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Founder and Family Life

Agreements with your partner, a family calendar the company has to respect, childcare and money safety nets, then the weekly rituals and life-stage plans that keep a founder's family close.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Founder and Family Life, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

What it installs.

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🚀 Founding & Startups

Founder and Family Life

Balancing the demands of founding a company with a partner, children and family, and keeping them part of the journey.

  1. Partner conversation on what the startup asks of home
  2. Family red lines the company never takes
  3. Household savings floor and personal guarantee rules
  4. Shared family and company calendar
  5. Childcare map with backup cover for crunch weeks
  6. Founder will, guardianship and life cover check
  7. Partner's file on the company if something happens to you
  8. Baseline of real family time in a normal week
  9. Household load split audit with your partner
  10. Sunday evening family week planning
  11. Protected partner evening each week
  12. Monthly startup-at-home check-in with your partner
  13. One-to-one time with each child
  14. Device-free family dinner
  15. Term calendar sync for school and activities
  16. Nights-away budget for founder travel
  17. Quarterly family review of the startup year
  18. Weekly call with grandparents and extended family
  19. Protected school run mornings
  20. Monthly family money talk on runway and salary
  21. Explaining the startup to your children by age
  22. Talking about startup money fears without blame
  23. How much company detail to share at home
  24. Answering family doubts and unsolicited advice
  25. Founder parental leave options and company precedent
  26. Reading on founder families and parenting under pressure
  27. Five-minute arrival routine at the front door
  28. Household help decision, cleaner, nanny or au pair
  29. Weekly family meal plan for founder weeks
  30. Whose career leads for the next two years
  31. Should your partner work in the company
  32. Taking money from family for the company
  33. Annual family holiday booked before company plans fill
  34. Birthdays, anniversaries and school events locked for the year
  35. Founder parental leave plan with company cover
  36. Family logistics plan for a launch or fundraise crunch
  37. Bringing the family into a company milestone
  38. Founding through pregnancy and a newborn
  39. Founding with school-age children
  40. Founding with teenagers in the house
  41. Single parent founder support network
  42. Both partners running startups
  43. Caring for an ageing parent while founding
  44. Partner as the main earner while you build
  45. Weekly commuting founder living apart from the family
  46. Family conversation before an exit or wind-down
  47. Couples counselling for startup strain
  48. Repairing family trust after a hard company year
  49. A company story book for your children
  50. Ten-year view of the family and the company

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Partner conversation on what the startup asks of home

Most founder partners agree to the company in general and then discover the specifics: the evenings, the salary cut, the weekend investor calls. A single planned conversation, held before the next big commitment such as a raise or a hire, puts the real asks on the table so your partner is choosing them with you rather than absorbing them.

First tasks

  • List the hours, travel, salary and risk the next year will ask of home
  • Book a two-hour slot with your partner with childcare arranged
  • Write down your partner's conditions in their own words
  • Agree a date three months out to revisit the note together

Family red lines the company never takes

Without named exceptions, every family commitment becomes negotiable the moment a customer or investor asks for the slot. Agreeing a short list of protected things, such as bedtime on school nights, birthdays and one weekend day, gives you a ready answer and gives your family something they can count on.

First tasks

  • Draft ten candidate red lines and cut them to the eight that matter most
  • Agree the final list with your partner over a quiet evening
  • Block every red line as recurring busy time in your work calendar
  • Tell your co-founder which slots are off limits and why

Household savings floor and personal guarantee rules

Founders under pressure put family savings into payroll or sign a personal guarantee on an office lease, and the household learns about it later. Agreeing a savings floor the company never touches, and which personal risks need a joint yes, protects the home from the company's worst month.

First tasks

  • Work out three months of real family spending from bank statements
  • Agree the savings floor figure and where that money is held
  • List every personal guarantee or loan you have given the company
  • Write the joint-yes rules on one page and both sign it

Make it yours.

Install Founder and Family Life, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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