GROWTH.
A slow, chapter-length rendering of the Growth category from The Journey - Growth without discipline is just a faster way to run out of money.
Growth sounds simple until you are the one making the decisions. Do you grow people, revenue, product, or market? And in what order? This chapter is built around the decisions you will face when you have something working and you want to make it bigger without breaking what made it work.
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How to Scale
Scaling is not about doing more. It is about building the infrastructure that makes the quality repeatable, then growing the reach.
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Choosing a Growth Channel
There is no best channel. There is only the channel that connects your buyer to your offer, repeatedly, at a cost you can afford.
9 min readintermediate - Read · 03
Getting Customer Fit Right
Wrong customers are worse than no customers. They cost you time, money, and the reputation you are trying to build.
10 min readintermediate
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Assessing Product-Market Fit
Product-market fit is not a milestone. It is a relationship. The founders who treat it as a discipline are the ones who build lasting businesses.
11 min readadvanced - Guide · 02
Building a Growth Strategy
A growth strategy is not a list of tactics. It is a clear answer to: what is already working, and how do I do more of it, in what order?
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When and how do I hire my first salesperson?
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