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Peer groups for founders and CEOs
A peer group puts you in a room with founders at the same stage, who will tell you what they really think. Done well, it becomes the board you can be honest with.
Explore Scaling a businessScaling a business
Growth breaks things: the systems you built at ten people, the way you sell, even your own job. The founders who scale well usually saw it coming, because someone told them what breaks next.
Explore Building your teamBuilding your team and board
The business can only grow as fast as the team around you. The first senior hires, the first proper board and the day your best manager resigns all shape what comes next.
Explore Raising money and financeRaising money and finance for founders
Whether to raise, who from, and on what terms are some of the biggest calls a founder makes. So is the quieter work: cash, runway and what the bank is asking you to sign.
Explore Selling your businessSelling your business
Most founders sell once. The buyer has done it many times. That's why the advice of founders who have already sold, and lived with the warranties afterwards, is worth so much.
Explore The hard bitsFounder wellbeing
Your team needs you to be sure. Your investors want the plan. So the hardest calls often get made late at night, on your own.
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