IT systems can scale vertically, horizontally, and sometimes both. In broad terms, vertical scaling, or scale-up, entails installing more powerful systems or upgrading to more powerful components.

Starting a business is one of the most rewarding and high-stakes journeys an entrepreneur can undertake. It’s a well-known statistic that 90% of startups fail, with many never making it past their ...

Governments aren’t generally known as innovative environments. But although innovation may not always come naturally to these institutions, scale certainly does. So when they do find ways to incubate ...

Over the past five years, I worked exclusively on trying to help social ventures scale up at an organization called Spring Impact. As a player in the middle—neither a practitioner nor funder—I spent ...

If you are a startup or small to medium-sized business, you need to think about your scaling-up journey. As entrepreneurs, regardless of the economy, we must grow our businesses or remain stagnant, if ...

For most of artificial intelligence’s history, many researchers expected that building truly capable systems would need a long series of scientific breakthroughs: revolutionary algorithms, deep ...

If 20 years of coaching business owners to scale their companies has taught me anything it is this: the overwhelming majority of entrepreneurs want growth. They focus on it; work towards it; and even ...

There are three basic phases of growth: startup, scale-up and grown-up. While each presents unique obstacles and challenges, the scale-up phase can be particularly difficult for many leaders. I’ll ...

You don’t have to look very far in the semiconductor world before you see the word “scaling.” Perhaps you read an industry news article headline about transistor scaling – how those nearly nanoscale ...

The annals of entrepreneurship are filled with promising start-ups that appeared ready to change their industries—but weren’t able to navigate the difficult path from exciting small business to big, ...

Rapid improvement in the power-conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cells have enabled them to compete with silicon-based devices. However, high-performance perovskite devices are typically small ...