Eligible for Flight?
Selection criteria:
As a scale-up venture, you have:
- A compelling 3P (People, planet, profit) vision
- Serious growth potential
- Achieved product/market fit
- Financial health
- 15 – 100 full time employees
- Founders and management team receptive to feedback and change
What you get:
Venture Partner
(1 time / month)
- Strategic sparring partner for CEO and MT
- Helps prepare board sessions
- Works on balanced H1 + H2 + H3 growth efforts
Leadership Coach
(1 day / month)
- Coaching for the full MT on MT dynamics, culture building, organizational development.
- Help build a functioning MT and board dynamics
Expert Sprints
(4 sprints / year)
- Hands-on sprints, skill-building or de-bottlenecking efforts
- Choice of support options from our scale-up success factors.
Ventures in Flight
Focus areas
Scale-up DNA
- Scalability Recalibration: Take a step back and re-calibrate and strengthen the foundation of these Scaling Success factors, including a competitive analysis, business modeling, market forecasting, growth scenarios, impact and value analysis – all leading to a scorecard based on our scale-up success factors
Ambidextrous Leadership
- Dream team design and formation: interrelations, trust base, business requirements and developing/executing a plan to build the team
- Building resilience and ambidexterity: leadership coaching on visioning and making smart bets, driving excellence and situational leadership
- Governance: working with advisory and/or executive boards and improving board dynamics
Strategic Leaps
- Internationalization: guidance to enter a new strategic market abroad including selection, actionable go-to-market strategy, implementation plan and introduction to local partners and opportunity to double-check
- Innovation road-mapping, product development: help to build an innovation roadmap by collecting customer feedback, technology and industry research, predicting bottlenecks, prioritizing feature feature development
Dynamic Structure
- Process Excellence: inventory of best practices and processes worth consolidating, documenting, defining rhythm of feedback loops, assigning responsibility
- Recruitment and onboarding: Define profiles, leverage relationships, structure selection process, manage the process
- Culture: Values, cultural heuristics, unwritten rules, building trust, collaboration
- Business Beat: MT level establishing a functional structure with focus, targets, accountability and transparency
Business Flywheel
- Discover and define the beachhead: “crossing the chasm” sprint: discover, define and describe the beachhead, define how you will dominate this market
- Marketing, sales, growth hacking: create branding and marketing process, optimizing sales strategy, process, lead generation, improve product and sales by A/B testing
- Operational de-bottlenecking, Lean and/or Agile: implement end to end process control, sales, production, delivery all the way to service
- Embedded intelligence: Define your model, find data sources, measure and analyze, re-run the model