Beyond startup: Bringing experience and structure to your organization while maintaining the entrepreneurial spirit, speed, and innovation

As a founder of a technology company that is scaling beyond the startup phase into a phase of significant growth, your team needs to acquire different skills and experiences. The requirements in a company with 150+ employees are different to a company with 50 employees. More experience and structure are needed, but how do you maintain a sense of ownership, speed and innovation? As an entrepreneur who took his company from a startup to a successful Nasdaq IPO and growth stage investor Manfred Krikke shares his experiences. Manfred is a partner at HPE Growth, a technology investment firm that partners with entrepreneurs and invests in European growth companies and helps them scale from EUR 10M in revenues to 100M+. Some of HPE's growth companies include Tiqets, eGym, Aevi, Zava, and PPRO.