Steve Hoffman, Chairman of Founders Space | Everything You Wanted to Know About Starting a Business

this week's episode we sit down with Steve Hoffman, Chairman & CEO of Founders Space.Founders Space is one of the world’s leading incubators and accelerators. He’s also an angel investor, limited partner at August Capital, serial entrepreneur, and author of several award-winning books. These include Make Elephants Fly and Surviving a Startup.Hoffman is a serial entrepreneur, founding and exiting two venture-backed startups, in the areas of games and entertainment.Hoffman went on to launch Founders Space after his own successes, with the mission to educate and accelerate entrepreneurs. Founders Space has become one of the top startup accelerators in the world. Hoffman has trained hundreds of startup founders and corporate executives in the art of innovation and provided consulting to many of the world’s largest corporations, including Qualcomm, Huawei, Bosch, Intel, Disney, Warner Brothers, NBC, Gulf Oil, Siemens, and Viacom.

➡️ Talking Points

00:00 — Steve Hoffman, Chairman of Founders Space

08:34 — Lessons learned from working from entrepreneurs around the world.

14:43 — How to start a business, with just an idea.

19:45 — How to hire your first employees.

25:38 — What do you do with bad hires?

29:42 — How to bootstrap a company.

34:14 — What to think about when looking for investors.

42:37 — What is growth leadership?