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: 

  1. Evaluate and Plan. Take a hard look inside your business to see if you are ready for growth
  2. Find the Money. Invest.  Scaling a business doesn’t come free
  3. Secure the Sales. 
  4. Invest in Technology.  
  5. Find Staff or Strategically Outsource.

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.

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.

Double Down News

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

David Hockney "Portrait of an Artist"

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“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

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

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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

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HoverSurf, a start-up tech company based in San Jose, California, has designed a flying machine called the Hoverbike that looks like a drone and an ATV—and they are taking deposits now. Read More