While younger private companies are not under the same regulatory scrutiny as public companies, the state law requirements apply, and many of the same elements of a sound governance program also apply equally to these companies. Kris Veaco explains the elements of a sound governance program for VC-backed companies and why they are important to have in place.

Kris Veaco
Kristina Veaco is a corporate securities lawyer and has been advising public companies on securities law compliance and corporate governance for many years. Most recently she ran the Corporate Secretary's Office at McKesson Corporation. She formed Veaco Group in 2006 to provide practical corporate governance services including the corporate secretary function, from her unique in-house perspective, to resource-constrained companies of all sizes and stages of development. www.veacogroup.com

Pascal Levensohn
Pascal Levensohn is the Founder and Managing Director of Levensohn Venture Partners. He has written two major white papers on the subject of VC board governance best practices, which are freely available at www.levp.com/news. An avid blogger, Pascal posts about interfaith dialogue, foreign policy, and VC industry trends at www.pascalsview.com.

Steve Reale interviews Bill Hildebolt from ExpoTV on how to successfully raise money from and work with angel investors. In a free-flowing, two way discussion, they cover a wide variety of topics including how to identify and close angels, how to properly structure the investment for both short and long term success and even differences between angel investing on the east and west coast.

Bill Hildebolt
Bill Hildebolt is the President and Co-founder of Expo TV where he oversees Finance, Operations and Business Development. He helped design the company's landmark Videopinions^SM product and has been leading the company's push into content syndication. Prior to co-founding Expo in 2004, Bill spent over ten years in finance. Most recently, he was a Principal at General Atlantic Partners, a technology focused private equity firm in Greenwich, Connecticut. You can read very sporadically written blog posts from him at the Collision of Commerce and Media and Life As a Start-up.

Steve Reale
Steve Reale is a General Partner at Levensohn Venture Partners where he focuses on enterprise software, communications and semiconductor technologies. Steve also actively researches the clean-tech investment space.