Founder's Dilemmas
The podcast is based on a best-selling book, The Founder’s Dilemmas, and is grounded in rigorous research into how to avoid the typical startup pitfalls. Co-hosted by Dean Dr. Noam Wasserman (Yeshiva University's Sy Syms School of Business) and Charlie Harary (entrepreneur, CEO, professor and radio host).
Podcasting since 2022 • 45 episodes
Founder's Dilemmas
Latest Episodes
Inside the Top Startup Accelerator, Y Combinator: YU founders Ken Book & Ari Wax of Fluid (Part 2)
Ken Book and Ari Wax go deeper inside the “black box” of the Y Combinator process, explore how the process changed them as founders regarding assessing the quality of their ideas and the speed with which they operate, and describe the way in wh...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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27:58
Inside the Top Startup Accelerator, Y Combinator: YU founders Ken Book & Ari Wax of Fluid (Part 1)
YU students Ken Book and Ari Wax gave up top investment banking opportunities to pursue their startup idea, persevered through rejection from investors and accelerators, and then achieved their dream of being accepted to the top accelerator in ...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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24:26
An IDF Veteran Founds a Drone Startup…then Again Founds 15 Years Later: Asaf Gilboa’s Insights #2
IDF veteran, Harvard MBA, and now serial entrepreneur Asaf Gilboa continues taking us through the most important lessons he has learned. They include: “We need strong views lightly held,” “’You can do anything but not everything’ is very ...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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28:31
An IDF Veteran Founds a Drone Startup…then Founds Again 15 Years Later: Asaf Gilboa’s Insights #1
IDF veteran and Harvard MBA Asaf Gilboa takes us through the most important lessons he learned as a young founder, then honed while working for Amazon and Bridgewater Associates (with their very different mindsets and cultures), and is now appl...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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24:39
Multi-exit founder Eli Portnoy, Pt. 2: How to Make Your Startup Fundable, How and When to Sell
Eli Portnoy, who has founded and sold two significant startups and is working on a third, continues with how to develop an initial idea into a company that will be of interest to venture capitalists, takes us inside the process and challenges o...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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33:52