• Mastering scale capital: a diy approach to raising growth capital is one of the clearest separators between firms that plateau and those that scale to a successful exit.
• Josh shares the specific moves that made the biggest difference — lessons that only come from doing it, not reading about it.
• Most founders underestimate how much scale capital: a diy approach to raising growth capital affects enterprise value; treat it as a strategic priority, not an afterthought.
• The key mindset shift: approach scale capital: a diy approach to raising growth capital as an owner building a sellable asset, not as an operator solving today's problem.
• Topics like scale capital: a diy approach to raising growth capital are discussed weekly inside Collective 54, where founders get peer accountability and expert guidance from people who have been in the same seat.

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Scaling a boutique professional services firm requires raising capital, and not all capital is the same. On this episode, we interview Josh Miramant, Founder and CEO at Blue Orange Digital, to learn about the three sources of scale capital. When scaling a business, these are the sources of scale capital to be mindful of:

Sean Magennis [00:00:15] Welcome to the Boutique with Collective 54, a podcast for founders and leaders of boutique professional services firms. The aim of  this show is to help you grow, scale, and exit your firm bigger and faster. I’m Sean Magennis, Collective 54 Advisory Board member and your host. 

In this episode, I will make the case that to scale your professional services firm requires capital and that not all capital is the same. I’ll try to prove this theory by interviewing Josh Miramant, Founder and CEO at Blue Orange Digital. 

Blue Orange is a data science and machine learning, consulting and development firm. They build modern data warehousing to support machine learning, and A.I. Blue Orange helps companies integrate these insights to drive data driven decisions. And the decision making. You can find Josh atBlueOrange.digital. Josh, great to  be with you. Welcome.

Josh Miramant [00:01:24] Thanks Sean, it’s great to be here, thanks for having me.

Sean Magennis [00:01:26] Hopefully, I did justice to that explanation of all the great things you do.

Josh Miramant [00:01:30] Or how many buzzwords in our space. You couldn’t have nailed it better, Sure.