Scaling up the smart way - Asha Haji, Co-founder of Framework

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🗓️ 11 April 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This week’s guest is Asha Haji, co-founder of Framework, the world’s first on demand business school due to launch this year. Haji shifts the focus from founders to start-up employees and how the HR elements of growth and expansion are often overlooked and placed secondary to areas like sales and marketing. She shares her knowledge on how scale-ups can work smarter when it comes to expansion and the emphasis on employee growth and training to achieve the desired scale up without over hiring. Haji talks funding and closing a seed round of £2m which brought in some pretty impressive angel investors as well as her experience as a woman in the tech space looking for likeminded investors.

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0:00.0	People, when they scale these businesses, they don't think about necessarily how much every
0:09.3	time you add a person, you're adding complexity to the business exponentially.
0:14.2	Because a lot of times, startups are just doing things just out of necessity, not because
0:17.8	they think that's the way they should be doing them.
0:22.2	What you are as a company, as 10 people people is different from what you are as a company is 30. One of the biggest things
0:28.0	that we learned, to your point earlier, was community was such an important aspect of what we were
0:32.6	building. My guest today is Asha Hajie, who's the co-founder of Framework. Framework is the world's first on-demand
0:40.0	business school which is due to launch this year. On the show today, Asha tells me how she closed
0:44.8	a seed round of 2 million which brought in some pretty impressive angel investors. We talk about the
0:49.7	problems employees of ScaleUp suffer from and how Frame plans on solving this problem and we talk about
0:55.7	the importance of building and scaling a community for your business i'm your host mark mcdonough and this is the
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1:47.0	Now, let's get into the show.
1:49.5	Asha, I thought it would be a great idea to have you on the show because you're doing something
1:54.9	that is quite close to my heart and what I did when I was running at the startup fan, which when we were doing that was all
2:03.8	about inspiring and educating entrepreneurs. And as everyone knows, there's a huge number of entrepreneurs
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