How can you decide whether to sell your company or take it public? What are the business and often-sensitive personal considerations?  Charlie Harary and Dean Noam Wasserman examine the data and delve into the inside stories of the founders of Nike and of Nantucket Nectars.

R’ Weinberg failed repeatedly before succeeding in founding Aish HaTorah, and attributed his success to those failures. What lessons did he learn about cofounding, pivoting, and managing his own growth aspirations? Charlie Harary and Dean Noam Wasserman explore actionable lessons.

First-time founders look forward to becoming experienced serial entrepreneurs. Are there pitfalls to being a serial entrepreneur? Charlie Harary and Dean Noam Wasserman delve into the data and the inside stories of the founders of Twitter and billion-dollar company New Relic.

After a founder is replaced as CEO, should s/he stay as a lower-level executive, or would that
be the worst scenario? Charlie Harary and Dean Noam Wasserman delve into “The Day After
the Firing” and how that critical transition can be make-or-break for the startup & the founder.

Why do successful founders get fired? What are the early signs that it might happen to you?
The paradox of entrepreneurial success is that your success might result in losing control and
being replaced. Charlie Harary and Dean Noam Wasserman delve into this difficult reality.

A listener asks if it is worthwhile to read books about or by successful founders. Charlie Harary and Dean Noam Wasserman discuss the importance of reading with a critical eye, extracting parts we can emulate while avoiding implicit pitfalls & unrealistic aspects of the success.

Diving deeper into Rewards and founders’ equity splits, Charlie Harary and Dean Noam Wasserman tackle listener questions: Is the startup’s idea valuable, or is the value really “99% perspiration”? Should all 50/50 equity splits be avoided?

One of the most important decisions is how to finance the startup.  For instance, self-fund or raise outside money?  Dean Wasserman introduces a structured way to think about this and other “Rich vs. King” tradeoffs you will face, and delves into it with Charlie Harary.

Does entrepreneurial persistence separate success from failure, or is it actually doubling down and digging yourself a deeper hole? Charlie Harary and Dean Noam Wasserman tackle the truth about persistence – virtue or vice? – in startups and in life.

Charlie Harary and Dean Noam Wasserman tackle listeners’ burning questions about pre-founding and building the founding team. For instance, should you wait for the perfect time to found? Solo found or have three cofounders? Give equity to employees?