At York IE, we’ve all the time aimed to do issues slightly in a different way.
The chance for what we’re constructing is big. As an advisory and enterprise capital agency for expertise firms, we’re on a mission to be a complete useful resource and capital supplier for startups. Whether or not by way of product improvement, go-to-market, or company technique and FP&A companies, we’ve positioned ourselves as a one-stop store for expertise firms. On prime of that, we offer entry to early-stage enterprise funds and a community of 300+ later-stage development fairness and personal fairness companions.
In our first 5 years, we’ve labored exhausting and stayed true to our imaginative and prescient.
We’ve bootstrapped our approach to turning into a longtime firm with out counting on outdoors enterprise capital or personal fairness traders ourselves. Our progress is clear in our income scale, product maturity, crew dimension, buyer base, strategic partnerships, portfolio dimension and the rising capability inside our funding funds.
We’ve even earned a spot on the Inc. 5000. I even gained New Hampshire Tech Alliance’s Entrepreneur of the 12 months; which I actually view as a collective award. And we’ve celebrated these unimaginable milestones on our personal phrases.
We have now no formal board of administrators outdoors our co-founders and managing companions. We personal, function, and govern our personal enterprise. I’m the bulk proprietor. My title is on the masthead. This offers us final freedom to run our enterprise as founders, executives, and operators.
There are professionals and cons to being left to your personal units! However now, it’s time for us to evolve and develop even additional.
This journey has been each thrilling and difficult. Whereas the autonomy of being a founder-owned and -operated firm has given us the liberty to pursue our imaginative and prescient, it additionally implies that, like lots of the startups we advise, we face our personal set of challenges. We acknowledge that to take the following huge leap, we want steerage and experience from those that’ve been there earlier than and operated at scale.
That’s why we’ve created a strategic advisory board.
This group of seasoned trade veterans will meet quarterly with the identical rigor, construction, and accountability you’d anticipate from a proper board of administrators. They are going to assist us refine our short-, mid-, and long-term targets, guaranteeing we keep on monitor as we “SaaS-ify” and disrupt industries by way of expertise.
We sought out leaders who’ve firsthand expertise with these targets, and who’ve constructed profitable, bigger enterprises within the area areas we’re disrupting. Their insights and steerage might be invaluable as we proceed to reshape the way in which startups are constructed, scaled, and monetized. Our advisory board represents a pivotal step ahead for us as an organization.
Many CEOs may hesitate to introduce extra voices into the fold, particularly once they’ve constructed their enterprise independently. Nonetheless, at York IE, we imagine that true development comes from difficult ourselves and embracing new views.
Our imaginative and prescient is to reshape the way in which startups are constructed, scaled, and monetized. To take action, we have to problem ourselves each day. This new group might be an integral piece of our success sooner or later.
As we wish to say: rising tides carry all boats. With the addition of this strategic advisory board, we’re prepared to succeed in new heights collectively.
Keep tuned—there’s far more to return.