The consensus then (among limited partners at least) was that the venture business does not scale well.
As Nassim Nicholas Taleb describes it in his new book Anti-Fragile: Things that Gain from Disorder (Random House, 2012), it creates a fragile system that does not scale, and suffers from adverse market changes.
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The association of parliamentarians focusing on the environment, Globe, does not underestimate the scale of the task, but counsels against despair.
"Either the department does not realise the scale of the problems here or they are choosing to play it down, " he said.
"Despite the efforts of everyone at the company, we have concluded that Channel 4 does not have the scale to make a financial success of this model, " he said.
The greater scale does not alter the fact that, in principle, the Japanese banking crisis has much in common with the problems faced, and dealt with, in America and Scandinavia.
An efficient and effective economy does not necessarily require large-scale factory and office developments.
And right now, the technology to produce this fuel type on a widespread scale simply does not exist.
Algae at least can be grown, with sufficient engineering, on a large scale that does not require prime crop land in competition with growing food crops (as rules out conventional biofuel strategies beyond grants from governments and the European Union), and there is no demand for freshwater since saline water does even better to promote the growth of certain highly oil-yielding strains.
The collapsed, failed states that harbour terrorism are exactly the places where large-scale foreign aid does not work.
Monitor's new report argues that Aravind's model does not just depend on pricing, scale, technology or process, but on a clever combination of all of them.
This form of small-scale distributed generation does not even make the official statistics by bureaus like the Energy Information Administration, yet it is quickly growing in capacity to become a serious part of the mix.
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However, the teenage brain changes on a dramatic scale, even IQ does not seem to be stable.
Growth does not mean jobs on anything like the scale it used to.
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The scale of the response does not match the enormity of the need.
But two months previously, a senior civil servant told education experts "the scale of the commitment does not allow it to be delivered in the lifetime of a parliament", the Labour leader went on.
And no matter how good its cars are, given that General Motors of the U.S. by itself sells over 400, 000 vehicles each month, the Malay-sian company does not have the econo-mies of scale to compete in a global market where the giants keep getting bigger.
Upon further inspection, however, the notion that economies of scale force companies to become multinationals does not hold up.
Surprisingly, this does not appear to be happening at anywhere near the scale needed to avoid more catastrophes like the one that took place in Minnesota.
The Commission does not deny that fraud occurs, but it says the scale is minute - around 0.09% of the total budget.
"But what has not been clarified is who does what, what the scale of this operation is, what it is going to look like, what are the budget implications, " the Guatemalan ambassador to the UN, Gert Rosenthal, said in a statement on Tuesday.
The company says it does not actively police its users to make sure they are not breaking the rules - that would be impossible given the scale of the network - but relies on others reporting abuse.
Second, scientific advance tends to have increasing returns to scale: adding more scientists to a community does not diminish individual marginal productivity but tends to increase it.
Mr Moscovici said his words were "not entirely appropriate because France is a country that does not need to shut down its public services on a massive scale".
Although the reality of Israel defies the stereotype of a country defined by conflict and crisis, Israel does not enjoy a reputation as an attractive location for large-scale infrastructure projects.
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Example: If General Motors wants to slap down Web juggernauts like AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft, Amazon.com, RealNetworks and MP3.com in the race to own the car portal, it will have to do what a Web company does: price for market share, not margin, and then try hard as heck to scale up rapidly.
Scale in equity asset management may benefit the asset manager who is collecting fees, but it does not seem to provide a corresponding benefit for his clients.
It will only be as a result of having a systematic large-scale study that we will be able to give accurate comments as to whether or not this does arise as a result of cloning or not.
For those who believe excessive risk-taking on Wall Street was at the heart of the global financial crisis, sweeping reform on a scale not seen in 80 years was the necessary remedy to insure that a similar financial meltdown does not occur any time soon.
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