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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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.
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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Not on the scale seen in 2006, admittedly, but enough to take advantage of rising markets.
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.
"We have received some queries regarding pay but not on the scale claimed by the GMB, " it said in a statement.
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.
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.
These businesses usually do not develop beyond the micro stage and are not positioned to scale globally, according to an IDB report.
There now seems to be a new migration afoot, not on the scale of previous ones but very much in the American tradition.
See, what makes America great is not just the scale of our skyscrapers, the might of our military, the size of our GDP.
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This problem has been practically eliminated, there are some delays in the regions but they are not on the scale that existed before.
Those with large deposits in the banks (above 100, 000 euros) do not know the scale of their losses - but the expectation is 40%.
The old software model is a high-touch solution with designs that require custom work, which is expensive to implement and not quick to scale.
Other vehicle-borne mortars and some designed to be fired horizontally at passing police vehicles have been recovered by the police, but not on this scale.
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Mr. Bush's more modest trip to India is not on the scale of those visits, and it's doubtful that it will do much for his legacy.
The last thing these unions would sanction would be the mass employment of young workers on a temporary basis at living, but not union-scale, wages and benefits.
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