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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

Seeing Both Sides

The Lean Start-Up movement, as exemplified in Eric Ries' book The Lean Start-Up, has appropriately focused a great deal of attention on the hard decisions and techniques required to create a company from nothing. In 2012, analysts forecast the company will achieve nearly $1.5

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Favorite Longreads of 2012

abovethecrowd.com

Technically, this article was published in 2011, but that should not stop it from being further distributed. I also understand he may have “edited” one of my favorite longreads of all time, Brian Arthur’s Increasing Returns and the Two Worlds of Business from HBR in 1996. Jeff Bezos on Charlie Rose, November 16, 2012.