Organizing for Startup Growth

Objectives

This section on organizing for startup growth provides resources and materials to support the following learning objectives:

1. Understand the possible challenges that startups can face when growing their organization.
2. Understand and apply organizational design attributes to analyze and design new structures.
3. Understand and weight the pros and cons of different organizational structures.

Lecture on Organizing for Startup Growth

• Slides

Greiner’s Model of Organizational Growth

• Video

• Paper

Organizational Design and Structure: Some Theory

• Theory 1

• Theory 2

Expert Advice on Organizing for Startup Growth

• Taking the Mystery out of Scaling a Company - Blog Post by Ben Horowitz

• Functional versus Unit Organizations - Blog Post by Steven Sinofsky

• The Canonical Startup Org Structure - Blog Post by Steven Sinofsky