“Premature scaling” doesn’t sound all that sinister. It sounds, at the very worst, like some little business snafu – but it is nothing but a death trap for startups and the most overlooked predictor for startup failure. 

Scaling is the point in the existence of a startup where it experiences positive growth, whereas premature scaling happens when entrepreneurs start focusing on one dimension of the business and advancing it out of sync with the rest of the operation that ultimately leads to failure.  Read more>>