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Platform Diaries with Shane Williams — 52 episodes
The Platform Owner's Guidebook - The un-Audio book.
Mastering Organic Growth with Nathanael Small
The price is right – finding buyers for your business and securing the best deal
Avoiding a down round in a bear market
Scaling your sales capability – how to shift sales culture to unlock growth
Sustainable high-growth businesses must have an eye on margins
A good time not a long time – why it’s critical to get your ESOP right
Making the leap – transforming your team from startup to scaleup
Scaling your engineering team – how to successfully leverage offshore talent
Demystifying startup investment and securing your next raise
EDealing with brilliant jerks – how to have a difficult conversation
Investor updates – turning obligation into opportunity – tips from a Silicon Valley capital raising pro
Growing your startup business despite a market downturn
How successful B2B scaleup founders prepare for crisis
A solid foundation for rapid growth and scale
Busting the myths about startup investment
When and who should founders turn to for help?
Striking a balance between vision and commerciality
The secrets to a foolproof funding pitch
Legendary founders and the importance of people strategy in scaleups
Leveraging platforms to enable your start-up to scale
Navigating privacy – how to win in a changing ecomm landscape
How improved ways of working unlock scale in software engineering teams
Human-centred Agile Organisational design
Implementing Complex Systems
Demand & Delivery
Sustaining high performance in platform teams (Re-release)
Storytelling – the superpower that unlocks investment and transformation
From Start-up to Scale-up Part 2 - How Xero reimagined its ways of working to enable hyper-growth
From Start-up to Scale-up Part 1 – Engineering for success, how platform teams play their part in a large technology business
Mergers and Acquisitions – What does it mean for platforms and teams?
Data driven decision and predictive analytics? Na, I’ll stick with my spreadsheet
Standing on the shoulders of giants – building platforms supported by platforms
Getting the most from your partner relationship – Part 4
Getting the most from your partner relationship – Part 3
Getting the most from your partner relationship – Part 2
Getting the most from your partner relationship – Part 1
Speed to value – using platforms to realise value sooner
They’re going to find you out! – Tackling Imposter Syndrome
Sustaining high performance in platform teams – avoiding burnout
Platform Governance: A practical approach
Marketing Technology: What it takes to be a great platform leader in Martech
Business Transformation Part 2: the key to success is your executive relationships
Business Transformation Part 1: it’s hard work but the rewards are worth it!
Diversity of thought – how tech and non-tech experience is equally as valuable in a platform team
From purpose to action – the power of culture?
Employee value proposition - Why would anyone work for you?
Adoption – a vendor’s perspective
Life at the top – becoming a Salesforce celebrity
Architecture? But it’s out of the box!
Sustaining high performance in platform teams
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