Product September 21, 2021 3 min read

From startup to scale-up: how to choose a tech partner for the long-run

From startup to scale-up: how to choose a tech partner for the long-run

Are you looking to reach new levels of growth and expansion? It’s time to embrace some ideas to take you there. Going from startup to scale-up is much easier and faster with the right tech partner at your side.

According to popular belief, only about half of startups survive the first five years, and only 1 in 200 become actual scale-ups. To defy these odds, managers must define a strategy for the long run. You scale up when you already have a proven business model, found your place in the market, customers love your always-improving product, and flourishing business.

The idea is to be continuously investing in innovation is a sine-qua-non condition. The market changes, the consumer gets more demanding, the technology evolves, and new players and competitors appear. Additionally, your offering must address all these factors at all times. Furthermore, finding and retaining the necessary tech talent is a huge challenge. That’s why the right tech partner is your best ally to move from startup to scale-up.

The right tech partner has a workforce full of experienced, multidisciplinary, qualified, and up-to-date professionals in terms of skills, trends, and best practices. It’s important to breathe the startup world, knowing its precise special wants and needs and sharing the same mindset and passion. You should be ready to help according to your needs and preferred model. It’s best to use modern tools, agile methodologies, and fine-tuned processes to make sure they’re in perfect sync — a tech partner just like Runtime ;)

We can provide full-stack development or simply be a part of your development process:

A design and development team in tune with yours — We can help your projects move forward, joining our Designers and Developers with your team.

Development team only — You may already have the design for your idea, and you only need an on-demand team to implement it — Developers, Engineers, QAs, Project Managers, Consultants, Agile Leaders… In that case, we are your product development team.

Integration With Another Team — Sometimes, your development team only needs an extra hand. We have specialised Developers to enrich your existing talents.

Design Only — You may already have the developers, but you need UX and UI Designers to get everything working properly. In that case, we are your UX/UI design team.

Teaming up with Runtime ensures your delivery capacity while gaining flexibility, eliminating hassles, and reducing costs when going from startup to scale-up. Can you imagine the impact it brings to your daily routine? You can really focus on business growth and leave tech issues to experts. Experts tailored to each specific project that add much more than tech capabilities and support. They can add analytical vision and recommend the most appropriate development paths. They can also suggest potential enhancements to the product, better ways of doing things, and the most suitable tech stack for each case. In a proactive, results-oriented, committed, and close relationship. This kind of collaboration helps to create a long-lasting partnership.

That’s the type of relationship we, at Runtime, have with all the startups and scale-ups that work with us. From Shermans Travel to HealthHive and Memo, among so many others. We invite you to follow the previous links to read the case studies and understand why we are the tech partner of choice for those who want to move from startup to scale-up.

Then, let’s talk to prove it to yourself. We’ll certainly achieve great things together :-)