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If you’re committed to specific results, then at some point or other, you’re going to have to face the truth that results are produced by Whos, not Hows.

Who Not How

Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy

Most entrepreneurs start their businesses at a really small size, with few assets or employees, even though many studies, conducted in many countries and in many industries, show that larger start-ups have greater access to capital, are more profitable, have higher sales and employment growth, and are less likely to fail.

The Illusions of Entrepreneurship

Scott A. Shane

Quantitatively, this is expressed in terms of metabolic rate, which is the amount of energy needed per second to keep an organism alive; for us it’s about 2,000 food calories a day, which, surprisingly, corresponds to a rate of only about 90 watts, the equivalent of a standard incandescent lightbulb. As can be seen from Figure 1, our metabolic rate has the “correct” value for a mammal of our size.

Scale

Geoffrey West

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