Alignment, not prestige, is what makes an advisory board relationship work.

EVERYTHING VENTURED. EVERYTHING GAINED.

March is usually the month when the year starts to show its hand.

By now, founders are past the January hype. Fundraising conversations are live. Investors are recalibrating. And boards are starting to ask harder questions about runway, growth and direction in a troubled global economy.

What I am seeing is not less ambition, but a shift in how capital is moving and what is being rewarded.

Some sectors are drawing intense attention. Others are being asked to show not only vision, but staying power.