I will be giving a keynote presentation at the “Emerging Ventures” conference in a couple of weeks. Title: “Founder Frustrations” (surprised?). Love to hear from anyone who attends. Feel free to post comments on the talk (or, if posting isn’t…
Monthly Archives: September 2005
Building a Board: The Impact of Company Stage
In response to the original post about the “Building a Board” results (see below), Tim Connors of USVP inquired about the role played by the company’s stage of development. Even though our analyses (and the original blog posting) focus on…
Posted in board of directors, investors
Building a Board: Mentorship? Monitoring?
You’re a founder-CEO with deep technical expertise but little business experience. VCs tell you that they’ll help guide you through the treacherous business issues you’ll face as you grow your business. (In fact, you are having trouble finding any VC…
Posted in board of directors, investors
Preview of Upcoming Posts
In addition to the studies described in posts below, my other Founder Frustration research includes the following studies: Building a Board - In new ventures, do CEO characteristics (prior years of work experience, functional background, founder status) and equity holdings…
Posted in Uncategorized
Executive Compensation and the Founder Discount
Who makes more cash compensation, founders or non-founders? More specifically, taking 2 similar executives (same position-title, similar years of work experience and equity holdings, working in companies that are at the same stage of development), will the executive who was…
Posted in compensation
Founder-CEO Succession
My initial research on Founder Frustrations focused on Founder-CEO Succession, examining the events and circumstances that increased or decreased the chances that the founder-CEO would be replaced as CEO. Not surprisingly, I found that founder-CEOs are much more likely to…
Posted in founder-CEO succession
A Note on My Research Approach and Data
The creation of new organizations is a major driver of economic development (Schumpeter 1934). Despite this, founders, the people who create those new organizations, are largely absent from past academic research. It is much harder to get systematic data on…
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