The Biggest Barrier to Scaling Past $10 Million Isn’t Sales. It’s the Founder

Founders can hire leaders and add processes yet remain the bottleneck. The real shift is giving up work that provides status, control, and satisfaction.

EXPERT OPINION BY BRUCE ECKFELDT, INC. 5000 CEO AND STRATEGIC BUSINESS COACH @BECKFELDT

I work with a lot of early-stage founders. Usually the challenge is bringing in systems and processes and finding leaders and managers to take over parts of the business that the founder can just no longer handle because of the volume. This is a key inflection point where a founder needs to start relying upon people to run deliverables and manage clients. And it’s a big shift for many founders.

The challenge is........

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