Are you racing against time to make your next milestone before you burn through your funding?
Is the Board concerned that the needed team is not in place to move programs forward to a "done"?
Do you need creative leadership that understands the urgency associated with an early-stage startup?
The management of a V.C. funded company has many distinct characteristics and challenges such as managing burn rate, allocation of resources, keeping the timeline to market introduction on course while at the same time driving the company forward to its end game.
As a top executive, one's time and attention are pulled in many sometimes divergent directions. Multitasking and the ability to maintain high-level perspective one minute and the ability to drill down to a granular level at another are rare and sought after skills abilities few are adept at.
With the need for continuing communication to boards, investment partners and managing the steady progress toward key milestones, the labor and time intensive task of recruitment is virtually impossible to manage on in-house basis.
Circumstances can arise where the existing team is inadequate for the tasks at hand, a sudden departure occurs or a fundamental shift in direction requires the timely and expert recruitment of a key executive for your company.
When you are confronted with hiring in a start-up organization often the human resources to take on the task are limited. This is complicated by the fact that startups demand an "all hands on deck" effort to achieve commercialization and profitability. The time, effort required to perform and executive search in house may have a negative ROI when one considers the value each member has
Executing an executive search can be a daunting task. We take the responsibility and ownership of the executive search process so that you don't have to have attention on the execution of the process of discovery, screening, assessment and selection.
We understand, the demands and pressures executives have in order to succeed and keep concurrent projects moving forward. Consequently, we bring to bear all of the tools and expertise and knowledge of your needs in order to carry out a successful executive search in the time frame that suits your needs.
Call us today or contact us online here to discuss and plan how we can be part of your strategy for making it to the "end game".