Startup Series

Startup Series: Founder conflicts and key asset ownership

One of the most common disagreements arise from the ownership of things that founders may bring to the potluck called the startup.

Startup Series: Attracting the right talent is a contact sport

Here are some pointers with helping founders find people for their teams.

Startup Series: The art of equity distribution among the early employees

This column draws upon the several startup situations I have been or advised in and covers some essential considerations in such a discussion.

Startup Series: Losing and regaining one’s mojo as a founder

Those in solid founder teams too don't just have a collective experience; they also have their own, personal experiences of the founding journey.

Startup Series: How to be a valuable non-tech co-founder

The excessive media focus on techies as startup founders often makes non-techies doubt their ability to found and build a startup and create value.

Startup Series: Getting help is important; here's how you go about it

Asking for help is an essential founder survival skill.

Startup Series: Going Global from the start is pertinent to enable future success at scale

As we have discussed before in this column series, founders benefit from creating a scaffold, a structure that enables future success at scale, without them needing to come back later and fix things that should have been done right the first time.

Startup Series: Risk and your startup

A healthcare startup founder I know was in a dilemma. For a pretty sizeable chunk of the equity pie, she had agreed to take on as cofounder a tech development guy. He would in turn build the platform which would enable her business model. As delivered, the platform however was far from adequate.

Startup Series: Building your startup’s culture

To be fair, building organisational culture is usually not on many founders’ radars in the early days, when much must be done in very little time.

Startup Series: Pay for a good lawyer!

The advice of a competent, experienced startup lawyer is something founders would do well to pay for.