Topics Covered in This Blog (So Far)

Here's the updated "thematic index" to the entries and links in this blog.

"Founders' Dilemmas" MBA Course Content

NEW Post: Course Overview
NEW Post: Introductory Case and "When to Found" Module
NEW Post: "Building the (Founding) Team" Module
NEW Post: New-Venture Hiring Cases
NEW Post: Founder-CEO Succession Cases
NEW Post: Franchising, The Full Life Cycle of a Venture, and Exit Decisions

Rich vs. King: The Entrepreneur's Dilemma

NEW Article: New Article in Harvard Business Review: "The Founder's Dilemma"
Post: Rich vs. King, Around the World
Post: Your Thoughts on Achieving Rich&King?
Post: "Rich vs. King" in HBS's Working Knowledge
Post: "Rich versus King": Charts and Impressions
Post: "Rich versus King": The Core Concept
Paper: Rich versus King (Academy Proceedings 2006)

Co-founder Issues

NEW Post: New: "A Note on the Legal and Tax Implications of Founders' Equity Splits"
Post: The Idea Premium: How Much (Equity) is Your Idea Worth?
Post: Idea People and Their Initial Roles Within Founding Teams
Post: A Second Look at "Idea People" as CEOs: Should vs Do
Post: Equity-Split Results, Part 2: Implications for Team Stability
Post: Equity-Split Results, Part 1: When Do Teams Split Equally?
Post: Splitting the Pie: Jumping the Gun?
Post: Splitting the Pie: Founding Team Equity Splits
Post: Neverland, or Dictatorship?
Post: Founding with Friends, Founding with Strangers?
Post: Equity-Split Adjustments: Not Painful? (third bullet)
Case: Ockham Technologies: Living on the Razor's Edge

Founder-CEO Succession

Post: Yahoo's New Founder-CEO
Post: Interview about Founder-CEO Succession
Post: Bridge CEOs, Revisited
Post: Doomed CEOs and Bridge CEOs
Post: Nike, Cyberposium, and Jim Estill: 3 Takes on Founder-CEO Succession
Post: Succeeding at Founder-CEO Succession? (first bullet)
Post: After the Firing: Initial Research Questions
Post: Founder-CEO Succession
Paper: Founder-CEO Succession (Org Science 2003)
Case: Founder-CEO Succession at Wily Technology

Career Issues

NEW Post: The Gender Gap in Startups, Part 1: Women in IT and Life Sciences Ventures
NEW Post: The Gender Gap in Startups, Part 2: Compensation
Post: The Perils of Being a (Successful) Serial Entrepreneur
Post: Harvard Business Online: "Don't Wait Too Long to Become an Entrepreneur"

Entrepreneurial Compensation

Annual survey site: Compstudy.com (for IT and Life Sciences ventures)
NEW Post: The Gender Gap in Startups, Part 2: Compensation
Post: New Items on Entrepreneurial Compensation
Post: Founder Discounts in "Working Knowledge"
Post: Executive Compensation and the Founder Discount
Post: Changes in Founder Attachment (second bullet)
Paper: Founder Discount paper (AMJ 2006)
Paper: Entrep. Compensation paper (Academy Proceedings 2004)

Vesting and Other Equity Issues

Post: Unlocking Your Golden Handcuffs: How Common is Accelerated Vesting on Change of Control?
Post: Golden Handcuffs and Vesting: Initial Interpretations
Post: Golden Handcuffs and Vesting: Early Analyses
Post: Golden Handcuffs: Summary of Vesting Data

Hiring Issues

Post: Investors (and Managers) as Headhunters: Sources of New-Venture Executives
Post: Hiring Into -- and Demoting Into? -- Executive Positions
Post: Hiring Frustrations: Can Goliath Work in a David-Venture?
Post: HR 101: Hiring and Scaling Challenges

Building a Board

Post: Board problems: Even numbers? Multiple founders?
Post: “Do I Have an Effective Board of Directors? (How Can I Tell??)"
Post: Building a Board: Mentorship? Monitoring?
Post: Building a Board: The Impact of Company Stage
Post: Building a Board: Composition by Company Stage
Case: Ockham Technologies: Living on the Razor's Edge

Investor Issues

Post: Due Diligence As a One-way Street
Post: Due Diligence on Your Investors, Revisited
Post: Thanksgiving Dinner ... With Your Investors (or, "Funding from Friends and Family")
Series: "Upside-down VCs" (internal VC structure and hiring decisions)
- Part 1 (The "First Morning" That Sparked It)
- Part 2 (The Costs Versus Benefits of Junior Hires)
- Part 3 (Synthesis of Comments)
- Part 4 (Other Factors, and Performance Implications)
Series (by Matthew Louie and Cali Tran): "Investor/Entrepreneur Value Expectation Gap"
- Part 1 (Project Overview)
- Part 2 (Entrepreneur Results)
- Part 3 (Entrepreneur vs. Investor)
- A Postscript (Entrepreneur-Investors)

Other Topics

Post: Looking for (Movie) Suggestions: Your Favorite Founder Scenes?
Post: A Look Back, A Look Forward ... and a Request
Post: A Note on My Research Approach and Data

Thanks again to everyone who has been actively participating in this blog-dialogue -- I really appreciate your input!