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Premature Scaling Kills Startups
- pointyhat 15y agoIt also kills companies who assume that their "next greatest product" is going to be massively successful and start employing every new piece of technology, completely forgetting their core competency. Bitter, I am.
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- yesimahuman 15y agoIs it premature scaling or is it forgetting you are building a product for people, not just giving yourself an excuse to code and play with cool technology.
- j_baker 15y ago...except that's not what the author is talking about. He's talking about scaling the company (including the product for people) too early.
- yesimahuman 15y ago> 70% of startups scaled prematurely along some dimension. While this number seemed high, this may go a long way towards explaining the 90% failure rate of startups My point was for the younger startups that are surely part of his failure group. They scale their systems instead of their product because it's easier. You're right though, he talks more about larger, more mature startups.
- F_J_H 15y agoOne of my favorite Drucker quotes: There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. - P. Drucker
- cppsnob 15y agoThis article is NOT talking about technology. It's talking about growth in team size and expenditure.
- spxdcz 15y agoThe original report/research does mention technology though (I've just been referencing it for a section of a book I'm writing) - it talks about "premature scaling" in about five different areas, which includes developing non-essential features and devoting time to technical scalability before the app has evolved to fit the market.
- kubindurion 15y agoconclusion: never scale before you have a gun pointed at your head