1. Adam Moalla
Founder & Managing Director
adam@moalla-ventures.com
9 Steps For Building A Great
Founding Team
2. ABOUT ME
Today
ü Senior Venture Architect at Schenker Ventures
ü Founder & MD at Moalla Ventures
ü Simply Tasks
ü Lableb NLP Solutions
ü Teambay
ü Go Cards
ü Startups Mentoring & Investment
Previously
ü Head of International Product at Bonial Group
ü Founder & CEO of teambay GmbH
ü SaaS HR
ü Started with FI in 2013!!!
Adam Moalla
Founder & Managing Director
adam@moalla-ventures.com
Adam Moalla
adam@moalla-ventures.com
4. Today’s Topic
adam@moalla-ventures.com
- Founders
- The idea
- Founding Team
- The rock on which to build the
startup as a business
- Founding CEO
- Reality distortion field and
comfort chaos
*Steve Blank – Author & Entrepreneur
https://steveblank.com/2013/07/29/building-great-founding-teams/
Founders
Founding
Team
Founding
CEO
Our topic today
13. More than 3 co-founders? Each with a special case?
There are ways to systematically say no! It‘s called excel! J
You don‘t need to do it, but it is good to know there are ways to bring facts into your discussions.
17. what are you GREAT at?
Clear Vission & Mission
Define Needed Responsibilities
(until Profit or Exit)
Start The Search
Think about shares
Start Working FIRST
Practice saying No!
Design the agreement
Legal, set, Go!
IDEA
COMPANY
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Define who will compliment you
The equivilant of salaries.
Lookup similar companies management
teams.
Aim high, ask for advise first.
Ask and Lookup other startups in the space
Sign an NDA & IP ONLY
Avoid non-doers, pretenders, greedies
and non-genralists.
Before reaching out to a lawyer
Always rethink your co-founding team.