Growing​: Scale Your Business.

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Exponential Growth: ​10X ? ​

In this stage it is time to firmly embed your business model in your company. Achieving business model/market fit is key at this stage. Ukukhula can help you establish and strengthen your systems, communications, processes, and metrics. When we have built a strong foundation it's time to exponentially grow your business.

Yes, there are formulas that you can use to grow your business at least 10 times faster, better and cheaper. At a time when countless new opportunities arise, a new type of business has arisen: the Exponential Organization. They disrupt the traditional linear-minded companies using levers, platforms, and new technologies. Two key factors enable you to succeed:

1. Access resources you don’t own. 
2. Information is your greatest asset.

More reliably than any other asset, information has the potential to double regularly. Rather than simply assembling assets, the key to success is accessing valuable caches of existing information. The real, fundamental question of our exponential age is: What else can be information-enabled? The key outcome when you access resources and information-enable them is that your marginal costs drop to zero. All you need to develop is an addictive user experience and a killer algorithm. 

Use Levers

We'll show you how to use levers to boost your business. The main levers are:

1. Other People's Time
2. Other People's Assets
3. Other People's Money

Examples of other people's time are:

• Staff-on-Demand platforms such as Gigwalk, Fiverr, Upwork, Roamler, TaskRabbit, and Amazon’s Mechanical Turk;
• Competition platforms such as Xprize, Topcoder, and Kaggle;
• Activating your Community & Crowd (volunteers) to help solve problems, market your solution, and scale development and testing;
• More traditional outsourcing of standardized services (like hosting or service management) to suppliers.

Examples of other people's assets include:

• Platforms and data-sets of other organizations;
• Sensors your users or partners already own and use like satellites, thermostats, smartphones, vehicles, and any other device able to gather and transmit data;
• Real estate, production capacity and vehicles you can borrow, rent, or lease.

Examples of other people's money include:

• Crowdfunding and peer-to-peer banking;
• Releasing your own cryptocurrency through an initial coin offering (ICO);
• Angel investors and venture capitalists;
• Loans and credit lines with banks and suppliers, or using your credit card or mortgage to bridge time between funding cycles;
• Selling bonds and stock privately or publicly, perhaps an IPO (initial public offering).

From Passion to Profit

Exponential Organizations, almost by definition, think BIG. There’s a good reason for that: if a company thinks small, it is unlikely to pursue a business strategy that will achieve rapid growth.

Let passion, meaning and fun work for you. Use great storytelling to attract employees, customers, users and suppliers to your company like bees to honey.

You shouldn't focus on what the organization does, but rather what it aspires to accomplish. You aim to capture the hearts and minds—and imaginations and ambitions—of those both inside and outside your organization.

The most important outcome is to generate a cultural movement that is so inspirational that it forms around your company and spontaneously begins operating on its own, ultimately creating its own community, tribe and culture.

Ukukhula will support you by honing your stories and storytelling skills, pinpointing your dream customers, and boosting community engagement through social technologies.​

Exponential Growth

Learn how your company can show an exponential growth curve, due to the integrated application of community management, growth hacking, big data, smart algorithms and new technologies. We'll help you setup dashboards with actionable metrics to help you focus on measurable growth in users, customers and revenues, or at least traction and market share. 

Now your initial product or service is out there and gaining traction, it's also time to develop your value ladder and sales funnel(s). ​We are also able to assist you in enhancing your abilities concerning growth hacking, content marketing, direct-response marketing, and funnel hacking. 
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At this stage, when you exhibit great growth, and can easily attract financial and human resources, we will hook you up with investment bankers or other interested parties if you or your investors are considering an exit or IPO. We will coach you through the exit or IPO process.