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Mind Someone Else’s Business

Why you should join another company’s board.

As an entrepreneur, you’re busy, busy, busy. You have a company to run, employees to manage, and customers to satisfy. Yet I’m going to suggest that you make time to do something counterintuitive: help manage another business by joining a company’s board.

“It’s connections. It’s learning. It’s getting experience,” says Jane Barratt, founder and CEO of GoldBean, a financial services startup, and a current board

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