Five questions (and a tool) to help make your equity restructuring negotiation easier for everyone involved Navigating the complexities of restructuring your co-founder equity can be daunting. You’ll often hit a wall while looking for advice online due to the inherent confidentiality of equity restructuring negotiations. As a mediator with…

All the non-legal provisions you should put in your agreement to keep your startup team high-performing. Starting a business is exciting. Especially so if you’re teaming up with people you’re excited to work with. After you and your co-founders have decided on titles, duties, and responsibilities, don’t forget the key…

You gotta be willing to look inward and see that how you talk is more nuanced than you think, especially when you disagree with someone. As Daniel Goleman coined in 1995 through his book Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than IQ, the amygdala (the portion of the brain…

Five steps to evaluate the business relationship — and what to do should you need to go your separate ways. Recently, I spoke with Samantha. A first-time founder who had been working on her business for the last three years. Samantha and her co-founder had recently achieved product-market fit. They…

We’ll have to go beyond arguing in a post-COVID-19 world and learn how to collaborate with people who think differently than us. There’s an energy present in the world right now unlike anything I’ve ever experienced. People are rising up in the streets to demand racial justice. A global pandemic…

How to seize this moment — and implement new radical ideas to our democracy — so history stops repeating itself once and for all. These last few weeks have been hard. I’ve been fired up. Anxious. …

It’s more important than ever that we prepare for a post-COVID-19 world that collaborates together to solve our problems. As I sat at my desk viewing the protests that had engulfed the United States recently, I thought to myself, “When did we start viewing each other as the enemy?” The…

Taking care of yourself first is the best thing you can do for yourself right now. But when the world suddenly becomes virtual and you have no choice but to connect remotely to get work done, get your emotional support and social connection, and even order toilet paper and other…

A better way to manage remote teams when the entire company is remote. “I made a lot of costly mistakes in the beginning,” said Alina Trigubenko, Co-Founder of Awarenow, a startup that is creating business management software for coaching organizations. As Alina and I sat down to talk about her…