Please forward this to ONE friend today and tell them to subscribe here.In part 4 of Mina’s entrepreneurship playbook, we’re talking advisory boards.
Get the advisory board right and it flows into everything. Referrals. GTM strategy. Fundraising. Get it wrong and you end up with folks who use you to rack up LinkedIn recommendations.
Mina and I chat about:
How to identify advisors who bring value versus vanity
The three-introduction test for real advisors
Why you need to drop the “super professional” act
The 90-day trust-building framework
Dozie’s Notes
A few things that stuck with me as I listened through our conversation:
Advisors should be your truth bombs. Everyone in Canada is polite so you’re likely to have everyone saying your idea is fantastic instead of telling you what they really think. Finding a good advisor cuts through that. They tell you what’s actually broken.
Drop the “super professional” act. For many of us from overseas, the instinct is to present yourself as someone who has everything figured out. That’s nonsense. Nobody has their stuff in check. If your advisor doesn’t know what’s broken, how can they advise you? Full disclosure builds trust. And trust opens doors.
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