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StartupTherapy™ and Lost Founders! Oh no!
I have long (sort of) joked that you either get StartupTherapy™ or the founding team ends up in serious therapy. But the reality is, entrepreneurship will test you and it will test your relationships, so prepare for it, and address it. One thing that can be deadly is the issue of lost founders. What’s a lost founder? Someone (or someones) who help found the company, get a big chunk of founder’s equity and then walk away from the hard work of building a business. I won’t go into some of the reasons why this happens, in the heady early days, no one can imagine it won’t be a quick path to untold riches! But, founders do, in fact, walk away, and more commonly than you might think...
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