UPDATED: Board Meetings are not Status Meetings

Board meetings are working sessions, not status meetings. Here’s how to get the most of yours.

This is an updated version of an older post, and now includes links to templates and other tools to help you prepare for and run your board meetings.

Most startup board meetings are enormous wastes of time. Founders treat their boards like a tribunal who passes judgment on their business, so the board meeting becomes a glorified status meeting where they…