A business contributor outlines a framework called The Five Carries—covering responsibilities carried Up, Down, Across, Forward and Within—meant to help entrepreneurs reassess which duties they still need to personally handle as their companies grow. The piece cites Harvard Business Review research on entrepreneurial passion and burnout, and Gallup's State of the Global Workplace 2026 report, to argue that habits useful in a startup's early days can undermine sustainable growth later.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-11-06
A business advisory column argues that raising marketing budgets often fails to produce more customers because companies misdiagnose the real problem. The author says firms frequently lose revenue not from insufficient visibility but from poor targeting, unclear value propositions, mishandled inquiries and weak conversion processes. The piece recommends auditing the full funnel—from first interest to final sale—before spending more on ads.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-27
An Entrepreneur contributor argues that many growing businesses see revenue, customer counts and headcount rise while profitability, cash flow and founder freedom decline. The piece recommends evaluating customer and service profitability after direct costs before adding marketing, staff or technology, and diagnosing bottlenecks in sales, pricing and cash flow first.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-23
In a contributed column for Entrepreneur, the author of 'The Small-Business Money Game' describes a recurring pattern where growing companies hit 'breakpoints' — points at which the systems, leadership and habits that drove earlier success stop working. The piece identifies roughly the $2 million revenue mark as a common threshold where founders who still make every decision themselves begin to struggle, even as customer demand and revenue keep rising.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-22
An Entrepreneur contributor describes advising a break-even business that cannot attract investor funding because its historical unit economics lag the projected returns from a new location. The business needs $1 million to open that location but has only $500,000 available, leaving it to decide whether to proceed underfunded or stay put.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-14
A business advice column distinguishes between a marketing problem, where customers understand an offer but aren't reached enough, and a positioning problem, where they hear the pitch but can't quickly grasp what the business does or why it's different. The author advises owners to write one clear, defensible statement of what they want to be known for and compare it against their recent content, homepage and bio before increasing ad or marketing spend.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-01
A panel of 15 business leaders shared economic indicators companies should monitor beyond commonly reported figures like GDP or inflation. Many of these signals rarely appear in financial news coverage, while others are widely reported but dismissed by executives who assume they're irrelevant to their specific business.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-16
A newly published Entrepreneur op-ed identifies five recurring operational strains that emerge as small businesses expand, drawing on a Federal Reserve Small Business Credit Survey and a Robert Half hiring survey. The piece argues these pressures—hiring shortfalls, slower customer response, cash flow constraints, breaking systems, and diluted culture—consistently surface once a company moves from a small team to a larger one. It frames these not as reasons to avoid growth but as predictable hurdles that leaders can prepare for in advance.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-02
An Entrepreneur contributor column describes coaching a founder who had crossed seven figures in revenue and had a five-person team, yet still personally approved every decision and monitored every team chat message. The founder believed constant micromanagement was simply required to run a business, a belief the writer traces to an outdated subconscious 'operational identity' left over from her solopreneur days.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-01
An Entrepreneur contributor recounts learning a growth strategy not from business school but from observing an advertising creative director, who sat silently with a blank page before generating ideas. The author argues that unconventional questions and unexpected connections, not conventional market research or AI-generated summaries, produce genuine innovation. The piece frames this quiet, unstructured thinking as a discipline entrepreneurs should adopt.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-08-26
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