Every successful endeavor requires a good team. The bigger the endeavor, the bigger the requirement for a high-performing team. Startups flourish (or perish) on the performance of their founders and first hires. Corporations out-perform competitors because employees are their biggest assets. Sports teams become national champions because of the performance of their players. Non-profits and …
Most Common Follies of First-Time Founders
So much has to go right for a startup to survive and thrive, it’s wise to know the most common, avoidable mistakes, made by first-time founders. Many first-time founders don’t know what they don’t know. Others are told, but they just don’t want to hear it and fumble. They lack the good sense needed to …
The Startup Founder Imperative: Balancing the Important with the Immediate
The startup founder imperative is to decisively act on what’s most important and most immediate each week. What’s important and what’s immediate are two very different things. These two decision-drivers also change dramatically at each stage of the venture’s life cycle. For example, what’s most important and most immediate in the conception stage (finding Product-Market Fit while avoiding confirmation …
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