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Leadership · 23 min

The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship)

By Noam Wasserman

Founding a startup is less about brilliant ideas and more about navigating a continuous series of profound, often personal, dilemmas. This episode dissects the unseen battles founders face, where choices between competing desirable outcomes ultimately shape their venture's destiny, moving beyond the romanticized view of entrepreneurship.

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“Founding a startup is less about brilliant ideas and more about navigating a continuous series of profound, often personal, dilemmas. This episode dissects the unseen battles founders face, where choices between competing desirable outcomes ultimately shape their venture's destiny, moving beyond the romanticized view of entrepreneurship.”

— Noam Wasserman, The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship)

What it is about

startup dilemmas, entrepreneurship, founding teams

Who it is for

Best suited to listeners who want a clearer working understanding of startup dilemmas, entrepreneurship, founding teams and better judgment in how they apply it.

The author

Noam Wasserman brings a credible and useful lens to startup dilemmas, entrepreneurship, founding teams, with enough subject command to make the book worth hearing.

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Noam Wasserman

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