ONLINE CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
Scale Up Coach
Scale-Up Coach is an online program to help you build better start-ups, scale-ups, and entrepreneurial ecosystems. This 100% self-paced program teaches you the top 20 tools & apps you need to become a Scale-Up Coach.
what it is
Build Better Start-ups & Scale-ups
This program is designed to give you quick path to action. The program has extensive, hands-on training exercises, helping you accelerate your learning.
Most importantly, you can very quickly apply your new tools and learning to real life startup work.
who is it for
A Good Fit for You?
Scale-Up Coach is for anyone working in or with entrepreneurship ecosystems. You can be:
- Start-Up Founder
- Start-Up Team Member
- Startup team & Scale up team
- Board member in early stage companies
- Investors in early stage companies
- Corporate Venture Capital teams
- Accelerator, accelerator manager
- Incubator, incubator
- Business school faculty
- Involved with entreprenurship training
- Entreprenurship foundation
- Ecosystem developer
- National innovation and entreprenurship policymaker
- National innovation agency staff
- Entreprenurship policymakers
- And anyone with a passion for building better entreprenurship ecosystems and scale ups
“The Scale Up Coach program equips you with a set of tools that enables a pragmatic and simple approach to having the necessary discussions without a lot of fuss or being cost-prohibitive. I would recommend this program to everybody who considers themselves advisors to startups and scale-ups.”
our clients
Who Is Already Using It
Leading organizations leverage our course for success. Katapult Ocean uses our Startup Series tools to accelerate their cohorts. LINK Venture Capital employs our digital solutions for efficient deal sourcing and workflow. Innovation Norway has adopted our Long-Term Funding Roadmap as an official tool for its 700 employees, setting a new national standard for funding startups and investors.
Katapult Ocean
Globally leading ocean impact accelerator, Katapult, has been using the Startup Series tools with their accelerator cohorts. Startups in the accelerator program use both paper-based and digital apps on the Strategy Tools Platform to accelerate their scale-up strategy.
LINK Venture Capital
Nordic VC firm Link use Strategy Tools Digital Solutions to reinvent their deal sourcing and workflow, leading to far more efficient work processes and a better ‘customer’ experience for their investment prospects.
Innovation Norway
The national innovation agency has made the Long-Term Funding Roadmap one of four official tools in the agency’s official toolbox for all 700 employees. This will set a standard for the national funding framework and be rolled out to employees, startups, and investors.
the program
Faster Value Creation
Participants in the program can instantly apply the tools and methodologies with their own angel investments, accelerator investments or early-stage venture fund.
The proven methodology has already helped angels, accelerators and VCs make significant financial returns in startups accelerating faster to exit and financial return.
the program
Clean Energy Disruptors
Meet groundbreaking scale-ups:
- Solar energy, battery, electric boats, EV charging, and software
- Meet the CEOs
- See the pitch decks
- Listen to investor presentations
- Read the IPO documents
- Gain powerful insights
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Work on Real Life Scale Up Challenges
- Meet 10+ case companies, tackle their top scale up challenges
- Learn the most common scale up challenges
- Identify the key strategic issues in just minutes
- Develop high-impact solutions through hands-on exercises
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Meet Real-Life Investors
- Meet 70+ investors
- Based on real-life investors
- Experience real life term sheets
- Understand how to structure great capital strategies
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Get Powerful Tools to Grow Into a Scale Up Coach
- Learn how to use the Scale Up Coach Canvas
- Develop your mastery with the Scale Up Strategy Cards
- Build your strategic skills as a company builder
- Develop your expertise as a business angel
Curriculum
Program Outline
Our online program is structured to provide a comprehensive learning experience through a series of detailed modules. Each module is designed to build on the previous one, covering essential topics and advanced strategies. You’ll engage with interactive content, practical exercises, and real-world case studies, ensuring you gain the skills and knowledge needed to excel. Explore our program outline to see how each module contributes to your overall learning journey.
Welcome
Introduction and program outline
Module 1: the Scale Up Journey
What is the Scale Up Journey? Stories from leading scale-ups around the world. Case studies on battery technology, floating solar, mobility, and social media. The role of the Scale Up Coach. Unique tools for your project work.
Module 2: Capital Strategy
What is a capital strategy? How can startups and scale-ups work more strategically on their fund raising? Case studies on digital lifestyle, drones, artificial intelligence, and smart mobility. Investor interviews. Powerful toolkit for raising better financing rounds.
Module 3: Scale Up Strategy
What is a Scale Up Strategy? How can startups develop the right scale-up strategy for the future? Case studies in solar energy, electric mobility, fintech, and social media. Extensive toolkit for creating a scale-up strategy.
Module 4: Value Creation
What is value creation? How to move from idea to IPO. How to plan strategically for exit and successful value creation. Investor returns. Case studies on energy, fintech, ed-tech. Advanced level tools for value creation and exit strategy. Advanced level exercises for mastery of the role as a Scale Up Coach.
Module 5: Your Role
Your role as a high-impact, value creating Scale Up Coach. Reflections. Impact assessment. Value assessment. Next steps.
CHRISTIAN RANGEN
Over the past 18+ years, Christian Rangen has ‘worked’ across multiple roles of various startup ecosystems. He has founded, co-founded or advised more than 100 companies, he has founded and built several accelerator programs, he is mentor or advisor to accelerators in Asia, Europe and the US. He advises governments, investors and innovation clusters on entrepreneurship. He teaches entrepreneurship at business schools and is himself an active angel investor. Yet, throughout this journey, he often felt a lack of tools and methodologies that could help founders succeed. This program is designed to solve this challenge. In Scale Up Coach, you will learn how you can apply globally proven tools to build better startups and scale-ups – starting today.
RICK RASMUSSEN
A Silicon Valley native with direct experience and thought leadership across industry, government, venture capital, and academia. I’ve been on executive teams of three separate companies that started with zero revenue, raised rounds from leading VCs, went public, gained Fortune 500 status, and sold for a collective $12B. Sought-out speaker and active advisor for governments, accelerators, ecosystems, and startups around the world. Rick is an Industry Fellow for the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, at Berkeley and Adjunct faculty at Northeastern. Head of Mentors for the European Innovation Academy. He is also an in-demand faculty member at various international entrepreneurship education programs. Today, Rick spends his time working on global ecosystem development, advising governments and startups, and teaching ambitious entrepreneurs around the world.
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What You Will Get
- Get extensive training in 20 powerful scale-up tools
- Learn how to use the Scale-Up Strategy Cards
- 5 modules with 5 hours of bite-sized content
- Case studies on startups and scale-ups from different ecosystems
- Advanced facilitation and Masterclass techniques that you can apply immediately
- Grow your network and connect with fellow Scale Up Coaches
- 365 days of access to program material and any new updates to the programs
- 100’s of new tools, cards, cases, and exercises from the Strategy Tools Universe
- Micro-interviews with top global scale-up experts
- Brand new case studies from real-life unicorns
- 15 high-impact exercises to accelerate your mastery
- Six-part project work, helping you support your scale-up portfolio
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Program Fee
€ 499,-
Discount possibilities for teams. Reach out at [email protected]