Brief:
Sherry Coutu CBE is arguably one of the world’s most influential and best-networked people in technology and investing. Among many prestigious titles, Sherry is a Non-Executive Director of proptech giant Zoopla, London Stock Exchange and The University of Cambridge. She also serves on the Advisory Board of Linkedin.com, which was bought by Microsoft last June for $26.2bn.
After authoring The Scale-up Report, a report urging the government to help ambitious businesses scale to their full potential, she teamed up with LinkedIn Co-founder Reid Hoffman to set up and chair the ScaleUp Institute, an organisation set out to make Britain the number one destination for businesses to grow and scale. If Sherry’s vision is realised, Britain could add 150,000 jobs to the economy and £225bn to its GDP.
Most interestingly for investors, fast-growing scale-ups (like Zoopla or LinkedIn were a few years ago) make for very profitable investment opportunities.
Sherry will talk about the importance of scale-ups in Britain’s economy and how to access them as investment opportunities.
F4 s scale up summary presentation (leeds) march 18 2016Sherry Coutu CBE
I am honoured to in in Leeds to present a keynote scaleup skills briefing to Technorth about simple actions they can take to stimulate economic growth by focusing on local business community leaders volunteering on modern platforms helping teachers closing the skills gap in their city.
I am pleased to share with you this report that shows if we take action now to focus on ‘scale-ups’, we will secure significant growth in jobs, taxes and wealth, and the
competitive advantage of Britain for generations to come.
This report explains how a boost of just one per cent to our scale-up population should drive an additional 238,000 jobs and £38 billion to GVA within three years. In the
medium-term, assuming we address the skills-gap, we stand to benefit by £96 billion per annum and in the long-run, if we close the scale-up gap, then we stand to gain 150,000
net jobs and £225 billion additional GVA by 2034. This report sets out a clear plan of action to close the scale-up gap. The plan centres on using data already collected
by government to provide a platform that enables both public and private sector organisations to work together to improve the community of which they are a part.
Britain is a GREA T place to start a business.
With the supportive government policies, industry structure, geographic placement and talent supply we enjoy in the UK , we are in the position to create unrivalled national
competitive advantage by increasing the proportion of companies that ‘scale-up’.
A ‘scale-up’ is an enterprise with average annualised growth in employees or turnover greater than 20 per cent per annum over a three year period, and with more than 10 employees at the beginning of the observation period.
This competitive advantage will be rewarded by economic growth per capita. The responsibility to become ‘a scale-up nation’ – to create an environment (ecosystem) where a greater number of companies reach global scale – rests with all of us who have an interest in supporting economic growth. Rather than look only to the US for inspiration, this report examines successful collaborations between business and government that have taken place over the past 20 years in 20 other countries and recommends actions that we can take now. Individually and collectively, businesses, educators and policymakers can co-create a future that is bright for our children and their children: a place where both scale-ups and start-ups flourish, with plenty of jobs and growing GVA per capita.
The Health Foundation Annual Reception (14 March 2016)Sherry Coutu CBE
This presentation slide deck accompanied a talk I gave to the Health Foundation at their Annual Reception. I cover the Speed of Technological Innovation in general, in Transport, in education and wonder about those in the Health Sector....
Scale up briefing to festival of marketing oct 6 2016 Sherry Coutu CBE
Presentation made on the 6 October showing how the marketing profession can stimulate UK economic growth by focusing on scaleup companies who really need their help...
On the 18th of November, I was asked to speak at Canada House for Informatics Ventures.
The audience was 120 investors and 20 entrepreneurs who were seeking finance.
I spoke about the importance of scaling to long-term success of any high growth company
I spoke about why is it important - for them, their families, their communities and for the competitive advantage of the UK (or whatever country they chose to operate from).
I gave examples from portfolio of investments that have done this successfully?
Zoople, Artfinder, Duedil, Moveguides, Lovefilm and founders4Schools
I spoke about the pitfalls to avoid
I spoke about what the crucial leaps any company must make in order to achieve scale?
F4 s scale up summary presentation (leeds) march 18 2016Sherry Coutu CBE
I am honoured to in in Leeds to present a keynote scaleup skills briefing to Technorth about simple actions they can take to stimulate economic growth by focusing on local business community leaders volunteering on modern platforms helping teachers closing the skills gap in their city.
I am pleased to share with you this report that shows if we take action now to focus on ‘scale-ups’, we will secure significant growth in jobs, taxes and wealth, and the
competitive advantage of Britain for generations to come.
