My 4-step iterative business approach to grow The1stMovement from a 1-person shop to a 2-time Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Companies in America with 3 offices in 5 years

1. How to successfully grow a company
Ming Chan, Founder & CEO
ming@the1stmovement.com
http://twitter.com/#/mingAtT1M
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mingchan
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2. The1stMovement
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3. We are a Digital Agency.
We leverage digital media to create interactive experiences that capture
attention, build engagement with today’s audience, and demonstrate
measurable results for our customers.
http://www.the1stmovement.com
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4. 2-time - Inc. 500 “Fastest Growing Companies” in America
#6- Inc. Magazine “Top Asian-Run Companies” in America
#10 - “Fastest Growing Private Companies” in Los Angeles
#20 - “Top Advertising Agencies” in Los Angeles
#23 - “Top Minority-Owned Companies” in Denver
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5. How to successfully grow a company?
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6. How to build a company that grows
year after year, after year?
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7. • Your products fulfill a demand
• Your products are in some way better than your competitors’
• You run a profit generating business
• You are NOT in a declining business industry
• You are an Investor/Owner first, Builder/Creator second
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9. The advertising industry is in a funk.
I will start a new movement.
We will revolutionize advertising.
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10. The ones who are crazy
enough to think that they
can change the world,
are the ones who do.
Steve Jobs
Co-Founder, Apple
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12. Mobile Tablet Web PC
What
INSIGHT
How MEASURE
Why
DESIGN
DEVELOP
/DEPLOY
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13. People don’t buy what you do.
They buy why you do it.
Simon Sinek
Author, “Start with why”
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15. INSIGHT
MEASURE
Insight Driven Innovation
TM
DESIGN
DEVELOP
/DEPLOY
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16. Products are made in the
factory, but brands are
created in the mind.
Walter Landor
Brand Visionary
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18. >
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19. Before you can mutiply,
you must first learn to divide.
Stephen Shapiro
Innovation Evangelist
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21. Chase the vision, not the
money, the money will
end up following you.
Tony Hsieh
CEO, Zappos
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22. Thanks!
ming@the1stmovement.com
http://twitter.com/#/mingAtT1M
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mingchan
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