With the VC money, Evan hired an experienced and expensive leadership team, hoping to develop Odeo quickly enough to stay ahead of foreseeable and formidable conpetitors such as Apple and Yahoo. Yet, as we'll see, the dilemmas they face are surprisingly similar. This introduces further dilemmas. Tim Butler, the cocreator of CareerLeader, I separated the 27, surveys in the CareerLeader database by gender, age cohort people in their 20s, 30s, or 40s and older , and entrepreneurial status entrepreneur or non-entrepreneur. Stronger Career Handcuffs If people accumulate relevant capitals as they gain more work experience, they should become more likely to found a startup the longer they work. One of his earliest memories was attending a flea market with his grandfather: 
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What would happen to the business if she and Dan broke up? There may also be legal handcuffs, such as a noncompete agreement preventing the employee from competing with the employer these tend to be particularly relevant to key senior employees or an employer's claims on intellectual property developed by the employee while working for the employer.
Founders who feel they have gained everything and lost nothing by an early decision that felt like a no-brainer may be in for a nasty surprise later on, when they find out what trade-off they should actually have been considering. When Tim Westergren got the idea to start Pandora, he was entering his 30s and knew he pff more financial stability. Factors Fuonders the "When to Found" Decision As founders accumulate experiences, they also develop mental models or schemata — ways of categorizing and making sense of information.
Some of those disconnects were to be expected for any first-time founder, especially one who hadn't yet worked full-time in the industry, but many could ldf be traced to the "career imprinf Curt had taken from his career in baseball and the mental model he had developed of how organizations work and how people are motivated. They should also maintain a low "personal burn rate" so they don't get used to the handcuffs of a high-priced lifestyle and so they can accumulate seed capital for their eventual startup.
As I will argue, when three factors — career factors, market factors, and personal factors — are all favorable, the decision is easy. In both startups, and then later when he went on to found and lead Twitter before leaving to work on yet another startup, Evan faced key dilemmas — difficult decisions at inportant forks in the road of his entrepreneurial journey — and took steps that would shape the startup's future, affect its value, and help determine his degree of control over it.
Evan eventually sold Blogger to Google and turned next to developing Odeo, teh with an acquaintance who had experience in online audio.
Mvek Khuller observed, "My wife could have been strict. Are many companies competing for scarce resources? They understood their customers and the value proposition of their product, but lacked any background in software design and development.
The Founders Dilemmas (howentrepreneur.com) By Noam Wasserman
Search the history of over billion web pages on the Internet. Genevieve was fortunate enough to have the decision made for her. Similarly, when founders must choose over and over fohnders between profiting from their hard work and keeping control of their own creation, the best way for them to know what to do is to know their own motivations — why are they there in the first fref Many entrepreneurs work in highly uncertain and "noisy" environments in which feedback is ambiguous and based on uncertain evidence.
When founders see all three factors as being favorable — that is, if the situation falls into the small black "bull's-eye" foundera at the center of Figure 2. How can I dispassionately evaluate my idea? No Yes Should I be a solo founder? I learned that leadership is all about taking in information fouunders making a decision — shared information but not shared decisions.
Let's suppose you have started a company and made your brother the chief financial officer, as did one of the founders we will study.
Hunphrey Chen was a potential early-career founder. Thus, I use "high-potential startups.
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In contrast, non-entrepreneurial executives tend to use causal reasoning, foundders which they set a goal and then seek the best ways to achieve it. But his personal circumstance was quite unfavorable — although he didn't fiilly realize it — and about to get worse.
Once he obtained fiinding, Barry struggled with how to manage his newly formed VC-led board, an filemma he had not encountered during his time at GTE.
At each fork in the road, the wrong decision can send the startup over a cliff or bring about the founder's replacement as leader of the expedition. A lack of financing options in many other countries may preclude founders from considering some of the investor-related decisions described in Chapter 9, while a lack foundrs experienced executives might preclude some of the hiring dilemmas described in Chapter 8.
Early Influences A founder is greatly influenced by the family and culture in which he or she grew up and, in some cases, by specific role models. However, in some situations, agreeing to go the "safe" part-time route can reintroduce the career handcuffs and can actually increase risks, slowing down progress and letting the market window slam shut.
Divergences among Can, Do, and Should Thanks to conflict avoidance, path dependence, natural biases, and ignorance of the long-term consequences of their decisions, founders often take actions that diverge considerably from what they should do.
He funded the conpany using his own money along with money from friends, family, and angel investors, intentionally avoiding venture capitalists VCs.
In each unfolding part, we examine the inpact of these players on the startup's outcomes — most centrally, on the stability of the founding team, the valuation of the startup, and the founders' foundes to keep control of the board of directors and the CEO position. The motivations for all groups become more similar in their 40s, with autonomy and altruism appearing in all four top-four lists and variety appearing in three.
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