7 Tips from Entrepreneurs Who Grew Startups Into Success

Lincoln W Daniel
Marketing And Growth Hacking
5 min readDec 22, 2017

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There are a lot of articles out there about how to begin a start-up because beginning a start-up is truly difficult. It is so difficult that making your own start-up successful is an achievement worth celebrating. Is it time to close the company and go on a vacation? Or do you want to accomplish more? Fortunately, here are tips for people like you. These tips are for people who already have start-ups that are already successful.

Analyse the Prevalent Strategies Then Invest

Before you invest in other businesses, analyse the prevalent strategies for looking for a good investment. You can ask a senior entrepreneur to teach you. Learning from the more successful ones themselves ensures you practice the best and most effective strategies. Investing must be done wisely and strategically because you don’t want to lose money. Investing poorly is like throwing cash into the river and watching it disintegrate in the water. Poor investing goes to nothing.

Lead the Way for Your Team

Not because your start-up is already successful means you can sit down in your own office and relax like a king. If you do this, your team will mimic you, and the success of your start-up will eventually relax into a fallen and failed start-up. Even kings in the olden times were the first to charge into wars against enemy kingdoms. Keep leading the way for your team and keep your start-up moving.

Take Cost-Effective Measures

Whatever you do for your start-up, do it in a way that won’t let any part of your budget go to waste. Do not spend on projects that you know will not bring in profits. It can be easy to lose money when you are not alert enough. Predict all of the money that anything your start-up does can cost by estimating them, and then predict if it will return more money than those.

Establish a Vision for the Future

How will you keep moving if you do not know where to go? Making progress is one thing, but making progress toward downfall is another story. Imagine a vision for the future, something you want your start-up and your employees to work toward. If your start-up offers high-risk merchant accounts, get ideas from good high-risk merchant accounts reviews. Then share this vision with all of the people you work with, so you are all going in one direction.

Manage Your Time as Efficiently as Possible

Your start-up won’t be the only thing your life is about. You still have your loved ones, your hobbies, and, well, your life. Make sure you balance all of the areas of your existence and make enough time for the most important ones. Never fall back on anything as much as possible. Never slow down, never get lazy, and never stop being motivated. Because doing any of these things can create a kind of damage to your schedule and habits that will take a long time to repair.

Stay Positive and Maintain Your Thirst for Knowledge

As an entrepreneur, you are used to taking risks and fighting against all odds. Sometimes, success is not inspiring. After all the celebration and praises, you feel like nothing has changed. It can get boring, and boredom can lead to sadness. Make sure to stay positive because everything starts in mind. Speaking of the mind, keep learning new things. It is impossible for a person to know everything already, so keep a curious mind and apply what you learn to your work, so you keep developing.

Lead the Way for Your Team

Again, as the boss, your job is to manage and lead well. Your employees look to you for guidance and ideas on what to do, where to go, and when to do everything. You must know the answers concerning these things to keep your employees motivated and having a clear idea of what it is that you want. Always be there for them, because you need them to be always there for your start-up. Lead your start-up well.

You are well on your way to be a truly successful person and someone to admire. Maintain these things to keep your start-up getting better and better until you become the best. Even when you are already the best, maintain these things to stay the best. By then, young entrepreneurs planning to begin their start-ups will look to you for advice.

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Lincoln W Daniel
Marketing And Growth Hacking

Chief Bull @ BullAcademy.org ® Elevating writers @ ManyStories.com. Author @JavaForHumans Ex: Editor in Chief MarkGrowth (acq.), Engineer @Medium @GoPuff