This report explains how a boost of just one per cent to our scale-up population should drive an additional 238,000 jobs and £38 billion to GVA within three years. In the
medium-term, assuming we address the skills-gap, we stand to benefit by £96 billion per annum and in the long-run, if we close the scale-up gap, then we stand to gain 150,000
net jobs and £225 billion additional GVA by 2034. This report sets out a clear plan of action to close the scale-up gap. The plan centres on using data already collected
by government to provide a platform that enables both public and private sector organisations to work together to improve the community of which they are a part.
Britain is a GREA T place to start a business.
With the supportive government policies, industry structure, geographic placement and talent supply we enjoy in the UK , we are in the position to create unrivalled national
competitive advantage by increasing the proportion of companies that ‘scale-up’.
A ‘scale-up’ is an enterprise with average annualised growth in employees or turnover greater than 20 per cent per annum over a three year period, and with more than 10 employees at the beginning of the observation period.
This competitive advantage will be rewarded by economic growth per capita. The responsibility to become ‘a scale-up nation’ – to create an environment (ecosystem) where a greater number of companies reach global scale – rests with all of us who have an interest in supporting economic growth. Rather than look only to the US for inspiration, this report examines successful collaborations between business and government that have taken place over the past 20 years in 20 other countries and recommends actions that we can take now. Individually and collectively, businesses, educators and policymakers can co-create a future that is bright for our children and their children: a place where both scale-ups and start-ups flourish, with plenty of jobs and growing GVA per capita.
The Health Foundation Annual Reception (14 March 2016)Sherry Coutu CBE
This presentation slide deck accompanied a talk I gave to the Health Foundation at their Annual Reception. I cover the Speed of Technological Innovation in general, in Transport, in education and wonder about those in the Health Sector....
Scale up briefing to festival of marketing oct 6 2016 Sherry Coutu CBE
Presentation made on the 6 October showing how the marketing profession can stimulate UK economic growth by focusing on scaleup companies who really need their help...
On the 18th of November, I was asked to speak at Canada House for Informatics Ventures.
The audience was 120 investors and 20 entrepreneurs who were seeking finance.
I spoke about the importance of scaling to long-term success of any high growth company
I spoke about why is it important - for them, their families, their communities and for the competitive advantage of the UK (or whatever country they chose to operate from).
I gave examples from portfolio of investments that have done this successfully?
Zoople, Artfinder, Duedil, Moveguides, Lovefilm and founders4Schools
I spoke about the pitfalls to avoid
I spoke about what the crucial leaps any company must make in order to achieve scale?
What does it take to scale a successful global business in the UK?
“What will be the key challenges for ensuring an effective environment for scale-ups post Brexit?”
“Can businesses take advantage of new international markets and partnerships as we refocus our economy away from Europe – do we have the right ecosystem in place to support this?”
“Will this offer new opportunities to attract a wider talent pool , or are there now new challenges to ensure businesses get the talent we need?”
“What should the investment community do to ensure that they can support scale-ups?”
“What is the role for Government or other stakeholders?”
The post-recession world is an exciting time to be an entrepreneur in UK. Deloitte identified the trends that shape this entrepreneurial world, including that entrepreneurs are ready to expand and invest, but lack the skills to exploit the emergence of overseas markets and the rise of digital technology.
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The World Bank tells us that for the last 40 years Jamaica’s average annual economic growth rate was 0.8%. Further the World Bank tells us that 0.8% growth places us as the worst performing economy among the over 150 countries globally. We are also advised from the Jamaica Productivity Centre, over in the Ministry of Labour, that the productivity of our firms, over the same period , has steadily declined. These two phenomena are intimately connected. Fix productivity and we fix competitiveness and growth. This paper explores this topic.
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EY French Venture Capital Barometer - Annual results 2015EY
The EY French Venture Capital Barometer identifies financing operations in equity of companies in their creation phase or during their first years after creation, from 1st of January to 31st of December 2015, published before the 14th of January 2016.
What does it take to scale a successful global business in the UK?
“What will be the key challenges for ensuring an effective environment for scale-ups post Brexit?”
“Can businesses take advantage of new international markets and partnerships as we refocus our economy away from Europe – do we have the right ecosystem in place to support this?”
“Will this offer new opportunities to attract a wider talent pool , or are there now new challenges to ensure businesses get the talent we need?”
“What should the investment community do to ensure that they can support scale-ups?”
“What is the role for Government or other stakeholders?”
