Mark Carmichael, managing director of STS Capital partners and author of the Intelligent Exit reflects on the 5 key areas to focus on in order to successfully sell your business and achieve a significant exit.

In this episode of Entrepreneurs at Scale we are joined by Steve Beckitt, the founder and CEO of SourceBreaker.

SourceBreaker was created to change the way recruiters search. They are a market leading AI-driven Search & Match technology for recruiters
Today, their cutting-edge technology helps to grow over 600 businesses around the world.

Steve shares some of the key learnings from how he and his fellow founder navigated through the early years of being a Start up to achieving a viable proposition.

He also reflected on: 

Key resources and books that Steve referenced on the Podcast:

Black Box Thinking - Matthew Syed
Drive                        - Daniel Pink
Scaling Up               - Verne Harnish 

In this episode of Entrepreneurs at Scale, we are joined by John Ratliff. 
John is a co-founder and CEO of align5 an advisory and consulting organisations focused on helping growth entrepreneurs establish a strategy for scaling their businesses and preparing for a Strategic Exit.

John is also CEO of the Global Scaling Up coaching organisation.

Prior to founding align5, John was the President and CEO of Appletree Answers, a telephone answering service company he started in 1995 from his two-bedroom apartment in Wilmington, Delaware. John grew the company organically and through a series of acquisitions, growing the company to 24 US- based locations and 650 employees before it was sold to a strategic buyer in June 2012.

In this episode we focus on the key lessons that John learnt as he scaled up and successfully exited the  Appletree Answers Business: 
 - The importance of discovering core values 
 - Building out a culture that is massively focused around caring about the people in the business
 - His acquisition strategy
 - Key areas that will add value to your business
 - Preparing a business for a strategic exit
 - How to discover Rembrandts in your attic 
 - Strategies to ensure that every client experience is remarkable

Simon Severino is an Author, CEO of Strategy Sprints and Host of the Strategy Sprints podcast. He has interviewed powerhouse entrepreneurs like Rita McGrath, David Allen, Nir Eyal, Perry Marshall, Verne Harnish, Brian Kurtz and hundreds more on business, productivity and growth. He helps business owners in SaaS and Services run their company more effectively which results in sales that soar. He created the Strategy Sprints™ Method that doubles revenue in 90 days by getting owners out of the weeds. Simon leads a global team of Certified Strategy Sprints™ Coaches that help clients gain market share and work in weekly sprints which results in fast execution. As a member of SVBS (Silicon Valley Blockchain Society) he enables cross-stage capital flows and helps minimize execution risks in technology startups. His team is trusted by Google, Consilience Ventures, Roche, Amgen, AbbVie and hundreds of frontier teams. He is a TEDx speaker, and has appeared on over 500 podcasts. He writes for Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine about scaling digital businesses.

Kaihan Krippendorff is a top business strategy, growth and transformation keynote speaker that has helped inspire, motivate, and arm hundreds of thousands of people with the tools and mindset needed to win the future.

An accomplished author, Kaihan  has written five books on business strategy, growth, and transformation, including  Outthink the Competition and  His latest book published in 2019 is Driving Innovation From Within: A Guide for Internal Entrepreneurs.

Kaihan is a member of the prestigious Thinkers50 Class of 2019 Radar group – A global selection of the top 30 management thinkers to follow and hear from in the coming year. The group has been described as a “dream team of researchers, advisers, entrepreneurs, and organisational leaders” that will “intrigue, inspire, and guide” people and organisations with their ideas.

In this podcast we discuss the importance of Strategy, how to think differently, how to develop a culture of innovation across your organisation as well as some of the key take outs from Outthink the competition.

Michael Krajewski  CEO Steelo discusses the challenge in starting up and then scaling up his structural steel engineering company.

Tony Hague the CEO of PP Control and Automation, an award-winning provider of strategic outsourcing solutions to many of the most successful and respected machinery builders talks to Neale Lewis on their business growth journey using the Scaling Up business growth tools

Andrew Jenkins shares some powerful tips on embracing Linkedin and other social media sites to develop a compelling Social media communication strategy