EPISODE · Mar 27, 2024 · 1H 2M
#45 What Startup Founders Worry About As They Are Scaling (to Pre-seed or Seed stage)
from The Mary Poppins of Startups Show · host Naily Makangu [Athena Leaders]
As startups grow, they start worrying about losing productivity, being overwhelmed as it’s hard to keep track of all the shifting pieces, pivoting to new ideas, delivering to clients and more importantly losing the culture they have. 🔗 Read or download summary of the key insights In this special episode, Naily Makangu will be interviewed by Shima Barakat. Here is what we will be talking about: ✅ What startup founders worry about as they are preparing to scale? ✅ How can startup founders put in place a healthy dose of structure to get things done? ✅ What mistakes Naily has seen in organisations that were struggling to deliver to their customers? ✅ How can a startup continue to promote a positive remote-first culture as a startup grows? ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Like the show! Help us fight the algorithm war. Leave us a review! LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and SHARE! 🎤🎤🎤 Book Naily to LIGHT UP your events - https://foxly.me/naily-makangu MORE FREE RESOURCES: ⚡ Join our monthly FREE 1-1 Tech/Product Mentoring sessions - https://foxly.me/1-1FreeTechMentoringSP 💻 More BITE-SIZED video tips - https://bit.ly/PodcastAthenaLeaders 💥 Check out our Tech and Product Catalyst 👉 https://foxly.me/TechProductCatalyst 📈 For any brand deals, collaborations, email [email protected] 🚨 About our host - Naily Makangu 🚨 Software Engineer turned “The Mary Poppins of Startups”, Naily Makangu has a gift for bridging the gap between tech teams and the rest of the business to deliver solutions that customers love. With over ten years of experience, Naily has a proven track record of turning around struggling technical projects and organisations, leading complex software projects and launching products, for pre-seed startups, scaleups to large corporations such as Siemens Industry Software. Investors can count on Naily to keep their startups teams on track, reducing the need to breathe down their necks. Naily is committed to fostering innovation and growth in the startup community via Athena Leaders' "Tech and Product Catalyst". 👋 Don't be shy! Drop Naily Makangu a line to say hello : ➡ DM https://www.linkedin.com/in/nailymakangu/ ➡ DM https://www.instagram.com/nailymak/ ➡ 📞 https://foxly.me/TalkToAthenaLeaders ➡ 🌐 www.athenaleaders.com #startups #entrepreneurs #startupgrowth #scaleyourstartup #startupsuccess #startups #leadership #preseed #seed #seriesA #nontechfounders #non-tech #productdevelopment #collaboration #direction #productroadmap #startupstories #startuplife #vcs #angelinvestors #investors #tech #remoteworking #hybridworking #athenaleadership #management #bootstrapping #leanstartup #athenaleaders #athena #leaders #naily #makangu
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As startups grow, they start worrying about losing productivity, being overwhelmed as it’s hard to keep track of all the shifting pieces, pivoting to new ideas, delivering to clients and more importantly losing the culture they have. 🔗 Read or download summary of the key insights In this special episode, Naily Makangu will be interviewed by Shima Barakat. Here is what we will be talking about: ✅ What startup founders worry about as they are preparing to scale? ✅ How can startup founders put in place a healthy dose of structure to get things done? ✅ What mistakes Naily has seen in organisations that were struggling to deliver to their customers? ✅ How can a startup continue to promote a positive remote-first culture as a startup grows? ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Like the show! Help us fight the algorithm war. Leave us a review! LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and SHARE! 🎤🎤🎤 Book Naily to LIGHT UP your events - https://foxly.me/naily-makangu MORE FREE RESOURCES: ⚡ Join our monthly FREE 1-1 Tech/Product Mentoring sessions - https://foxly.me/1-1FreeTechMentoringSP 💻 More BITE-SIZED video tips - https://bit.ly/PodcastAthenaLeaders 💥 Check out our Tech and Product Catalyst 👉 https://foxly.me/TechProductCatalyst 📈 For any brand deals, collaborations, email [email protected] 🚨 About our host - Naily Makangu 🚨 Software Engineer turned “The Mary Poppins of Startups”, Naily Makangu has a gift for bridging the gap between tech teams and the rest of the business to deliver solutions that customers love. With over ten years of experience, Naily has a proven track record of turning around struggling technical projects and organisations, leading complex software projects and launching products, for pre-seed startups, scaleups to large corporations such as Siemens Industry Software. Investors can count on Naily to keep their startups teams on track, reducing the need to breathe down their necks. Naily is committed to fostering innovation and growth in the startup community via Athena Leaders' "Tech and Product Catalyst". 👋 Don't be shy! Drop Naily Makangu a line to say hello : ➡ DM https://www.linkedin.com/in/nailymakangu/ ➡ DM https://www.instagram.com/nailymak/ ➡ 📞 https://foxly.me/TalkToAthenaLeaders ➡ 🌐 www.athenaleaders.com #startups #entrepreneurs #startupgrowth #scaleyourstartup #startupsuccess #startups #leadership #preseed #seed #seriesA #nontechfounders #non-tech #productdevelopment #collaboration #direction #productroadmap #startupstories #startuplife #vcs #angelinvestors #investors #tech #remoteworking #hybridworking #athenaleadership #management #bootstrapping #leanstartup #athenaleaders #athena #leaders #naily #makangu
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