Lore has it that when Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page raised some $25 million from venture capital icons Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia … [Read more...]
Small-Cap Takeaways From Facebook’s Year of Falling Face-First
By most measures, 2018 was a tough year for Facebook. In addition to losing nearly a quarter of its stock market value between June and December, … [Read more...]
A Resolution for Governance “Experts”
Every week I sit with small-cap board members who are confused by what they read in governance books and articles and hear at conferences. Sometimes I … [Read more...]
Boardrooms, Abbey Road, and Mountaineering
Adam J. Epstein has a wide-ranging (and sometimes lighthearted) discussion with BoardProspects CEO, Mark Rogers. On book writing, catch phrases, … [Read more...]
Tesla’s Board Was A Buy-Side Failure
Countless articles have been written, and interviews undertaken, in the last couple of months regarding Tesla’s travails, and the behavior of its CEO, … [Read more...]
Everything You Wanted to Know About Microcap Boards
A recent, groundbreaking piece of research entitled Microcap Board Governance (which was undertaken by Annalisa Barrett and commissioned by IRRC … [Read more...]
The Transition from Large-Cap to Small-Cap Boardrooms Can Be a Rocky One
Experienced small-cap investors are often circumspect when large-cap officers and directors join the board of a small-cap company. Precedent suggests … [Read more...]
Legal and CorpGov Best Practices Aren’t Always Aligned
“Well, if our corporate counsel’s principal role isn’t to guide the board with respect to best practices, then why are we paying them so much to … [Read more...]
Boardroom Lessons from Theranos
Thanks to John Carreyrou’s Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting in The Wall Street Journal, and his new book, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon … [Read more...]
An Unsung Hero from the Theranos Board
By now, everyone has heard of or read about Theranos. The consumer healthcare startup vowed to revolutionize the blood testing industry by … [Read more...]
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