Don’t Hire Your Friends – The Secrets to Building a Great Founding Team
If a startup's team is bad, the company will be bad and probably fail. Building great founding team is the best thing you can do for your company.
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Managing Startup Paradoxes
As a founder, you’ll find that you’re consistently balancing situations that are self-contradictory and have no single resolution. Here's how to prepare the these startup paradoxes.
Build a Founding Team
Being a startup legend sounds cool, and all, but you have a much better chance of success if you build a founding team before building your startup.
Founder Sacrifices – Relationships
There are many sacrifices that founders make when creating and building startups. Some are obvious, like time and money, but others are more difficult to see before they actually happen. Chief among these founder sacrifices - relationships. The time and energy invested in startups can eat away at personal relationships in an insidious way. Founders need to do what they can to try and maintain their important relationships and try to balance them with the effort required to make the startup successful.
Co-Founders vs. First Hires
As we’ve talked about before, we strongly believe that founding teams have a better chance of succeeding than a solo founder does. So, at the beginning, it’s important that the team carefully assess it’s combined skills and knowledge and then
Can I be a Solo Founder?
Have trouble sharing? Playing nicely with others not your thing? Then you may be asking yourself exactly why you shouldn’t found a startup on your own. The fact is, you can be a solo founder. It’s just a tremendously hard
Habits of a Founder – The Startup Playbook
Many parts of a startup are about building habits that support the outcomes that you are seeking. While there are no particular founder habits that guarantee success. There are some common ones that separate good founders from ones that struggle.
The Startup Playbook – Roles of a Founder
Before any other role in your company you are first and foremost a founder. Not the CEO, not the employee, not the executive, and not the face of the company. You are a founder. Understanding that is incredibly important and
The Startup Playbook – Characteristics of a Founder
Are you cut out to be a founder? Most people aren’t and that’s ok. The long hours, emotional ups and downs, the extreme stress, and humbling experiences are difficult for most people to grasp and come to terms with. But,
Just Say No to Co-CEOs – The Startup Playbook
I’m being reminded daily about the difficulty many teams have in establishing any form of decision-making hierarchy. “We’re equal partners in this enterprise.” “We started it together, we’re going to run it together.” “We both [all] provide equal value so
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