Founder Leverage: Entrepreneur in Residence

11/07/23 • 29 min

As a founder, you're often inundated with a myriad of urgent tasks, making it challenging to prioritize the truly critical ones. One highly effective approach to ease the load during the early stages is bringing on board an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR). This dynamic individual can serve as your invaluable partner, working closely with you for a few months, and potentially evolving into a pivotal role within your company, growing alongside it.

What you'll learn:

1️⃣ What is the difference between entrepreneur resident, founder associate, chief of staff, and founder resident?

2️⃣ When is the right time, and why would you hire this role

3️⃣ How we did this at Flinn.ai

4️⃣ The responsibilities of these hires and what should stay with the founder.

5️⃣ How to find or recruit them

6️⃣ What should you look for when hiring this profile

What you'll learn:

1️⃣ What is the difference between entrepreneur resident, founder associate, chief of staff, and founder resident?

2️⃣ When is the right time, and why would you hire this role

3️⃣ How we did this at Flinn.ai

4️⃣ The responsibilities of these hires and what should stay with the founder.

5️⃣ How to find or recruit them

6️⃣ What should you look for when hiring this profile

Previous Episode

Building a Strong Advisor Network

Advisors have been extremely helpful since the beginning of our journey.
They’ve helped us with strategic aspects, valuable customer introductions, feedback on the product itself and understanding of the industry, ... and we wouldn’t be where we are without the advisors we’ve had the chance to work with.
Join us in this podcast episode where we explore how we got our advisors at Flinn Comply, what are the positive outcomes we’ve got, what types of advisors you can get to help your company grow.
What you'll learn:

1️⃣ What is the difference between a business angel and an advisor
2️⃣ What kind of advisors do you need?
3️⃣ How many advisors should someone in an early stage should look for?
4️⃣ Advisory board vs. single advisory sessions
5️⃣ How regularly should you interact with advisors or board of advisors?
6️⃣ Compensation and legal set up

Next Episode

Agile Software Development Best Practices for the Early-Stage

We strongly believe in having a well-structured software development approach early on. In this episode, our tech-co-founder Hasib has joined us, and we are sharing our software development best practices at Flinn.ai and learnings from our last 10 years in agile development.

What you’ll learn:

1️⃣ Why to start introducing a well-structured agile methodology early on.

2️⃣ How to choose the right framework - Kanban vs. Scrum.

3️⃣ Adapting processes for remote teams.

4️⃣ How being flexible within agile methodologies.

5️⃣ Why you should separate product and technical planning.

6️⃣ How to use story points as a key communication tool.

7️⃣ How to make the most of your routines like planning, standup etc.