Optimizely CEO Dan Siroker's Trick For How To Test Investors, Board Members

Dan Siroker, the co-founder and CEO of Optimizely, a Y Combinator-backed company that helps businesses A/B test their webpages, says he’s got a trick for testing prospective investors. He runs them through mock board meetings, he told founders and hackers at Y Combinator’s Startup School today in Cupertino. Siroker says that the classic ways founders meet potential board members don’t work. They’re usually in fancy dinners or pitch meetings on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, where it’s h...