Legal paperwork that quietly decides who owns what
Contractor agreements and IP assignment paperwork rarely feel urgent early on. Skipping them can leave a company’s ownership of its own work genuinely unclear.
The co-founder breakup nobody saw coming
Co-founder splits often look sudden from the outside. Nearly all of them were visible, in hindsight, for months before anyone acted on the warning signs.
A founding team is a bet on how people handle conflict
Founding teams get chosen mostly for complementary skills. What actually determines whether a team survives is how its members handle real disagreement.
Product-market fit is a moving target, not a finish line
Founders talk about product-market fit as a milestone to cross once. In practice, it behaves more like a condition that has to be maintained, not achieved.
The co-founder breakup nobody saw coming
Co-founder splits often look sudden from the outside. Nearly all of them were visible, in hindsight, for months before anyone acted on the warning signs.
A founding team is a bet on how people handle conflict
Founding teams get chosen mostly for complementary skills. What actually determines whether a team survives is how its members handle real disagreement.