Founders

I spent months interviewing founders who had successful exits and was surprised by what I found.

People problems are the hardest kind. Here, six business leaders share the ones that kept them up at night.

Here are six questions investors are quietly asking before they ever mention your pitch deck.

The companies that scale aren't led by founders with all the answers — they're led by founders who create cultures where better answers can challenge their own.

A serial investor breaks down five hard truths about entrepreneurship that unicorn headlines conveniently leave out, from boring early momentum to the personal toll no one talks about.

Credibility underpins how the market perceives risk and trust. With strong credibility, your sales cycles are shorter, win rates go up and you have less friction at every stage of growth.

False confidence in surface-level privacy tools creates a dangerous blind spot, where founders assume data is protected while failing to understand how exposure actually accumulates across modern systems.

In today's market, consistent founder visibility is no longer optional; it's part of the infrastructure that determines whether momentum compounds or stalls.

Founders pour resources into product, engineering and go-to-market, but routinely underinvest in messaging.

How recognizing inflection points early shapes what it means to truly disrupt an industry — even one you love.

I built a successful company, then decided to start a new one in an industry I was unfamiliar with and became a novice all over again. Here's what that beginner mindset showed me.

Your business doesn't have to have a physical location to be successful — or a lot of employees. Here's the not-so-secret secret to doing it.

Josh and Katy Whalen built Joi + Blokes around hormones and preventative wellness. The founders are betting fertility could be next.

The CEO is the most visible and scrutinized role within a company. Here are five costly pitfalls that first-time CEOs must avoid.

The biggest predictor of success in venture isn't talent or timing — it's what people do when momentum disappears.

SVB's collapse exposed how fragile startup assumptions can be — here's how founders should rethink fundraising to build resilience and protect control.

Uncertainty and setbacks aren't a sign of failure; they're just part of the process. Here's how to be authentic and vulnerable without oversharing.

A jury verdict just cracked open the "platform vs. publisher" mantra, and founders should start treating recommendations as a measurable risk surface.

Founders are still raising capital in 2026. The difference is how prepared they are when they walk into the room.

Hiring a CEO is often celebrated as a sign of scale and maturity, but in reality, it can trigger an identity crisis for founders and a silent power struggle that derails growth.

Founders miscalculate risk when they equate equity with insulation; here's what divorce law actually evaluates instead.