You built something that works. And somewhere along the way it started running you — more clients, more people, more decisions, and less and less of the freedom you started for. EO Accelerator Zürich is the year where founders in exactly that position get the structure, the coach and the room they need to get past CHF 1 million.
One message. No form, no sales call — you tell us where the business is, we tell you honestly whether this is the right room for you.
Your team expects answers. Your clients expect results. Your family thinks everything is going great. And you are the one still awake at two in the morning, doing the maths again. Running a company is strangely lonely — and these are the four things founders only say out loud once they are in a room with other founders.
Growth eats cash faster than it produces it. Most founders learn this the expensive way, in the middle of a payroll run.
Twenty-five good ideas is not a strategy. Knowing which three matter — and what you will stop doing — is.
Every decision, every approval, every client problem still comes back to you. That works small. It breaks at scale.
Should I let this employee go? Can I afford this investment? Am I the problem? Google has no answer. Founders who have done it do.
The curriculum is built on Verne Harnish's Scaling Up framework. One full day per quarter, one topic per day, worked on with your own numbers and your own business — not case studies.
Know your core customer, sharpen the brand promise, and set a goal big enough to organise the next three years around.
Get the right people in the right seats and become the kind of company A-players want to stay in.
Tighten the habits, the rhythm and the meetings so the important work stops sliding to next week.
Shorten the time between spending a franc and earning it back, so growth funds itself instead of choking you.
Full days, 08:30 start. Join the program and the whole year is included.
The Strategy day is run by Nikolai Ladanyi on the Scaling Up framework — a full day working on your own company with someone who does this with growing businesses for a living. It is the kind of day founders normally pay for separately.
Your coach is an EO member: an entrepreneur running a business that has been on the market for years and does millions in revenue. Not a consultant with a slide deck — someone who has made the decisions you are about to make.
That is the real bridge between Accelerator and EO. You spend the year next to people who crossed the line you are walking towards, and you inherit their network along the way. The connections are the part participants underestimate before they join and talk about the most afterwards.
From first message to first Learning Day, it is three steps.
After your first message, our team has a call with you and decides together whether your business fits. We are looking for companies that can actually be scaled and founders ready to move to the next level, because the year only works if everyone in the room is playing at that level. The screening is what protects the value of the group you are joining.
Write to us on WhatsApp with a line about your business and where it is right now. We answer personally.
We talk about what you are building, what is in the way and where the ceiling is — then the team decides whether this is the right stage for you.
If it fits, you complete the application, verify the revenue criteria and join the next Learning Day with your cohort.
The fastest way to find out whether this is the right room for you is a five-minute conversation with someone who runs the program — and runs a company.
This community changed my life. Without EO Accelerator I would not be an EO member today, and my company would not have crossed CHF 1 million. I went through the same year, in the same room, with the same doubts.
I built a company from a one-woman salon into a brand sold in more than 20 countries — including all the parts nobody posts about. Tell me where your business is and I will tell you straight whether the Accelerator is what you need right now.
Write to AndreeaThe hardest stage of a company is the one where the founder is the only person who can see the whole picture. Two sentences about your business is enough to start the conversation.
The application form is the official EO one. When you fill it in, write that you were referred by Andreea Haenggi, EO Accelerator Zürich — it puts your file straight in front of our team.
