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After being a Founder, the thought of becoming the employee once again may feel like a monumental step backward. But being an employee again does have its advantages.

In order for Founders to stay sane, we have to separate "my startup is failing" from "personal safety."

There's a commonly-held myth that startups get funded with great ideas. But how much truth to that is there, really?

What happens when instead of worrying about the things we want to do, we focus on the things we never, ever want to do again? How can that start to take huge steps in reducing our overall stress?

Nearly every startup deals with a "toxic employee." And every minute we wait to address the issue, we create an even bigger organizational challenge that will be way too hard to tackle down the road.

If you're going to effectively market to your consumer base, you have to go through a process called "customer segmentation." Here's what it is, and how to do it.

Giving equity away is easy. Getting it back is super hard. So while we can get some stock back into our coffers, we have to focus more on how quickly we give it away than how we get it back.

How do Founders go about getting cash out of their startups long before the startups ever cash out themselves?

Over the past few years we've developed a significant work from home policy at Startups.com. Here's what we've learned from our experience.

As Founders, we tend to spend equity like it's free — only to come to learn that equity is not only expensive now, it's way more expensive later as the company grows. And we now hold less of it.