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We empower pre-start teams to transform their innovative concepts into commercially robust ventures.
- Test and validate concepts in the market
- Chart route to market for launch
- Attract investment
- Propel business forward
- Entrepreneurial mindset
Are you struggling to achieve market validation, secure investment and generate sales?
Your top priority is building brand awareness to secure early customers, drive investment and create a pipeline of sales to underpin your cashflow, but you might be feeling overwhelmed and wondering where to start. Perhaps you lack confidence because your marketing resources and commercial experience are limited.
What you need is a sales and marketing blueprint for success that is tailored to the tech founders of early-stage ventures who have limited commercial experience. Grand Scale’s effective and proven online training programmes and membership experience, delivered by industry experts, provide exactly that.
How Grand Scale can help you establish a thriving venture
We empower teams to transform their innovative concepts into commercially robust spinouts and startups. We help you:
- Embrace an entrepreneurial mindset
- Master the art of crafting value propositions
- Discover proven methodologies to build and evaluate business models
- Acquire business design and testing techniques, including customer discovery and market validation, to validate market opportunities
- Learn systematic approaches to achieve a definitive product-market fit
- Utilise a proven 7 step framework to build a robust GTM strategy
- Understand the funding and investment arena, and the next spinout support options.
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What we offer
- C-level expertise honed over many years of working in the tech innovation sector.
- Accelerated commercialisation training specifically designed for academics, researchers and early-stage entrepreneurs.
- Fully online programme accessed through inclusive, flexible and innovative portal.
Training Programme
An innovative entrepreneurial education programme designed to empower early-stage ventures to transform innovative concepts into successful, commercially robust enterprises.
Providing essential entrepreneurial knowledge and skills, including:
- Effective testing and validation of their innovative concepts in the market.
- Defining their path to market for launch.
- Securing essential investment to drive their business forward.
Teams acquire crucial entrepreneurial skills to develop a robust business model, validate product-market fit, and gather early customer feedback for refinement. Additionally, they learn how to confidently determine their route to market, craft a go-to-market strategy, and engage with the funding and investment community.
Membership
Empower is the ultimate strategic sales and marketing membership experience giving B2B tech companies vital skills to successfully launch, grow and scale.
It delivers everything you need to supercharge your sales and marketing and accelerate your growth: proven, actionable strategies, expert coaching on a wide range of sales and marketing topics, dynamic B2B tech community, and ongoing mentorship from industry subject matter experts.
Led by Leanne and Ro, seasoned marketeers who are well-versed in the entrepreneurial journey, this multidisciplinary team collaboratively supports members across all facets of commercialisation. This holistic approach enables participants to gain insights and strategies in specialised areas including enterprise sales, branding, SEO, investor relations, and more.
Our Impact
Trusted delivery partner
Our proven methodology and straight-talking approach have attracted clients from across all areas of tech innovation and made us a trusted partner to Innovate UK, one of the biggest business accelerators in the UK.
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Over 45 years’ experience
During this time, we’ve spearheaded marketing for many innovative tech startups from early stage to growth, scaling and exit, as well as within global brands.
We’ve worked across a range of innovation areas
Net zero
Medtech
Software
Bioscience
Manufacturing
More
We’ve helped hundreds of academics, entrepreneurs and tech leaders
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Our training programmes are tailored to the needs of tech companies
Our focus is on creating training programmes and support that are tailored to tech companies that may have limited commercial skills but have unlimited ambitions to bring their pioneering innovations to the world stage.
We help startups build commercial capability in-house so that they have the skills they need to launch and grow a successful business.
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Who we work with
We work with universities, government agencies, venture capitalists and other partners to deliver cohorts of programmes. Our partners include:
What our pre-start teams say:
Grand Scale Ignite, is a very well prepared course. I would recommend it to any academic or business oriented person who wants to get a solid grounding in entrepreneurship.
Hadi Larijani
Professor & Director of Smart Technology Centre, Glasgow Caledonian University
Before the course I had the idea: I need to spend more time in the lab as it is not perfect….now after the course I think: Get out of the building and speak to customers!!!!! I am 100% confident that in 12 months my business will be out there up and running!!!
Carlos Fernandez
Senior Lecturer, Robert Gordon University
A knowledge rich, practical approach to what commercialisation should and could be, delivered by warm and supportive contacts.
Susan Armstrong
Contracts & IP Manager, Glasgow Caledonian University
This programme is an eye opener, a game changer for any new or growing business. It would have been disastrous to have started our business without participating in this programme. What a great privilege to be enlisted in the Grand Scale Ignite programme before spinning out.
Dr Joshua Dala
Researcher, University of Aberdeen
It has been a worthwhile journey and has provided my team with key and bespoke knowledge in all the major steps that are crucial to the generation of a spinout company. I can't thank the GSI team enough for sharing their outstanding expertise - thank you very much.
Mark Williams
Lecturer in Cancer Biology, Glasgow Caledonian University
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