Friday Coffee Meet Up Podcast

Boards are an inevitable part of the startup journey. Your decisions in the early stages of your startup around your cap table and your board structure will persist and have implications throughout the life of your company. Chang Xu will share her experience from sitting on and observing a number of startup boards as well as give advice for how you can set up your board for success. She will dive into topics such as: -- What does a board do? -- What is it useful for and what is it not? -- What rights do they have? -- When do you form a board and is it ever too early? -- What are the benefits vs. tradeoffs? -- Should you give an investor a board seat and how do you choose your first investor board member? -- How do boards evolve over more rounds of financing? -- How does your relationship with your board change? -- How do your rights with respect to your board change? -- What are the features of a well-functioning board vs. a dysfunctional board? -- What precipitates the latter and how do you avoid it? Bio C