Category Archives: Growth

Growth: How can founders get the best from grant funding?

Tips on using grants as early oxygen and funding top-ups for your technology start-up business – from the 2018 series of Threads discussions. Discussion host: Matt Butcher, CEO of Inductosense Context The success rate for InnovateUK grants is apparently 11%, so busy tech start-up founders will want to weigh up the effort and reward. You mayContinue reading “Growth: How can founders get the best from grant funding?”

Growth: You can sell a product but, should you, and will it sell?

Tips on whether to sell a product or service – from the 2018 series of Threads discussions. Discussion host: Andrew Callard, Marketing Business Consultant/Coach, Business Developer, Project Manager at Aimed Business. Context Our ability to innovate and fast prototype appears to have accelerated with ever more ingenious products being launched. Yet many of these ‘fail’. ThatContinue reading “Growth: You can sell a product but, should you, and will it sell?”

Growth: Preparing for exit, what should you be thinking about now?

Tips on preparing to sell your business – from the 2018 series of Threads discussions. Discussion host: Rory Suggett, Partner at Ashfords LLC.  Context Selling, or exiting, your technology business might seem like a distance off, with more pressing needs to manage the business day-to-day. With attention the right things along the way you can beContinue reading “Growth: Preparing for exit, what should you be thinking about now?”

Growth: How do you identify, protect and exploit value within your business?

Tips on exploiting and protecting the intellectual property (IP) generated by your business, as a busy manager or founder of a growing technology company – from the 2017 series of Threads discussions. Discussion host: Rory Suggett, Partner at Ashfords LLC. Context As you identify and build IP through innovation, you’ll want an approach that strikes aContinue reading “Growth: How do you identify, protect and exploit value within your business?”

Growth: How do you identify blockers to growth within your organisation?

Tips on fathoming where to apply your focus as a leader and steer towards growth – from the 2017 series of Threads discussions. Discussion host: Peter Cain, change and growth Consultant at Anamosys. Context Don’t simply push harder in what might be the wrong direction. There may be an easier way, a quicker route or moreContinue reading “Growth: How do you identify blockers to growth within your organisation?”

Growth: What can you expect when you raise funds?

Tips on raising start-up funding, for busy managers and founders of growing technology companies – from the 2017 series of Threads discussions. Discussion host: Rory Suggett, Partner at Ashfords LLC Context The world of funding has modernised and diversified – partly as a reaction to the 2009 financial crisis. New sources of funding are available suchContinue reading “Growth: What can you expect when you raise funds?”

Growth: How do you stay innovative, in the face of day-to-day operations?

Tips on striking the balance between generating new IP/innovation and ops/delivery, and some considerations around doing so – from the 2017 series of Threads discussions.  Discussion host: Peter Cain, change and growth consultant at Anamosys Context You’ve done your research, the product is launched, and now you’re busy improving things and delivering new features. Yet,Continue reading “Growth: How do you stay innovative, in the face of day-to-day operations?”