Study the 7 stages of business life cycle for your Business exam. This guide covers seed stage, startup, growth, established, expansion, maturity, and decline phases.

Q: Existence

Answer: Starting off; business is starting

Q: survival (of the fittest)

Answer: creating a good customer base; money starting to come in

Q: success

Answer: steady money is coming in

Q: take- off

Answer: start to make a profit

Q: Resource Maturity

Answer: The most typical fourth stage of the small businessCharacterized by relatively stable or slowly rising sales and profits over several years.products/ services are becoming out of date

Q: Pivot or persist

Answer: EITHER:need to change to something more successfulORkeep doing what’s working

Q: exit plan

Answer: The strategy for leaving an investment and realizing the profits of such investment.