Last Updated on 12 May 2025 at 10:21

During my career of almost 3 decades, I have often met entrepreneurs and start-up founders.

They are all very excited about their new idea for an innovative product or service, which will, without any doubt, revolutionise, disrupt, and change the game’s rules and even the game itself while we are at it. All of these steps are taken to convince them of their ability to do something important and remain in the history books for the next 20 years (at least) while making headlines in the various media (every day, if possible).

That … is the usual speech.

In practice, the reality is a bit different.

First and foremost, company founders seek to

But what key capabilities are needed to convince investors to write the much-anticipated investment cheque ?

This is a question that comes up regularly.

Is it

Every company founder has the opportunity to

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Elena Debbaut

Partenaire – Restructuration Opérationnelle

https://elena.debbaut.solutions/

ed@consultingteam.solutions

Elena Debbaut is a strategic execution expert to boards and executive teams. She leads and advises on complex transformations when governance barriers, internal politics, or structural fragmentation prevent organizations from executing critical decisions.

Specialities:

• governance-constrained transformation
• operational restructuring
• strategic recovery & execution