Noam Wasserman

The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup

Common pitfalls founders face in equity disputes, hiring, and capitalization decisions

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Noam Wasserman

Noam Wasserman is a Harvard Business School professor who spent years studying thousands of startups to identify the patterns that lead to founder conflict, equity disputes, and leadership failures. His book The Founder's Dilemmas is widely used in entrepreneurship education.

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