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Your Startup Isn't the Only Thing Being Built
First-time founders usually begin by thinking about what they're going to build.
An app.
A service.
A technology.
A marketplace.
A product.
Someth...
Why This Problem?
Why this?
Of all the businesses you could build and all the problems you could solve, why have you chosen this one?
It's a question worth asking because startups are hard.
There...
What Resilience Really Means for a First-Time Founder
Startups have a strange relationship with resilience.
We celebrate persistence.
Never give up.
Keep pushing.
Work harder.
But after listenin...
Why First-Time Founders Need People More Than They Need Answers
The popular mythology of entrepreneurship loves the individual.
The visionary founder.
The brilliant idea.
The person who saw someth...
Why First-Time Founders Don't Need to Know Everything
One of the most dangerous assumptions a first-time founder can make is that everyone else knows what they're doing.
They don't.
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What can training for zero gravity teach you about becoming a startup founder?
For Gianluca Memoli, Co-Founder and CEO ...
There is a persistent myth about entrepreneurship: that founders are a particular kind of person.
They studied the right subject. They started young. They grew up around business. They understand fin...
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Katie Grayson and Zillah Watson used to describe their first pitch conversations like walking a dog on Hampstead Heath during lockdown and hoping someone was listening. This summer, the schools sec...
One of the biggest myths about entrepreneurship is that successful founders start with the perfect idea.
The reality is very different.
When Andy Bird and Steve Baker joined Founder Friday, they sha...
Roxanne Taku and Joana Rocha became co-founders before either of them knew the word for it. They met in a Mandarin class at university in London, moved to China together, and have been building things...
Sharlene Rudd and Vikki Nolan met on the first day of their foundation year at the University of Derby ā Vikki turned up late, sat down next to the nearest empty chair, and found her business partner ...
Julia Marshall-Wessendorf spent years designing landscapes for other people, including as assistant landscape architect on the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park. Shortly after he...
