Hello everyone
I am looking forward to hear stories relating to how your initial years were and how , when and why you expanded.
Actually I am in delimma whether to expand or continue what is going on. I am looking for ideas as to how to expand.
Looking forward to learn from growth storys of entrepreneurs here.
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Posted by Puzzleheaded_Ad6152
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Like 4 consistent years of rolling with the waves. All I’ve learned so far is it it’s pretty pointless to map out a step-by-step map of where to go, and way more pragmatic to set a direction with your compass and allow yourself to be steered along the way with the wind.
Whatever you do, don’t sit in boardrooms and overplan without throwing stuff to the wall to validate and test.
Build-measure-learn.
Last thing, don’t chase growth for the sake of growth. Question growth and how it fits in with your long term goals. I’ve met way too many owners who feel as though their business owns them instead of the other way around.
For me the early years were just survival mode, no grand plan, just making sure customers kept paying and I wasn’t lying to myself about traction. I didn’t expand until two things were true at the same time: demand was pulling harder than my current setup could handle, and the bottleneck was clearly not effort but structure. Expansion wasn’t a big “let’s grow” moment, it was small reversible bets like raising prices, niching down harder, adding one adjacent offer, or testing a new channel with a fixed downside. If you’re unsure whether to expand, that’s usually a signal you don’t have a forcing constraint yet. Real expansion tends to happen when staying the same actually feels riskier than changing something. My rule of thumb: don’t expand to chase growth, expand to remove a constraint that’s already costing you money, time, or sanity.