The post-recession world is an exciting time to be an entrepreneur in UK. Deloitte identified the trends that shape this entrepreneurial world, including that entrepreneurs are ready to expand and invest, but lack the skills to exploit the emergence of overseas markets and the rise of digital technology.
The report was kindly provided to us by Deloitte. Read more: http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_GB/uk/market-insights/private-markets/who-we-help/private-companies-and-entrepreneurs/entrepreneurship-uk/index.htm
The World Bank tells us that for the last 40 years Jamaica’s average annual economic growth rate was 0.8%. Further the World Bank tells us that 0.8% growth places us as the worst performing economy among the over 150 countries globally. We are also advised from the Jamaica Productivity Centre, over in the Ministry of Labour, that the productivity of our firms, over the same period , has steadily declined. These two phenomena are intimately connected. Fix productivity and we fix competitiveness and growth. This paper explores this topic.
Don Duval: Creating Virtual Density to Expedite Wealth CreationDon Duval
This presentation focused on the Ontario Network of Excellence (ONE) and explained how Ontario and Canada more broadly, must create "virtual density" and collaborate to compete in order to win in the global economy. The presentation was made to a group of international media outlets from around the world at OCE Discovery 2012 in Toronto, Ontario.
Presented at the Digital Ventures/Siam Commercial Bank Faster Future Fintech Forum (28 Feb 2017, Bangkok) by Paul Ark, Managing Director of Corporate Venture Capital of Digital Ventures
EY French Venture Capital Barometer - Annual results 2015EY
The EY French Venture Capital Barometer identifies financing operations in equity of companies in their creation phase or during their first years after creation, from 1st of January to 31st of December 2015, published before the 14th of January 2016.
The pace of Technological Change in learning & education
Relationship to learners and teachers
http://www.Founders4Schools.org.uk
Policies that encourage teachers & learners to adopt and adapt
Release of Key Data (api) so you can monitor impact
Monitoring experiments for impact and then scaling the high impact
Relationship to productivity & macro-economic growth
This slide show takes you through Cambridge's fastest growing businesses - and provides tools for potential employees and customers to help you find more out about them
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In order to keep a finger on the pulse of scaleup companies, the author of the scaleup report worked in collaboration with 40 partners in industry to see what the CEO's of 442 startup / scaleup companies said they needed in order to reach their potential
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Promoting the opportunities available to young people with mathematic qualifications
Ensuring young people are equipped with the maths skills needed to succeed in a competitive global economy
Developing links and collaboration between employers, educators, professional associations and civil society
A very basic presentation giving examples of crowdsourcing platforms and uses. Created in conjunction with the book "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Crowdsourcing."
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I would like to extend a warm welcome to all of you for joining us today for this very special event to celebrate all our female CEOs and Founders who give up their time to go into schools and inspire students.
Since we began Founders4Schools has now inspired over 50,000 students with entrepreneurs across the country talking about their personal journeys.
We are also here today to share with you the latest data that shows us how many female led scale ups we have across the country and I am delighted that the numbers have increased from this time last year!
And thirdly we are here to provide mentoring for our first time CEOs who are at an early stage of their scale up journey and are facing challenges that some of us will have faced before.
Please make the most of the networking as we are fortunate to have such an incredible group of female business leaders with us today.
Please also go away not only with new contacts and perhaps new ways of doing things to scale your business but with a commitment to ask your local school to host a Founders4schools event.
You know what a difference it will make if we join together on this journey to inspire our next generation of entrepreneurs.
While Europe might be a single market, it’s definitely not a single tech scene. That fact makes it difficult to feel the pulse of the European tech. But if you take a close look, you’ll quickly notice that there is interesting stuff happening in Europe
With this report we want to provide a comprehensive review of investment in startups and high-growth technology companies across 31 countries in Europe. Our aim is to provide data-driven guidance, insights and inspiration to stakeholders in the European scaleup ecosystem.
This presentation is to help ambassadors for the scale up report go through the data and supporting evidence when talking about scale-ups / entrepreneurship and the relation of these to economic growth.
WeConnect is a forum to help ambitious women led businesses grow to their full potential.
I gave a presentation about how I had become an entrepreneur and what was driving my entrepreneurial endeavours at present -- and advice i had for first time entrepreneurs who wanted to scale their businesses and be a huge value add to the competitive advantage of their country.
