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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

As we have seen with the recent speed bumps at highfliers like Groupon and Zynga, taking “lean startups” from foundation to creating sustainable, scalable, profitable business models is a very rare and special task. Going B2C was daunting and not in our core DNA,” Kaufer remarked. As I mentioned in my post last week , scaling is hard.