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MBA Mondays: Where To Find Strong Talent
Fred Wilson – May 28, 2012
One of the most vexing problems entrepreneurs face is where to find strong talent for their companies. The kind of people you want to hire for your company are in short supply and they are rarely out looking for a [...] Read more
Twilio’s Nine Things
Fred Wilson – May 27, 2012
In the last MBA Mondays post talking about company culture, I wrote: It helps a lot to have a one pager that outlines the core values of the company. I just saw our portfolio company Twilio's version of that. They [...] Read more
The Twitter “Patent Hack”
Fred Wilson – Apr 18, 2012
Yesterday Twitter announced that they plan to amend the assignments agreements that they sign with their employees. They call this proposed amendment the Innovator's Patent Agreement. I've been aware of this effort inside of Twitter for a while and I [...] Read more
The Board Of Directors: Board Meetings
Fred Wilson – Apr 2, 2012
The Board Meeting is the primary way that Boards function. This post is about making Board meetings effective and helpful for everyone involved. A Board cannot be effective if it doesn't get together frequently. Some Boards meet monthly. I like [...] Read more
The Board Of Directors – Selecting, Electing & Evolving
Fred Wilson – Mar 12, 2012
Every company should have a Board Of Directors. At the start it can simply be a one person board consisting of the founder. But it should not stay that way for long. Because if you are your own board, you [...] Read more
The Board Of Directors: Role and Responsibilities
Fred Wilson – Mar 5, 2012
This is the first of a series of MBA Mondays posts on the topic of The Board Of Directors. I want to dig into the role and responsibilities of the Board as a way to kickoff this series. But first [...] Read more
The Management Team – While Building Product
Fred Wilson – Jan 2, 2012
The first stage of a startup, what I call the Building Product stage is management light. The team should be small. We have portfolio companies like del.icio.us and duck duck go where the Building Product stage was accomplished by one [...] Read more
Scaling The Management Team
Fred Wilson – Dec 26, 2011
My friend Bijan wrote a great post last week about the challenges a startup faces in scaling its team and building a management layer. His post inspired me to start a new series here on MBA Mondays about scaling a [...] Read more
Burn Rate
Fred Wilson – Dec 5, 2011
MBA Mondays is back after a week off. Today we are going to talk about burn rate, or cash burn rate to be more specific. Your burn rate is the speed at which your cash balance is going down. If [...] Read more