39 Companies That Use Later [2024]

The Mobile Locker Co is an onsite storage solution for events, which has grown from two to five vehicles in five regions, and experienced year over year revenue doubling for the past two fiscal years while utilizing an e-commerce strategy for selling locker rental sales.

Toronto-based Treats Happen saw a gap in the market for healthy dog treats, and now makes roughly $15K per month. Their biggest lesson? As a brand, they don't just sell on their website but want to be available on as many profitable channels as possible.

The Vacation Hunt, run by Roshni and Jeff, is a surprise travel service that has gained popularity through social media sharing and word of mouth, offering unique packages that are created individually for each traveler based on their survey responses.

Learn how one man went from bankruptcy and driving a beer cart to launching a successful men's grooming brand, Pete & Pedro, featured on Shark Tank, by leveraging the power of YouTube and a slowly growing audience.

Liz Martin founded a lifestyle blog and balloon & gift shop in Charleston, SC, doubling her revenue from $35k to $70k in just one year through a combination of sponsorships, social media workshops and sales from her shop, leveraging the popularity of Instagram and narrowing her business focus.

Under30Experiences is a travel company for people aged 21-35 that runs small group trips around the world, with over 800 five-star reviews on Facebook, Google, and Yelp combined, and nearly hitting $5M in revenue before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Forgotten Mermaids creator Anslea shares how she started a passive income business while living out of a van, creating mermaid temporary tattoos and accessories, and has grown to average $1,000 per month in mostly passive income over the last six months.

This case study is about a former personal trainer who launched his online personal training platform, TeamFFLEX, starting with no money and a lot of drive, and grew it into a 6-figure business in less than a year, now doing $48,000 a month with potential for continued growth.

Clout Collective is an influencer marketing platform that offers transparency and standardization to content creators, allowing them to anonymously review brand collaborations and report generalized compensation rates per partnership.

4x New York Times Bestselling Author Tucker Max co-founded Scribe Media in 2014, a book writing, publishing, and marketing service that has worked with over 1,500 authors and generates over $1.3 million a month, with a range of services priced between $10k-$100k+.

Curate Labs is a creative practice focused around ethical and sustainable design, with an annual publication that champions good business and a travel platform that advocates conscious travel, founded in 2016 by co-founders Abb-d Choudhury and Sara, bootstrapped, now turning into one business with 3 departments and aiming for 50-100% increase in revenue.

Arise Performance Labs' cofounder Dianne L Chen talks about the creation of Ari Coach, a meal planner app that simplifies healthy eating while offering dietary customized meal plans for every individual looking to stay healthy and energized.

This case study showcases how a smoking accessories brand called Tetra created a unique and elevated position in the industry, and has since grown to average nearly $20,000 per month in revenue with no outside investment and just a $12,000 initial founders’ outlay.

Boredwalk, a lifestyle brand selling original art and graphic design on functional goods, grew rapidly in the last 2-3 years with an average MoM growth of 10-12% and YoY growth of 50-100%, offering casual apparel, accessories, and decor products for customers primarily aged 25-55 interested in art, mental health, progressive politics, monster movies, and Satan.

VIRTUE Tea is a business founded by Andrea Legg and Alex Balcer who source high-grade organic tea from Asia through ethical supply chains, and their business, despite COVID, is now shipping tea and matcha to various locations in Canada and the U.S.

Stonz is a baby and children vegan footwear and accessories brand founded by Lisa Will, which started in 2004 and became a multimillion-dollar company with over 500 retail accounts, generating $185k in monthly sales.

Livit International, a support ecosystem and service provider for startups and scale-ups in Bali, has enabled 750+ entrepreneurs to build disruptive businesses with a global impact through its coworking spaces, innovation and event spaces, HR and Strategic Business Partner services, tech and non-tech recruitment, remote work education, and business support services.

A former ex-con launched Vape and Juice with just £5,000 and has since built a seven-figure vaping company with online sales increasing 800% during lockdown, by offering exceptional customer service and investing in talent.

