Founder Leadership

Setting Boundaries as a Founder: How to Protect Your Time Without Hurting Your Business
Setting Boundaries as a Founder: How to Protect Your Time Without Hurting Your Business
Setting Boundaries as a Founder: How to Protect Your Time Without Hurting Your Business | Kim Vu Journey Your phone keeps buzzing after dinner. A team member needs an answer.... Read more...
Why Is My Team Not Growing? What to Do When Your Team Feels Stuck
Why Is My Team Not Growing? What to Do When Your Team Feels Stuck
Why Is My Team Not Growing? What to Do When Your Team Feels Stuck | Kim Vu Journey Your team is working, but they do not seem to be growing.... Read more...
How to Build a Good Startup Team
How to Build a Good Startup Team
How to Build a Good Startup Team A startup can have a great idea, strong funding, and a capable founder—and still struggle because the wrong people are doing the right... Read more...
Authentic Leadership for Entrepreneurs: How to Lead Without Pretending
Authentic Leadership for Entrepreneurs: How to Lead Without Pretending
Authentic Leadership for Entrepreneurs: How to Lead Without Pretending As a founder, you are constantly being watched. Your team watches how you respond when something goes wrong. Customers notice whether... Read more...
Emotional Intelligence in Leadership: Why It Matters for Entrepreneurs
Emotional Intelligence in Leadership: Why It Matters for Entrepreneurs
Emotional Intelligence in Leadership: Why It Matters for Entrepreneurs You can know your numbers, understand your market, and make smart business decisions—and still create a team that is afraid to... Read more...
Managing Employees as a Founder: Stop Managing Tasks, Start Leading People
Managing Employees as a Founder: Stop Managing Tasks, Start Leading People
After moving from being a solopreneur to leading a team of 10+ employees, I initially thought that the biggest challenge was getting people to be more motivated and take more... Read more...
How to Delegate as a Founder and Become a Better Leader
How to Delegate as a Founder and Become a Better Leader
If you are still doing the work because “it’s faster if I just do it myself,” you do not have a workload problem. You have a delegation problem—and the longer... Read more...
How to Take a Vacation as a Business Owner Without Everything Falling Apart
How to Take a Vacation as a Business Owner Without Everything Falling Apart
If you cannot take a vacation without answering Slack messages, approving decisions, and solving problems from your phone, your business is still too dependent on you. The good news is... Read more...
Founder Control Issues: How to Stop Micromanaging
Founder Control Issues: How to Stop Micromanaging
If you built your business by being responsible, fast, capable, and willing to fix whatever went wrong, those strengths probably helped you survive the early years. But as the business... Read more...
Your Business Doesn't Need More Hours. It Needs Better Efficiency.
Your Business Doesn't Need More Hours. It Needs Better Efficiency.
Last year, I thought AI was going to 10X my SEO. I invested in an AI team, built an AI agent, and expected my already strong SEO operation to become... Read more...
How To Stop Being the Bottleneck and Build a Business That Could Grow
How To Stop Being the Bottleneck and Build a Business That Could Grow
When I first opened a restaurant, I was everything — marketer, salesperson, problem solver, and decision-maker. “I’m the CEO,” I told myself. “This is what CEOs do.” The business was... Read more...
If Your Business Cannot Run Without You, You Don't Own a Business Yet
If Your Business Cannot Run Without You, You Don't Own a Business Yet
In my past, as an F&B startup, I thought I was building a business and building a team. In reality, I was making my business dependent on me. Every decision... Read more...
Building a Leadership Team: When Your Business Needs More Than You
Building a Leadership Team: When Your Business Needs More Than You
You hired people to reduce your workload, but somehow became the manager of everyone. Every decision, approval, and problem still comes back to you. The pattern often looks like this:... Read more...