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E-Board Strategies: How to Survive and Win (Hardcover)

by Roger Kenny (Author), Ram Charan (Author) "If you've come up with an ingenious idea for a new E-business or are helping someone with a great idea get started, we congratulate you..." (more)
Key Phrases: Dick Kramlich, Elizabeth Tallett, Wall Street (more...)

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What's the secret weapon behind the most successful E-commerce start-ups? Why do some new ventures succeed beyond measure while others fail dismally? The key is a working board of directors -- the kind that rolls ups its sleeves and commits emotionally, offering intellectual capital, networking contacts and operating expertise.

E-Board Strategies: How to Survive and Win offers insight into the challenges that many internet and other emerging companies will encounter as they grow, such as:

-Choosing the right venture capitalists, not necessarily the first ones that come along.

-The changing needs and skills of management and the board.

-Succession planning and being acquired.

-Going public: the risks and timing, how to value the stock and judge the market.

-Choosing a Chair as a senior mentor.

-Refining, changing and redefining the business model.

E:Board Strategies: How to Survive and Win tells the stories of how successful new ventures beat the odds and survived beyond infancy. Required reading for every business leader and all Internet pioneers!

From the Publisher
Authors Ram Charan and Roger Kenny probed the world of emerging companies and Internet start-ups to provide an inside look at how the best E-Boards are a powerful strategic tool that keep the most inexperienced Internet pioneers from failing. In this immensely engaging book are invaluable lessons for both emerging growth companies and mature ones, too.

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Hardcover: 131 pages
Publisher: Riverhead Books,U.S. (June 1, 2000)
ISBN-10: 0615115241
ISBN-13: 978-0615115245
Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,212,469 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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If you've come up with an ingenious idea for a new E-business or are helping someone with a great idea get started, we congratulate you. Read the first page

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Dick Kramlich, Elizabeth Tallett, Wall Street, Henry Schacht, Venetia Kontogouris, Walter Wriston, Art Marks, Torn Loarie

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5.0 out of 5 stars Slender Volume But Speaks Volumes, December 3, 2000

By	Laurence Stybel "Boardoptions.com" (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Roger Kenny is managing partner of Boardroom Consultants and Ram Charan is a consultant and professor at Northwestern University Kellogg School of Business.

The heart of this slender volume is a mention of a study done by the venture capital firm, Onset Ventures. Nearly 80% of startups fail to survive the first 18 months of life. Onset surveyed 360 startups and found that one group had a 70% chance of making it. This group of companies had CEOs who used mentors with experience running both startups and large businesses.

Such mentors can often be developed and effectively employed in a Board of Directors/Board of Advisors capacity.

Effective Boards in startups involve partnership between Board members and managers, not oversight. The term "E-Board" is used to differentiate this kind of structure from the traditional governance-oriented Boards of established companies.

We think this is a book well worth having if you are a CEO or someone interested in serving on a Board. Facilitating and advancing such E-Boards is really what boardoptions.com is all about.

www.boardoptions.com/ Stybel Peabody/Sixty State Street, S. 700/ Boston, MA 02109/ lstybel@stybelpeabody.com

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5.0 out of 5 stars Real examples , real solutions - 4.8 stars, November 9, 2000

By	John A. O'Grady "jjob8" (Atherton, CA) - See all my reviews

Book is particularly applicable to B2B e-commerce companies who are trying to adjust their revenue models on the fly. Amazingly objective narrative, real-life examples from A-list personnel rather than hypothetical case studies differentiates the book from the theoretical drivel that is pervasive today.