You’ve built the business. What needs your attention next?
You’re past the start-up stage. The business is generating revenue. But as the business grows, knowing where to focus next can become harder, not easier.
This short scorecard helps you step back and look at five areas that can influence your next stage of growth.
Answer instinctively. There are no right or wrong answers.
At the end, you’ll receive your Founder Growth Score, a breakdown across the five areas, and the area that may deserve your attention first.
Five areas that shape what happens next.
Direction
Clarity about where the business is going and what you want it to achieve.
Business Foundations
Whether your products and services, pricing, numbers, team and operations are supporting the next stage of the business.
Customer & Positioning
Clarity about who your ideal customers are and why they should choose you.
Marketing & Sales
How effectively the business reaches, attracts and converts the right people.
Growth
How clearly you understand where the next meaningful stage of growth will come from and what needs attention first.
Growth doesn’t always require doing more.
As businesses mature, the challenge often shifts from finding opportunities to deciding which opportunities deserve attention.
Before adding another initiative, hire, campaign or investment, it can be useful to step back and understand what is actually creating momentum, what may be getting in the way and where greater clarity could make the biggest difference.
Clarify the problem before committing to the solution.
A clearer view of the business in three steps.
Answer
Reflect on where the business is today.
See the pattern
Receive an overall score and a breakdown across five areas of the business.
Identify your priority
See which area may deserve your attention first.
What you’ll get.
Your Founder Growth Score
A high-level view of where the business currently sits across the five areas.
Your five-area breakdown
See where confidence is strongest and where greater clarity may be useful.
Your first place to look
Identify the area that may deserve your attention before adding more activity, people or investment.
Built around the realities of established founders.
The Brill Collective is speaking to established female founders around the world to better understand what growth really looks like once you’ve moved beyond the start-up stage.
The scorecard is designed to provide founders with a useful perspective on their own business while helping us understand the challenges, priorities and decisions founders face as their businesses evolve.
Ready to look at the business from both directions?
Take a few minutes to step out of the day-to-day and look at what may deserve your attention next.
