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Research: When Should Startups Scale?

Harvard Business Review

Silicon Valley often touts rapid scaling as the best strategy for achieving startup success. However, new research reveals that scaling early, particularly within the first 12 months, significantly raises the risk of startup failure, especially for two-sided platforms.

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Scaling Ideas for Impact | Jennifer Dulski

Peter Winick

Using technology to take ideas to scale. An interview with Jennifer Dulski about taking ideas to scale through publishing, social media, and technology. Thought leaders are often torn between scale and depth. Scale allows you to reach a large audience, while depth allows you to have massive impact.

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How can you transform your business from high touch low scale to low touch high scale?

Peter Winick

the business that they’re in when you think about it is really high touch and low scale. So keynote speaking: high touch, low scale. Being an advisor, being a coach, being a consultant: high touch, low scale. What’s low touch and high scale? You can only do one at a time. Love to hear your thoughts.

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Scaling Agile Teams

Agile42

We’ve been working with organizations for over 15 years and despite numerous existing frameworks and models, we’ve learned that there is no silver bullet when it comes to scaling Agile teams. In this guide, we’ll describe a few best practices for scaling Agile teams. Need help scaling? VAT) Shop now What is “Scaling”?

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Thriving as a Lean & Mean HR Machine

Speaker: Kjerstin Greene and Adri Glover

HR teams can be small and mighty, but it requires smart tactics to scale your reach. If you’re an HR professional with little or no additional support, or in a non-HR role juggling HR tasks with other responsibilities, you likely wear many hats – from recruitment and onboarding to benefits and employee engagement.

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Spotting Ideas with the Potential for Scale | Ward Kampf

Peter Winick

An interview with Ward Kampf about vision, strategy, and execution for taking ideas to scale. So I’m looking forward to this conversation about how do you spot ideas, how do you identify which ones have potential and then help them to scale. I’ve done this out of my van and we think we can take this and scale it.

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Scaling a Midsize Startup

Harvard Business Review

The “mighty-middle” segment of startups falls between venture-scale unicorns and small businesses. These startups aim for valuations in the high single-digit to high tens of millions within 5-10 years, targeting midsize niches with significant growth potential.

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AI & DEI: With Great Opportunities Comes Great HR Responsibility

Speaker: Jen Kirkwood - Partner, Responsible HR & AI at IBM and World Economic Forum Executive Fellow

The promise of AI for today’s organizations is real, yet in a frenzied state of experimentation, many stumble to get to a full-scale enterprise. As companies race to discover what generative AI can do, HR must lead conversations about how to balance cutting-edge innovations with integrity, trust, and diversity.

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more?