Distilling Venture Capital

Satya Patel of Homebrew, Steve Blank of lean startup fame and Aaron Harris of Y-Combinator wrote three amazing posts about founders, co-founders, founding teams and founding CEOs. In this episode, Mark W King explores their best thinking and explains what you need to know. Start-ups Are Hard. Don't Go It Alone by Satya Patel, Partner at seed fund Homebrew Ventures Satya does a great job explaining why founders need co-founders both for their own sake and the sake of their start-ups. Building Great Founding Teams by Steve Blank, author of The Start-up Owners Manual Lean start-up pioneer Steve Blank provides useful definitions for founder, co-founders and the founding CEO. Co-founder Management by Aaron K Harris, Partner at start-up accelerator Y-Combinator Small teams working in close quarters in high pressure situations always creates challenges. Aaron offers practical advice for how teams can be successful working together. Bonus Material - More About Satay Patel How he describes himself:  "Currently Partner