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<span>I</span> love the enthusiasm founders have for their startups and I totally understand that each of them is eager to grow the hell out of it in order to become successful. But that more and more startups are talking about scaling as an all-encompassing success strategy is really alarming! Why? Since roughly 90% of startups aren’t ready. In most cases there simply isn’t anything there to scale. What’s more, most startups will never reach the stage where they can actually scale. <a href="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/8c534f3b5ad611c0ff8aeccd5/files/Startup_Genome_Report_Extra_Premature_Scaling_1.56.pdf" target="_blank">Startup Genome</a> found that 70% of all startups scale prematurely and that 74% of those scaling are failing! <strong>So why the hell is it that startups are always talking about scaling??</strong>