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Recent Fast Growth Articles

How We Founded myYearbook

It's one of the 25 most-trafficked webites in the U.S., and it was founded by a pair of siblings in New Hope, Pennsylvania. Catherine and Geoff Cook explain ...  Read more

8 Ways to Keep Creativity Fresh While Scaling a Start-up

Ideas can grow stale once a start-up scales. We asked successful young entrepreneurs why its important to continue sparking creativity while a company is gro...  Read more

Build a Billion-Dollar Business

Do you have a billion-dollar idea? The founders of Gilt Groupe explain how they changed the rules of retail.  Read more

Save a Struggling Business: 8 Tips

Starting a company from scratch has its appeal, but fixing a broken company can be more profitable... and satisfying.  Read more

How Instagram Grew From Foursquare Knock-Off to $1 Billion Photo Empire

How do you make a billion dollars in two years? Here's a narrative look through the brief, hectic, (and lucky), 14 months of Kevin Systrom's life growing Ins...  Read more

Women CEOs Dish: 4 Secrets to Fast Growth

Supercharged growth is all in your mind. Four women explain how changing your mindset can change your growth potential.  Read more

The New Rules for Product Invention

How bobble turned an existing invention into a $40 million business within two years.  Read more

Fast Growth in a Slow Economy: 5 Case Studies

Special Report: Proven strategies to spark sales when no one is much interested in buying.  Read more

Solving the Sales Conundrum: Special Report

Jeff Hoffman explains the primacy of data, the gap between interest and desire, the power of introverts, and other things fast-growth CEOs don't understand a...  Read more

Special Report: Wayfair's Road to $1 Billion

Wayfair was founded with one goal in mind: to get as big as possible. Next stop: $1 billion.  Read more

5 Things You Must Do to Scale Your Company

Dealing with the same old growth problems? You may not be thinking big enough. Follow these "must do" steps to grow your company to millions in revenue.  Read more

Where to Get Free Help For Your Business

Corporations, states and Uncle Sam offer loads of free help to women-owned businesses. Grab it and pull yourself up to the next level of growth.  Read more

Why This 29-Year-Old's Company is Worth $400 Million

Drew Houston, founder of Dropbox, said no to offers from Google and Apple, and is running one of the world's fastest growing Web start-ups.  Read more

Facebook vs. Twitter: Old-School Business Models Still Rule

A new Gawker report shows Twitter lagging far behind Facebook in revenue. If the numbers are accurate, they show big trouble.  Read more

Think Your Business Is Big Enough? Think Again

We struggle every day with the ever-present need to get bigger, then get bigger again, in order to meet our objectives and create a sustainable business.  Read more

Why You’ve Got to Stay Thirsty for Growth

Why we all need to satisfy the thirst to growth, and you should never allow that thirst to be quenched.  Read more

The Most Accomplished, Best-Connected Entrepreneur You've Never Heard Of

After a couple dozen successes, Howard Tullman is building Flashpoint Academy, which he calls the front seat of the world stage.  Read more

No Really! Change is a Good Thing

Spearheading a rapidly-growing business has its challenges but don't resist the urge to evolve as the business grows.  Read more

The GoPro Army

How a scrappy little camera company turned its customers into a stoked sales force and became a $250 million industry.  Read more

World's Most Extreme Videos

GoPro's line of tiny, popular, and affordable HD video cameras has turned a generation of extreme sports enthusiasts into cutting-edge filmmakers--and loyal ...  Read more

The Secret to Retail Store Profitability

How one retailer discovered the secret to expanding from three to 15 stores profitably.  Read more

Evernote: 2011 Company of the Year

The Company of the Year is rejecting industry trends, getting customers to pay for something that's free, and reinventing the way we remember.  Read more

Meet the Paul Mitchell of Poodles

Chris Christensen's $4 million company is growing fast in a business without rivals: Creating and selling high-end products for dogs.  Read more

The Returnees

Seoul is home to a burgeoning corps of young entrepreneurs, a shocking number of them born or educated in America. Why aren't they starting companies here?  Read more

How Much Would You Gamble to Put Your Brand on Prime Time?

A fashion entrepreneur takes a major leap of faith, and it pays off at the Emmys.  Read more