Leadership Development for First-Time Founder CEOs

Steve Blank’s startup framework is the right place to start: a startup is not a smaller version of a finished company, but a search for a repeatable and scalable business model.

Learn how to turn founder ideas into actionable early-stage business models for startup success.

75% of newly picked CEOs are first-timers. That means the pressure you feel in your first real market shock is not a personal defect; it is the operating condition of the job ( Korn Ferry ) . You know the scene.

75% of newly picked CEOs are now first-timers. If you are a founder stepping into the CEO seat, that statistic changes the question: your situation is no longer unusual, but the expectations are still unforgiving.