Blogs & Podcasts

04Jun

Implement These Processes to Successfully Transition from Startup to Scaleup

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“Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.” @fredwilson   So what really hinders companies from progressing successfully through the scale-up phase? One of the fundamental potential barriers is process. A technology start-up can afford to be relatively relaxed on […]
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31May

Bad hires cost your business – so get it right first time!

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  • Hiring, Recruitment, talent
  You’ll already know that bad hires are bad news for your Tech Start-Up or Scale-Up – but have you ever quantified and really considered the true cost?   Why it matters A survey by CareerBuilder found that 27 percent of employers had calculated that bad hires cost their businesses £50,000 each, including missed sales […]
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31May

From Start-Up to Scale-Up: do you have the leadership skills?

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  • leadership, scaleup, startup
The 2nd article in our 3 part Start-up to Scale-up series examines the leadership skills required to transition from nascent start-up to successful scale-up. Everyone knows intuitively what sort of leadership style is needed for a successful start-up. After all, we have grown up with big name entrepreneurs, such as Richard Branson, Steve Jobs and […]
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27May

Why it’s time to focus on your employee value proposition

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  • employee value proposition, employer branding, talent attraction
    Whether you’re a start-up or scale-up, you need to focus on your employee value proposition in order to attract and retain the right people. And yet, most hiring execs struggle to define – in a truly differentiated way – why anyone would want to work in their business. Even if they can articulate […]
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27May

From start-up to scale-up: how to make it through the growth phase

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Every start-up faces a major new challenge once it achieves initial success: how to build a business that will last and prosper. And yet, so many of the most promising, exciting start-ups never actually make it past the early stages. So what are the key challenges scale-ups face and the potential solutions?   Speed and […]
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19May

Hot prospects, not actively looking!

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  • headhunting, passive candidates, talent
  We talk about ‘passive candidates’ a great deal in recruitment. But the fact is, the term is entirely misleading. Firstly, a candidate actually has to apply for something to be classed as a candidate. Those who don’t apply are simply prospects. Equally, prospects are not ‘passive job seekers’ because they aren’t actively job-hunting. And […]
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19May

The Inside Track on Hiring an Entrepreneurial Leader

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  • A-Players, Hiring, leadership, talent
Entrepreneurial leaders are today’s rock stars. Celebrity business people, from Richard Branson through to Mark Zuckerberg are revered worldwide for their entrepreneurial qualities, and today’s business students dream of emulating them.Most businesses, however, are strangled by their own recruiting processes. Very few hiring firms have a robust, effective means of identifying and separating genuine entrepreneurs […]
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16May

Is Your Business Guilty of Unconscious Bias in Hiring?

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  • Diversity, Hiring, Unconscious Bias
The situation may well be familiar. Your leadership team gathers to discuss diversity within the business, whilst apparently failing to notice the fact that the group around the table is largely white, middle-class and middle-aged. Yes, there may be the occasional ‘other’ person who doesn’t fall within this primary demographic but the reality is that […]
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16May

Lost that start-up feeling? How to get it back in your growing business

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  • Organisational Culture, Scale-ups, Start-up Culture
There are very few things that are more contagious than a start-up culture. If you are lucky enough to witness the magic first-hand, you will have been amazed by the dynamism, passion and creativity at play – with a fluid mode of operation and a highly productive, exciting atmosphere that big businesses spend forever trying […]
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