Cambridge University as a Scaleup Citizen (19 May 2017)Sherry Coutu CBE
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Strathclyde University Scaleup Lecture 19 april 2017Sherry Coutu CBE
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Some interesting thoughts on what it takes to scale and grow a $100m+ business. This is a write up up of some of the key learnings from last year's Silicon Valley Comes to the UK visit.
In a global first, new analysis, based on open-government and LinkedIn data-sets, reveals how companies led by women grow, perform and rank, identifying the fastest-growing and most dynamic women-led businesses across the UK.
Leitch Review of Skills - Final Report - 'Prosperity for all in the global ec...The Pathway Group
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The Leitch Review was tasked in 2004 to consider the UK’s long-term skills needs. The UK is building on economic strength and stability, with 14 years of unbroken growth and the highest employment rate in the G7. Its skills base has improved significantly over the last decade with rising school standards and growth in graduate numbers. Despite this, the UK’s skills base remains weak by international standards, holding back productivity,
growth and social justice. The Review has found that, even if current targets to improve skills are met, the UK’s skills base will still lag behind that of many comparator countries
in 2020. The UK will run to stand still.
The global economy is changing rapidly, with emerging economies such as India and China growing dramatically, altering UK competitiveness. The population is ageing, technological change and global migration flows are increasing. There is a direct correlation between
skills, productivity and employment. Unless the UK can build on reforms to schools, colleges and universities and make its skills base one of its strengths, UK businesses will find it increasingly difficult to compete. As a result of low skills, the UK risks increasing inequality, deprivation and child poverty, and risks a generation cut off permanently from labour market opportunity. The best form of welfare is to ensure that people can adapt to change. Skills were once a key lever for prosperity and fairness. Skills are now increasingly the key lever. A radical step-change is necessary. The Review recommends that the UK commit to becoming a world leader in skills by 2020, benchmarked against the upper quartile of the
OECD.
There is a lot of criteria to be met if the report is to be successful in its recommendations however it sets a compelling case for further education and training improvements.
In the UK, we face a pressing mathematical challenge that not only contributes to a skills crisis but also threatens our economic well-being. The potential impact is vast, and it's high time we re-calibrated the equation. Learning mathematics exerts a positive influence on every facet of life.
It paves the way for future opportunities and enhances students' prospects, guiding them towards the roles they should hold and aspire to achieve.
We are building a community of female ambassadors whose mission is to inspire girls to perceive mathematics differently, unveiling its limitless potential.
Mathematics empowers us to pursue our passions, providing us with a lens to view life with clarity, a tool to cultivate unique thinking, and a pathway to brighter futures.
We are revealing to girls the abundance of opportunities that await them and expanding their choices. The more knowledge you acquire, the broader your horizons become, enabling you to unlock careers across diverse fields. From coding to sustainability, design to gaming, our aim is to kindle a fire in girls, encouraging them to boldly declare:
"If this resonates with you, please join us. Together, we've got this!"
Maths4Girls is a movement to ensure that girls meet women who use maths to succeed in their careers.
In the UK, we are facing a maths challenge that contributes to the skills crisis and jeopardizes our economic well-being.
The numbers could be so much greater.
It is time to rebalance the equation because learning maths has a positive impact on everything.
From driving tomorrow's opportunities
To improve students' prospects, taking them to where they should be and where they want to be.
We are building a community of female ambassadors to inspire girls to see maths differently and to demonstrate its potential.
To empower us to do what we find interesting and let us choose our future because maths is a lens to see life clearly. A way to think differently and a path to better prospects.
We are showing girls the opportunities ahead.
To demonstrate that maths has a multiplier effect.
The more you know, the more you can do to broaden choice and unlock careers in everything from coding to sustainability and design to gaming to inspire girls to say
We've got this!
This is the presentation I made for my maiden speech as Professor at Newcastle University. In it I speak of In the decades ahead, the next wave of automation technologies will further accelerate the pace of change
Tens of millions of jobs will be phased out
Tens of millions of new ones will be created, and the nature of work will change for everyone as intelligent machines become fixtures in our workplaces.
Around the world, learners still place a great deal of faith in education to help them achieve success. But, the way they are obtaining that education is changing because the new talent economy has arrived with its gig jobs, unconventional career paths and tech disruption.
The old model of front-loading education early in life needs to give way to lifelong learning.
Training and education can no longer end when workers are in their twenties and carry them through the decades
“Competitive advantage doesn’t go to communities that focus on creating companies,
it goes to those that focus on scaling companies.”
