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Is it safe to assume these are nascent startups that need scale to succeed? If that's the case, then you are probably right that most will never need to scale.
by tobyjsullivan 6y ago
Is it safe to assume these are nascent startups that need scale to succeed?
If that's the case, then you are probably right that most will never need to scale. You can build them a solution that can't scale and it'll be the correct solution for the 90% that fail. And it'll be the wrong solution for the 10% that succeed.
- Zelphyr 6y agoThe 10% that succeed won't need that kind of scale on the day they launch though. Probably not even the first 12-24 months after they launch. There will be plenty of time to see what kinds of traffic they really can expect and then plan for that. In other words; I can build them something for $10,000 that gets them to market in a month that may not be what they need in five years or I can build them something for $100,000 that gets them to market in a year, meanwhile, their scrappy competitor launched 11 months before them.