business growth Archives

Use This Ultimate Growth Strategy to Get Your First 100,000 App Users

Even if you’ve landed on a winning idea for a new app, you’ll need a strategy to get downloads and regular, sustained usage in a highly competitive market. We’re here to help by sharing the...

byTim Waldenback

July 20, 2022

Understanding the Jobs to Be Done Theory for Breakthrough Innovation [VIDEO]

In "Competing Against Luck," disruptor and Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen shares his theory for breakthrough innovation: the jobs to be done theory. In the book, he and coauthors Karen Dillon, Taddy Hall and...

byClayton Christensen, Karen Dillon, Taddy Hall and David S. Duncan

January 6, 2022

WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: Detroit’s Own StockX is Booming (Episode 86)

On today's WJR Business Beat, Jeff shares the exciting news (initially reported in DBusiness magazine) that Detroit's own StockX is booming, despite most brands taking a hit during the COVID-19 pandemic. StockX launched in 2016 and offers...

byStartupNation

July 16, 2020

WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: The Science Behind Business Growth (Episode 7)

This morning on the WJR Business Beat, Jeff offers key success tips to move your business from the startup stage to growth phase. Recently, a company known as TrueSpace partnered with global analytics and research...

byStartupNation

March 10, 2020

3 Reasons Why it’s a Great Time to Be an Entrepreneur

There’s one constant for small business owners and entrepreneurs: the continuing need to adapt in the face of changing technological and societal landscapes. This need to evolve and move quickly can be challenging, but positively,...

byMelissa Schneider

August 21, 2019

4 Ways to Overcome a Plateau and Reignite Your Passion

We've all been there. Our business is growing according to plan, and then... it isn't. We've hit a plateau, we feel stuck and we don’t know what to do. Don’t panic! Business, like life, runs in cycles. With...

byRoz Clark

August 18, 2019

Why You Need to Go Back to the Beginning to Grow Your Business

It’s most every entrepreneur’s dream: your business is a success, and in a few short years, you’ve gone from being a lone freelancer to managing an ever-growing team of employees. But you soon find that...

byJulian Jakob Jost

May 11, 2019

How This Psychotherapist Grew Her Own Business While Working Full-Time

Angela Ficken is an entrepreneur and psychotherapist. She owns the ProgressWellness.com brand and runs a private practice in Boston, Mass. Through her business, Ficken specializes in providing individual therapy for people who have a range...

byNav

April 11, 2019

How a European Startup Increased Revenue by 14,315 Percent

Let’s be honest, the mattress business may not seem like the most fascinating niche in the startup world; especially at a time when industries like technology and tourism are transforming so quickly. But statistics show...

byJustin E. Crawford

February 19, 2019

Why You Should Make Your Startup Better Instead of Bigger

In their dogged pursuit of growth, some startups wind up growing too fast and burning out their employees or founders. Writer and designer Paul Jarvis takes a contrarian approach to business success in his new...

bySusan Johnston Taylor

January 21, 2019

4 Signs Your Business is Growing Too Fast and What to Do About It

A growing business is a great thing, and it is what we all strive for. Rapid growth can also be a pandora’s box of problems. Daniel Lubetzky, founder and CEO of KIND Snacks, knows the...

bySean Glynn

January 18, 2019

SoulCycle Co-Founder on Riding Out Rapid Business Growth

The following is adapted from "Riding High," copyright © 2018 by Ruth Zukerman. First hardcover edition published October 2, 2018 by St. Martin’s Press. All rights reserved. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor, the...

byRuth Zukerman

November 6, 2018

Take a New Approach to Website Usability for Better Conversions

Websites have come a long way since 1995. Or have they? We’ve seen strides in design and coding, and many companies revamp their websites every few years to account for this. Updating your website’s design...

byMichael Georgiou

August 24, 2018

This Entrepreneur Went From Running a Million-Dollar, One-Person Business to Scaling Up

The following is an adapted excerpt from "The Million-Dollar One-Person Business: Make Great Money. Work the Way You Live. Have the Life You Want" (Random House, 2018). When Joey Healy, 31, started his eyebrow styling...

byElaine Pofeldt

July 17, 2018

Why Content Marketing is a Smart Investment

If there’s one thing that I find myself saying over and over again, it’s this: "Content marketing is not a path to overnight success." Obviously, I believe in the power of content marketing to help...

byTyler Hakes

March 23, 2018

Author and Business Coach Pamela Slim on Growing a Business in 2018

Over the past 20 years, business coach and author Pamela Slim has helped countless businesses of all sizes problem solve and grow. She’s authored two business books, “Escape from Cubicle Nation” and “Body of Work: Finding...

bySusan Johnston Taylor

January 29, 2018

10 Tips to Grow a Startup Without Breaking the Bank

Having a ground-breaking business idea is a great way to start your entrepreneurial journey, but it’s only the first step. To thrive in today’s market, you also need to know how to grow a startup...

byYamarie Grullon

August 21, 2017

Hacking Innovation: How Startups Can Leverage the Agile Bursts Method [Book Excerpt]

The following excerpt was selected exclusively for StartupNation from "Hacking Innovation: The New Growth Model from the Sinister World of Hackers" © 2017 Josh Linkner. All Rights Reserved. Agile bursts “I don’t need time, what I need...

byJosh Linkner

August 1, 2017

What Should New Entrepreneurs Pay Themselves?

With entrepreneurship comes freedom, and along with that freedom comes interesting decisions you may have never faced before. One of those decisions is what to pay yourself as a startup owner. There are a wide...

byJustin E. Crawford

July 20, 2017

The Art of Opportunity: Casper Reinventing the Mattress Business [Case Study]

The Opportunity: The Hassles of Buying a Mattress Have you ever purchased a mattress? For most folks, the process can be an overwhelming undertaking. There are so many choices to make: how firm should it...

byMarc Sniukas

June 12, 2017