Scale-up Confessions

This week’s scale-up confession comes from Harriet, a CEO of a growing SaaS company that provides cybersecurity risk assessment software for professional services firms. Responding to Harriet's letter, Rob is joined by marketing expert Nicola Anderson, Jo Harley - Co-Founder of Korero and Greg Wellman - Co-Founder of Agora Talent to discuss possible solutions. Thanks to our panellists: Nicola Ande...

This week’s Scale-up Confession comes from Luke, who runs a SaaS company that provides HR and payroll automation software. Responding to Luke's letter, Rob is joined by marketing expert Nicola Anderson and fractional CFO Pete Donnell to discuss possible solutions. Thanks to our panellists: Nicola Anderson - https://www.linkedin.com/in/andersonnicola/ Pete Donnell - https://www.linkedin.com/in/pete...

This week’s Scale-up Confession comes from Ed, the founder of a software business focused on supporting financial advisory firms with performance analytics. Responding to Ed's letter, Rob is joined by marketing expert Nicola Anderson and technologist Tim Palmer , to discuss possible solutions. Thanks to our panellists: Nicola Anderson - https://www.linkedin.com/in/andersonnicola/ Tim Palmer - http...

This week’s Scale-Up Confession comes from Sophie, who runs a software company that specialises in project cost estimation tools for architecture firms. Responding to Sophie's letter, Rob is joined by Korero's Leadership Team - Jo Harley , Steve Kennaird and Sean McSweeney to discuss possible solutions. Thanks to our panellists: Jo Harley - https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrenmhitchcock/ Steve Kenna...

This week’s Scale-Up Confession comes from James, who runs a software company that simplifies compliance management for mid-sized manufacturers. Responding to James’ letter, Rob is joined by EOS Implementer Darren Hitchcock and Mick Gosset, Founder of Jointflows - a sales cycle software, to discuss possible solutions. Thanks to our panellists: Darren Hitchcock- https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrenmh...

This week’s Scale-Up Confession comes from Tom, the founder of a SaaS company specialising in workflow automation tools for construction firms. Responding to Tom’s letter, Rob is joined by marketing expert Nicola Anderson and technologist Tim Palmer, to discuss possible solutions. Thanks to our panellists: Nicola Anderson - https://www.linkedin.com/in/andersonnicola/ Tim Palmer - https://www.linke...

This week’s scale-up confession comes from Emma, an entrepreneur running a growing eco-conscious marketing consultancy. Responding to the letter, Rob explores how misalignments within Emma’s leadership team seem to be paralysing decision-making, impacting morale and which components of the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) are most likely to offer a solution. Connect with Us: Have your own bu...

Jonathan Dunn is Co-owner and CEO of Initium Corporate Finance, with 25+ years of experience in the UK and international M&A market. In this episode of the First-time Founders podcast, Jonathan explains why selling your business may be the most challenging experience of your working life but how - with the right preparation - it can also be the most rewarding. We also cover how you can: - Unde...

Simon Vella is a Certified EOS Implementer with 20+ years experience holding various senior leadership roles in the ICT industry.  He credits EOS with allowing him to transform his last company together with its leadership team, scaling from 24 to 50 employees and doubling financial results. Simon will be hosting a masterclass at the EOS European Conference on 27 September in London...

Sylvie Milverton is Co-founder and CEO of Lynx Educate (a learning benefit platform to help companies retain workers by differentiating their benefits offering) and Host of Talent is Everywhere Podcast. Sylvie and her team are backed by leading investors in the EdTech and Future of Work space, including Rethink, Emerge, Southern New Hampshire University and Brighteye Ventures. Her customer list in...

Ryan Markewich is a business coach and a Great Game of Business certified practitioner. Having run a successful landscaping company for over 29 years, he’s passionate about teaching other owners how to create cultures of ownership, accountability, and transparency that drives performance and profits. In this episode of the First-time Founders Podcast, Ryan shares his knowledge and skills in Open B...

In this episode of the First-time Founders Podcast, Rob walks listeners through the personal and business scorecards he uses to keep his life on track despite the uncertainty of the entrepreneurial journey. Interested listeners can reach Rob ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertliddiard/ ) at Rob@mission-group.co.uk (or to book some free time, visit https://www.eosworldwide.com/rob-liddiard ). Alte...

