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Entrepreneurs and founders

The Founder’s Dilemma

by Noam Wasserman

From the Magazine (February 2008)

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Every would-be entrepreneur wants to be a Bill Gates, a Phil Knight, or an Anita Roddick, each of whom founded a large company and led it for many years. However, successful CEO-cum-founders are a very rare breed. When I analyzed 212 American start-ups that sprang up in the late 1990s and early 2000s, I discovered that most founders surrendered

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A version of this article appeared in the February 2008 issue of Harvard Business Review.
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