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Advice and insights for hiring and scaling executive talent, curated by the experts at Bolster.
We asked our team of executive recruiters to share the hiring trends they expect to see in 2025.

What Startup Corporate Boards Look Like

Startup Boards for CXOs Series: Post 1 of 12. Unless you’ve been a startup executive with regular interactions with a board and regular attendance at board meetings, you’re unlikely to know what a startup board looks like, how it functions, and what you can do to make a big impact.

The Purpose of a Board

Startup Boards for CEOs Series: Post 1 of 9. Any series of blog posts about boards should start with the basics. Why have a board in the first place? What do they do? How big should they be? Do you really even need one?

Fractional CXOs (Executives): What They Are and What They Do

You may be wondering, what exactly is a fractional executive? A fractional executive is an up-and-coming type of executive gig role.

Introducing the Bolster Board Benchmarking Survey

Our Board Benchmarking survey will shed light on the independence, diversity, and compensation of private company boards that’s never been available on a broad basis before.

The New Way to Scale a Board of Directors

Learn more about how to most effectively scale your board to support your company’s success

How On-Demand Executives help existing leaders

On-Demand Executives help CEOs and existing leaders, allowing you to scale from within your employee base instead of hiring externally, increasing your chance of success with the role.

Our First Member Service - Health Insurance

You asked, we listened! Bolster creates partnership to offer health, dental, vision and life insurance.

Bolster Delivers Fractional and Interim Execs

Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, it was clear that there was a better way to connect high-end, experienced and vetted senior talent to startups. Kevin Lee with eMarketing Association sits down with Matt Blumberg to discuss the opportunity and learn more about Bolster.

Zoomsites

Moving offsites to Zoomsites. I’ve attended two remote conferences recently. Both hold interesting lessons for how these kinds of events can work well.

Executive Talent Marketplace Bolster Launches With a New Way to Scale Executive Teams and Boards

Welcome to Bolster, the on-demand executive talent marketplace. We are creating a platform that is the new way to scale an executive team.

What Kind of Gig Economy Executive Are You?

The major societal trend to “gig” has reached the C-Suite. Bolster was started to help organize a talent marketplace out of what is mostly an informal economy today.

The Gig Economy Executive

The gig economy is a labor market where short-term, or freelance, roles are more prevalent than permanent positions.

The New Way to Scale an Executive Team

Bolster was started to create a new way for startup and scaleup CEOs to think about growing their leadership teams. Why do CEOs need help with this?