Founder's Dilemmas

Catalog description

Within high-potential entrepreneurial ventures, the biggest reason for failure is people problems: the tensions between the founders or the frictions between the founders and the others brought on board to help build the startup. In this course, we tap two decades of rigorous research to delve into the key early decisions that founders make about the people they involve in their startups and the ways in which those decisions tend to separate success from failure. Students learn about and practice potential solutions for decreasing the rate of failure while enhancing the startup's potential impact.