😇 Last week, I had the opportunity to be a panellist at the Exesquad - L’Expert du Scaling en Belgique event by Jaime A. Catalán Pinto
→ Someone in the audience asked a question that I found very interesting.
🧠 "How do you as a start-up avoid the risk of scaling too early, too fast?
🔥 I answered with a very simple phase in my personal case: I think you have to stay concentrated and focused on the market right from the start. It's the market, and therefore sales, that dictate the pace. So, if this notion is quickly understood, you can't take any more risks, because if you don't sell, you can't scale, and if you do sell, growth comes quite naturally. To take the case of IFREQ, we actually launched the project more or less a year ago. We were and still are in a period of R&D, and for many people this period is synonymous with intensive burn! 🤣
😎 Despite this, I decided to challenge our solution on the market quickly to ensure there was demand! We marketed an unfinished product as if it were finished via all our acquisition channels, and we realised that even at that stage, people could buy and validate it! So, for us, scale is no longer a risk but a necessity because it's been dictated by sales and the market from the outset.
🤝 To confirm this, I'd like to share with you our latest marketing nugget. Our content has reached over 2.5M people entirely organically. We've been doing better than competitors on the platform for years! Well done, guys; seeing what we can do with such a small, competent team is incredible! I can't wait to see what will happen next!
Chris Bo͏u͏r͏a͏n͏d Nicolas Van Rymenant Adonis Karpowicz
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