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Summary of Blitzscaling 

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Blitzscaling is a strategy for driving and managing extremely rapid growth that prioritizes speed over efficiency in an environment of uncertainty. For start-ups, there comes the point where the company has the chance to scale-up, and the quickest and most explicit means to do it is through blitzscaling. “Blitzscaling” was co-authored by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh. Reid Hoffman is the co-founder of LinkedIn, a partner at Greylock, and was a founding Board member of PayPal. Chris Yeh is an entrepreneur, author, and investor. He is the co-author of “The Alliance,” a New York Times bestseller. In this summary, the authors share valuable techniques for entrepreneurs who wish to build big companies, employees, governments, and communities who want these companies’ growth in their regions. If you want to grow a business from zero to a multibillion-dollar market, blitzscaling is great for you. “We believe that the future can and should be better than the past and that it’s worth tolerating the discomfort we feel when blitzscaling to get to the future as quickly as we can.” ~ Reid Hoffman

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  • Summary of Blitzscaling
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  • What is Blitzscaling about?
  • Who should read Blitzscaling
  • Topics in Blitzscaling
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Entering the era of blitzscaling

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When a start-up grows to a point where it has a killer product, a sizable market, and a big distribution channel, it has the chance to become a “scale-up.” Usually, the fastest path from start-up to scale-up is the rapid growth provided by blitzscaling.

The Internet has completely reshaped our daily lives, the world of business, and made everything so much faster. The speed of the internet is what makes blitzscaling possible and so powerful.
Blitzscaling involves taking risks and intentionally doing things that hardly make sense, according to traditional business thinking.
You need to take on the additional risk and discomfort of blitzscaling your company or accept the greater risk of losing if your competition blitzscales before you do.

Blitzscaling is what allows companies to achieve massive scale at incredible speed. It distinguishes the start-ups that get disrupted and disappear as the world changes from those that scale up to become market leaders.

Once you know how blitzscaling works, you can use it to reshape the world. In this summary, lessons are drawn from world-leading companies to explain the nuts and bolts of how to blitzscale, when to blitzscale, why to blitzscale, and the global impact of the companies that are blitzscaling all around you.

Regardless of who you are, the knowledge of blitzscaling will help you make better decisions in a world where speed is a competitive advantage.
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Prioritize speed over efficiency in the face of uncertainty

The classic approach to business is to prioritize correctness and efficiency over speed; to make decisions only when you have gathered information and you are confident of the results. Even though prioritizing efficiency and certainty is essential, this approach fails when new technologies enable a new market or scramble an existing one.
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The basics and stages of blitzscaling

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Design an innovative business model capable of growth

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Design a business model that maximizes four growth factors for a scalable business

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Build your business model to minimize the two factors that limit growth

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Understand, then design the actual strategy for extreme growth

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Implement management innovations at different stages of growth

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To succeed in blitzscaling, follow nine rules that are counterintuitive to classic corporate management

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