If you want to hit a bottom-of-the-ninth, grand slam, game-winning homerun with your startup, your business needs to be highly scalable. Whether you’re running an online business or opening a retail venture of some sort in an obscure corner of a local strip mall, if you want to exceed beyond everyone’s wildest dreams, you need to be able to scale it up.
Do you want to start a local directory or a service like Yelp? Do you want to own a taco truck or a chain of restaurants like Chipotle? There is nothing wrong with any of the smaller businesses, but you don’t want to launch a project and discover too late that by its very nature the business model prevents you from achieving extraordinary success through scaling up, especially if that was your dream at the onset…
