The Next Founder Table of Contents
The Next Founder helps founders build great startups. We offer advice on managing your mental health and productivity, hiring and managing great people, building a strong culture, and keeping people aligned and working on the right things. See the series overview at Welcome to The Next Founder and find out more about me at My Story.
In this table of contents, you’ll find links to all published chapters as well as previews of future ones, which will come out about once per week. Please subscribe to get notified about new chapters. The Next Founder Substack will always be free.
Welcome to The Next Founder — Or what we’ll talk about and why.
My Story — Or why you might want to listen to me and why you might not.
Start Where You Are — Or why you should embrace where you are since you can’t be anywhere else.
Know What You Believe — Or why belief is the engine that powers your startup.
Start Out the Right Way — Or why so much of your startup’s fate is sealed right when you start it.
Ignore the Noise — Or why distractions, excuses, and haters don’t matter.
Embrace Contradiction — Or why you shouldn’t seek simple explanations and easy answers.
Choose Abundance — Or why a leap of faith can land you in a pile of cash.
Grasp Why You Get Paid — Or why if you make it big, it won’t be for the reasons you think.
Be a Learn it All — Or why you’re back in school but with no graduation party.
Be the Adult in the Room — Or why it’s disorienting to look up and see no one there.
Load Up On the Free Things — Or why money is no excuse when you aren’t even doing the free things.
Train like a Startup Athlete — Or why your startup deserves the higher performance version of you.
Unmask Imposter Syndrome — Or why our greatest critic lives rent-free in our heads.
Gaze Into the Abyss — Or why, if you gaze into the abyss, some answers might gaze back.
Embrace the Grind — Or why winning comes from the day in day out grind.
Activate Founder Mode — Or why you have a superpower you need to unleash wisely.
Know Your X’s and Y’s — Or why so many startup management dilemmas come from the same place.
Find Your People — Or why building a great team starts with knowing who you want.
Spread the Good Word — Or how your startup can reach prospects who don’t know you but should.
Scale Step by Step — Or why you can only grow a startup on a solid foundation.