Startup Stocktake: Founder Workshop With Jane Korneyko and Ian Hunt
Ask a founder where the business is thin and you get an answer straight away. Finance is held together with a spreadsheet and hope. Hiring is guesswork. The strategy doc has not been opened since the business changed shape.
A ranked list of weak spots is not a plan. Fix them in the wrong order and the fix does not hold, because half of them are sitting on top of something that has not been built yet. So which of your weak spots is load-bearing for the other three?
Pick right and the rest get easier. Pick wrong and you spend a quarter on work that needs doing again.
Join Jane Korneyko and Ian Hunt for an afternoon of laying your own business out as a structure, then working on the part of it your own assessment says to start with.
Jane works with founders on the fundamentals most skip, and her diagnostic is what tells you which nine elements to look at. Ian has spent more than twenty years on business transformation with over 150 organisations, at board level with global companies and hands-on with entrepreneurial businesses. The model they work from gets built up live on a whiteboard, in front of you, rather than shown to you as a finished slide.
How the afternoon runs:
Ian builds the business design model live, the same one used with startups and with global companies in Europe, so you watch it assemble instead of receiving it finished
You sketch your own business the same way as it goes up, then map your assessment results onto it, so a weak element shows up in relation to everything holding it
A read of the room, collated and de-identified: which elements the businesses in the room are strongest on and which are hardest for everyone
Tables grouped by assessment result, so every founder at yours is working the same element, with evidence-based tools and templates matched to it
Jane and Ian move between tables while you work, pointing out what is missing while there is still time to change it
You finish by writing three actions to complete in the next fortnight, on paper, with your name on them
Who should attend?
Founders who can already name their weak spots and cannot work out which one to fix first
Founders whose strategy has not been revisited since the business stopped resembling the plan
Founders who came to the morning session and want to point it at their own numbers
Operators at scale-ups who inherited a structure nobody designed on purpose
Founders at any stage are welcome, from an idea through to a business that is growing and needs to scale. This one is in person only, and registration is separate from the Lunch & Learn.