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Why scaleup is the new startup? Bachelor Programs

Informative Session

PROFILE Undergraduate Degrees
EVENT TYPE Informative Events
EVENT FORMAT Face to Face events
DATE 25th September 2019
TIME 19:00 - 20:30 (GMT +01:00)
LANGUAGE English
Why scaleup is the new startup? Bachelor Programs

IE University, one of the leading European higher education institutions, holds the belief that innovation and entrepreneurship are an integral part of its drive towards academic excellence. Our learning model puts students at the center, is eminently practical and ensures that they acquire not only the technical knowledge, but also the mindset and interpersonal skills that are essential for a successful future leader.

For entrepreneurial activity to translate into economic growth, entrepreneurship education needs to focus less on the “start” and “small” side of things and more on how companies of all ages, sizes and sectors scale. After all, the company founders and successful entrepreneurs that we know today are famous not because they started but because they scaled.

A scaleup can be described as any organisation that is undergoing rapid growth. Most businesses are surprised to see that past practices do not work well when going from 1x to 2x and 3x. That is because scaling up a business is qualitatively different from starting it. Scaling up needs a growth mindset and important decisions to be taken in areas such as purpose, product, process and people.

Join Professor Haslam for a masterclass titled "Why Scaleup is the new startup?" where he will explain how the entrepreneurship landscape is changing away from startups and towards scaleups. 

Professor Joe Haslam is the Executive Director of the Owners Scaleup Program at IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. This is a program specially designed for small and medium sized companies that want to scale. He is also the presenter of the High Impact Online Program "Scaleup! How to Successfully Manage Growth" and the Academic Director of the Global Scaleup Program, a joint course offered by IE with the American University of Beirut. In the International MBA, he teaches an award winning elective called "Scaling Up Your Startup". In 1998, Prof Haslam was on the founding Team of Marrakech, a Dublin based e-procurement company that raised over $75m in Venture Capital and scaled to over 250 people. He is the co-founder and Chairman of Hot Hotels, the first company from Spain to be accelerated by the Techstars program in the USA (Boston, Summer 2015). He was born in Ireland and has an MBA from IE Business School. He has lived in Madrid for the past 15 years.

A networking drink will follow this event.