
Scale-up and Build Your Business
How to Recognise and Overcome the Critical Challenges of Business Growth and Exit
David Molian(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-032-53157-1 (ISBN)
Description
How do business founders not only start a business but ensure sustainable growth for the future? This book provides the tools and understanding that enable successful business growth at the scale-up stage.
Scale-up and Build Your Business distils the author's two decades of working with high-growth, high-performing independently owned and managed businesses, including Cobra Beer, Hotel Chocolat, Belvoir Cordials, Thatcher's Cider, Pacific Direct and Go Ape. Over many years David Molian and his colleagues have identified both the drivers that accelerate growth and the blockers that prevent it. Through case histories, industry analyses and numerous examples this book details five key challenges faced by ambitious entrepreneurs, and documents how they overcome them. For each key challenge, this book describes the accelerators and bear traps which will help or hinder the journey to successful growth and the creation of long-term, sustainable, independent value that translates into successful exit.
The lessons within this book will be invaluable for policymakers, advisors and ambitious business founders who want to turn a start-up into a successful and sustainable company. In a period marked by uncertainty and economic stagnation, this guide is more vital than ever.
Scale-up and Build Your Business distils the author's two decades of working with high-growth, high-performing independently owned and managed businesses, including Cobra Beer, Hotel Chocolat, Belvoir Cordials, Thatcher's Cider, Pacific Direct and Go Ape. Over many years David Molian and his colleagues have identified both the drivers that accelerate growth and the blockers that prevent it. Through case histories, industry analyses and numerous examples this book details five key challenges faced by ambitious entrepreneurs, and documents how they overcome them. For each key challenge, this book describes the accelerators and bear traps which will help or hinder the journey to successful growth and the creation of long-term, sustainable, independent value that translates into successful exit.
The lessons within this book will be invaluable for policymakers, advisors and ambitious business founders who want to turn a start-up into a successful and sustainable company. In a period marked by uncertainty and economic stagnation, this guide is more vital than ever.
Reviews / Votes
"I have not come across a better, more thorough, and all-rounded guide to growing a business and its entire ins and outs than David Molian's Scale-up and Build Your Business. It should be a must-read for every business school student, for every entrepreneur, and for every business leader."Lord Karan Bilimoria, CBE DL, Founder and Chairman of Cobra Beer; Member of the House of Lords, UK Parliament
"Superb book, star cast, perceptive narrator - all the best elements."
Colin Barrow, Business author
"Knowing the value this man brought me, my family & others through really 'reach me' strategy, I have no reservations about recommending this book."
Lara Morgan, Founder, Pacific Direct; Co-Owner and Founder at Scentered; Investor in Yogi Bare, GATE8 & KitBrix
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional
Illustrations
2 s/w Tabellen, 1 s/w Photographie bzw. Rasterbild, 10 s/w Zeichnungen, 11 s/w Abbildungen
2 Tables, black and white; 10 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white; 11 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
188 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-53157-1 (9781032531571)
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David Molian
Scale-up and Build Your Business
How to Recognise and Overcome the Critical Challenges of Business Growth and Exit
E-Book
02/2024
1st Edition
Taylor & Francis
€47.49
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David Molian
Scale-up and Build Your Business
How to Recognise and Overcome the Critical Challenges of Business Growth and Exit
E-Book
02/2024
1st Edition
Taylor & Francis
€47.49
Available for download

David Molian
Scale-up and Build Your Business
How to Recognise and Overcome the Critical Challenges of Business Growth and Exit
Book
02/2024
1st Edition
Routledge
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Person
David Molian was for many years Director of Cranfield's Business Growth Programme, the UK's longest-running scale-up programme for company founders. He has served as faculty at business schools in the UK and France and advised national government policy-makers.
Content
1. Challenge to Growth Number One: Stick to the Knitting 2. Challenge to Growth Number Two: Money, Money, Money 3. Challenge to Growth Number Three: Managerial Styles 4. Challenge to Growth Number Four: Sustainable Points of Difference 5. Challenge to Growth Number Five: Reinventing the Business to Build Further Value