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by wpietri 3191 days ago
Ok, I accept it feels like that to you. It doesn't to me.

Briandear's description doesn't sound like a search for a repeatable, scalable business model. Which is why I asked him if it was really a startup.

Your model of a startup is not uncommon, but as I explain in detail above, pure scale is a different kind of thing than doing something that hasn't been done before. Different techniques are required. Different success milestones are used. Both involve scaling and continuous incremental improvement, but one requires a great deal of innovation early on.

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Okay, but that's not in your quotation from Steve Blank.