DGOR Research Award Winner

Scaling Maturity®

Front cover of Scaling Maturity, eBook PDF edition

The Book

Scaling Maturity®

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For founders scaling from 0 to 200 employees

How to Scale Your Startup Without Burning Cash or Depending on Venture Capital

Growth shouldn't cost you your company.

Scale too early and you burn the cash. Scale too late and you lose the market. Stand still and you lose both.

There is a fourth path. It is in this book.

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Andrej Albrecht, MSc, MBA · First edition

The fourth path

Find the constraint. Fix it. Let revenue fund the next stage.

Scaling Maturity is that path: find the one constraint holding your company back, fix it, stabilize, and let revenue fund the next stage, one cycle at a time.

The book is written for self-financed tech founders who want leverage, not a larger cost base. It turns growth-induced pressure into a repeatable sequence you can run with your own cash flow.

Pressure Clarity Small Redesign Stability Scaling

Inside the book

What you will learn to see and change

  • How to distinguish growth from scaling before the mix becomes expensive
  • The Core Sequence: Pressure, Clarity, Small Redesign, Stability, Scaling
  • The financial ratios that matter: CAC, CLV, burn, and runway
  • How fast you can scale on your own money
  • How to identify bottlenecks before they become crises
  • Self-assessments that locate your company in the cycle
  • Financial OKRs designed for self-financed startups

The theoretical foundation is the scientific working paper on SSRN. The book turns that framework into tools you can use in the company.

The cover

Cream, navy, and one sequence you can read in five seconds

The front cover is a billboard, not decoration. The cream band carries the title. The navy field carries the promise, the audience, and the Core Sequence as five connected steps.

Gold marks the award and the first step. That is deliberate. Pressure is where the work starts. The remaining steps are waiting, in order, once you can see the constraint.

  • Award line. DGOR Research Award Winner sits at the top so the research claim is visible even as a thumbnail.
  • Audience line. For founders scaling from 0 to 200 employees. The book is not written for venture-scale headcount.
  • Subtitle. How to scale without burning cash or depending on venture capital. The job of the book in one sentence.
  • Sequence. Five steps, gold then cream, connected by arrows. The same sequence the chapters teach.

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Editions

Print and digital, same book

Amazon carries the hardcover and softcover. Digital editions are on Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Books.

Hardcover

ISBN 978-3-9828266-1-5

Softcover

ISBN 978-3-9828266-2-2

eBook PDF

ISBN 978-3-9828266-3-9

eBook EPUB

ISBN 978-3-9828266-4-6

Print interiors use greyscale figures. Buyers can request the color figures companion from the address printed in the book.

The author

Andrej Albrecht, MSc, MBA

Software engineer, consultant, and entrepreneur. The framework comes from more than 20 years across 20+ self-financed projects, and from MBA research at Munich Business School that received the DGOR Research Award 2025.

He is applying the same principles while growing Albrecht Apps GmbH.

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