Regional Economic Growth doesn’t come from universities that focus on startup, small or large companies,
it comes from universities that focus on scaling companies
“Competitive advantage doesn’t go to universities that focus on themselves,
it goes to those that focus on scaling companies.”
expand access to mid-career adults with short courses, soft skill training and stackable credentials
Ensure their students get internships and work experience (with scaleups) every year
Universities seeking to boost the economic growth of their community will
Develop their student’s soft skills by encouraging and facilitating them to mentor younger students in surrounding local schools
CBI annual dinner in Sheffield 5 mar 2020 with Founders4School's keynoteSherry Coutu CBE
I was honoured to be asked to speak at the CBI's annual dinner in Sheffield on the 5th of March. While there, I highlighted how founders4schools and workfinder worked with communities throughout the UK to develop and sustain learning and to drive economic growth. I spoke about our use of AI and ML so that we supported the learning and development of teachers who were not expert in local labour market economics so that they felt more comfortable reaching out to the business community and guiding students in their classrooms about roles they might hold in business in the future. I spoke about how the endorsement of the CBI in Scotland had brought about more than 30% of all children nation-wide benefitting from our services and how in some communities all the students had met business volunteers in their classrooms, while in others, none had. We share the dream of reducing regional disparity so that all students in all cities, towns and villages meet business leaders in their classrooms at least once per term. No one should be left behind - and together we can bring this about.
I was delighted to be asked by the Westminster Higher Education Forum policy conference to speak about Entrepreneurship on campus and to provide case studies showing how Founders4Schools and Workfinder use AI and ML to embed enterprise in the curriculum, supporting the learning and development of educators, student start-ups, and increasing diversity.
On the 16th of October 2018, I had the honour of addressing the Gender Network Quarterly meeting of WeAreTheCity on behalf of Founders4Schools. At that meeting, I outlined how members of WeAreTheCity were part of the solution to the talent crisis that is currently dogging so many aspects of our lives.
I asked We Are The City members to sign up to http://www.Founders4Schools.org.uk/partners/we-are-city/
1) to volunteer their time in classrooms and encourage all their employees and friends to do the same
2) to host 3 hours of work experience per annum &
3) to SHARE their examples of work experience projects that they found GREAT for girls so that we could get these examples into our guidance system.
6 March, 2018. London, UK.
Sherry Coutu, Nicola Mendelsohn, Jacqueline de Rojas, Martha Lane Fox, Anya Hindmarch, Liz Earle, Jessica Butcher, Melissa De Donato, and Margot James MP, Minister of State for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport are amongst the UK’s leaders welcoming ground-breaking new service to celebrate International Women’s Day.
For the third year running, Founders4Schools has released an International Women’s Day report and website that identify and celebrate the fastest-growing and most dynamic women-led businesses across the UK.
The report and website show that women remain critical in driving economic growth across the UK, with detailed research on 1,279 growing women-led companies contributing a total of £25.9 billion in revenue to the UK economy. Turnover of women-led companies has increased, on average, by £1 million pounds in the past year.
Local interactive maps for across the country have been created showing the location of growing business led by women with £1 Million to £250 Million in revenue.
The new research, compiled by Founders4Schools, the ed-tech charity that brings business leaders into schools to unlock the employability of young people, is supported by Mortimer Spinks, technology recruitment experts and advocates for diversity and inclusion. Key findings can be found in the publication and website which are here: https://www.founders4schools.org.uk/insights/women/#/
Girls Schools Association (Manchester Summit 20 november 2017)Sherry Coutu CBE
Opening Keynote: Delivering the Power of the Business World to
the Classroom - Sherry Coutu CBE, Chair of Founders4Schools
plus: entrepreneur, angel investor & advisor to companies,
Universities and charities, voted by Wired magazine as 1 of the
top 25 ‘most influential people in the wired world’ & 1 of the ‘top 10 most influential investors’
Thank you for your considered support and lovely to see so many of you last night at the Royal Society for our annual round-up for Ambassadors and Advisors.
I was pleased to be able to report our progress and outline our plans for the next 12 months and am very grateful to you for all your suggestions which we will take on board and report to you on progress.
Key asks were as follows:
1. Please feel free to use this presentation (attached) in conversations you have with educators, governors, local government etc - as you know, it is packed full of data and evidence!
2. Please let me know if you can think of any company or individual who you think we should approach to sponsor our Annual Awards Ceremony, which is upcoming on the 13th of September and being held at the Crick Institute. A one-pager pdf is attached with all the information we think you might need.
