Experiences of Scale-Up
There are so many priorities that a company needs to focus on, but not all of the priorities are important at the same time.
In the very early stages, you need to get several basic things right. You need to have the right team. You need to play to your strengths and make sure that you have people around you that are also playing to their strengths, and are complimenting you.
The other one is to establish the direction of your business, that you're not picking up this kind of scatter gun approach where you're all over the place with what you're trying to do.
The third aspect you need to get right is does anybody care about what you're doing? Because if nobody cares then there isn't really a route or support.
The most difficult part of the journey is an all-encompassing kind of problem, and that's ultimately leadership, and it means a lot of things. The responsibility to determine where you're going, how you're going to get there, and how do you build the right team and lead them to get there?