Coaching for scaleup founders stuck in founder-led growth
Mika Tikkala works with scaleup founders running €1M–€10M companies who are stuck in founder mode — every decision still routes through them. The Runway Method gets you out of founder dependency and into the owner role without burning out. Founding Member cohort, application-only.
What this is
- A founder operating system — what to own, what to hand off, what to kill
- Behavioral and biological read — so the decisions you keep are the ones only you can make
- 60-day install, then a re-test cadence over the following year
Who it is for
Scaleup founders running €1M–€10M companies with 5–50 employees. The business is winning, the operator is stuck. Founder-led growth has hit its ceiling.
How this compares to what you've already tried
Most founders in this position have already been through something — a Huberman protocol, a Tony Robbins weekend, Dan Martell's time-blocking framework, maybe therapy, maybe an Oura ring sitting on the nightstand. None of them stuck the way they were supposed to.
- Peter Attia / Outlive: the biology-first framework is correct. Built for a wealthy American with full access to his medical practice — not for a Nordic founder running a €3M company at full operational speed.
- Andrew Huberman protocols: the science is solid. Huberman tells you what to do; he can't tell you why you're not doing it. The implementation gap is a biology problem, not a discipline problem.
- Dan Martell / Buy Back Your Time: right for the business layer. Assumes the founder's energy is fine and the problem is operational. The energy problem is upstream of the calendar problem.
- Tony Robbins / transformation events: the room energy is real. Two weeks later, nothing in the biology changed. Motivation requires the biological substrate to sustain it.
- Therapy: the right tool for trauma processing and long-term psychological work. Too slow for a founder in an active growth phase. The problem is biological in the first instance — fix that first.
- Wim Hof / cold exposure: a useful nervous-system reset. An experience, not a programme. No before/after data, no HRV tracking, no decision framework.
What's missing from all of them is the combination: enough biological knowledge to read your data, enough business context to understand what you're actually dealing with, and enough Nordic directness to tell you what's wrong without selling you a supplement stack.
The Founding Member cohort
10 founders. €2,500. 30-day money-back. 7 spots remaining. Application-only.
FAQ
Read 15 direct answers on founder burnout, decision fatigue, HRV, blood markers, and Nordic founder coaching at mikatikkala.com/faq.
Long-form answers
Contact
hello@mikatikkala.com