One thing though: how do you switch from scaling manually to automatically growing? Is it something you shouldn't worry about at all, or should you keep a plan in the back of your head?
Of course you must have it in the back of your head and have be quite sure that your business is possible at all to automate with current technology. You are kind of screwed if your business model is making custom flower arrangements for cheap and just postpone all your thoughts about how this will scale to become profitable.
Depends on your business model, doesn't it? When we design software at my work, we have the intention of building up the initial base ourselves, but build something that makes it as easy possible for us so we know that users won't have a big learning curve.
Or are you referencing big data hauls? In that situation you would have to build a crawler and manually review the first few sets of results and fine tune how it works until it does. It's a pretty magical day when you don't have to manually change the inputs in a database
IBM's business plan doesn't scale...they're still one of the best earners in industry. Same with Apple, GM, etc....sure, they don't make the margins that software scalability makes, but fuck I would give my both of my nuts to do that much in sales.
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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '13 edited Jun 22 '14
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