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The 7 Stages Every Founder Goes Through (And The One That Breaks Most Businesses)

There's a hidden pattern every founder hits on the way up. Too small to be big and too big to be small. Around 70 or 80 employees, profit drops, growth stalls, and founders burn out. The game changes—you were playing basketball, and suddenly you're coaching football. I'm Dominic Monkhouse. I've scaled two firms to £30 million in 5 years, written a couple of books, and coached over 100 founder-CEOs, 12 of whom have had fabulous exits. If you know the pattern, you can navigate it and come out the other side stronger. Here are the seven stages of the founder's curve and what it really takes to survive each one. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - The Hidden Pattern Every Founder Hits 0:46 - Stage 1: Startup (Don't Die) 1:29 - Stage 2: Funding (Does Anybody Care?) 2:53 - Stage 3: Infliction (You're the Bottleneck Now) 3:35 - Stage 3 Continued: Crossing the Desert 5:06 - Stage 4: Validation (The Most Dangerous Stage) 6:02 - Stage 5: No Man's Land (Frustration and Exhaustion) 8:44 - Stage 6: Growth (The LEO Framework) 10:23 - Stage 7: Decline (Where the Business Slowly Dies) 11:10 - Fix Your Biggest Constraint First KEY TAKEAWAYS: Around 70-80 employees: profit drops, growth stalls, founders burn out Find one ICP, one pain, one route to market at startup Hire every single person up to 50 people yourself—not HR Stage 4 (validation) is the most dangerous because it doesn't feel dangerous Would you enthusiastically rehire your early helpers? If no, that's your problem The LEO Framework: Leverage your time, Enable your leaders, Orchestrate your systems CEO work is 60% of your time (3 days/week)—if not, you're not a CEO Fix your biggest constraint first—not the easiest part to work on 📧 Want to be a better leader in 33 days? Get daily emails with actionable tools—the interview question that reveals missionaries vs mercenaries, how to make meetings optional, the difference between coaches and captains. Real-world advice to build a business that doesn't need you holding its hand. Sign up here: https://join.monkhouseandcompany.com/... 📞 Ready to identify your biggest constraint? Book a call: https://book.monkhouseandcompany.com/... → FOLLOW DOMINIC MONKHOUSE: LinkedIn: 👔 / dominicmonkhouse Instagram: 📷 / dominicmonkhouse Website: https://www.monkhouseandcompany.com ABOUT DOMINIC: I'm a UK-based business coach who helps founder-CEOs scale their companies from 50 to 250 employees. I've scaled two UK tech companies to £30M ARR in five years. Now, my mission is to help 2,000 British companies build systems that scale without the founder at the centre of everything. Until you fix your biggest constraint, nothing else matters. #FounderCEO #ScalingBusiness #NoMansLand #FoundersCurve