At York IE, we’ve all the time aimed to do issues a little bit otherwise.
The chance for what we’re constructing is big. As an advisory and enterprise capital agency for know-how firms, we’re on a mission to be a complete useful resource and capital supplier for startups. Whether or not by means of product growth, go-to-market, or company technique and FP&A providers, we’ve positioned ourselves as a one-stop store for know-how firms. On prime of that, we offer entry to early-stage enterprise funds and a community of 300+ later-stage progress fairness and personal fairness companions.
In our first 5 years, we’ve labored laborious and stayed true to our imaginative and prescient.
We’ve bootstrapped our option to turning into a longtime firm with out counting on exterior enterprise capital or non-public fairness buyers ourselves. Our progress is clear in our income scale, product maturity, group 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 Yr; which I actually view as a collective award. And we’ve celebrated these unimaginable milestones on our personal phrases.
We’ve got no formal board of administrators exterior 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 signifies that, like lots of the startups we advise, we face our personal set of challenges. We acknowledge that to take the subsequent massive leap, we’d like 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 business veterans will meet quarterly with the identical rigor, construction, and accountability you’d count on from a proper board of administrators. They are going to assist us refine our short-, mid-, and long-term objectives, making certain we keep on observe as we “SaaS-ify” and disrupt industries by means of know-how.
We sought out leaders who’ve firsthand expertise with these objectives, and who’ve constructed profitable, bigger enterprises within the area areas we’re disrupting. Their insights and steerage will probably 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 would possibly hesitate to introduce further voices into the fold, particularly once they’ve constructed their enterprise independently. Nonetheless, at York IE, we consider that true progress 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 every day. This new group will probably be an integral piece of our success sooner or later.
As we wish to say: rising tides elevate all boats. With the addition of this strategic advisory board, we’re prepared to achieve new heights collectively.
Keep tuned—there’s rather more to come back.
