What can you do as a startup CEO, what requires approval by the Board of Directors, and what needs a shareholder vote? How do those meetings work, and how do you make them official?

Creating and growing a company can be an incredible experience, but you will have days that seriously suck. Because I frequently talk about how challenging launching a startup can be, I want to share my worst day as a founder.

Most successful startups will eventually outgrow their founding CEO. If you handle it correctly, you can have a good experience and an even better long-term outcome. Here’s what happened to me.

Founder stock vesting can be a touchy subject. If an investor asks you to vest your shares, you might worry that you will lose control or that they will take your ownership and kick you out.

In startups, resources are critically limited. What are you going to build, and more importantly, what will not get built?

Most founders talk way too fast when pitching leaving investors baffled about what they are talking about.

Startup advice, in the form of a recipe or template for success, can cause more harm than good. Learn what to look out for.

I want to talk about a different way of thinking about your competitive environment. Your competition isn't just the other companies in your space.

A follow-up interview with Che Voigt, chair of the North Bay Angels and co-founder and CEO of Altwork.

When I founded Anonymizer, I struggled with selling and marketing our solutions. I share how I overcame my science habits and prejudices to become effective at it.

Michele Chaboudy, experienced senior executive, serial entrepreneur, consultant, angel investor, and vice-chair of the north bay angels shares tons of useful advice for any founder or CEO.

Lisa Tamayo, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, CEO/Co-founder of Scollar, talked about their pivot from product to platform, and shared her hard-won experience about the startup process.

If you need to choose a problem to solve, identify your customers, and settle on a solution. This framework will help you through the process.

Iris Fujiura, Chapter Lead of the Silicon Valley chapter of Golden Seeds, and an engineer/executive working on rockets and launch systems, provides great insight into angel investor priorities, and what makes for a successful funding pitch.

Che Voigt, co-founder and CEO of AltWork and chair of the North Bay Angels, talks about their innovative workstation and how the work from home trend is driving sales and their experiences with a China based supply chain during COVID.

The busyness trap is when you get caught in a pattern of doing a lot but accomplishing little. I share some approaches to escaping from that trap.

Learn how to launch a company without savings or investment.

What’s the difference between an intentional pivot and just having no clear direction? Learn to achieve focus with flexibility.

Founders often feel like frauds. Learn the nearly universal reality of impostor syndrome.

Almost all successful companies share one thing in common: a pivot. Learning and adapting can be the best path to growth and success.

Passion provides a gigantic competitive advantage. Learn how to connect your business to your passion.

As a human, you don’t scale well. That means delegating, which can be painful but is the only path to growth.

Making a video while evacuated from a massive wildfire helped me think about my priorities and when to push through difficulties.

You want to keep control of your startup, but that does not mean you need to keep 51% ownership. Learn what really matters here.

What are the best ways to use stock options to motivate employees?

What are stock options, and how do you explain them to your employees so they appreciate them?