# Operations and wellbeing desk

Run the company and look after the founder, in general terms and without advice.

Canonical URL: https://worldenterprise.org/insights/topic/ops/
Last updated: 2026-10-10
Publisher: World Enterprise, run by World Enterprise Group Incorporated

Running a company takes upkeep alongside building it, and the founder is part of that system.

Eight articles follow. One maps the kinds of obligation on a US tax calendar. Another explains what the books are for and what the IRS does and does not prescribe. Another lists the kinds of business insurance a US agency describes and what to ask an agent. Another gives criteria for choosing the tools a company runs on. Another sets out a weekly rhythm for a founder. Another covers meetings, written work and decision records. Another describes a process for a co-founder disagreement and what mediation is. The last covers burnout and where public bodies point for help.

Tax, insurance and health articles are general information, not advice, and each names its public sources.

## Articles

- [Coworking and community: what the research shows about staying power](https://worldenterprise.org/insights/coworking-and-community-what-the-research-shows-about-staying-power/): Does working among other founders help a company last? Two published studies, what they measured, and how to use a shared space or a founder community well.
- [Shutdown data and what survivors do differently](https://worldenterprise.org/insights/shutdown-data-and-what-survivors-do-differently/): Federal closure data for new businesses, how the first-year drop compares across opening years, and what the survivors measurably do differently.
- [The longevity paradox: sprint weekly, endure for a decade](https://worldenterprise.org/insights/the-longevity-paradox-sprint-weekly-endure-for-a-decade/): Early work runs on weekly sprints, yet public survival data runs on decades. What federal survival curves say about pacing a company for the long haul.
- [A weekly operating rhythm for a founder](https://worldenterprise.org/insights/a-weekly-operating-rhythm-for-a-founder/): How a founder can set a repeating week with a plan, protected work blocks, an admin block and a review, borrowing the idea of fixed-length cycles from Scrum.
- [Books and basic accounting for a software startup](https://worldenterprise.org/insights/books-and-basic-accounting-for-a-software-startup/): What keeping books means for a small software company, what the IRS says about records, separate accounts and accounting methods, and what to ask an accountant.
- [Burnout: recognizing it and what to change](https://worldenterprise.org/insights/burnout-recognizing-it-and-what-to-change/): What a US occupational-health institute says burnout is and is not, the six work-design areas a UK regulator ties to stress, and when to talk to a professional.
- [Choosing and managing a small company's software stack](https://worldenterprise.org/insights/choosing-and-managing-a-small-companys-software-stack/): Criteria for choosing a small company's tools and a light routine to keep them in order, using a US consumer-protection agency's data principles.
- [Insurance for a software startup: what exists and what to ask](https://worldenterprise.org/insights/insurance-for-a-software-startup-what-exists-and-what-to-ask/): The kinds of business insurance a US small-business agency lists, what regulators say on workers' compensation and cyber risk, and questions for an agent.
- [Meetings, async work and decision records for a small team](https://worldenterprise.org/insights/meetings-async-work-and-decision-records-for-a-small-team/): How a small team can decide which conversations need a meeting, what to write instead, and how to keep a decision record, using the Scrum Guide and GOV.UK.
- [The tax calendar a US software startup should know exists](https://worldenterprise.org/insights/the-tax-calendar-a-us-software-startup-should-know-exists/): What the IRS tax calendar lists for a small company, how its due dates are worded, and the questions to bring to a tax professional. General information only.
- [Working through a disagreement with a co-founder](https://worldenterprise.org/insights/working-through-a-disagreement-with-a-co-founder/): A general process for a co-founder disagreement, what mediation is according to a US agency and a federal court, and whom to ask for help.