Will your Spanish expansion strategy kill your business?
- Rolf Silver
- 14 minutes ago
- 1 min read
This company had a great idea... and a burn rate that would kill it in 9 months.
They were building something genuinely valuable. The product had traction.
The team was sharp.
But their expansion strategy was built on best-case assumptions... not reality.
No buffer for tax lags or hiring delays
No plan B if fundraising slipped
No understanding of how Spain’s operating costs unfold
We stepped in for a financial Spanish expansion strategy review.
What followed wasn’t a shutdown. It was a reset:
We restructured the market entry.
Re-phased hiring and spending.
Built multiple scenarios that let the board breathe again.
This is what a Fractional CFO does at the right moment:
Not just optimise costs, but re-anchor strategy in reality.
Challenge what’s assumed. Spotlight what’s missing.
Because great ideas still need runways... and runways need financial grounding.
Strategy doesn’t just need believers. It needs a challenger in the room.
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