Prodigi Kids CEO Karen Braveheart raised $400k to develop the Adi plate; a suction plate for babies engineered to stay in place, and is working to grow production and market share despite the challenges faced due to COVID-19.

How a former food truck owner founded the successful New York Food Truck Association which generated over $1M in its first year of business, providing local vendors with high-margin ancillary revenue streams, and saw consistent growth of 50% YoY.

Mastermind Bicycle Studio has consistently grown sales revenue at a rate of around 55% to 65% YoY since its launch in 2015, and with a strategy of constantly reinventing itself and remaining patient with consumer feedback, it plans to expand its online presence and continue expanding its retail footprint across India.

Art Lovers Australia grew from 50 to almost 1000 artists and increased their monthly sales to an average of $160K by collaborating with designers and TV shows, building an audience on social media before launching, prioritizing advertising and marketing, and creating partnerships.

The Budget Savvy Bride is a top wedding planning resource and support community that grew from a passion project into a successful business, reaching millions of readers annually and breaking revenue records in 2020 with a 46.6% increase in revenue and a 21.28% increase in traffic.

Pro Photo Studio founder Tsour Lee Adato shares how she turned a $5k investment into a business that services over 500 clients annually and makes approximately $350k per year with plans to expand and become a 7-figure business while offering advice to fellow entrepreneurs to always be innovating, learning and growing, and not to undervalue themselves.

Silviano Sleeve Co-Founder Sonal Malhotra successfully raised $35k for their world’s first voice-activated luxury leather laptop sleeve through crowdfunding, which was fully funded in less than three hours.

Popped.NYC, a handmade, all-natural, small-batch CBD products e-commerce business with sales revenue topping $20,000/month and customers suffering from inflammatory diseases, struggled to clear $2,000/month due to setbacks from COVID-19 and being in a stigmatized industry.

Spacehuntr achieved a +700% growth in 2019 with revenues, despite the global pandemic, on track to match that growth in 2020, by launching a 360° platform for businesses to book and manage unique Work, Play & Stay spaces, catering to international corporations such as Airbnb, Netflix, and Uber.

Richmond VA Moms, a centralized source of information in the Richmond area for busy moms, has grown to over 4,000 Instagram followers and focuses on organic search traffic to the website, with their most popular article, 'The Most Family-Friendly Breweries in Richmond', receiving a consistent amount of traffic even after being published over 2 years ago.

Video Jaguar is an all-in-one video marketing software that has generated $25,038.74 in sales from August-December 2019, $188,672.22 in sales in 2020, and is now doing $32,911.77/month in sales with an expected $700K in sales in the current year while boasting a gross margin of 80%.

NextWave Social, a boutique-styled digital marketing agency specializing in SEO, social media management, web development, and Facebook ads for service and product-based industries, hit six figures in revenue for 2021 since launching in January 2020 with only $1,500 in startup costs and a team motto of "Under promise and Over deliver."

Just Artisan is a handmade-only marketplace that has achieved over $15,000 in sales during December and is on track to expand with 400 vendors and 2,000 products since launching fully in June 2020.

I Know The Pilot founder Garth Adams shares how he grew his airfare and accommodation deals newsletter from a simple WordPress site to over 780,000 email subscribers, 110,000 app users, and 550,000 Facebook fans on a 100% free business model, and how he's pivoted domestically during the Covid-19 pandemic.

This case study follows Kelsey Chance and her creative agency, Good Chance Creative, which specializes in social media content creation, and in just 3 years she has grown her one-woman business to make $20,000 in monthly revenue through a niche in small in-house marketing teams and start-ups managing their social content, with key services including lifestyle brand photography, social media account management, copywriting, and eCommerce strategy consulting.

Kopf Consulting is a six-figure virtual tech-support company that has provided affordable and professional virtual technical support to all levels of entrepreneurship for over 14 years and has expanded to providing training, consulting, and hiring services without a particular niche or location, serving clients worldwide.