Teaching Event - Founder’s Dilemmas: : Anticipate and Avoid Startup Pitfalls

Learning Objectives:

• Identify which early people decisions can cause problems for founders and their startups.
• Describe the trade-offs of involving cofounders, hires, investors, and board members in startups and apply appropriate frameworks to analyze them systematically.
• Compare and contrast how different institutional environments shape the dilemmas founders are likely to face.
• Analyze the external and internal factors that heighten the chances that a founding team will splinter or that founders will lose their positions as CEOs of startups.
• Reflect on their own motivations for becoming involved in startups and understand how those should affect their founding decisions throughout the lifecycle of the startups

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