3. I mentioned we were looking to hire several engineers so we could reach more young people with our programmes - if you can help with that in the form of a referral or secondment, please please please do so
4. Please save the 13 September as a special date for our Educator Awards and the 6 Dec our next Advisor / Ambassador meeting.
Prepared for
Anita Bhalla OBE
Chair, PBL Town Hall & Symphony Hall
Director GBSLEP
Chair, Creative City Partnership
+44 (0)7850 735734
www.anitabhalla.co.uk
for discussion being held on 12 May 2017
Founders4Schools Key Scottish launch slides April 17Sherry Coutu CBE
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Investor allstars award for charity of the year 2016 Sherry Coutu CBE
Founders4Schools is profoundly grateful to GP Bullhound to have awarded us 'Charity of the Year' at its 2016 Investor Allstars.
We hope that all the winners adopt a school of their choice with their exit proceeds! working together, we can overcome the skills gap that plagues the startups we invest in and hope to help scaleup into unicorns....
As a serial entrepreneur turned investor, philanthropist and advisor, it took a lot to turn me back into an entrepreneur. The skills gap is the number one problem preventing our most promising startups from growing into the next googles, linkedins, facebooks or apples. I intend to solve this problem and am delighted that Founders4schools was chosen by investor allstars as their charity of the year and I'm pleased to share this story. Please join in me in eradicating the skills gap.
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Scale up deck for syndicateroom 2 feb 2017
1. SCALE-UP BRIEFING
Syndicate Room (2 Feb 2017)
What does it take to scale a successful global business in the UK?
Sherry Coutu CBE
#scaleup
http://www.scaleupreport.com
http://www.scaleupinstitute.org.uk
2. Questions Goncalo asked me to address…..
The importance of scale-ups in Britain’s economy and how to access them as investment
opportunities…
“What will be the key challenges for ensuring an effective environment for scale-ups post Brexit?”
“Can businesses take advantage of new international markets and partnerships as we refocus our
economy away from Europe – do we have the right ecosystem in place to support this?”
“Will this offer new opportunities to attract a wider talent pool , or are there now new challenges to ensure
businesses get the talent we need?”
“What should the investment community do to ensure that they can support scale-ups?”
“What is the role for Government or other stakeholders?”
3. |THE SCALE-UP REPORT ON UK ECONOMIC GROWTH Sherry Coutu CBE
AUDIENCE CHECK…...
#scaleup
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP
2000
Floated second Start-up
1986
Came to the UK to attend the
London School of Economics
1987
Became a Computer
Programmer
1991
Studied Business at Harvard
1994
Joined my first
‘start-up’
1995
Founded second Start-up
Sherry Coutu CBE < 2000
1997
first ‘startup’ sold
#scaleup
5. Advice from a serial entrepreneur and former angel investor
#scaleup
7. “First mover advantage doesn’t go to the first company that
launches, it goes to the first company that scales.”
Reid Hoffman, co-founder of Linkedin
THE SCALE-UP REPORT ON UK ECONOMIC GROWTH Sherry Coutu CBE#scaleup
8. Definition
A ‘scale-up’ is an enterprise with average annual
growth in employees or turnover greater than 20 per
cent per annum over a three year period, and with
more than 10 employees at the beginning of the period
#scaleupTHE SCALE-UP REPORT ON UK ECONOMIC GROWTH Sherry Coutu CBE
9. Start-ups are not SCALE-UPS
Any size*
Any age
Any sector
Any region
#scaleupTHE SCALE-UP REPORT ON UK ECONOMIC GROWTH Sherry Coutu CBE
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We are doing very well on Start-ups...
11. |THE SCALE-UP REPORT ON UK ECONOMIC GROWTH Sherry Coutu CBE
But we are doing less well at growing them (!)
12. “Competitive advantage doesn’t go to the nations
that focus on creating companies, it goes to
nations that focus on scaling companies.”
#scaleupTHE SCALE-UP REPORT ON UK ECONOMIC GROWTH Sherry Coutu CBE
18. Job Creation is linked to companies that are high growth (2015)
In the UK, HGSBs created the equivalent of approx.
4,500
new jobs every week
3 X as many new jobs as the FTSE 100
Source: Octopus investments – hgsb study released Oct 20 2015
19.
