Noam Wasserman is a professor at Harvard Business School.  For more than a decade, his research has focused on founders' early decisions that can make or break the startup and its team. At HBS, he developed and teaches an MBA elective, "Founders' Dilemmas," for which he was awarded the HBS Faculty Teaching Award and the Academy of Management's 2010 Innovation in Pedagogy Award.  In 2011, the course was also named one of the top entrepreneurship courses in the country by Inc. magazine.

His book, The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup, was published in March 2012 by Princeton University Press. Within two weeks, it had become Amazon's #1 book on the Management bestseller list, #1 in New Business Enterprises, and #2 in Popular Economics. The book integrates Wasserman's research results, quantitative data collected over the last decade from 10,000 founders, case studies and conceptual frameworks.  Since 2...

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