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October 4, 2006
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Surviving Success: When Founders Must Go At some point, a start-up's founder usually cedes CEO responsibilities to a seasoned manager. But what roles does the founder assume next? |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 20, 2006
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Are Company Founders Underpaid? No one says the life of the entrepreneur is glamorous, at least in the start-up phase. But new research from Harvard Business School professor Noam Wasserman suggests below-market pay for company founders. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 21, 2012
Garry Emmons |
How to Sink a Startup Noam Wasserman, author of the recently released book "The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup," discusses ill-advised entrepreneurial behavior. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 7, 2011
Carmen Nobel |
Creating the Founders' Dilemmas Course Students study the quandaries that virtually all entrepreneurs will face when trying to realize the dream of launching a start-up -- from deciding when to start the company to learning how to make a graceful exit. |
HBS Working Knowledge
April 4, 2012 |
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors In his new book, The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup, HBS Associate Professor Noam Wasserman tells readers how to anticipate, avoid, and, if necessary, recover from the landmines that can destroy a nascent company before it has the chance to thrive. |
Inc.
March 2007
Amy Feldman |
Putting Founders First How one VC Firm coddles its CEOs. |
Inc.
September 2007
Max Chafkin |
Who's Behind TheFunded.com? A new website lets entrepreneurs talk trash about their VCs. |
Entrepreneur
February 2010
Asheesh Advani |
A Fairer Share Founder stock is one of the trickier matters for new businesses. Here's how to get it right. |
Registered Rep.
March 20, 2013
Kador & Cohen |
The Devilish Details of Angel Investing Angel investing can be fraught with peril -- for both the investor and the entrepreneur. But the devil's in the details. Here's a guide for mixing business with family and friends. |
Investment Advisor
February 1, 2011
Jeff Joseph |
A Great (and Surprising) Venture Investment Source Many financial advisors are beginning to venture into venture. |
BusinessWeek
February 6, 2006
Jena McGregor |
A Short History Of Unpassed Torches History is littered with the troubled successions of charismatic entrepreneurs and once and future kings. |
Inc.
October 2005
Adam Hanft |
Grist: Save the Founder Every business - no matter how big or how mature - needs an entrepreneur at the helm. |
Inc.
March 1, 2010
Darren Dahl |
How to Read a Term Sheet Looking for venture capital? Here's what you need to know about liquidation preferences and preferred stock |
Investment Advisor
July 2010
Jeff Joseph |
Venture Populist: Founder's Skin-in-the-Game Remember Jobs and Wozniak? Gates and Allen? Don't assume a founder's lack of committed capital to be a stumbling block to a venture's success. |
Inc.
June 1, 2002
Jennifer Reingold |
The Most Dangerous Hire How does an entrepreneur hire a CEO to replace himself? It helps to think about what a CEO really does... |
Inc.
October 15, 2002
Sarah Bartlett |
Seat of the Pants Everyone says that before you launch a company, you've got to write a business plan. So how come so many Inc 500 CEOs skipped that sober exercise? |
BusinessWeek
May 9, 2005
Justin Hibbard |
Startup Millionaires Even Before the IPO These days private equity firms are buying entrepreneurs' stock before their companies reach Wall Street. And Internet ad companies are leading the trend. But not all VCs are thrilled about what's happening. |
Global Services
June 14, 2007
Adyasha Sinha |
Immigrant Entrepreneurs: What's their Education Quotient? A recent report tracks the educational backgrounds of immigrant entrepreneurs and found a strong correlation between educational attainment (particularly in the field of science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and entrepreneurship. |
Inc.
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Leigh Buchanan |
The Office: The Culture Wars Don't let someone - anyone - hijack your company culture. |
Knowledge@Wharton
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Family Ties: Succession Seen Through a Successor's Eyes Like monarchies, one of the thorniest problems family firms face is succession. Over the years, academics have explored factors that can smooth the succession process for family firms. A second-generation successor talks about how the process has gone. |
Fast Company
April 2004
Kerry J. Sulkowicz |
The Corporate Shrink A common problem for family enterprizes is when the founder denies the need to plan for succession. |
BusinessWeek
November 24, 2010
Douglas MacMillan |
So Google's Buying Your Startup. Now What? When Google buys a company, it offers financial incentives and expanded roles to founders it wants to shape into star executives. |
Job Journal
May 11, 2008
Penelope Trunk |
Brazen Careerist: The Quasi-Corporate Life Here are five ways to use entrepreneurship to make your corporate job better. |
Inc.
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Martha E. Mangelsdorf |
Follow the Numbers What the characteristics of the 2000 Inc. 500, Inc.'s list of the fastest-growing privately held U.S. companies, reveal about trends in the national economy... |
Wired
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Clive Thompson |
Why Veteran Visionaries Will Save the World A recent study reports that older geeks are just as successful in developing high tech innovation as young geeks. |
