Comments on: How To Communicate with your Investors between Board Meetings

By: mlevison

mlevison — Thu, 27 May 2010 02:39:59 +0000

Mark - Nivi is right:
- short feedback loops is the principle it leads to the practices you mentioned: bi-weekly releases, iteration demos, ...

Other key principles:
- transparency and honesty begets daily standups; better, more frequent communications; ...iteration demos
- respect for people

The practices are important but when inventing new ones I always go back to the underlying principles.

By: mlevison

mlevison — Thu, 27 May 2010 02:39:59 +0000

By: anshul gupta

anshul gupta — Fri, 14 May 2010 15:26:14 +0000

very nice post.

By: anshul gupta

anshul gupta — Fri, 14 May 2010 15:26:14 +0000

very nice post.

By: paramendra

paramendra — Thu, 13 May 2010 23:32:57 +0000

A very helpful, thorough blog post. I really liked how you shared why you wrote this blog post in the first place.

By: paramendra

paramendra — Thu, 13 May 2010 23:32:57 +0000

A very helpful, thorough blog post. I really liked how you shared why you wrote this blog post in the first place.

By: msuster

msuster — Thu, 13 May 2010 19:15:31 +0000

VC's ARE intro machines. But your point is taken – the intros might be to the wrong people! Thus, controlling which intros your VC's give you is important. Otherwise they become obligations that bear no fruit.

By: msuster

msuster — Thu, 13 May 2010 19:15:31 +0000

By: The Agile Board

The Agile Board — Wed, 12 May 2010 07:55:26 +0000

[...] recently wrote an article on how to respond to board members between meetings. I basically took some time on a weekend and just hacked out what was on my mind. Two people [...]

By: inboulder

inboulder — Mon, 10 May 2010 04:00:33 +0000

"He has high-profile board members and was wondering what do communicate to them between meetings."

what to

"If you want to prevent board meetings simply becoming investor update meetings?"

Do you

"Doing nothing between board meetings to me is like running the “waterfall software development process.” We all know that modern software companies run on the “agile” development process"

FYI: The 'waterfall' vs 'agile' dichotomy is now generally considered bunk in developer world, the cool kids don't talk this way anymore.

"But most VC’s are “intro machines.” "

I think they want to be seen that way, but realistically, VCs are not as well connected as they think, and hence not particularly helpful beyond the cash. A good test of a VC is whether they can get the CEO of a fort 500 on the phone. (with whom they have no prior contact or connection)