Management coaching for successful startup founders

What does it mean to enter scaleup mode?

Scaleups face a fundamentally different challenge from startups, and as a result also need to fundamentally shift their focus and priorities.

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Primary challenge
Product market fit stage
Most limited resource
Primary organizational focus
Primary founder responsibilities
Primary skills required
Primary acquisition & retention focus
Primary scalability focus
Primary insight focus
Primary responsibility focus
Primary training & development focus
Primary risk & compliance focus
Primary privacy & security focus

Scaleup mode

Primary challenge: Exponential growth and market development
Product market fit stage: Struggling to keep up with demand
Most limited resource: Time and attention
Primary organizational focus: Build a great organization
Primary founder responsibilities: Scaleup founder role
Primary skills required: Organizational development
Primary acquisition & retention focus: Acquire and retain employees
Primary scalability focus: Nearly all time spent doing things that scale
Primary insight focus: Managing insight in order to scale more quickly
Primary responsibility focus: Packaging responsibilities into clear and redistributable roles
Primary training & development focus: Organized onboarding and development programmes for both team members and leaders
Primary risk & compliance focus: Ensuring that risk is managed and that work is traceable and compliant
Primary privacy & security focus: Establish policies and responsibilities based on best practices and governmental regulations

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Startup mode

Primary challenge: Searching for a scalable business model
Product market fit stage: Searching for people who are interested in buying our solutions
Most limited resource: Money
Primary organizational focus: Build a great product
Primary founder responsibilities: Startup founder role
Primary skills required: Start a startup
Primary acquisition & retention focus: Aquire and retain clients
Primary scalability focus: Nearly no time spent doing things that scale
Primary insight focus: Obtaining insight in order to reach product/market fit
Primary responsibility focus: Everyone lends a hand everywhere
Primary training & development focus: People figure stuff out for themselves
Primary risk & compliance focus: As little time as possible spent on managing risk & compliance
Primary privacy & security focus: Pragmatic, best effort

In a fast growing scaleup it can be extremely difficult not to get sucked into operational issues. My organizational coach has helped me maintain focus and set aside time to slowly but surely improve the clarity of organizational expectations.

Christoffer Herheim

CEO at Optio Incentives

I’ve tried adopting various holistic tools for organizing work in the past, but none of them stuck. Access to an organizational coach has given me the knowledge and confidence I needed to succeed this time around.

Trond Kaareng Johansen

CEO at Bolt

You have built a great product - now it's time to build a great organization

What does it mean to enter scaleup mode?

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Scaleup mode

Startup mode

Test yourself

Is your organization ready for exponential growth?