Entrepreneurship Would You Rather
Challenging Would You Rather questions for founders and entrepreneurs.
4 chapters~7 min
Startup Dilemmas
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A) bootstrap your startup and own 100% B) raise VC funding and own 20%
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A) build your MVP in one weekend with bugs B) spend 6 months building it perfectly
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A) hire your first employee too early B) wait too long and burn out
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A) pivot your entire business based on user feedback B) stick to your original vision no matter what
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A) focus only on product for a year B) focus only on marketing for a year
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A) launch with a terrible name you can change later B) delay launch until you find the perfect name
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A) have 1000 users who love your product B) 100,000 users who think it's okay
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A) copy a successful competitor's model B) try something completely new and unproven
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A) work on your startup full-time with no income B) keep your day job and work on it part-time
Build in Public
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A) share your revenue numbers publicly every month B) keep all financial data completely private
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A) tweet about your startup's failures and mistakes B) only share your wins and successes
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A) open-source your entire codebase B) keep your code proprietary
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A) share your product roadmap publicly B) keep your plans secret from competitors
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A) respond to every critic of your startup on social media B) ignore all negative comments completely
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A) livestream every coding session while you build your startup B) build it in complete silence and privacy
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A) share your startup costs breakdown publicly B) keep your burn rate private
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A) announce features before building them B) only announce features after they ship
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A) build an audience first then the product B) build the product first then find customers
Investment & Growth
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A) take money from angel investors you like B) take money from a famous VC firm you don't connect with
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A) give up 30% equity for $1M in funding B) grow slowly with just your savings
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A) have one big customer that pays 80% of revenue B) have 100 small customers
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A) pursue profitability from day one B) pursue growth at all costs and worry about profit later
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A) sell your startup for $5M now B) keep building with a chance at $100M in 5 years
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A) join an accelerator and give up 7% equity B) figure everything out on your own
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A) raise a $10M Series A with aggressive growth targets B) stay small and profitable with no outside pressure
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A) have investors who give great advice but want weekly updates B) have hands-off investors who never help
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A) grow your startup 10% month-over-month for 2 years B) grow it 100% once and then plateau
Problem Solving & Conflict
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A) fire an underperforming co-founder who is your friend B) keep them and risk the company
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A) fix technical debt for 3 months B) ship 3 new features customers are asking for
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A) fire a toxic high performer B) keep them because they deliver results
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A) build what customers are asking for B) build what you believe they need
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A) admit your company's major mistake publicly B) fix it quietly and hope no customer notices
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A) have a co-founder who disagrees with you often B) a co-founder who always agrees with everything
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A) spend $50K on lawyers to protect your IP B) risk someone copying your idea
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A) negotiate hard and lose a deal B) accept bad terms to close the deal
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A) tell your team about runway problems early B) protect them from stress until you have a solution
How to Use These Questions
These Would You Rather questions work great for exploring startup values.
- Use at founder meetups as icebreakers
- Discuss with potential co-founders to test compatibility
- There are no right answers - these reveal values and priorities
Why These Questions Matter
Test Co-Founder Alignment
Discover if you share the same values.
Prepare for Real Decisions
These hypotheticals often become real choices.
Frequently asked questions
Good entrepreneur questions present real dilemmas founders face: bootstrap vs VC, building in public vs staying private.
Ready when you are.
36 dilemmas, shuffled fresh every round.