Start-up → Growth

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    Corey Quinn

    Founder, Deep Specialization™

    4 stages of a business:

    Start-up --> Growth --> Maturity --> Decline

    The key difference between Start-up & Growth?

    Start-up companies exist to FIND the one market problem they can be the best in the world at solving.

    Growth companies exist to SCALE their solution to the one market problem they can be the best in the world at solving.

    You don't reach the Growth stage until you know what market problem you're solving.

    👉 So, what market problem are you solving?

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    About Corey Quinn

    Founder, Deep Specialization™

    Corey helps founder-led agencies scale through Deep Specialization™ and programmatic M&A. Former CMO of Scorpion ($20M to $200M). Author of "Anyone, Not Everyone."

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