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by notsosmart 5499 days ago
Good article. What would be an example of premature scaling in a startup? Too many hires?
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You can scale prematurely in different trajectories: customer development, product development, hiring, etc.

An example could be hire a salesforce before having a paying customer or to hire middle management with less than 15 people. On the product side its for example spending lots of time on a scalable backend before even having the user and payer identified.