Where to find a CEO for my startup?

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I have taken my startup as far as I can and would like to find a CEO to take it on. We have taken it from concept to product (physical) in the market but now I need someone to scale. Where do I look?

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You won't unless you have the money to hire one. Most experienced or want-to-be CEOs will want to be paid very well in addition to getting a big chunk of the company. What you need to do now is look for investors so you can build out a skeleton upper management rung, as needed, and get some employees.

The product is just the start. Now you have to build a company around the product. You'll need to get someone to increase demand thru marketing, someone to manage production and on and on. I bet you can do that yourself. Once you have a stable company then you can start to look for a CEO that may be able to help grow the company. If you were able to get the product to market, i bet, you can certainly build the company around it to move it further.

Read up on the process. Here are 2 books that will get you started:

https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Revisited-Small-Businesses-About...

https://www.amazon.com/Startup-Owners-Manual-Step-Step-ebook...

Good luck

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