Dr. Wasserman received the HBS Faculty Teaching Award and the Academy of Management’s 2010 Innovation in Pedagogy Award for “Founders’ Dilemmas,” an MBA elective he developed and teaches. In 2011, the course was named one of the top entrepreneurship courses in the country by Inc. magazine. Recently, business writer Jen Hickey interviewed Prof. Wasserman via email to discuss some of the common pitfalls facing founders of start-ups.