In this episode of the First-time Founders Podcast, Rob explains why so many Founder suck at financial and operational forecasting, why that's a problem and how to get better at predicting your organisation's future. Interested listeners can reach Rob ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertliddiard/ ) at Rob@mission-group.co.uk (or to book some free time, visit https://www.eosworldwide.com/rob-liddia...

In this episode of the First-time Founders Podcast, Rob explains his view that a happy entrepreneurial life rests on 3 pillars: process, practice and peace: PROCESS - an overarching framework you're willing to believe in (how to be a good dad; what constitutes being a good husband; how to run a good company if you're a CEO; how to execute a golf swing etc :); PRACTICE - committing to actually impl...

Are your frontline people so busy ‘doing the work’ that you fear rolling out Level10 meetings and other EOS Foundation Tools down to their level? Sid Jashnani (who personally led a frontline organisation in his prior entrepreneurial journey) makes a compelling case that, contrary to some Leadership Teams’ fears, rolling out EOS actually saves frontline people time and their organisations from proc...

Jonny White is the Founder of Ticket Tailor, a bootstrapped SaaS ticketing platform which helps event organisers sell 1 million tickets per month. In this episode of the First-time Founders Podcast, Jonny explains how he managed to build TicketTailor to scale without a cofounder or any outside capital (Jonny attributes his success - for those of us who define success as building a profitable compa...

Can the Leader of an entrepreneurial company ever 'outgrow' being accountable for People & Culture? And if you do need a 'People Person', what’s the difference between an HR Manager, a Leader of People and Culture and a Business Leader (and which of these does a growing company need, when)? Are your people ready to fulfil your growth aspirations? Alice Jordan is well-placed to answer these and...

If you're into EOS, be sure to print a copy of your Accountability Chart and take it to Dean Breyley 's "The Devil is in the Accountability Chart" masterclass at the We Run on EOS European Conference on 27 September (11:40-12:25 in the Main Space). Dean has facilitated over 600 full day EOS Leadership Team sessions and will draw on his full experience to help you sense check - ie with interactive...

Tyrone Croome-Carroll is a 3-time COO and accomplished people-centric leader, currently with Cadence (the leading language solutions provider to the global investment community). In this episode of the First-time Founders Podcast, Tyrone shares what he learned leading multiple B2B information services businesses and explains why its important to build systems to support high performance teams in r...

Julie Wilkinson is an accountant on a mission to save the world from failed acquisitions. Her firm, Wilkinson Accounting Solutions, works on business acquisitions between £1m and £20m turnover and also actively acquires other accounting firms to scale its own operations. In this episode of the First-time Founders Podcast, Julie gives Rob an ‘idiots guide’ to what a good small business finance func...

Tom Lavery is Co-founder CEO of Jiminny, a software platform which helps commercial teams maximize their revenue through conversation intelligence. Jiminny enables its customers to record, transcribe and analyze conversations in real-time, giving customer insights and full visibility into performance. Jiminny empowers teams to coach and develop their people at scale. In this episode of the First-t...

Jo Harley has co-founded two businesses: Korero, a tech platform which enables leaders to have great career conversations with their teams and gives organisations the data they need to plan for success; and Hendrick and Hyde, a consultancy which helps organisations to build authentic cultures through diagnostics, analysis and strategic advice. Jo, her technology and her colleagues are behind Best...

Rob Gibson trained as an accountant and rose to become a divisional Chief Operating Officer for Real Estate giant JLL. Today he’s a consultant, coach and Chair for Vistage (the world’s leading executive learning and coaching organisation). In this episode of the First-time Founders Podcast, Rob explains the ‘classic’ COO role (how it should help formulate and then implement strategy, create cultur...

In this episode of the First-time Founders Podcast, host Rob Liddiard recites ' The Struggle ', an iconic chapter from Ben Horowitz's startup leadership classic, The Hard Thing About Hard Things . Rob follows the passage by describing how he escaped The Struggle as founding CEO of Yapster (a UK software company which scaled to 100,000 business users) by leaning on the 6 Key Components of The Entre...

Steve Peralta is Co-founder and Chief Wellbeing Officer of Unmind, a leading workplace mental health SaaS platform that helps organisations create better workplace cultures, so that employees and businesses can flourish. They support over 2 million employees in hundreds of organisations globally. Steve came to entrepreneurship in an unconventional way, from jazz singer and songwriter, to actor, to...