Start-Up Coaching
Führung, Organisation und Geschäftsentwicklung zusammen denken
Within company or corporate systems, the Start-Up is special system for various reasons:
High complexity of the roles
As a founder, you are a specialist - scientist, technologist, creative, etc. -
and are now suddenly a company founder, (co-)owner, manager, in addition to a specialist
High level of involvement in the project
You and your co-founders or colleagues are committed to your project with great dedication,
you put your heart and soul into it, it is your “baby”
High pressure
Time is short, capital is limited, burn rate is fixed, so are the milestones, every lost day is like "money out the window"
High risk
To start the business, you may have given up your (well-)paid job, brought in your savings, "family & friends" invested, went into debt, in short: there is a lot at stake
Founding and building a start-up is a great adventure and the points listed can push everyone involved to their limits. There are loud discussions and there are always several solutions. there are tensions, also separations and dissolutions.
Coaching can be short, targeted, solution-oriented and effective, and can literally “pay off”.
From our team, Christoph is the specialist for Start-Ups. He has run 5 start-ups himself, co-founding some of them, and knows all facets of everyday start-up life. He has experienced - in his own or other - start-ups sad separations, project tasks, arguments, devaluations - and has personally experienced how effective coaching can be in finding solutions and/or being proactive and in "good ones times" to prepare for possible areas of tension.
Christoph cited as an Expert for Innosuisse, the Swiss Innovation Agency, for 3 years (>100 company evaluations) and is an Accredited Innosuisse Start-Up Coach.
We can offer you the following:
Start-Up Executive & Personal Coaching
Classic systemic, solution-oriented 1:1 coaching for founders, management, key people.
For larger or smaller subjects, challenges, problems for which we help you to efficiently find an effective and sustainable solution that also takes the ecology of the start-up into account.
Preferred and initially certainly in the face-2-face setting, due to urgency or practicality also possible online, on-site, off-site, whichever suits better.
Start-Up Leadership Assessment & Development
Maybe you're new to the leadership role, or you think leadership isn't your thing. Or you find it difficult or don't succeed as you wanted.
For this we use 1:1 leadership coaching for all leadership-relevant subjects to find specific solutions.
We are also certified to do a very effective leadership assessment with the Leadership Circle Profile. This very complete and effective 360° Leadership Assessment tool allows for a great "layout" and is an extremely suitable means of further developing your leadership effectiveness.
You can find out more about thishere.
Start-Up Management: Team Coaching & Management Charta
Certain questions and topics are typical team topics, some specifically for the management team.
This is, for example, the question of how you want to function as a management team or as a board of directors, i.e. how and how often do you communicate on which topics, how are decisions made, what happens in the event of disagreement, how do you escalate and when, etc.
The "Management Charter" workshop is a good way to find solutions - ideally early and preventatively - and to clarify questions or situations in advance.
Start-Up Business & Finance Plan - Coaching
The Business and Finance Plan is not only the blueprint for the strategic positioning and direction of your start-up, but also the last hurdle for convincing potential investors.
Present complex technical and/or scientific content in an understandable way, identify the advantages and benefits of the product, provide a qualitative and quantitative view of the market, show a promising strategy and, last but not least, convince that the right people with the right skills are needed to implement all of this are on board - it's all a challenge.
The financial plan should provide a glimpse into a partly uncertain future and of course the numbers will never be completely right, especially if there is a disruptive technology for which there is no data for acceptance.
Here it is important to make a number of considered assumptions, to build in probabilities, and thus to create explainable and reliable projections. Sensitivity analyzes also help to establish different scenarios and to understand which are the critical adjustment screws.
We can support you in all of this and broaden your perspective with an outside perspective.
Start-Up Pitch, Financing, Investors - Coaching
If you are invited to pitch, then you have already aroused interest. Now it's time to extract and present the core statements in the given time and consolidate the interest of your investors.
You also want to stand out from other pitches and make the pitch that investors will remember best.
You can practice both, and we can accompany and advise you on both. Not just in terms of content, but also in your attitude and composure.
Start-Up Sparring Partner
Vielleicht hast Du bereits alles erstellt und bist an sich mit Deinen Plänen, Präsentationen und Pitches zufrieden. Du möchtest aber einen Blick von aussen, vielleicht jemanden, der das kritisch betrachtet, einen advocatus diaboli, oder einfach jemanden, der kritisch hinterfragt, um sicher zu stellen, dass Du an alles gedacht hast.
Wir haben einige Start-Ups selbst gegründet, aufgebaut und geleitet, Pläne geschrieben und Pitches gemacht; und wir haben zahlreiche Start-Up Bewerbungen evaluiert, Pitches erlebt und kennen das Thema damit von beiden Seiten.
Kontaktiere uns für einen ersten unverbindlichen Austausch, um herauszufinden, was Du wann und in welcher Qualität brauchst.
Akkreditiertes Innosuisse Start-up Coaching
Christoph Bally ist akkreditierter Innosuisse Start-up Coach für Initial, Core und Special Coaching.
Zuvor war er während vier Jahren als Innosuisse-Experte tätig und hat in dieser Funktion mehr als 100 Start-ups beurteilt. Darüberhinaus hat er >15 Jahre fünf Start-Ups als CEO geleitet, zwei davon mitgegründet, und in diesen jähren viele Facetten des Start-Up Alltags kennengelernt.
Im Rahmen von Innosuisse begleitet er innovationsgetriebene Start-ups unter anderem bei Markt, Strategie, Geschäftsmodell, Organisation, Finanzierung und Investor Readiness.Start-up Coaching ausserhalb der Innosuisse-Programme kann direkt mit coachrgroup vereinbart werden.