What are the real challenges of growth? How to scale & succeed? #scaleupbritain
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How do you scale your production to print more than 407 million business card since 2006? How do you answer 5 million questions in 5 years? How do you maintain the same company culture with 180 employee as you did with 2? How does it feel to double your size in a year or cater to 1 million users? What are the challenges coming from being in over 50% of top line UK postcodes in the country? And what does it take to secure over $10 million founding within 12 month?
All startups wants to grow and become incredibly successful, potentially changing the world in the process as well. But it's not all fun and games to scale a company, you have to face countless hard question while doing it.
On the 26th of November we are dedicating a whole afternoon to these questions and the state of scale-ups. Join us at the MOO.com offices, and you will be amongst the first to hear about the Scale-Up Report, from the conductors of the research. You will also have the opportunity to hear founders and management members of some of the most successful UK scale-ups mentioned above, such as Alick Varma from Osper and Justin Fitzpatrick from DueDil and gain advice from active members of the startup support ecosystem, representatives of Wayra, TechUK and Smarta amongst others. We aim for starting an actual dialogue, where your real and pressing questions get answered and practical advice is given. In order to achieve this goal, please feel free to e-mail your current challenges in advance to us (orsi@granttree.co.uk), so we can bring them up during the panels throughout the event. The Scale-up movement is about us after all and understanding the ecosystem is only the first step.
Organised by Advantage Business Partnerships (http://advantagebusinessltd.com/) and GrantTree (http://granttree.co.uk/) and supported by countless amazing partners, we are looking forward to open up a conversation about sustainable growth on the UK market.
If you have any questions, concerns or a challange to bring, feel free to send an e-mail or connect on Twitter, via @GrantTree or @lynnalinn
PROGRAM
3pm Registration
3.20pm Welcome address by Daryl Woodhouse and Paulina Sygulska Tenner and a brief introduction to the 'Scale Up Report’ by Sherry Coutou
3.45pm Fireside interview with Russ Shaw, founder of Tech London Advocates (http://techlondonadvocates.org.uk/)
4.10pm Panel discussion A with heads of hyper-growth startups - listen to which challenges these companies found the hardest, how did they handle them and get advice on your specific challenges:
Justin Fitzpatrick - Duedil (http://www.apple.com/),
Nuno Job - Nodejitsu (http://www.apple.com/),
Harry Marr - GoCardless (http://www.apple.com/),
Jonathan Morris - Moo (http://uk.moo.com/),
Ben Kiziltug - Stack Exchange (http://stackexchange.com/),
Alick Varma - Osper (https://osper.com/)
hosted by Mike O'Dwyer of Advantage Business Partnerships (http://www.advantagebusinessltd.com/)
5.20pm Coffee break
5.40pm Panel discussion B with movers and shakers of the business support ecosystem - find out how and which of these organisations can help you grow:
Antony Walker - Tech UK (http://www.techuk.org/),
Janet Coyle - SVC2UK (http://www.svc2uk.com/),
David Fogel - Wayra (http://wayra.co/uk),
Gary Bridgeman - Hodos Consulting (http://www.hodosconsulting.eu/),
Matt Thomas - Smarta (http://www.smarta.com/),
Dominic Beecheno - Growth Accelerator (http://www.growthaccelerator.com/)
facilitated by Paulina Sygulska Tenner of Grant Tree (http://granttree.co.uk/)
6.20pm Conference close
6.30pm Drinks reception and networking
LOCATION: the awesome offices of MOO.com in Shoreditch