Scale-up and Build Your Business
How to Recognise and Overcome the Critical Challenges of Business Growth and Exit
- 160 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Scale-up and Build Your Business
How to Recognise and Overcome the Critical Challenges of Business Growth and Exit
About this book
How do business founders not only start a business but ensure sustainable growth for the future? This book provides the tools and understanding that enable successful business growth at the scale-up stage.
Scale-up and Build Your Business distils the author's two decades of working with high-growth, high-performing independently owned and managed businesses, including Cobra Beer, Hotel Chocolat, Belvoir Cordials, Thatcher's Cider, Pacific Direct and Go Ape. Over many years David Molian and his colleagues have identified both the drivers that accelerate growth and the blockers that prevent it. Through case histories, industry analyses and numerous examples this book details five key challenges faced by ambitious entrepreneurs, and documents how they overcome them. For each key challenge, this book describes the accelerators and bear traps which will help or hinder the journey to successful growth and the creation of long-term, sustainable, independent value that translates into successful exit.
The lessons within this book will be invaluable for policymakers, advisors and ambitious business founders who want to turn a start-up into a successful and sustainable company. In a period marked by uncertainty and economic stagnation, this guide is more vital than ever.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: growth, and why it matters: Creating value through business growth
- 1 Challenge to growth number one: stick to the knitting: or The art of not selling things you don’t really understand to people you’ve never met
- 2 Challenge to growth number two: money, money, money
- 3 Challenge to growth number three: managerial styles: or why super-heroes need not apply
- 4 Challenge to growth number four: sustainable points of difference: or if you’re not better or different, what right do you have to play in your market?
- 5 Challenge to growth number five: reinventing the business to build further value: Should I stay or should I go?
- Afterword