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TIGER Talk

The Founder’s Bottleneck: Why Growth Stalls When Everything Depends on You

January 23 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

INNOVATE NEW ALBANY – NEW LOCATION

7775 Walton Pkwy, Suite 100
New Albany, OH 43054 United States

7775 Walton Pkwy, Suite 100, New Albany, OH 43054

Friday 1/23/26, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

Be ready to interact with our featured speaker, Natalie Hoop, and your fellow participants.

Please arrive at 11:00 am. Eat. Mingle. Make new friends.

Every founder hits a point where growth slows, not because the market shrank, but because they became the system. When every decision, deal, or fire still runs through you, it’s not a revenue problem it’s an operational one.

This TIGER Talk will help founders recognize when their business is scaling them instead of scaling up and shows how to build the systems, roles, and rhythms that let the company grow beyond their personal capacity.

Key Takeaways:
✅ The 3 early warning signs your business is scaling you instead of scaling up
✅ How to separate people problems from process problems (and fix the right one first)
✅ A 90-day playbook to reclaim time, margin, and momentum—without losing visibility or control

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Natalie Hoop is a Fractional Strategic Operations Partner who helps founders turn growth chaos into scalable systems. With 15+ years of experience leading operations, revenue, and delivery across SaaS, DTC, and manufacturing companies, she’s known for helping startups strengthen foundations, improve margins, and scale sustainably.

Her operational rebuilds have driven +238% sales growth in 30 days, +68-point margin gains in four months, and 3x team capacity improvements—by aligning people, process, and data into a clear, repeatable system.

Through her work with both early-stage and growth-stage founders, Natalie’s become an expert in diagnosing the hidden operational bottlenecks that stall revenue and burn out teams. She also coaches fractional leaders through The Fractional Launch Lab, helping them build businesses that last instead of just survive.

Natalie’s mission is simple: to help leaders stop being the system and start building one.

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Like all TIGER Events, this talk is FREE.

Timeline:

11:00 am – Coffee, Snacks, & Socializing

11:30 am – Lunch & More Socializing

11:50 am – Introduce yourself to our crowd (your “15 Seconds of Fame”)

12:05 pm – Hand-off to Natalie

1:00 pm – Wrap & Resume Socializing

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