{"id":35462,"date":"2023-10-20T14:38:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/jordan-grives-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T14:38:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:38:44","slug":"jordan-grives-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/jordan-grives-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Grives &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"90\" height=\"110\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/jordan-grives.jpg\" alt=\"Jordan Grives\" title=\"Jordan Grives\"\/><\/div>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17739\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: right;\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/jordan-grives.jpg\" alt=\"Jordan Grives\" width=\"90\" height=\"110\" \/>Name:<\/strong> Jordan Grives <\/p>\n<p><strong>Business name:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Fonebox Group\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fonebox.com.au\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fonebox Group<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fonebox.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Age:<\/strong> 22<\/p>\n<p><strong>State:<\/strong> Queensland<\/p>\n<p>  <span id=\"more-4273\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Like many young people, Jordan Grives\u2019 first experience in the world of work was in his family\u2019s business.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unlike most of his peers, however, Grives has managed to build a company, Fonebox Group, off the back of this business, boosting revenue from $400,000 to $2 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The business, which is a telecommunications service provider, has since employed 11 staff and has expanded into new areas \u2013 fixed line business and residential telephony and in-store advertising products.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fonebox has expanded geographically too, selling into New Zealand, and plans to extend to the UK and North America next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Revenue is expected to double this year, with Grives planning to further boost growth with acquisitions and investors.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Grives says: \u201cIt\u2019s good if you\u2019re offering a quality product \u2013 I find a good list of clients helps back it up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think people buy others approval. I\u2019ve got a strong list of clients and a client base willing to listen, which is good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCome up with a good product, find a niche, work really hard and never stop working. You don\u2019t just work nine to five. You never stop working.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Jordan Grives Business name: Fonebox Group Age: 22 State: Queensland \u00a0 Like many young people, Jordan Grives\u2019 first experience<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}