Succes, Growing Pains and Pittfalls - how to grow your business beyond 18 employees

How to grow your business beyond 18 employees? In this new, open and inspiring talk i will explain how we grew our agency past 18 employees. I will explain the impact on operations, sales, culture and what is needed to overcome all the hurdles we took. 

The average Drupal agency has about 15 employees. Often there is the desire to grow the agency but the owner fails to grow past this treshold. Why is there an invisible threshhold at 18? What does it take to grow past the 18 marker. Why do many agencies fail and start firing people when they reach 25 employees and turn their agency in a negative spin back to 12 employees.

Michel van Velde, founder and co-owner of One Shoe will explain what is necessary to grow from a creative founder to a corporate leader and will take you past all the pitfalls he encountered growing his agency to an internationals player with over 40 employees without any external funding. He will give insights in the management, the people skills needed and the financial impact of growth.