The Founder Resilience Report
Fuelling founder resilience
A playbook for surviving and thriving in entrepreneurship
92%
of founders identify resilience as the #1 trait required for entrepreneurship
Introducing the Founder Resilience Research
Ask any founder and they’ll say that the path of entrepreneurship can be tough at times. Deeply rewarding and empowering, but tough. The uncertainty, the need for constant adaptation, and the emotional connection make for an exhilarating ride but a cognitively and emotionally challenging one, distinguishing it from other types of leadership. These unique challenges explain why 92% of founders identified resilience as the #1 trait required in our founder research five years ago
Yet little is known about founder resilience and more importantly, how to build it. Our mission with this research was to start to plug that gap and dive into how and why this life of founderhood is different, and learn how we can fuel it effectively.
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of founders feel under high pressure right now
of founders show signs of mental health strain
Founders are driven to make an impact...
Yet they are struggling to perform at their best ...
About the
research
With extensive support from partners across the startup and scaleup ecosystem, nearly 400 entrepreneurs shared their experiences in this research, making it the largest study on founder resilience yet. By examining leadership factors, health, psychological state and founder resilience, it provides a snapshot of founder health and provides evidence-based, actionable insights for surviving and thriving as a founder – both for entrepreneurs themselves and for those enabling them in the startup and investment ecosystem.
The research incorporates the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS) – a validated tool for assessing an individual’s ability to recover and bounce back from challenging situations – which enables a comparison of founders demonstrating high resilience with those demonstrating low resilience so that we can better understand the driving factors underlying highly resilient founderhood.
Founders with high resilience scores
significantly
MORE
healthy
more than
TWICE
as high-performing
In the
report
- What makes the 'job' of founderhood uniquely different to other leadership roles
- The latest snapshot on founder health and psychological states
- The prevalence of anxiety and loneliness in the startup ecosystem
- What founders with high-resilience scores do differently to perform at their best
- Recommendations for founders and ecosystem-builders to kick-start positive change
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Created to fuel the humans behind the world’s startups and scaleups, Foundology’s mission is to ensure every founder in the startup ecosystem has the fuel to thrive in their life of founderhood. Now hundreds of founders meet every month for coaching, peer-learning and cathartic community support. By combining powerful coaching with an epic community of founders, we are cracking real-time problems together, learning from each other and supporting each other through the life of founderhood. Ultimately, it’s about being able to make faster, more informed decisions, with a healthy boost of confidence and resilience along the way. If that sounds like the kind of family you need, join in…
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