[kirinan]

This is solid advice. I had one of my mentors put it a really elegent way : "Your board should consist of people who fix your weaknesses". Don't have a lot of business contacts? Get a board member who has a huge network. Lack marketing knowledge? Get a board member for that. In a lot of ways its like getting venture capital; wherein you should gather venture capital from experts in the domain you are trying to enter/execute in. Although Im not currently building a board my current venture, this is always one thing that I struggled to find information on: building a board. Maybe I should get a board member who knows how to make a great board...