Business: Growth/Scaling

Organizations rarely fail because people lack confidence. They fail because no one is willing, or able, to say no.

As Paul Graham said in his essay “Do Things That Don’t Scale”: A lot of would-be founders believe that startups either take off or don’t. You build something, make it available, and if you’ve made a better mousetrap, people beat a path to your door as promised. Or they don’t, in which case the market must not exist. Actually startups take off... See more