The Founder's Dilemmas | EBBC Antwerp

We ACTIVATE (y)our KNOWLEDGEAtEBBCwe strongly believe inself-education. Knowledge is power, right? Self-education combined withsocial learningis what we strive for. This makes a dangerously interesting cocktail, best served to anambitious,entrepreneurialandenthusiasticcrowd.Every month the members of EBBCget togetherto actively engage around a (business related) book or an interesting topic. These sessions are moderated by knowledgeable members, authors or industry/subject matter experts. Figuring out how to apply certainconceptsin the real world, sharingpersonal experiencesand generatingnew ideasare only a few of the outcomes we look for during each get-together. Additionally, we take the time topitch business ideas,give feedbackand invite interested new people tojoin one of our sessions.

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Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup

Dunden

The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup---------About the bookOften downplayed in the excitement of starting up a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will should they go it alone, or bring in cofounders, hires, and investors to help build the business? More than just financial rewards are at stake. Friendships and relationships can suffer. Bad decisions at the inception of a promising venture lay the foundations for its eventual ruin. The Founder's Dilemmas is the first book to examine the early decisions by entrepreneurs that can make or break a startup and its team. Drawing on a decade of research, Noam Wasserman reveals the common pitfalls founders face and how to avoid them. He looks at whether it is a good idea to cofound with friends or relatives, how and when to split the equity within the founding team, and how to recognize when a successful founder-CEO should exit or be fired. Wasserman explains how to anticipate, avoid, or recover from disastrous mistakes that can splinter a founding team, strip founders of control, and leave founders without a financial payoff for their hard work and innovative ideas. He highlights the need at each step to strike a careful balance between controlling the startup and attracting the best resources to grow it, and demonstrates why the easy short-term choice is often the most perilous in the long term.---------About the sessionIn this session Daniele will guide us through these fascinating ideas! Join us for this interactive session!You don’t need to have read the book, but you’ll get more out of it if you explore these videos before joining:<ul><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhmvwOevsSo" title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhmvwOevsSo" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Noam Wasserman: The Founder's Dilemmas [Entire Talk]</a> (24mins)</li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0WNLLI2gPs" title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0WNLLI2gPs" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Founder's Dilemmas by Noam Wasserman: 13 Minute Summary</a> (13mins)</li></ul> ---------At EBBC, our goal is to give people who are serious about their career, personal life and self-development a platform to activate what they read and exchange thoughts with other driven people.Welcome at <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/dunden/" title="https://www.linkedin.com/company/dunden/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dunden </a>as of 19h and starting the session at 19.30h!If you have joined our sessions before, there's no need to register on Eventbrite. Please register in our WhatsApp group event.The author of the book will not be present during this session. This is by and for the EBBC community and other curious minds.

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