Scale Questions


4 Votes
2 Answers
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“I need to scale up”. What does that mean?

I was reading an interview, and the entrepreneur was asked if he had any funding for his startup. He answered with " I need to scale up first". What does he mean by this ?

asked Feb 7 '12 at 01:03
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Nikolai
125 points

2 Votes
1 Answers
1.85K Views
Scalable business models and the state of European integration

I have heard that there is lot has been done to make the European market tightly integrated (universal regulations across European Union, etc). So, I wonder if it is easier now to create a...

asked Jan 23 '12 at 02:22
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Martin Lee
120 points

1 Votes
3 Answers
2.21K Views
Is ability to scale critical for the success of startup?

Many successfull former startups are currently well-established companies in BigData space. That means that their key technical competence is in handling the large volumes of data. Question is:...

asked Sep 24 '11 at 06:51
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Tom Burger
108 points

3 Votes
3 Answers
3.91K Views
Head count planning for a growing start up - any processes, books, templates?

As a growing start up, we need to plan for new people in every deparment (some of these are just 1 person, but future departments). So Sales has its plan to double sales this year; meanwhile other...

asked Jun 1 '11 at 07:51
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Paroon Chadha
61 points

5 Votes
3 Answers
2.47K Views
Do you have rules in place for doing something manually vs. creating an automated system?

I've heard from many successful entrepreneurs that only your job as a startup founder is to constantly be creating systems; However, There's a huge trade-off though between trying new experiments...

asked Mar 2 '11 at 04:32
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Andy Cook
2,309 points

5 Votes
5 Answers
2.77K Views
Company Size Question

I have a "one man band" software company. My revenues are about $250,000 per year with 90% margins. I know my levers of growth, and expect to be 1 Million per year in about 18 months time, with...

asked Nov 4 '10 at 02:51
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Jacare 30
71 points

1 Votes
5 Answers
2.86K Views
Hosting Options for a Review Site

I am part of a start up site that will review restaurants. We are in the process of finding the right hosting provider. What would be the option for an application like ours? We want the...

asked Aug 25 '10 at 13:09
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Emon
106 points

2 Votes
4 Answers
2.52K Views
At what stage should a start-up start worrying about scalability?

Background: For the past few weeks I have been working on the minimum viable product for a hosted CMS idea that I have and for the note I'm not looking for any opinions on the CMS industry or the...

asked Jan 12 '10 at 14:09
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Dheer Gupta
191 points