The Builder’s Guide to the Tech Galaxy: 99 Practices to Scale Startups into Unicorn Companies
By Martin Schilling and Thomas Klugkist
Published by Wiley, priced £29.99
Hardcover ISBN: 9781119890423/ eBook ISBN: 9781119891598
In The Builder’s Guide to the Tech Galaxy: 99 Practices to Scale Startups into Unicorn Companies, veteran executives and entrepreneurs Martin Schilling and Thomas Klugkist deliver a collection of practical playbooks to help readers successfully navigate the tricky middle stages of startup growth between launch and IPO.
Whether a company has two, ten or one-hundred employees, Schilling and Klugkist don’t focus on how to go from zero to one, nor on how to take a unicorn to IPO. Instead, they hone in on the critical scale-up stage – upgrading a small pirate ship to a large spaceship.
The book concentrates on the four key building blocks of a successful company – alignment, team, functional excellence, and capital. It distills the wisdom found in countless books, podcasts, and the authors’ own forty years of combined experience in building companies, into a compact and accessible blueprint for successfully scaling a small startup into a lean and formidable tech competitor, within months rather than years.
Relevant to every founder, start-up executive, manager, and business leader interested in scaling a technology company, The Builder’s Guide to the Tech Galaxy contains interviews with close to 100 top scale-up experts from successful technology companies around the world, including Airbnb, Pinterest, N26, Zalando, Salesforce, Wayfair, AWS, GetYourGuide, Klarna and Hubspot. It is also full of practical and hands-on checklists, templates, organisational charts, benchmarks, tools, and tips that can be used immediately to confidently guide the activities of a company’s technology and product management, service operations, marketing, B2B sales, people, and others.
The Builder’s Guide to the Tech Galaxy will be available wherever books and ebooks are sold.
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About the Authors:
Dr. Martin Schilling is an angel investor, startup builder, and scale-up executive. He has co-created and scaled five companies, including a McKinsey & Company subsidiary and the FinTech firm N26. He is the Managing Director of the Berlin Accelerator at Techstars.
Dr. Thomas Klugkist is a management consultant who leverages the experience and insight he gained working at leading companies and startups in Europe (N26, KPN/ Planet Internet, Klett Group, Kirch Group, JCI) to guide change processes and help exciting companies grow.
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