In the last few days, I've had a lot of positive results from this site and will
be scaling things up in the near future.
Now
they are scaling things up to 7 - inches to try and crack the tablet market, and have started shipping out samples according to an announcement made today.
TreeHugger: Did Emile Hirsch give you any good Into the Wild quotes at perfect moments as you're scaling this thing?
Microsoft
is scaling things back with its Lumia hardware, but it's not jumping out of the ring completely.
Not exact matches
«The
things that work when you
're at smaller
scale, may not work when you get bigger, and that includes the way you acquire customers, the way you deliver your service, and in this case, the way you park your service,» Behr said.
This sort of helps see it, not quite to
scale, but it gives you a better sense for where
things are.
Always
be scaling and, ideally, when you do choose to have children, you'll command sufficient resources to make
things easier.
Schedule periodical calls with your customers to share updates about how
things are going and to ask how happy they
are with your services on a
scale from 1 - 10, 10
being best.
It has become not just a company extremely admirable in its growth, but, well, the very model for how to do
things when you
're scaling a company.
Rather, the market
is healthy, but not trending much.By
scaling out, you can not only take some smaller profits, but achieve two other
things: 1) keep some amount of that original position in case the market picks up again; and 2) reinvest a portion (or all) of your gains into another position (perhaps one with a little more volatility and / or opportunity).
Well, just to sort of put
things in perspective, this
is what, this
is an actual
scale of what the solar system looks like.
Just the sheer
scale of it
is also challenging, because you've got ta lay out the carbon fiber in exactly the right way on a huge mold, and you've got ta cure that mold at temperature, and then it
's... just really hard to make large carbon - fiber structures that can do all of those
things and carry incredible loads.
In a weird way, all the
things I loved about that experience
are replicated here on a larger
scale.
The digital platform we
're experimenting with, designed by Waterloo - based Plasticity Labs, asks us to make daily estimates of our happiness on a
scale of 1 - 100 and to occasionally answer questions like, How often do you make time for
things that make you happy?
«The
thing that set him apart for me
was that he would produce his shows on a large
scale,» says Meraz.
«These
are things any great teacher would
be able to do for a small group of students in a particular classroom,» Baker says, but D2L can do it on a massive
scale.
These gestures often vary in
scale and cost, but one
thing I have found consistent in my years of running businesses
is the astonishing amount of wastefulness due to completely irrelevant or useless gifts that end up at the bottom of a wastebasket or, worse, in a white elephant gift exchange.
«We identified that the
thing that
is really tilting the
scales in the decision - making process
is time,» Jurgilas said.
That said,
scaling a company isn't an easy
thing to do, as the many changes needed can derail even previously successful businesses.
DARPA isn't yet sure how to
scale this sort of
thing down to the point where it
's practical and usable.
These
are called disruptive technologies or the next big
thing, in the sense that existing markets or economies of
scale are disrupted by the scope of change.
One person driving less, eating less factory - farmed meat, flying less, polluting less, using less air conditioning — you know
things you could do — may affect little on a global CO2
scale, but maybe today, if everyone who reads this article who cares about Thoreau's legacy, who believes in self - determination, who calls him - or herself a leader, or just wants to
be one, acts by his or her values...
Whether your company has too much of a good
thing and
is falling behind, or it isn't ready for such large changes, premature
scaling is something to
be aware of.
And if there
's one
thing that
's certain as we move more of our economy to the digital world, we need a way to assure both trustworthiness and a way to make sure it
scales with the petabytes of information created weekly.
And, what we
're trying to gently push back in the book
is the economics of the large -
scale bundled subscription model that Netflix
is pursuing, [where what the] economic theory says
is you can profitably make
things in a bundle that wouldn't
be profitable if you sold them separately.
It
's easy for me to say now, but
things get expensive with
scale.
That
's how this
thing scales.»
Instead, it thought those
things could
be beneficial if a company used its market power and
scale to lower prices.
The first
thing that
's changed
is that Consumer Internet and Genomics
are Driving Innovation at
scale In the 1950
's and» 60
's U.S. Defense and Intelligence organizations drove the pace of innovation in Silicon Valley by providing research and development dollars to universities, and defense companies built weapons systems that used the Valley
's first microwave devices and semiconductor components.
I've already mentioned some of the
things that you need to plan for, such as global expansion and what systems you need to integrate with, but you should also think about whether you will
be supporting multiple brands and products over time and whether your customer support solution can
scale as you grow.
One plausible reason, says Gillett,
is that the era marked «the initial wave of large -
scale awareness and enthusiasm before people said, «Hey, this
thing is going to
be complicated and long - running.»»
Let
's just say, if there
's one
thing Dreamforce does well, it
's scale.
As he told Eurogamer this summer, «My plan
was to do a Kickstarter for about 100 of these
things — basically, to get money to buy all of the components required on a slightly larger
scale and then send these out to people as kits so they could assemble them themselves using my instructions so they could have the same
thing as I had.
In an episode of LinkedIn cofounder and chairman Reid Hoffman's podcast «Masters of
Scale,» Zuckerberg told Hoffman that his experience with Sandberg taught him that the «single most important
thing» when it comes to
scaling into a massively successful business
is having founders surround themselves with the best people they can find.
In this candid conversation, Shopify's Harley Finkelstein — one of the most influential and innovative young business leaders in Canada today — shares his experiences
scaling Shopify from a scrappy startup to a world - leading provider of commerce solutions, covering, among other
things, the key operational, strategic and culture components that differentiate truly great businesses from those that
are merely good.
In fact, his famous mantra
is «move fast and break
things,»» says Hoffman about Zuckerberg on his podcast, «Masters of
Scale.»
He said yes, when built on a larger
scale: «We truly believe that this
is not only a middle, upper - class type
thing.
Entrepreneurs and startup leaders have to do
things that
are extremely difficult, like
scaling a company as quickly as possible.
«The nature of e-commerce, the nature of the Neighborhood Markets and other
things we
're doing do create an opportunity for us to
be even more relevant to customers that
are at the higher end of the
scale,» McMillon said at an investor meeting in October 2015, Fortune reported.
The closest Harford gets to bullet points
is coining three «Palchinsky principles» that underpin Adapt's argument: «First, seek out new ideas and try new
things; second, when trying something new, do it on a
scale where failure
is survivable; third, seek out feedback and learn from your mistakes as you go along.»
You want to grow your company, and what comes to mind
is all the usual
things — increase sales, invest in technology, hire staff,
scale operations, and so forth.
I'd say the one
thing that surprised me most
was the
scale of business decisions that
are made without any context as to what the market wants.
Again,
scale the numbers to the size of your business — the important
thing is, you can break out of that vicious circle.
The 15 - year straight line cost recovery deduction
is meant for large -
scale leasehold improvements for restaurant and retail spaces, among other
things.
Paul Graham
is on record as saying that you should do
things that don't
scale — but spare a thought for how they will, and remember to value your own time.
The last
thing you want
is to implement a plan and then realize you can't afford it and have to either
scale it back or cut it out entirely.
If you focus on the right
things and hire the right people at the right time, you
're going to
be able to see your startup go from sales exploration to sales execution and ultimately sales
scale.
«The most important
thing is to sort out how to
scale our business as fast as possible, and grab all the markets that
are available to us.»
There
is a lot of
things the network has no control over and these
are great reasons that
scaling things like our FiSync with the core platform
are so powerful.
«Acquiring
scale in the Atlantic markets
is not always an easy
thing to do, specifically in the New Brunswick market.