Founder Leverage: Entrepreneur in Residence

Founder's Journey Unplugged

Nov 7 2023 • 29 mins

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