Notion Capital

The journey from startup to global category leader is a daunting task, for a million or less in revenues, when we might invest 100 million revenues, or more, in less than ten years. This is what VCs hope to find, and it’s what many founders plan to achieve. There are strategic challenges of balancing short term operational excellence, with long term transformation and category dominance. One of the most enduring frameworks for this is the McKinsey three horizons, which describes optimising for current performance while maximising future opportunity.Highlights:- Three horizons is a powerful way to combine short term execution with long term vision.- Feeling comfortable in the grey area between the present and the future.- There can be such a thing as too much vision!- Getting the right balance of mindset & resources between the three horizons is critical.Chris Tottman is one of the founders of Notion Capital, but also one of the founding members of MessageLabs, a tech company that went from an idea in 2000