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Hire Fractional COOs for Entrepreneurs Wanting to Scale
If you’re an entrepreneur building a fast-growing business, you may be realizing that vision alone isn’t enough anymore. As the business scales, execution gets messy, teams struggle to keep up, and more decisions flow back to you than ever before.
That’s often when founders begin researching how to hire fractional COOs.
In this video, Derek Fredrickson explains why entrepreneur-led businesses need a different kind of operational leadership and why a fractional COO is often a better fit than a traditional full-time hire.
You’ll learn why entrepreneurial businesses resist structure at first, how the right systems actually protect your creativity and speed, and what makes a fractional COO uniquely effective for scaling businesses. Derek also explains how entrepreneurial-minded COOs translate vision into execution without killing culture or slowing momentum.
This video covers:
- Why entrepreneur-led businesses need different operational support
- How fractional COOs partner with visionary founders
- The difference between corporate operators and entrepreneurial COOs
- How systems fuel growth instead of constraining it
- What a fractional COO actually does day to day
- When founders are ready to bring in COO-level leadership
- How The COO Solution supports entrepreneurs through flexible, implementation-focused leadership
The COO Solution specializes in working with founders who want to scale without burning out or losing what makes their business special. Our entrepreneurial COOs love the number-two seat and are wired to finish what visionaries start.
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