20. SCALE-UPS ARE NOT START-UPS
Scale-ups have different needs
ROI in Scale-ups has big pay-offs for Economic Growth
So we should focus some of our attention and policies on scale-
ups
The Scale-Up Institute #scaleup
21. |THE SCALE-UP REPORT ON UK ECONOMIC GROWTH Sherry Coutu CBE
SCALE-UPS ARE THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY
Scale-ups are found in each of the 39 LEP
areas in England and 6,659 (75 per cent) of
the total 8,923 scale-ups are located outside
of London.
On average a LEP will have approximately
228 scale-ups in their area.
These in turn can be grouped into the
Number of scale-ups companies that employ
between
• 10 and 49 employees,
• 50 and 250 employees,
• >250 employees
#scaleup
22. |THE SCALE-UP REPORT ON UK ECONOMIC GROWTH Sherry Coutu CBE
National Growth
Fast-growing women-led companies
present in all regions of the UK
68% headquartered outside
London
Scottish women-led companies are
growing revenues at a median
annual rate of 30%
23. |THE SCALE-UP REPORT ON UK ECONOMIC GROWTH Sherry Coutu CBE
Growing tech companies Run by Women - Turnover
24. |THE SCALE-UP REPORT ON UK ECONOMIC GROWTH Sherry Coutu CBE
Turnover in the last year vs Turnover Growth (GBP)
26. Contributing nearly
£ 2 billion more
to GDP in last year!
Cumulative
Revenue
£7,156,288,
364
£8,864,226,
404
£1,707,725,6
75
27. |THE SCALE-UP REPORT ON UK ECONOMIC GROWTH Sherry Coutu CBE
● The UK has a lower share of
large businesses than the US.
● Large firms with more than 250
employees account for 0.5 per
cent of firms in the UK but 0.7
per cent in the US.
● This lack of ‘scale up’ means the
economy as a whole loses on
productivity and growth.
28. |THE SCALE-UP REPORT ON UK ECONOMIC GROWTH Sherry Coutu CBE
Management Consulting
Events Services
Internet
Sector diversity in women-led businesses is strong
PR & Comms
88%
42%
33%
28%
29. National Growth across sectors
Food & Drink,
Edinburgh
Information
Technology
London
Staffing &
recruitment,
London
Manufacturing,
Cambridge
Advertising
Technology,
London
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KEY RECOMMENDATIONS
Draw attention to scale-up companies and their
leaders so that it is easier for them to act as role
models to others and to find customers, partners and
investors, both at home and overseas.
#scaleup
31. Closing The Scale-Up Gap:
Drive Local Economic Growth by Releasing Data
So that local public and private organisations can
identify
target
evaluate
their environment as one where scale-up companies can
flourish
32. Closing The Scale-Up Gap:
Release Data
Draw attention to your top 50 local scale-up companies and their
leaders so that it is easier for them to:
Attract & Retain
Talent
Leadership
Customers & Partners
Finance
R&D facilities and Office Space
both at home & overseas.
40. 50 % of funding and promotion for
‘entrepreneurship’ should be directed towards
collaborative initiatives based on track-record
and evidence
Case Studies:
• VentureFest Network
• SVC2UK
41. 82%
“I would be able to grow my
company faster if applicants had
the skills needed to meet my
customer demand”
42. 82%
“I would be able to grow my
company faster if applicants had
the skills needed to meet my
customer demand”
43. |THE SCALE-UP REPORT ON UK ECONOMIC GROWTH Sherry Coutu CBE
THE SKILLS GAP IS SET TO GET LARGER….
#scaleup
OF 163 SCALE-UPS AGREE
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Workfinder.com
Local business leaders
50. |THE SCALE-UP REPORT ON UK ECONOMIC GROWTH Sherry Coutu CBE
Workfinder.com
Local business leaders
51. |THE SCALE-UP REPORT ON UK ECONOMIC GROWTH Sherry Coutu CBE
Workfinder.com
“The speakers told us stories
about students of our age
who had created businesses
and so I thought if they can
do it, I can do it too.
I applied to F4S for work
experience and worked with
them on an appathon
contest….
Maitri Panchal
54. Workfinder.com
We know how important closing
the attainment gap is to our long-
term economic prosperity, so it’s
fantastic that apps like Workfinder
give businesses a new and
innovative way to connect with
students all across the UK
Well done for coming up with such
a pioneering idea”.
Paul Drechsler, CBI President
55. Workfinder.com
“Our members regularly tell us that
they struggle to find young adults
who are properly equipped for the
workplace”
“today’s launch of Workfinder
marks a huge step forward in
tackling this issue. Not only does it
provide young people with great
opportunities, it does so in the
digital space – the natural domain
of those who will excel in the high-
tech, high-skilled workplaces of the
future.”
