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Hyper-Growth – Initiatives to Consider – Part 1 The University

by Ian Smith | Sep 12, 2013 | Scaling, Training

I came to Boston in October 2001 from London to manage a software business called Teamstudio. In the summer of the following year it would be listed at #91 on the Inc. 500 list, with a 4 year growth of 1888%, that’s 111% per annum! But that was just the start of our...

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