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Startup Founder Essentials — Course 8: Co-founders, Equity, Teams and Governance
Make evidence-led decisions about co-founders, equity, early team design, decision authority, governance and founder change.
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Startup Founder EssentialsCourse 8 of 12
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- Decide whether the venture needs a co-founderDefine the work and commitment required before deciding whether the answer is a co-founder, another resourcing route or no additional person yet.
- Establish founder alignment before permanent commitmentsSurface ambition, commitment, risk and working expectations, then distinguish negotiable differences from conditions that make the current partnership unacceptable.
- Reason about founder equity and dilutionSeparate ownership from role, pay and authority; compare allocation rationales; and calculate simple dilution without mistaking percentage ownership for value or control.
- Design roles, authority and the first team additionsDefine outcomes and decision rights before choosing titles or adding permanent people.
- Use governance to protect decisions, not founder statusDistinguish shareholder, director, board and executive capacities and route material decisions through the authority that actually governs them.
- Prepare for disagreement, absence and departureBuild an escalation and continuity route that can handle conflict or founder change without informal ownership or authority decisions.
- Conceptual recall — founder-team foundationsPractise the distinctions and boundaries needed to reason about founder formation, ownership, roles and governance.
- Reasoning assessment — founder decisions under changeApply founder-team, equity and governance distinctions to bounded decisions with incomplete evidence and changing commitments.