The Builder's Guide to the Tech Galaxy

In The Builder's Guide to the Tech Galaxy: 99 Practices to Scale Startups into Unicorn Companies, two veteran executives and entrepreneurs, a supporting team and close to 100 top scale-up experts deliver a guide in four building blocks to take your company from small start-up to unicorn: with a clear North Star to align the company's direction, an AAA team, functional excellence in deeply specialized teams and enough growth capital. This book covers each of these topics in-depth as part of 99 practices. You'll learn to scale without giving up too much ownership or control. The Builder's Guide to the Tech Galaxy provides template organizational charts, objectives, and sample OKRs for divisions like product management, technology, marketing, B2B sales, service operations, and more. It also offers tools and benchmarks for your company's strategic alignment, tips and templates for encouraging a scale-up mindset amongst your teams. Additionally, the authors have included checklists that describe how to attract capital and negotiate term sheets. Whether your company has two, ten or one-hundred employees, this book is the essential blueprint on how to take it through the no-man's-land that is the middle stage of growth. It belongs in the libraries of every founder, start-up executive, manager, and business leader interested in scaling their firm.