Startup Confidential
Startup Confidential
Dr. James F. Richardson
Episode 159 -YoY Growth is Slowing? — Do This!
13 minutes Posted Feb 1, 2026 at 6:00 am.
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Send us Fan Mail The survival rate of brands at $1 is brutal enough. And at $10M, even more hit a wall or die. But the real problem that survivors face as they scale into eigth figures is stagnation. The grand delusion is that adding more and more retail accounts will keep the brand growing. But this is an illusion whose fragility exposes itself once deceleration begins and doesn’t reverse with new accounts. Growing past $100M and deep into the nine figures is NOT a sales game. It is a market...