Scale-up hub

Supporting growing businesses

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Welcome to our hub for growing businesses looking to scale. As the top adviser to scale-ups in the UK*, you will find a wealth of resources specifically designed to provide strategic and financial insights to support your business growth. 

Every day our experienced team of advisors work alongside founders and management teams to tackle the barriers to growth as they scale their businesses.  Whether you have your sights set on global expansion, commercialising new products and services, optimising operations, accessing finance, or making your business investment ready, we can help you create value, build resilience and manage risk, guiding you throughout to achieve your goals

*ScaleUp Institute


Breaking barriers to growth

How we can help you confidently scale your business

Unlock key insights and strategies to help you scale your business effectively and confidently. Download our practical guide to overcoming common barriers to growth identified by the ScaleUp Institute: access to markets, access to skills and talent, access to finance, and building leadership capability. The guide covers everything you need to think about and includes useful tools and advice from industry experts and scale-up business leaders.
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Business Lens

BUSINESS LENS: Our Free Diagnostic Tool

Assess how your business is performing using BDO’s Business Lens. Our free diagnostic tool examines each of the 7Ps, so you can see where to focus your efforts and resources. The assessment takes around ten minutes to complete and you will receive a report immediately afterwards with key recommendations to improve your business.
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Resources

Looking for some practical tips on scaling your business, or guidance on a particular issue? Help yourself to our extensive library of resources; from our video playlist featuring experts, to our collection of interviews with business leaders sharing their successes, and our latest thought leadership reports and insights, you’ll find it all here. Subscribe now to receive our quarterly newsletter, technical updates and invites to interviews, events and roundtable discussions.


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Videos

A YouTube playlist dedicated to Scale-ups. Here, you'll find a curated selection of videos designed to help growing businesses navigate the challenges of scaling effectively. Whether you're looking to optimise operations, secure funding or expand globally, these resources and case studies provide invaluable insights and practical advice to support your scale-up journey. Subscribe and stay updated with the latest strategies and trends in scaling your business successfully.
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Case Studies

Business leaders can learn so much from each other, sharing perspectives on strategic and operational issues, as well as success stories. Whether it’s helping to scale their business, streamline operations or simplify financial management, provide advice on specific matters or guidance on raising capital and funding, each one has a story to tell about overcoming challenges and achieving their goals.

Hear directly from some of the many founders, business owners and management teams about the valuable insights they have gained from our Business Lens diagnostic tool and how we have been working side by side with them.

Scale-up Insights

Read articles focused on helping focus energy and resources in the right places; from top tips for scaling up your business, to building an agile business strategy to navigate dynamic markets or planning for times of uncertainty.

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