443668_1.jpg?v=1781827049","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/brad-feld-startup-boards-getting-the-most-out-of-your-board-of-directors-9781118443668","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}