Ep 65: Knowing Where, When and How to Grow Your Business with Bryan Clayton
Inside the Lion's Den: A Business and Leadership Podcast
English - February 09, 2022 09:00 - 55 minutes - 76 MB - ★★★★★ - 78 ratingsManagement Business Entrepreneurship business finances leadership operations Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Do you know the Get, Keep, Grow methods? My guest today, Bryan Clayton, shares his experience in those methods through his growth and sale of a successful company and as the co-founder and CEO of GreenPal. He examines his strategies and experience with growing his previous and current businesses through the start-up, grow-up, and scale-up phases. Next, Bryan talks about the lessons he learned in growing his first business, and how he applies that to another business. He also discusses the nitty-gritty of selling a business, the mistakes he made, what he would do differently, and coming up with different game plans. In this episode, we'll cover:
- Bryan’s journey in creating and founding GreenPal
- Bryan’s experience with founding a business, working it as a lifestyle, to selling it
- Running a business as a lifestyle vs. planning to exit
- Working a five-year plan with the goal of selling
- Maximizing value from existing customers—“Get. Keep. Grow.”
- Using a broker with a niche
- Retaining employees by utilizing a family culture
- The difficulties in inventing and developing a brand-new technology
- Where the idea and vision for GreenPal came from
- Maintaining vendor and user satisfaction through problem solving
- Solution-based approaches to handling startup issues
- Bryan’s future game plan for GreenPal
- Founding a startup using your own capital vs. a venture capitalist
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