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This Entrepreneur Shares How She Bootstrapped Her Startup (and How You Can, Too)

There are several different ways a startup founder might fund his or her business, including series funding, crowdfunding, loans, venture capital and angel investments. Bootstrapping is another option. As an entrepreneur, investment advisor and consultant...

byJackie Hermes

April 23, 2023

How to Build a Scalable E-Commerce Architecture

Today, flexibility and the ability to adjust to ever-changing market conditions are critical for any e-commerce business that aims to grow while remaining effective and competitive. From the technological perspective, success depends on whether you...

byRoman Davydov

September 2, 2022

As You Scale Your Business, What Role Should Data Play?

From the outside, growing a startup appears relatively straightforward -- though never easy. Your customer base expands; you begin to offer new products and services; and your employee headcount grows. But what the rest of...

byChris Hyde

July 29, 2022

As You Scale Your Business, What Role Will Content Play?

There’s a startup renaissance going on right now, and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down any time soon. 2021 was a record year for U.S. venture capital, with investment nearly doubling year over year...

byChristian Lund

May 5, 2022

Business Growth 101: How To Scale Your Online Operation

E-commerce is a scary industry. Today’s technology dictates that small businesses are no longer simply competing with their brick-and-mortar rivals down the street -- they’re battling on a global scale. Of course, the strategies which...

byRodney Laws

April 22, 2022

Is Your New Business Ready to Grow? Take These 3 Steps First

If entrepreneurship were juggling, most companies would be one dropped ball away from the act falling apart. Why? Because entrepreneurs add elements into the mix without acknowledging the tipping point. Growing too fast is not...

byShay Berman

April 20, 2022

How to Scale a Business Successfully in 4 Simple Steps

As a new founder at the beginning of your entrepreneurial journey, you have many tasks at hand and little bandwidth to do them all. There are countless responsibilities, from everyday tasks like investor pitch decks...

byHelen Yu

December 3, 2021

How to Use CRM and Marketing Automation to Improve Your Scalability

Automation has become a business essential. For entrepreneurs looking to grow their business, the question always is, “How can I work smarter, not harder?” That’s where the power of marketing automation and your customer relationship...

byMatt Buchanan

October 27, 2021

Scaling Your Bootstrapped Business: 3 Tips for Lean Entrepreneurs

Like most entrepreneurs, you have likely spent hundreds of hours developing skills to build your business. By the time you start turning a profit, you’re likely to spend thousands of hours and dollars trying out...

byMark Woodbury

October 25, 2021

Is Your Business Scalable? Why the Answer Matters to Potential Investors

Financing a small business initiative by offering investors a percentage of ownership equity in your business is called equity financing. When angel investors or an equity firm invest in a company, they don’t do it...

byTy Kiisel

October 24, 2021

How to Boost Your Startup’s Profitability with This Old Improv Trick

Where does revenue come from? And how can we make more of it? When you’re building a business, everything comes down to these two questions. The more specifically you can answer the first, the more...

byLauren Balik

October 6, 2021

Master These 5 Communication Skills to Help Scale Your Business

Communication is frequently cited as one of the most important soft skills that business professionals need. It ranked fifth on the list of Udemy’s fastest-growing soft skills for 2020, with 40% of companies planning to...

byJessica Thiefels

July 30, 2021

How to Maximize Your Profitable Growth in Your Chosen Market Segments

The following is excerpted from "Choose Your Customer: How to Compete Against the Digital Giants and Thrive" by Jonathan L.S. Byrnes and John S. Wass, pp. 141-145 (McGraw Hill, May 2021). You are what you...

byJonathan L.S. Byrnes and John S. Wass

May 11, 2021

How Startups and Entrepreneurs Can Use TikTok to Grow Their Businesses

TikTok has risen to new heights in recent years with its short-form videos: the app is now available in over 150 markets across the globe, in 75 languages and has over 689 million active monthly users....

byAntoine Forest

May 6, 2021

This Entrepreneur Shares How to Start a Six-Figure Side Hustle

Plenty of side hustles can earn you a bit of side income, but only some have the potential to reach six figures per year, especially if you’re working a full-time job, too. After growing my...

byBiron Clark

April 27, 2021

Bloomscape and 2021 Midwest Venture Showcase: Successful Startups are Blooming in Our Region

Welcome back to another brand new episode of StartupNation Radio! Today, Jeff is joined by frequent co-host, Norm Pappas, president and CEO of Pappas Financial. First up, the two welcome Justin Mast, founder and CEO...

byStartupNation

April 24, 2021

How This Baker Went From an Online Business to Opening a Storefront

Rachel Dunston is the talented entrepreneur behind Rachel Makes More Cake, a popular bakeshop in Clovis, California. Dunston began her business on Instagram, posting photos of her uniquely decorated cakes and taking orders for local...

byNav

November 21, 2019

4 Powerful Reasons Why You Should Offer a Subscription Service

Building and running a successful business is tough. You’ve got to have a solid strategy, an amazing offering and a strong team to help you hit the market hard. And while advancements in tech and...

byPJ Taei

September 4, 2019

How to Make Your Business Disruptive with Speed and Efficiency

As children, we are told we need to dream big, make the world a better place, solve a problem. If, like me, you are an entrepreneur, you took these speeches from teachers or parents to...

byFrancisco Serrano

August 9, 2019