Five Stages of Any Business

Growing stacks of blocks with an arrow tracing upwardEvolve from running a practice to leading a business.

By Sandi Leyva
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Technology has allowed just about everyone to start their own businesses. We can do something part time, full time or in between. We can start and stop our businesses. We can be successful at lots of different business models. And we can go through stages of our business.

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If you want to grow exponentially, or even linearly, you’ll need to progress. And before you can do that, it makes sense to figure out where you are now. Here are five stages of business so you can see where you are now and where you want to go.