Start-up Starters

The game is played by all founding members. Every founder gets 5 cards. Taking turns, every founder chooses one card to put on the table. Work with that card before putting the next card on the table, and so on. Play as many rounds as you feel, depending on time and energy. 


Playing Start-up Starters results in more clarity about the role of the founding team, as well as actionable feedback and relentless client focus. The game is underpinned by a decade of coaching hundreds of start-ups, ground-breaking scientific studies and validated by highly successful founding teams. In short, a game changer for start-ups!

-Invaluable toolkit for startups.
-Learn how you as a founding team can foster a growth culture where people thrive.
-Exciting card game with quotes to inspire dialogue, dilemma’s to challenge alignment and exercises to strengthen ties and build a better startup. 

Author

Tijs Besieux advised 200 startups in the last 10 years. He has a PhD in Leadership and works for imec.istart, the #1 university-linked accelerator worldwide. He is an author for leading magazines like Harvard Business Review.


Tijs Besieux is a social psychologist with over 10 years’ experience working for corporate boards and start-up founding teams. Clients include Deloitte and BNP. He has delivered over 500 workshops around the globe, facilitated over 1000 hours of coaching, advised more than 200 start-ups and published more than 20 articles and book chapters in top tier journals, including the Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Review article: 
https://hbr.org/2022/05/the-art-of-asking-great-questionsusiness Review.