"From Start-Up to Scale up– How to grow fast and avoid the pitfalls’’

Getting your start-up off the ground may have been challenging, but scaling it up can bring a new set of challenges. As your business grows you will need to use different skills, recruit staff members, adopt different processes and potentially find new premises. How you manage this growth is crucial as this will determine whether your business thrives or fails.

The Leeds Beckett University Innovation Network is a series of breakfast events delivered in partnership with The Yorkshire Post. Events focus on innovation as a key driver for growth and sustainability – as well as the challenges faced by businesses looking to innovate. In addition to hearing from expert speakers, the Innovation Network offers a great opportunity for knowledge exchange and to gain new business contacts.

Events are free to attend and are targeted at businesses, policy makers and anyone interested in innovation, technology and future trends.

This event offers a chance to network as well as hear from our inspirational speakers:

Mark Copsey Lecturer at Leeds Business School

Mark Copsey is an experienced consultant and academic who has worked with more than two hundred small and medium sized enterprises to deliver a range of consultancy and training services relating to marketing, business culture, operational systems and HR. Mark was previously CEO of a Chamber of Commerce before going into consultancy specialising in growth strategy and investment.

Andy Jack Director of Candle Digital

Andy Jack is co-founder and director of Candle Digital, an agency based at Piece Mill helping training companies take their products and services online. Since launching their business two years ago Candle Digital have built online training academies for several businesses in the Yorkshire region, and have recently begun working with companies in the US and China.

Lupton Fawcett

Lupton Fawcett are a well-established commercial law firm with offices in Leeds, Sheffield and York. They have particular expertise in advising spin-outs, start-ups and scale-ups through all their growth stages and to eventual exit..The team can provide expert advice on all aspects of commercial law including intellectual property, contracts, employment law and HR, data protection and property law covering many different business sectors.

WGN Accountants

WGN Accountants provide a full range of accountancy and financial advice services to the SME market in Yorkshire. The business has worked with start-ups and early stage businesses since it was founded in 1974 and focuses on providing sound business advice in addition to the core services.

Yorkshire Bank

Yorkshire Bank was founded in Halifax in 1859 and has a proud tradition of working with businesses and communities to support economic growth in the region. Yorkshire Bank are committed to working with SMEs at every stage of the business lifecycle and last year launched their three year £6bn lending commitment to fuel growth, which includes £300m a year in Yorkshire and the Humber.

Delivered in partnership with:
The Yorkshire Post

Kindly sponsored by: AdVenture, Lupton Fawcett, WGN, Yorkshire Bank and Exa Network