adjective
General Slang
scalable
SKAY-luh-buhl · adjective · informal
Able to grow without breaking or costing proportionally more.
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Describing a solution or business that can handle much more volume without a proportional increase in effort or cost.
“Hiring a person per customer isn't scalable.”
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scalable In A Sentence
Hiring a person per customer isn't scalable.
Origin & Usage
From engineering/computing 'scale'; core startup vocabulary.
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What does scalable mean?
Able to grow to handle much more volume without a proportional jump in effort or cost. A scalable business can serve ten times the customers without ten times the work.
Why do startups care about being scalable?
Because investors want growth that isn't capped by adding staff one-for-one. If serving each new customer needs a new hire, the model doesn't scale.
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