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Choose Your Partners Wisely (Because Success Makes Things Weird)
Entrepreneurship has taught me a lot. But if I had to boil it down to one lesson I wish I’d learned earlier (and re-learned fewer times), it’s this: Choose your partners wisely. Not your vendors, your logo designer, or even your accountant. Your partners. The people who have access, influence, and proximity to the thing…
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Business growth ideas: Grow your business
Business growth is always a priority You land a few clients or customers (or more) and realize your service or product has value and potential. What’s the next step? No matter where you are in the process, business growth is always a challenge. In 2009 I finished grad school. It was the Great Recession and…
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The Five Stages of Small Business Growth
Categorizing the problems and small business growth patterns in a systematic way that is useful to entrepreneurs seems at first glance a hopeless task. Small businesses vary widely in size and capacity for growth. They are characterized by independence of action, differing organizational structures, and varied management styles. Yet on closer scrutiny, it becomes apparent…