Do you think you success as a business depends more on growing revenue or improving your cost structure? We asked some of the brightest minds in the community to share their thoughts and insights with us below.

Kaya Munn

I’m a dreamer, a creator, and a visionary. From my earliest memories as a child I’ve fantasized about bold and creative ideas, whether it was my make believe world of living in another country with talking animals, the songs and dances I would make up, or the photoshoots I would put together for my friends and I, I was always envisioning an artistic version of the real world. Read more>>

Esther Nkaambi

I was laid off from a job I loved 4 years ago from corporate America. My first thought was to find another job as soon as I could. Lots of rollercoaster emotions of having had a career for 14yrs and suddenly waking up and having no job to go to. Read more>>

Dee Pippen

In 2018 I decided I wanted to start creating Waistbeads because I love what they stood for and the meaning. They originate from a africa. I purchased a set from a local business but it took 2 months to receive them. So I found the need to be someone who would start making sure if I started making them that the turn around wouldn’t be so long. Read more>>

Khris Astudillo

The idea of SERBESA, Filipino Kitchen started when my grandmother passed away in 2012. While we were celebrating her life; my brother, 3 of my cousins, and myself started talking about opening our own brewpub with craft beer and Filipino food inspired by our grandmother’s cooking. Read more>>

Sean Fell

The initial idea for the business started with me making myself my first surfboard. All my close friends, which was a tribe and we called ourselves the Waterboyz, wanted me to make their surfboards. We had already been handwriting WBZ and Waterboyz on all our surfboards for the past year or more and so naturally, that was the label I started putting on the surfboards I began making for all my friends. Read more>>

Valerie Bihet

Unlike most entrepreneurs, I didn’t have a grand business idea or a plan that I then decided to bring to life. What I had was a request for help with an event, which I knew I could execute well, so I did and from that one interaction a business formed. Read more>>

Sandra Mejia

Having always dreamed of having our own business, and also having becoming very conscious about the food we ate, we just decided it was time to do something we were passionate about. We researched into chocolate and realized we could make it from beginning to end, which gave us control of the end product and we could offer a healthier version of chocolate full of natural delicious flavors while keeping as much of the healthy portion of cacao as possible to reap those benefits. Read more>>

Lora Calcara

Launching my new creative business involved the brave decision to put my existant creative business on pause in order to change in the new direction I was envisioning and to scale up. I knew that I was unsatisfied with my botanical art business on Etsy in it’s current state but I was also attached to the income and to what I have build by now. Read more>>

Gabriela Vazquez

It all started in 2020 when the lockdown happened I was wanting some pan dulce a concha to be specific (Mexican sweet bread) and all the bakeries were closed so I had started to look online to see what ingredients I needed and went off to buy them at my local grocery store and Amazon. My first batch was not the best but I was still proud of them so I posted them on Snapchat and got tons of feedback on how they looked so good and they wish they could try them. Read more>>

Carlos Guzman Laserna

You know how some of the most innovative businesses result from someone wanting to prevent a bad experience? Well, in a way that was ONR’s case. What united all of the founders was the many annoying situations we had to face when moving into a new condo. I think we’ve all been there: the countless paperwork, background checks, extra fees… so many hurdles! A lengthy bureaucratic process that gets only worse when you realize that even reserving an elevator to move your stuff into your new home can be a dreadful task. And that’s just the beginning. Read more>>

Heather Siu

My business partner Karla Lim and I worked harmoniously together in the wedding industry for many years. We saw constant changes in fashion and a vast increase in smaller, unique destination weddings. More and more, our clients were requesting exquisite accessories and luggage that would accompany them on their journey of romance. Read more>>

Sarah Cohen

Looking back, I can see how my family’s history in Florida and love of food and fresh produce all influenced me to launch Sarah’s Slow Jam. I am a 3rd generation Floridian. My great-grandparents moved to Florida and opened a produce market in Flamingo Park, a neighborhood just south of downtown West Palm Beach. Read more>>

Chris Palmer

I believe in business in order to get to a viable business growing top lines sales is always the best approach. A lot of times in order to do this you are firing on marketing, processes, and capex into your business to make that happen. Read more>>

Levellyn Hunter

One of the things to consider when deciding to grow revenue is to look for the best traffic source to get clients/customers on a consistent basis without grinding or working all day. Read more>>

Steve Feld

Working with small business owners, coaches, consultants, and entrepreneurs this is a topic that arises quite a bit. Growing revenue is critical to all businesses, but many businesses forget about profit. If a business has the proper marketing systems in place to keep their pipeline filled and have a solid conversion strategy that will help increase revenue. Now, there is more to that, but that is the basics. Read more>>

Poundgame Addison

Growing revenue Is most important to me. . I don’t focus on cutting cost because I always want more. Cutting cost keeps your brand on budget. Growing revenue creates more opportunities to build your brand bigger. Read more>>