Everything in life starts small. When a baby is born, he/she will need to learn how to walk before being able to run. To accomplish that, the child must learn that falling is painful.
The reference goes the same for businesses. Big companies and brands have had their times being small. They had struggled hard to climb their way up. If getting there is already hard, staying up among the clouds isn't any easier.
As formerly mentioned, to accomplish such an incredible task needs work, talents, dedications, lessons learned from failures, and many others. All wrapped up with a bunch of well-made strategies and unexpected luck.
The Need of "No Friend" Ally
Having a successful business that is both performing well and profitable is probably in every entrepreneur's and businessman/woman's dream. There is no boundaries to reach that desired height, but to get there, you need to be flexible.
To meet the requirements, you need experience. Resources always come in handy, and they will give you a huge amount of boost to make your business grow. But staying big requires experience. And there is no experience learned without the most precious thing in life: time.
If you've never run a day in your life, starting with one mile is a good start. However, once you've become a regular runner, one mile is not a big deal anymore. This is when you need to make a change and stretch that distant. When you're ready, you can aim for a bigger event, let's say like a marathon.
To accomplish the once you thought was "impossible" for you, you need time.
Time matters to everyone. It makes people grow old, it makes things go sour, and it has the ability to change the expected things to the unexpected. Time has no friend and is an enemy to all. In order to make use of the relentless ticking time and survive, you need to be ready for any changes, and always expect it to happen.
Be an ally of it so you can make use the most out of it. Only time will tell whether you do something wrong or well.
For the Sake of Experience
Many people nowadays seek for better education. Proper knowledge is regarded as the "fund" of success. Is it really so? It might be a topic of debate, but yes, knowledge is the power for achievement. Education is the seed of success. But if you're the learning type, you know that nothing teaches you better than your own experience.
Starting small will give you time to learn. When businesses are founded, the founders started to develop their initial ideas, business plan and business model. They will soon expect and need for other people to work for them.
Employees aren't angels. So as founders. They make mistakes, they lie, they have many things in common. They're humans. Founders should know how to face human morals and ethics throughout the life of their business. Then comes the time to revise, to audit, to set goals, to recreate and refresh ideas, to expand and invest, pitch investors, innovate, create future prospects by buying/selling, and so forth.
There will be time when failing is a must. A child learning to ride a bicycle may fall on several first tries. It may bleed, and hurt badly. As time will make it heal, the lesson is to not repeat.
Experience is to be experienced, and can never be bought. You wouldn't want to have a bleeding knee for a fee, do you? Experience is built by interactions, shaped by culture, influenced by perception across continuous care. Life is flexible, but time isn't.
When sky is the limit, there is no saying what happens behind a business before eventually succeed in achieving its desired milestone. There will be many things to come, and the equation between one company and others differs totally.
The seed you have (knowledge and education) can grow almost everywhere. But it needs water to experience growth. Watering to grow, again, takes time.
Since many people believed the idiom "when there's a will, there's way", they should also understand that "will" also means something to happen in the future. And when it comes to the "way", the factor of experience matters.
When the business survives its ups and downs, experience is learned. It's something only time will tell.