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  • Understanding Your Economic Model

    Your economic model is a lot more than just your simple accounting statements. When companies are scaling, things become more complex. You must understand the difference between creating economic value despite the losses and when you are just losing money.

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  • Your Team’s Culture

    As companies get bigger, most founders see culture as their main job. Culture is vision, values and tone, and what you end up with is a framework for making decisions and taking action.

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  • Startup Boards

    Brad Feld, entrepreneur and early-stage investor, provides valuable guidance on how to establish a board of directors who will be there to support you, direct you, and call you out when you fall short.

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  • A Board Member’s Perspective

    Drawing on 30 years of experience as a CEO and member of several boards for both public and private companies, Suren Dutia illustrates how building a good board can help better position your company for future success.

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  • Board Functions and Responsibilities

    The board of directors is a formal construct for every company that essentially provides governance for the company. Their duty, in a variety of formal and informal responsibilities, is to ultimately serve the best interest of the company. The CEO should create a transparency with the board that builds the board’s faith in the CEO as the person to run the company.  

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  • Choosing Your Board Members

    You should be as thoughtful about picking your board members as you are about picking your co-founders. You want a set of people with whom you really want to engage and work. Be deliberate about building your board and managing the expectations of the interactions.

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  • What Not to Do

    You may have people asking you questions you’ve heard a million times, and this might cause you to speed through your rehearsed answer. Remember, this is probably the first time they’re hearing it. Slow down and be conscious of your pacing.

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  • Scaling Your Company

    Rory O’Driscoll and Kate Mitchell, partners at Scale Venture Partners, will explain how scaling differs from the startup phase, what kind of metrics you’ll need as you accelerate and what kind of team you’ll need.

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  • Building the Right Team for Growth

    One of the most important things in scaling is the team. The team includes you as the founder, your team and the culture you build. It will entail relinquishing some element of control. This can be difficult, but you can’t properly scale the company without handing over some amount of power.

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