Great quote from @paultoo: "A ... problem that I see a lot is premature scaling—founders take a small business that isn't really working... and then scale it up because they want impressive growth numbers.“
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@paulg, do you agree? This seems to contradict some of your claims here http://paulgraham.com/growth.html and on Twitter.
It depends how they scale it up. If they go out and buy users by paying way more for ad impressions than users are actually worth, that's the sort of fake growth I explicitly warn against. Whereas if the growth is organic word-of-mouth growth, something is working.
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So true. We were paying over $3/ install on a food discovery app. Didn’t last to long.
#liveandlearn Word of mouth is king.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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