{"id":"evt_d9d7a00461e7","title":"The Science of Scaling: Mark Roberge","date":"2026-02-24","timezone":"America/New_York","start_time":"13:00","time_of_day":"midday","venue":null,"location":{"basis":"unresolved","likely_area":null,"likely_area_granularity":null,"evidence":null},"description":"Are You Ready to Scale Sales? How Fast? These two questions are mission-critical to the success of any startup, product launch, or market expansion. Yet, too often we rely on gut feel—or let irrelevant signals like a recent fundraise or comparisons to past unicorns— to drive our decisions. In this session, Mark Roberge, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Stage 2 Capital reveals the 5 most common reasons revenue acceleration fails.","access":{"free":null,"application_required":null},"audience_roles":["founders","operators"],"audience_orientation":"nontechnical","company_stage":null,"interaction":["content"],"topics":["venture","fundraising"],"modality":"in_person","meal_context":"none","series":null,"mentions":[{"text":"Stage 2 Capital","kind":"organization","subtype":"fund","role":"affiliation"},{"text":"Mark Roberge","kind":"person","subtype":null,"role":"speaker"}],"sources":[{"id":"nextnyc","class":"newsletter","publisher":"nextNYC","first_observed_at":"2026-02-23T12:45:50.0000000Z","last_observed_at":"2026-02-23T12:45:50.0000000Z"}],"discovery":{"first_party":[],"newsletter":["nextnyc"],"provider":null},"basis":{"audience_roles":{"founders":"inferred","operators":"inferred"},"topics":{"venture":"inferred","fundraising":"inferred"},"audience_orientation":"inferred","company_stage":null,"interaction":"observed","modality":"default"},"canonical_url":null,"first_seen":"2026-02-23T12:45:50.0000000Z","last_seen":"2026-02-23T12:45:50.0000000Z","observation_count":1}