Founder mentorship Course

How to Lead: Founder Fundamentals

Every entrepreneur deserves great mentorship. It's essential. That's why we spoke to the leaders of legendary businesses such as Atlassian, Canva, Pinterest, and more to bring you advice on finding your motivation, gaining market traction, and building exceptional products and teams.

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Best practices from Stanford, Toast, Zoom, and more
36 stories and lessons for new and aspiring founders
6 exclusive exercises and frameworks

Top leadership lessons

Founder lessons: Finding motivation and purpose

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How great founders source their purpose and stay motivated through good times and bad

Start with the "why" before the "what" and other essential lessons from the founders of Pinterest, Cameo, Chief, and HealthAllies.

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Why learning from customers will get your startup farther than any best practice or playbook

Never assume you already know your customer and more hard-won wisdom from the founders of Zola, Zoom, Twilio, Procore, and BlackLine.

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Tackling product-market fit: Tactics and frameworks for new and future founders

Use smaller deals to prove scale and other great ideas for early-stage growth from the founders of Box, Atlassian, and Shippo.

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Advice or anti-advice? Five founders on the merits of breaking convention

Consume capital cautiously and other unconventional advice from Canva, Guild, Teachable, and Clarity Money.

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Five founder lessons on building resilience and bouncing back from rejection

When you're going through hell, keep going and more courageous advice from Okta, Rocket Lab, Stanford, PagerDuty, and UiPath

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How to build and lead a world-class startup team

Break through bias in the recruitment process and other leadership lessons from PagerDuty, DocuSign, Jasper, Zapier, and Twitter.

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Big picture ideas and career takeaways from six exceptional founders and CEOs

Choose long-term viability over short-term profits and more forward-thinking advice from Wikipedia, KIND, Algolia, StubHub, SendGrid, and Twitter.

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Scaling from $1 to $10 million ARR

Bessemer's early-stage playbook on how to make effective scaling decisions to become a strong Series B+ company

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Starting a business is no easy feat. Making it successful is infinitely harder. This course brings you 36 essential lessons on building and leading companies from exceptional entrepreneurs who've seen and done it all before.