Starting a business is hard because it’s a fight with yourself, an internal battle – gaining the courage to get started, etc. Scaling a business is different – the challenges you face are mostly external to yourself. Each challenge has a million mini-challenges. We wanted to create a space for conversations and stories around growth and scaling. Below, you’ll find stories and insights from successful entrepreneurs across a variety of industries and markets.

Florence Gbondo

I started shopwithflo back in 2019 back then I would buy hair pins, hair, accessories, sunglasses and flip-flops. I would sell those, I had customers that I drove to I did that for over six months or so till one year and build up my clientele doing that, then after that I added a few pieces of clothes and then I did a big photo shoot with that. I also had a casting call for models and it was traumatic that was back in 2020, after that, I kept doing the photo shoot back to back back to back. Read more>>

Laihha Organna

While I still have a long way to go and more goals to accomplish, I have scaled my creative business drastically in a short period of time and learned so many lessons to share. I’ve always been an artist. I’ve been drawing since I could hold a pencil and was always the “art kid” in school, sketching funny doodles for everyone in class. It was always a hobby and I never considered it to be a career. I actually went to college for something completely different! Read more>>

Melissa Staroszik

My approach to scaling my business, Elite Entertainment Global revolved around the meticulous creation of robust systems and witnessing their organic growth. During my time at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, a significant lesson ingrained by a business professor was that owning a business is about building systems and watching them grow, not merely working within or managing them. Read more>>

Brian Foster

I think bringing value to your customer will always scale any business. specifically for We R Media i would implement the basic business strategies of giving more than being paid for, showing up early, staying late, making sure the deligated projects were treated with care even in my absence, and keeping in the front of my mind the importance of return customers. if they wont come back to you, your well will eventually dry up. Read more>>