Cofounding The Right Way
A practical guide to successful business partnerships
Jobs & Wozniak, Page & Brin, Ben & Jerry... many successful companies seem to have co-founders who are a match made in heaven. The benefits are obvious: by combining resources, knowledge, expertise and motivation, cofounders can often build something far more successful together compared to going solo.
And yet... two-thirds of startups fail because of disagreements between founders. Why? Because building a great cofounding team isn’t simple or easy.
In fact, there are seven steps required to build cofounding teams that win and last. Cofounding The Right Way will take you through these steps, one simple step at a time, from finding the right cofounders all the way through to structuring your team, splitting the equity, making sure everyone stays motivated and documenting it in your cofounding agreement. Is a partnership even right for you in the first place? That’s Step No. 1!
Get your cofounding team right, and you can handle any challenge that’s thrown in your direction. Get it wrong and not even the best business idea will be able to survive. Cofounding The Right Way will take you by the hand and help you to get it right.
Foreword by Mike Moyer, author of The Slicing Pie.
For who is this book?
for founders who want to build cofounding teams that win and last
for founders whose cofounding teams are not working as they wish and they want to know how to fix it
This book will make sure that:
you will not be among the 2/3 of start-ups that fail because of cofounder people problems
you will not get ‘married’ to the wrong cofounder
you allocate your equity fairly
you will build successful, sustainable and high performing cofounding team
your team will be able to deal with the uncertain future
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