Posts tagged ‘growth company’

To Revenue becomes GrowthTimes

September 14th, 2009 by Greg Boutin
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To Revenue has a new address! I have decided to rename To Revenue into Growth Times, to better convey this blog’s core concept: assisting growth companies in their journey towards explosive growth. Additionally, most of my clients have already achieved revenues, so To Revenue was a bit of misnomer.

A little more profoundly perhaps, in this time of recession, I also want it to express my belief that the ultimate antidote to all crisis is human creativity and  innovation, targeted towards solving real problems and driven by a sense of financial, social and environmental purpose.

And lastly, it’s a better-sounding and more attractive domain name. Let’s not underestimate the power of packaging and marketing!

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Are You into Growth or Lifestyle? Building on Great RWW Post

June 9th, 2009 by Greg Boutin

A great post 3 days ago by ReadWriteWeb COO Bernard Lunn on 10 Things to Be Clear About Before You Start a Company. I had the chance to meet Bernard last month at the Web 3.0 conference when we had dinner with a group of Web 3.0 business pioneers (including Alex Iskold of AdaptiveBlue and Andraz Tori of Zemanta). Bernard is one of those unassuming types with a bottomless wealth of knowledge activated on demand. You know, that type of folks everyone likes to have a conversation with, with a good glass of wine to complete the picture.

One of the many ideas that intrigued me in his post is that of checking whether you’re made to grow a lifestyle business, or to pursue a growth company. The reason it caught my attention is that lately I met a lot of tech entrepreneurs who started a business, acquired a few clients and grew revenues, and at that point started to play with the idea that they may need to raise money — and yet are far from clear on what changes this pathway will require from them and their business. (more…)

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