How the Stanford Seed Program Helps Founders Scale Their Companies

How the Stanford Seed Program Helps Founders Scale Their Companies

The Stanford Seed Transformation Program helps ambitious founders scale their businesses by providing clarity, strategy, and leadership skills. Participants from diverse industries, including logistics and fashion, gain insights on defining objectives, integrating core values, and planning for succession. The program is comprehensive, covering HR, marketing, sales, and governance, and encourages repeated applications for those who don't initially get in.
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What Shifts for a Founder as Their Company Grows? | Stanford Seed Transformation Program. | Transcript:

[KHADY CISSÉ DIOP] Moi je dirais il faut rejoindre ce programme Stanford Seed si on veut se transformer et si on est ambitieux surtout. Et je pense que tout entrepreneur est ambitieux, veut vraiment faire dépasser les limites à son entreprise, à son organisation. [JERRY CHEAMBE] We were at the point where we were thinking about how do we become bigger? How do we transform? We could not use the right words for it, but we just really wanted to scale. And we're thinking about what will make us scale, and we took part

At the recruitment in Cameroon last year where the program was presented and it was like, immediately, this is something we need. [EDWIGE LECOSSON] Le programme Stanford Seed nous oblige à lever le nez, à mettre des lunettes pour passer, pour voir le vrai aspect de notre entreprise, pour voir ce qu'il y a à corriger. Et puis tous les, tous les, tous les Pour voir tout ce qu'il y a comme opportunité qui, qui transite autour de notre activité.

[JERRY CHEAMBE] My biggest aha moments came not from me, but from my team members. And I think that is such a powerful aspect of the program because I realized as a business leader, a lot of the ideas, strategies were stuck in my head and our company lacked clarity But through the first two parts of the program, I see the transformation happening from within the company. [GIFTY QUARSHIE NGISSAH] I think that one of the important things I also picked up was succession planning, especially for me as a second generation leader, was succession planning. And now that I'm in second generation,

how is this going to move on to third, fourth, and fifth generation? [LEBO LESHABANE] So the aha moment really was when we understood how to integrate our core values with the problem that we were solving and how to make the most impact. [JERRY CHEAMBE] You may think it's only for tech companies Here in our program, we have logistics companies, fashion companies, carpentry workshops, pharmacies, medical doctors, clinics, all branches. The key thing is one, do you want to transform? Do you want to skill? [EDWIGE LECOSSON] Le programme survole tous les sujets, tous les points dans une entreprise allant des ressources humaines Marketing, sales, finances, la gouvernance, la RH.

Donc, c'est vraiment un programme complet. [BRIAN MOGENI] If you're building a business that's growing, a business that's scaling, Stanford Seed can really help you, you know, build the right foundation for that. [OGONE MOTHOOAGAE] The valuable lessons that I personally, as a business leader have gotten from the Stanford Seed program, as a business leader, defining your strategy And having the clarity of mind in terms of the objectives and the key steps that you want to take as a business. [SALAMATOU HAMAN BAKO] J'ai déjà contacté toutes mes copines pour qu'ils puissent vraiment adhérer à ce programme.

Parce que ce que Stanford Seed apporte à ta boîte, c'est une autre vision. [ISMAIL D. BADJIE] Apply. And if you don't get in, apply again because it's such a valuable program that anybody will benefit immensely from

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