Four years ago, at a panel discussion for my Founders’ Dilemmas course that featured a handful of experienced serial entrepreneurs, one of the questions raised by a student was, “What’s the most important piece of advice you’ve ever gotten from…

One of this week’s more intriguing (and controversial) rumors in the IT industry was about Apple’s possible interest in acquiring Twitter. I was planning to use my next blog-post to give an overview of my new MBA course (“Founders’ Dilemmas:…

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On Friday in class, we showed — and discussed — a documentary about life inside a start-up. The movie, “Startup.com,” focuses on the birth and evolution of govWorks.com. In class, we showed scenes that focused on: How the founders’ relationships…

Thank you to everyone who has played a role in building the dialogue within this blog over the last 14 months! I’ve really enjoyed reading your observations and experiences regarding the most critical issues and choices faced by founders and…

Here’s a preview of some upcoming posts to this blog: “Rich versus King” paper, short version — My “Rich vs. King” paper (past postings: core concept and charts and discussion) was recently selected for the Best Paper Proceedings of this…

We wrapped up our semester last week, so I’ll now have more time to crunch numbers, write and revise papers and cases … and, hopefully, do some blogging! Thank you to everyone who either posted comments or emailed me over…

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…

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…