A VC: The Board Of Directors: Guest Post From Matt Blumberg
In last week's guest post Scott Kurnit advised entrepreneurs to put a friend on the Board and keep co-founders off. This week we'll continue the theme of "who should be on your Board?" with a re-run of a post that...
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