Posts tagged scale-up
What Is a Fractional Sales Leader in a Scale-up Business?

A scaleup business faces cash flow issues, a founder wearing too many hats, and an inability to afford full-time senior sales leadership. If any of this sound familiar, your company is likely at a critical juncture when bringing in an Fractional Sales Leader could be the perfect solution.

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The Perspective of the Scale-up CEO

Beyond their qualities, skills, and character traits, here are a few demographics: they tend to be younger (most sources place the average between the late thirties and early forties), they have a technology background, and they were not in business during the last recession in 2007/2008.

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Moving Beyond the Founder - Scaling Through Sales

If there was a playbook for scaling with a perfect record, it would be legendary and omnipresent. There is not! One of the standard steps, though, seems to be the hire of a VP of Sales. This type of VP stays in place less than a year and in hindsight turns out to be a costly endeavor for a cash-strapped start-up.

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