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Category - Scaleup

A scaleup business is a successful startup that is now ready to press ahead and move beyond 10 or 20 staff and aim for the unicorn status of a successful scaleup.

Founders Path Maze
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Why Founders Are Amaze-ing!

3 months ago

I have conversations with founders on a daily basis whose persistence and resilience is awe inspiring. However, all startup founder paths to success follow similar patterns – where the...

Is This Engaging For You
  • Founders
  • Scaleup
  • Startup
  • Strategy

What Are the Three Most Important Things to Focus on For Your Startup / Scaleup?

4 months ago

Actually, spoiler alert – I already have an answer… and they are: Engagement, Engagement and Engagement! Engagement for your users (well, we know about that), but also, engagement with...

How to Have a Holiday - books
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How to Have a Holiday

7 months ago
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How should resilient startup leaders and founders plan their summer break in 2020? Imagine, we’re back in January 2020, Christmas is done and you are sitting down to plan your summer trip! The...

  • Founders
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  • Scaleup
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Community – the future source of (nearly) all your sales and influence

8 months ago

Coronavirus has reinforced how connected we are to everyone else, and this thread now weaves through nearly everything we do to build our startups…and community. Hence, community building lies at...

  • Marketing Strategy
  • Scaleup
  • Startup

The eCommerce Future of Digital Marketing Post Lockdown

9 months ago

Digital marketing, and in particular, digital advertising is holding up surprisingly well in the coronavirus induced recession. In this article we take a deep dive into why that is the case and the...

  • Founders
  • Marketing Strategy
  • Scaleup
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Get Revenue

9 months ago

Revenue is the new growth! So hack revenue – not growth! VCs have been talking about ‘profit’ since We/ WeWork’s IPO fell apart in summer 2019, but we’re now hearing the...

  • Founders
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Startup surviving and thriving in a time of coronavirus!

9 months ago

Why building trust is your ‘go to’ test for emerging safely… Quick take away: if you have only 10 seconds — the secret to firstly survive and then thrive in a time of crisis is to build...

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Successful Selling and Marketing in a Time of Coronavirus

9 months ago

We’ve changed the way we shop and buy since the coronavirus lockdown — in part or in full- so how does selling respond? The shift from problem solving to ‘problem finding’ is a trend that was...

  • Coaching
  • Innovation
  • Scaleup
  • Startup

The New Normal — from life under lockdown to the post crisis world

9 months ago
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If it takes 30 days to change a habit, 6 weeks of lockdown will change society, work and our economy forever — so what will it be like in The New Normal? If you take just one thing, then choose...

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Startup Fundraising and Cashflow in Times of Crisis

10 months ago

What stands out when fundraising in a time of crisis is that the behaviour and mindset of the startup or scaleup founder is more important than ever and especially critical to sourcing...

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  • Founders
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How Do we Build Strong Home Working Teams?

10 months ago

How do you build teams when everyone works from home? How do you manage / control complex projects with distributed teams? Different people will face different challenges working from home, how do...

  • Marketing Strategy
  • Scaleup
  • Startup
  • Strategy

How to Save Your Scaleup

10 months ago

Don’t cut costs — be more radical if your market has suddenly stopped. 12 years ago, I was running a international scaleup as our market got wiped out by the credit crunch. Today, many high...

  • Coaching
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Why Startups Stop Scaling — and How Founders Can Turn Things Around and Grow Stronger for Longer

11 months ago

We have a problem. Too many exciting startups get stuck in the ‘growth gap’ and struggle to expand rapidly. From one nation’s cohort of 2019 ‘best in class’ startups, a year later, only one...

  • Scaleup
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Five Startup and Scaleup Myths and How to Defeat Them

12 months ago

Myth no. 1 “You need a great idea before you start” No, you need two things a) to start b) a question Preferably a good question – one that makes people stop and think… Myth...

Tech and Politics Collide
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Forecast 2030: Tech & Politics Collide

1 year ago

I’m an optimist – despite the horrible politics of the last few years – Trump to Brexit to Orban in Hungry and Putin in Russia – I’m hopeful that the next decade will be a great one! As the...

  • Coaching
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  • The Breakthrough Business Model Canvas

How to Assess if a Startup will Succeed

1 year ago

…how well can you answer this question: What pain / worry / fear / concern is your startup solving or removing? But why is this such a hard question to answer? For some reason - we humans seem...

How to change the world in 3 questions
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How to Change the World in Three Questions

1 year ago
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If you want to change the world, you could do worse than follow the method of Bill Gates – Microsoft co-founder and now philanthropist who, working with his partner and wife, Melinda Gates, has...

11 Great Coaching Questions for Scaleups
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11 Great Coaching Questions for New Scaleups

1 year ago
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Are you ready to scaleup your startup? Here I’m sharing 11 great coaching questions that our clients have used to transition from the startup to the scaleup phase and speed up and smooth out...

  • Scaleup
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The Rise of the Activist Founder

2 years ago
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How mission led startups are poised to change the world… “The thing that stands out is the thing that is different” Marc Andreessen Silicon Valley investors have changed track and are...

  • Leadership
  • Scaleup
  • Startup

Resilience - how to move from Survive to Thrive in the Startup World

2 years ago
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How about we end the struggle of founders creating and building startups? What if we adopt a mission to move from surviving to thriving? No matter what happens to the organisation! Interested? Read...

  • Scaleup
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  • The Breakthrough Business Model Canvas

Completing my own Breakthrough Canvas

2 years ago
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Here’s a photo of me about to write my Breakthrough Canvas at the start of 2019. Yes, I know, as a team we designed and built The Breakthrough Canvas… …then we tested it –...

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To Quit or Not to Quit? That is the question…

2 years ago
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…that keeps every entrepreneur awake at night!   Whether it is wiser to struggle on in the hope of better fortune Or, to cut your losses and exit now before all capital and Reputation is...

  • Leadership
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How to Overcome Co-Founder Fights and Get Your Startup Scaling Again…

2 years ago
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What stops a startup turning into a scaleup and what can you do about it? Since my own fights with fellow business partners back in the noughties, I’ve wondered how I could have done...

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Why purpose fuels your start up – and how you can use it to grow your organisation.

2 years ago
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What Next for your Startup / Scaleup?

2 years ago
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What next? Yes, the ‘back to school’ season is upon us and whilst we remember those butterflies in the stomach, this is also a good time for many of us to seek to reconnect with our...

Breakthrough Canvas Video
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Uncover Breakthroughs… Grow Faster…

2 years ago
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If you are running a startup or scaleup, check out the video above… We’ve worked with new and growing businesses to help them achieve lift-off and magnify growth but also at key points...

  • Funding
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Do you really need / want funding?

3 years ago
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Do you really need or want funding? Perhaps the answer to that question is yes, in which case, why do you want that funding? Or perhaps asking the question about funding will help you better...

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Bring a Challenge – Get a Breakthrough – Chester, 20th June

3 years ago
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Come and join me and a select few others for our Bring a Challenge – Get a Breakthrough session in Chester. Designed for leaders of startup and growth social and business enterprises, this...

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Breakthrough Business Model Canvas – in Manchester

3 years ago
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Last week saw the first Breakthrough Business event using our 2.0 version of the Business Model Canvas on a beautiful evening inside Manchester’s magnificent central library. As always, our...

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