Pursuits That Can’t Scale

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So many business leaders and entrepreneurs started with the dictum: "bigger and better"

I want to have a company with 200 people, 300 people. I want to be growing my company and scaling it and then selling it and exiting.

And that's right for some people, but the number of individuals I've worked with who along the way have realized, actually, that

So. Where does the assumption that every business should grow to mega scale really come from? Well, it’s a relic of the industrial age. Back then, a business had to be as big as possible, to accomplish economies of scale. One factory — a hundred widgets. One factory — a million widgets. The second scenario wins — it pays off the fixed costs of the ... See more

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