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How to Scale a Business

What does it mean to scale a business?
‘Scale‘ is increasingly being used as shorthand for ‘scale up’ (“to grow or expand in a proportional and usually profitable way”) and as a noun that means “proportional growth especially of production or profit” and/or “a large market position.”
Here are 5 steps to Scaling a business in 2018:
- Evaluate and Plan. Take a hard look inside your business to see if you are ready for growth
- Find the Money. Invest. Scaling a business doesn’t come free
- Secure the Sales.
- Invest in Technology.
- Find Staff or Strategically Outsource.
The Vogels – A Look at their Art Collection (1995)
Over 30 years, a retired postal worker and his wife, a retired librarian, have amassed one of the world’s great collections of avant-garde art. But rather than cash in, Herb and Dorothy Vogel are donating all 2,000 pieces to the National Gallery of Art.
Gordon Ramsay makes Cocaine
As part of Crime & Punishment season, Gordon Ramsay goes behind the lines of the Colombian cartel to discover how cocaine is produced deep in the jungle.
What happened to hip hop? [video]
Today in History: Internet is Born (1969)

Happy birthday to the phenomena that has brought us all here today: the internet.
The internet has come a long way in the last 49 years, since its inception as a link between 2 computers. Now, billions of devices are linked together across the world.
The inventor of the World Wide Web, a collection of web pages that can be accessed via the internet, recently said the internet is broken.
Source: CNBC
Christie’s: Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale, New York (11/15/18)

David Hockney Painting Sells for $90 Million, Smashing Record for Living Artist Read More
Tee Grizzley “off parole”
John Mayer and Jerry Lorenzo Talk Nike Air Fear of God Collab, Kanye West & More
John Mayer and Fear of God’s Jerry Lorenzo Read More
Bill Cosby, Sitting in Prison, Hopes to Sell Two Major Thomas Hart Benton Paintings for Millions of Dollars

“Going West” by Thomas Hart Benton
Comedian Bill Cosby, who is currently serving a three-to-10 year prison sentence for sexual assault, has been leveraging some of the top works in his art collection.
Cosby consigned Thomas Hart Benton‘s Going West (1926) to Granary gallery earlier this year, while his wife, Camille, used yet another Benton painting, The Instruction (aka The Bible Lesson), (1940), as collateral for a loan from Asher Edelman’s art finance firm, Art Assure, according to a regulatory filing. Read More
RIP Stan Lee (1922-2018) superhero creator, comic book icon

There will never be another Stan Lee co creator of marvel and imagination behind the modern superhero mythology. Read More
Virgil Abloh x Ralph Lauren

Virgil x Ralph (2018)
Louis Vuitton’s menswear Creative Director Virgil Abloh and iconic designer Ralph Lauren were spotted chatting it up at this years WSJmag Innovator Awards. Read More