Most board meetings tend to occur monthly. As you go through a few iterations of them you may need to increase or decrease the frequency.

You should think about deviding the meeting into 5 sections: Big picture (15 minutes), Calibration (45-60 minutes), Company building (30 mintues), Working session (1 hour), Closing Remarks (15 minutes). Then adding the following board meeting topics, where appropriate:

• CEO Update
• Highlights since last meeting
• Lowlights/challenges since last meeting
• Where the company needs help (I.e. hiring, partnerships, product, etc)
• Financial performance and updated forecast (quarterly)
• Marketing performance vs. targets
• Revenue/sales performance vs. targets
• Product engagement metrics (signups, downloads, activations, engagement, retention)
• Product delivery and upcoming launches
• Quality of customer experience (NPS but with added context)
• Forward-looking org chat (current team + positions to fill)
• Product roadmap (a view on where the company is heading)
• Engineering and technical update
• Growth team update
• Corporate marketing update
• Business development (list out 10 needle-moving partners and progress on each)
• Operations (if relevant)
• Monthly waterfalls for revenue, burn, cash balance, headcount
• Topic 1 (I.e. Deep dive into a functional area, large partnership opp, or business challenge, etc) - 30 minutes
• Topic 2 (I.e. Deep dive on quarterly company goals, product challenges, etc)
• Feedback for founders, formalities, stock option grants, etc

21 great things to discuss in your Board meeting:

• CEO Update
• Highlights since last meeting
• Lowlights/challenges since last meeting
• Where the company needs help (I.e. hiring, partnerships, product, etc)
• Financial performance and updated forecast (quarterly)
• Marketing performance vs. targets
• Revenue/sales performance vs. targets
• Product engagement metrics (signups, downloads, activations, engagement, retention)
• Product delivery and upcoming launches
• Quality of customer experience (NPS but with added context)
• Forward-looking org chat (current team + positions to fill)
• Product roadmap (a view on where the company is heading)
• Engineering and technical update
• Growth team update
• Corporate marketing update
• Business development (list out 10 needle-moving partners and progress on each)
• Operations (if relevant)
• Monthly waterfalls for revenue, burn, cash balance, headcount
• Topic 1 (I.e. Deep dive into a functional area, large partnership opp, or business challenge, etc) - 30 minutes
• Topic 2 (I.e. Deep dive on quarterly company goals, product challenges, etc)
• Feedback for founders, formalities, stock option grants, etc