Mike Cherry
Federation of Small Businesses
57. SCALE-UP QUESTIONS
BBAA (1 November 2016)
Sherry Coutu CBE
#scaleup
http://www.scaleupreport.com
http://www.scaleupinstitute.org.uk
Will Brexit offer new opportunities to attract a wider talent pool or are there now new challenges to
ensure businesses get the talent we need?
58. Closing The Scale-Up Gap: Talent & Skills
• Entrepreneurship in curriculum?
• Scaleup Leaders on board of Governors?
• Scale-up leaders in the class-room as role-models and mentors?
• 50% Scale-up companies in careers fairs?
• 50% of work experience in scale-up companies?
• Extra-curricular student entrepreneurship activities / clubs?
• 50% of students visiting scale-ups on ‘open days’?
Exemplars:
• Barclays Life-skills Programme
• Founders4Schools
• Careers & Enterprise Company
59. Closing The Scale-Up Gap: Leadership Development
Identify mentors with experience and find effective ways to share
their knowledge
Case Studies & Exemplars:
• Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Programme
• Mentorsme
• Silicon Valley Comes to the UK
• School for Scaleups
• The Elite Programme (LSE)
60. Closing The Scale-Up Gap:
Assist Expansion at home & abroad
Identify mentors with experience and find effective ways to share
their knowledge
Case Studies & Exemplars:
• Mayor’s Go-to-Grow Programme
• Silicon Valley Comes to the UK
• The Elite Programme (LSE)
• UKTI
• Catapults
61. SCALE-UP QUESTIONS
BBAA (1 November 2016)
Sherry Coutu CBE
#scaleup
http://www.scaleupreport.com
http://www.scaleupinstitute.org.uk
What is the role for Government & other stakeholders ?
62. Closing The Scale-Up Gap:
Local Government
• Celebrate scale-up growth events in your city with the media
• Invite scale-up leaders to share their experience with students
• Celebrate new customer wins and help create new ones
• Encourage local universities to offer courses to scale-up leaders
• Meet with a selection of scale-up leaders every month (3 hours)
• Persuade real-estate leaders to offer scale-up friendly terms
63. SCALE-UP QUESTIONS
BBAA (1 November 2016)
Sherry Coutu CBE
#scaleup
http://www.scaleupreport.com
http://www.scaleupinstitute.org.uk
What should the investment community do to ensure that they can support scale-ups ?
64. Closing The Scale-Up Gap:
Investment Community
Draw attention to scale-up companies and their
leaders so that it is easier for them to act as
role models to others and to find customers,
partners and investors, both at home and
overseas
Case Studies:
• Elite
• Venturefest
• SVC2UK
65. SCALE-UP QUESTIONS
BBAA (1 November 2016)
Sherry Coutu CBE
#scaleup
http://www.scaleupreport.com
http://www.scaleupinstitute.org.uk
What is the role for Government & other stakeholders ?
66.
67. Closing The Scale-Up Gap:
Media & Cultural Organisations
• Shine a light on our most successful scale-up leaders and their companies rather than only start-ups
• Profile successful scale-up entrepreneurs at key mile-stones to inspire others (especially the next
generation)
• Reviewing and holding to account initiatives and policies in entrepreneurship:
• Are they about starting or growing businesses?
• Are they providing evidence to support their claims?
• What is the cost per job created?
• Are they collaborative?
68.
69. Closing The Scale-Up Gap:
Large Corporates
Accounting Firms
Consulting Firms
• Publish the the amount you procure from scale-ups
• Offer infrastructure for product dev’t and testing
• Support skill-building programmes for local scale-up leaders
70. SCALE-UP BRIEFING
What does it take to scale a successful global business in the UK?
Skills
Leadership Training on Access to Markets
Finance
71. Workfinder.com
Workfinder
Sign up for FREE for a chance to win work experience
vouchers children at a school of your choice
www.workfinder.com
Invite code: syndicateroom
72. SCALE-UP QUESTIONS
Sherry Coutu CBE
#scaleup
http://www.scaleupreport.com
http://www.scaleupinstitute.org.uk
What will be the key challenges for ensuring
an effective environment for scale-ups post Brexit?
73. SCALE-UP QUESTIONS
Sherry Coutu CBE
#scaleup
http://www.scaleupreport.com
http://www.scaleupinstitute.org.uk
What will be the key opportunities we have
to ensure
an effective environment for scale-ups post Brexit?