Overview
Build a strong founding team
3h 6min
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Build a strong founding team
The founding team can make or break a startup. This course explains the challenges of building a strong founding team and provides the advice and tools you need to help you address them. It includes interviews with founders who provide their advice, plus 2 important canvases: a Skills Matrix Canvas and a Team Delivery Canvas, which you can use to identify the strengths and weaknesses in your team and the areas where you need to develop.
Created by Ben Graziano.
Learn - core concepts
Find out what it takes to build an effective founding team. Learn about the challenges of being part of a founding team ...
Hear - advice from founders
Several startup founders discuss the importance of building a strong founding team, share the lessons that they have lea ...
Hans-Jörg Dennig and Adrian Burri, the founders of Swiss e-mobility startup BICAR, explain the importance of building a ...
Dimitrios Terzis, the founder of Swiss construction engineering startup Medusoil, explains the importance of building a ...
Explore - optional knowledge from the web
How many founders are too many, and how many are too few and how do you divide equity amongst co-founders?
Who should be in your founding team, how many of you should there be and what roles should you have? These and other imp ...
Entrepreneur and investor Sam Altman explains how to recruit a team to execute your plan.
According to legendary founder Steve Jobs, if you want to be successful, you should build a team focussed on content, no ...
Find out whether to coach, delegate, direct or excite your team members using this simple framework first proposed by co ...
Marc Lehmann, Founder and CEO of an accounting software company, Saasu, provides a calculation methodology that you can ...
Two lawyers share their perspectives of why a Shareholders' Agreement is so important and what key aspects it should inc ...
Venture capital investment template documentation, including a term sheet, an investment agreement, a shareholders agree ...
Apply - tools
Use our Team Skills Canvas to analyze the skills in your team and identify any gaps or areas of overlap and consider how ...
Analyze your team's delivery potential by assessing the likes, dislikes, strengths and weaknesses of your team members.
Slicing Pie is a popular equity split calculator invented by entrepreneur Mike Moyer.