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Planning for "Extreme Scale"
This business did not plan for scale.
Scoble has advice for start ups (and grown up companies)
"The word of mouth network is now so efficient that I knew they’d probably have about a million people hit it on the first day....Companies that don’t plan for extreme scale issues are gonna really look lame from now on."
PS - that poor donkey would be happy to be just lame -)
May 19, 2007 in Industry Commentary, Little to do with IT, but interesting! | Permalink