Why It’s So Hard to Scale a Great Idea
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For scaling, a false positive is an erroneous sign that an idea has voltage when it really doesn’t. When a seemingly promising idea loses efficacy or profitability as it expands, we call it a “voltage drop.” To weed out such biases, make sure your early adopters are a random sample.
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- For scaling, a false positive is an erroneous sign that an idea has voltage when it really doesn’t.
- When a seemingly promising idea loses efficacy or profitability as it expands, we call it a “voltage drop.”
- To weed out such biases, make sure your early adopters are a random sample.
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