When you are on safari, you quickly learn about the African Big Five. They are rhinoceros, elephant, buffalo, leopard, and lion. You learn about them because everyone is always talking about them. People are constantly asking each other, “Have you seen the Big Five? How many of the Big Five did you see? Where were the Big Five? Which ones did you see?” The Big Five becomes a mantra of sorts by which people gauge the success of their safari experience. If they see all five of the Big Five, they consider their safari experience to be incredible. If they see four of the Big Five they are pretty happy, and if they only see one of the Big Five, they start planning how if they ever actually do see a lion, they are going to feed the ranger to it. As you can imagine, that type of experience is something that stays with you. And it was from that experience that I came up with “The Big Five for Founding”. The Big Five for Founding are the five things that you absolutely have to do for a sucessful start of your project. In this presentation I suggested 5 important elements of founding coming from the concept of effectuation: MEANS - GOALS - LOSSES - INTERACTION - COMMITMENTS