A very nice write up on premature scaling from the Startup Genome project. The article also provides example startups that fail a particular dimension, it even cites Groupon as failing in the Business Model dimension. A bit premature to be using Groupon as an example? (Pardon the pun)
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Indeed, the Startup Genome report is very insightful. Thanks again for your advice too, now I won’t care one whit about scaling until I have a customer.
Its Visual Basic 6 all the waaaaaay….. (not)