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Growth Stage Entrepreneur Resource Center

Vistage Staff — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 20:45:00 +0000

Congratulations, you’ve made it past the first summit. You successfully launched your startup, creating a business that attracts customers, found market share, and continues to grow. So now you’re ready to scale that next peak as a growth stage entrepreneur....

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5 characteristics of an entrepreneur

Nick Rojas — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 18:00:00 +0000

Whether you’re a C-suite pro at a large company with hundreds of workers or you’re the founder of a startup that has only a few employees, you can benefit from thinking like an entrepreneur. Are entrepreneurs born or made? While...

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3 things leaders must do to seize opportunity in a post-pandemic economy

sheon-karol — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 20:40:38 +0000

“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic,” wrote Peter Drucker, revered as the father of modern management. Using logic based on the new economic realities, I would like to...

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Wait! I’m an entrepreneur, not a CEO!

Elisa Spain — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 17:00:51 +0000

In my practice as a Vistage chair, I’ll often hear an entrepreneur say, “I don’t want to lose the culture as I grow this company” or “We are like a family; I want to keep this feeling as we grow.”...

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Paul Downs on ‘Boss Life: Surviving My Own Small Business’

Vistage Staff — Fri, 06 May 2016 19:30:06 +0000

Date: May 2016 Bank balance: $146,651.86 Cash relative to start of year “Net Cash”: $67,665 New contract value, YTD: $1,031,096 Paul Downs, author of “BossLife: Surviving My Own Small Business” (Blue Rider Press), begins every chapter with the monthly financial...

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Sometimes big success has its roots in small business [Podcast]

Sandy Marsico — Tue, 03 May 2016 16:00:56 +0000

Sandstorm Design Founder and CEO Sandy Marsico Many successful CEOs have their roots in small businesses. Who better to advise entrepreneurs through the challenges and rewards of small business-hood than a CEO who started small and made it big?...

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Fail Fast to Flourish

Jerry Cahn — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 16:02:11 +0000

We often hear today from Venture Capitalists and others that they prefer non-successful companies in which they invest to “fail fast” if they can’t flourish. Peter Sims provides insight into this mind-set in his book Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas...

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How to Evaluate New Markets

Marc Emmer — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:30:21 +0000

There is one thing almost all entrepreneurs have in common; they want to grow. They seem to have an insatiable appetite for more; more customers, more margin and more revenue. The most fundamental of entrepreneurial questions is what business to...

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Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, discusses keys to entrepreneurial success

Robert Reiss — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:10:05 +0000

This week on The CEO TV Show, I sit down with Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos . Hsieh, who sold his first on-line business for $265 million when he was 24, first became interested in Zappos.com, an on-line shoe retailer,...

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‘It’s a Trap!’ Admiral Ackbar Helps Entrepreneurs Avoid Small-Business Start-Up Traps

Vistage Staff — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:11:53 +0000

“It’s a trap!” As economists continue to debate the nature of “the recovery” (and whether there is one, btw, let us know once you figure that one out, guys) – here’s a fun little way that entrepreneurs can channel their...

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