Scale Your Startup and Leadership with us
- Figure out leadership needs & plug the gap
- Simplify & streamline operations
- Prep Due Diligence
- Allocate investment effectively
Who we serve
Your Business
Your Challenges
Your Challenges
- €300k - €2m ARR
- 7 - 20 employees
- Received seed funding/Series A investment
- Too small to hire a full time CFO/ COO/ CHRO but big enough to strengthen and broaden leadership team
Your Challenges
Your Challenges
Your Challenges
- Founders remain involved in all decisions (creating bottle neck)
- Struggling to delegate while remaining close to the fast-growing business
- Too many new processes are emerging and/or needed; reports are in Excel, managers have little training/ support, people are bringing new, complex HR requests
- Seeking new investment but don't have the capacity/ time to work both on the business and in it
- Need an expert VP Sales/ CFO/ COO/ CHRO/ Product Manager to guide/support the founding team
- The "house is on fire" and you need help... now
What we do
Adapt to suit your startup's needs
- Quick diagnosis (2-3 weeks) on what operations/ leadership gaps you need to fill and a draft roadmap detailing how you can do this (alone or with our support)
- Interim or part-time COO while you're searching for/not yet ready to introduce new full time leadership role(s)
- Put out the fires and prepare your incoming COO/leader for a smooth onboarding and systematic transition of decision-making
- Coach founder(s) and leadership through the onboarding transition
Diagnosis and Interim COO services
The scan:
- 4-6 weeks for a full review and roadmap to handover power to you to execute.
- Includes clarifying requirements for incoming leadership & focus areas
Interim COO while you recruit:
- 2-3 week initial review and planning for the coming months - what's urgent/high priority?
- Identify and agree priorities of key processes to be created/ reviewed/ implemented as well as execution milestones
- Define & agree what done is & expected end time & final budget
Onboarding & transition of decision making from founders to leadership/management
Welcoming a new leader requires thoughtful planning and iterative discussions to maintain alignment and a clean transfer from the original to the new member(s). Most startups struggle and lose lots of time here.
- We provide founders with a map of what the incoming COO will need, by when, and how the founders can most effectively deliver this.
- We coach you and your incoming peer(s) through this transition, using the knowledge we've acquired in the previous phases to enable both sides to get off to a great start.
How we do it
Our Mission
Our Approach
Our Mission
We make work joyful!
We're passionate about enabling everyone in every team to get creative, contribute and test ideas and help each other learn quickly, to accelerate growth on an individual and team level.
We shift teams from being stressed and overworked to well prioritized and energetic.
Our Team
Our Approach
Our Mission
Gillian leads our organisation with support from other startup and scale-up CXOs and partner organisations to deliver just-in-time leadership as you cross the tipping point into hyper growth.
Startup Operations is also a growing business; Gillian is our lead COO and she draws in relevant finance, HR, legal etc. expertise as needed.
Our Approach
Our Approach
Our Approach
We work side-by-side with founders and team members to plug the gap and bring immediate stability while you look for your next expert, whether they be in operations, finance, HR, marketing, sales or other.
We are the generalist that gets you to 90% efficiency in 20-30% of the time by applying best in class frameworks and targeted coaching.