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Much better put than my post.

There's some resonance between the scalable & non-scalable revenue streams. The details of what one does in the non-scalable portion can be massively amplified in the scalable portion.

It's as if, for some combination of business models, the quality of the non-scalable aspect becomes the exponent for the scalable aspect:

r = s^(nt)

revenue = scalable to the power of the non-scalable * time

Versus a pure non-scalable play, like straight consulting:

r = nt



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