From Professional To Founder

Professional: A professional who gets 10 strangers to become clients. Also defined as product-market fit. Self-employed: professional is the operational magic in the business. Build and deliver an operating model. Scaling the founder’s skillset. Business Owner: The professional is the operational driver of the business. Start scaling the business to multiple access points, stores, or branches. Start to develop a management team, but the management structure is flat. Scaling the mindset of the founder. Entrepreneur: Business owner focuses their energy on developing a culture that is supported by strong, robust processes to enable the business to scale. Focus also extends to defining a strong vision for the business that transcends profits together with a clear strategy and aligning that strategy with plans (short-term incentives). Developing a framework to build institutional trust. Founder: The entrepreneur has successfully built a business that can operate without their daily direction. Focuses their energy on creating a legacy, building an exit plan, succession planning and scaling trust. #shorts