How do we blitzscale?
How do we blitzscale?

Forget what you learn in business school and management classes.

Forget what you learn in business school and management classes.

Now that we've come this far, we're ready for the team to fully commit to blitzscaling. So how should we put this framework into action? First, throw out everything you remember from your MBA.

To succeed, you’ll have to violate many of the management “rules” that are designed for efficiency and risk minimization. In fact, to achieve your aggressive growth goals in the face of uncertainty and change, you need to follow a new set of rules that fly in the face of what is taught in business schools and are completely counterintuitive to accepted “best practices” of either early-stage start-ups or classic corporate management.

9 counterintuitive rules of blitzscaling

9 counterintuitive rules of blitzscaling

1. Embrace Chaos

Take action even if you know there are issues to resolve. Accept the uncertainty, and make decisions based on your best estimate of the probabilities.

2. Hire Ms. Right Now, Not Ms. Right

Know when to let someone go when the moment passes.

3. Seek out “Bad” Management

Keeping management "chaotic" means you can better handle unexpected landmines.

4. Launch a Product That Embarrasses You

Get to market with an imperfect product quickly rather than getting to market with a "perfect" product slowly.

5. Let Fires Burn

There will always be more issues (fires) to fix than what your team has bandwidth for. Prioritize the fires that would kill your business first, and let the other fires burn.

6. Do Things That Don’t Scale (Throwaway Work)

It doesn't make sense to build a highly scalable system when you just start on your startup journey, so do things that don't scale first to ensure you're on the right track.

7. Ignore Your Customers

This is only a temporary solution, but you can scale faster at the beginning stages of your company as you figure out how to best scale your customer service.

8. Raise Too Much Money

Excess cash can help you account for unforeseeable circumstances

9. Evolve Your Culture

Culture influences how people act and behave when there are no formal rules or directives. An unclear organizational culture will hinder your company as you try to grow.

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Take action even if you know there are issues to resolve. Accept the uncertainty, and make decisions based on your best estimate of the probabilities.

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Think about which of these rules are the most relevant to us, considering the growth factors and limiters we decided to build a business model around. What growth factors are low hanging fruit? Where are the easiest wins? What will be the most difficult challenges?

We have the tools, knowledge, and commitment to make blitzscaling work for our company.

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How do we blitzscale?
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