Reset Growth & Scale Models for Startups Strategic Perspectives | Bala Girisaballa

Speaker: Bala Girisaballa, Entrepreneur & Author
Moderator: Sameer Dhanrajani, CEO & Co-founder, AIQRATE Advisory & Consulting
Friday, July 3rd 2020

The work of successfully scaling a startup into sustained years of performance may be one of the most difficult endeavors in an entrepreneur’s journey. Most startups focus on the early ideation and innovation aspects of entrepreneurial work and make attempts to pivot to stay relevant. But the journey from startup to “midcap”—the real years of “growing up”—offers surprising lessons for entrepreneurs pursuing growth. So how do companies traverse that treacherous transition from startup to “grow up?” Living with vestiges of entrepreneurial beginnings, some entrepreneurs have failed to shift from working in their startup to working on their startup. Further, COVID 19 has thrown unprecedented challenges for startups to realign their growth strategies and look at scalability with a different lens: new models, channels and priorities: Time to strategically reflect upon the growth & scale charter for the startups and press the reset button ….