If you are ready to scale up your startup, get ready to fine-tune your products and processes! Take the guesswork out of product-market fit, sales, and marketing for your scaleup with this course and discover what sets your product apart - and how to capitalize on what your company has to offer as you scale up your startup.
In this course, you will learn how to rethink your product to make sure it is scalable; understand the importance and elements of a growth strategy; discover how to structure your growth team; learn how to align sales and marketing for the scaleup stage; and ensure you know how to protect your cash, your company, and your personal well-being in this crucial stage of going from startup to scaleup.
This course brings together practical advice, real-life examples, and big-picture insights from well-known companies and experts in the field so you can see what has worked for other startup companies and develop a "toolbox" of scaling solutions.
Get perspective on how your startup company operates and optimize it for scale – this course will prime your product and processes for exponential growth!
Overview
Syllabus
- Product Market Fit
- Product market fit is everything that happens before you start to scale. It is impossible to make progress without a thorough understanding of what it is and how you know that you have it - this module will help you gain an understanding of what this actually is and how to begin to formulate product market fit.
- Growth
- In this module, we´ll look at growth from a scaleup perspective. While growth is usually described as an outcome rather than as a process, looking at growth as a process (and studying what has worked in the past) can offer important insights on what might work in the future.
- Sales & Marketing
- The relationship between sales and marketing changes as you move from startup to scaleup. In this module, you´ll learn about how to adjust your pricing strategy as you scale and how to position the (new and shifting) roles of sales and marketing teams to continue to identify and meet the needs of a growing customer base.
- Scaling Up Operations
- In this module, you´ll learn about how to optimize what your scaleup is doing right in order to continue growing - without toppling over!
Taught by
Coursera QA Team and Joe Haslam
