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3 Biggest Regrets of Startup Founders
How to avoid their mistakes and build a company (and a life) you love.
“I hate this company,” I said to myself, sitting in the office in San Francisco. “I can’t believe I created this.”
This is how Darius Mirshahzadeh opens his book, The Core Value Equation.
Darius had been successful by any external measure. He was the founder and CEO of a company that would soon hit the $10,000,000 revenue mark. He had 150 employees and a seventeen-thousand-square-foot modern tech office space in the heart of San Francisco’s SOMA district.
And yet, he had serious regrets as a founder.
Is it possible to reach most of your entrepreneurial goals and still wish that you’d done things differently?
My experience working with founders and CEOs for the past 20 years suggests that the answer to the above question is a resounding “yes”.
Despite the dazzling trappings of startup success: funky offices, sleek tools, money in the bank, and a large team, many founders have regrets about how they went about building their business.
Here are the three most common ones that I have come across advising startups and…
