They realized that there would be no exit from their investment if they could not scale it.
The consensus then (among limited partners at least) was that the venture business does not scale well.
Many of these tools and techniques, like the collaborative hiring decisions, will not scale in their current form as these companies scale.
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Current methods of information classification are inconsistent and do not scale well.
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Clearly we made a mistake, but we learned from that unpleasant experience that interacting directly and personally with the little people is slow, inefficient, and does not scale.
Unlike the heroes of the book, however, Miss Lovett did not scale a sheer cliff and dispatch her enemies with skilful swordsmanship in order to win what was rightfully hers.
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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But advocates say that it's not the scale of the program that makes it important.
But their state-dominated economies need an overhaul, similar in nature if not in scale to that in eastern Europe.
For now, the precious few existing CCS pilot plants are not utility scale.
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On the DR1000's 10.2-inch diagonal screen, with slightly brighter whites and darker blacks than the last generation of E-Ink devices, PDFs not only scale to the right dimensions, but their text and graphics appear crisper and more paper-like than E-Ink has ever looked before.
But just as the American people turned against the Vietnam War and against the men and women who patriotically answered the call to fight that war it is absolutely predictable that losses of U.S. personnel on the Golan Heights will provoke a bitter reaction, if not the scale of Vietnam then, say, on a par with Somalia.
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But just as the American people turned against the Vietnam War -- and against the men and women who patriotically answered the call to fight that war -- it is absolutely predictable that losses of U.S. personnel on the Golan Heights will provoke a bitter reaction, if not the scale of Vietnam then, say, on a par with Somalia.
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Prices have not been discounted and sales, to date, have been lackluster at best certainly not on the scale of the Apple ( AAPL) iPhone and Google stumbled badly in several aspects, including not having any customer support set up when it launched the device.
Not on the scale seen in 2006, admittedly, but enough to take advantage of rising markets.
"Dissident republicans have attempted to use mortars before, but not on this scale, " he said.
The police faced lawbreaking on the streets on a scale not seen for decades.
Our government, Johnson argues, was not designed to scale to the size of the population we have today.
But it's not just the scale of the wealth that's notable in the Hamptons, it's the age of it.
There seems little doubt that there was cheating, though probably not on a scale sufficient to have changed the outcome.
"We have received some queries regarding pay but not on the scale claimed by the GMB, " it said in a statement.
The signs now point to a surge in growth even if it is not on the scale of South Korea last year.
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.
The biggest worry, however, is that REDD may not be possible at all at least not on the scale that climate modellers assume.
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Under present circumstances, the private markets cannot offer annuities of this kind, at least not at the scale required to replace Social Security.
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However, costs tend to come down in 3D printing not due to scale, but by greater efficiencies being uncovered in production and distribution.
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