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Shahpour Shapournia

Shahpour Shapournia

I currently lead the team at RealPars. Here, I share what I learn about business and entrepreneurship while growing this company.

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Business Stages

There are five stages of a company growing to $100M. 1. $0 - 500K 2. $500k - 2M 3. $2M - 5M 4. $5M - 20M 5. $20M - 100M At each stage there are things to do and things to avoid. $0 - 500K This is where you just sell and test the market to

From War to Business

For thousands of years, people gained wealth and power through war. Today, we do it through business by building products, providing services, and making people’s lives better. Business is war without bullets, and I like this kind of war much better.

What is Leverage in Business?

What is Leverage in Business?

Leverage happens when something that you had to do is now done by someone else without you doing anything for it. We all know that to have an output, we need to have input. Without any input, there is no output. This is just basic physics. In business, we have

How a 10% Price Increase Can 2X Your Profit

I was watching a video where I heard that if your profit is 10% and you increase your price by 10%, then your profit goes to 20%, which is basically double. I ran some basic math on this to make it clearer for myself: Let’s say revenue = $1M Profit

How We Turned RealPars Profitable Again After Going Into the Red

In 2024, my company started losing money every month. By July, we hit our lowest point, a €20K loss in one month.

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