Marla owns and operates an Internet café, and all evidence indicates that the business is growing faster than expected. She hires a consultant to discuss strategies to keep the business growing and to possible expand. Marla and the consultant need to examine her business and the three stages common to the life cycles of entrepreneurships, which are the Select one:
a. birth stage, maturity state, and IPO stage.
b. birth stage, breakthrough stage, and IPO stage.
c. birth stage, maturity stage, and exiting stage.
d. birth stage, breakthrough stage, and maturity stage.
e. breakthrough stage, maturity stage, and IPO stage.