{"id":24746,"date":"2021-07-21T09:12:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T08:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localhost:10003\/?post_type=scaleup&#038;p=24746"},"modified":"2021-07-21T13:04:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T12:04:41","slug":"whats-your-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/resources\/scale-up\/whats-your-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of the Founder Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210708_180315-scaled-e1626710889376-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210708_180315-scaled-e1626710889376-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210708_180315-scaled-e1626710889376-1024x598.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210708_180315-scaled-e1626710889376-768x449.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210708_180315-scaled-e1626710889376-1536x898.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210708_180315-scaled-e1626710889376-600x351.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You never know who you\u2019ll inspire\u2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As a business grows, its story grows, but it\u2019s the original founder&#8217;s stories that play a huge role in inspiring the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These stories remind leaders, employees, aspiring brand owners, and customers about the vision and dream the company\u2019s founder\/s once had. Not only that, but they bring the experience of running a business to life; unearthing painful experiences, challenges, breaks, turning points, and near misses. Some say an honest recount of entrepreneurial life is key to becoming a better leader, and those learnings shared can be applied to so many people, across so many industries \u2013 even those who have no intention of launching their own business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s why we\u2019re so keen on sharing founder stories here on The Scale Up. To inspire others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p><strong>The Scale Up was created as a knowledge-sharing community that brings people together to talk about the challenges faced by eCommerce business owners, but most importantly, celebrates founder success stories as inspiration to others.<\/strong><\/p><cite><strong>James Hyde, Founder \u2013 James and James Fulfilment<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps, like\u00a0<a href=\"\/case-studies\/hanna-sillitoe\/\">Hanna Sillitoe<\/a>, you started your company as a result of life-altering personal struggles, or like\u00a0<a href=\"\/for-the-ageless\/\">for the Ageless<\/a>, made a promise to a loved one and stuck by it. Whatever your founder story, we\u2019d love to hear it \u2013 and share it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You never know who you\u2019ll inspire\u2026 As a business grows, its story grows, but it\u2019s the original founder stories that play a huge role in inspiring the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":24750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"yes","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[417],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scale-up"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"James Dillon","featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/01_BrandStoryHero_1470x1080.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/01_BrandStoryHero_1470x1080.png","author_info":{"display_name":"J&amp;J Global Fulfilment","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/author\/james-and-james\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}