Golden: Taking custom one-offs makes startups expensive and unscalable
John Golden · Garbage In, Garbage Out: Why Clean Data Is Your Real AI Strategy · Feb 25, 2025 · at 21:32
John Golden, CSMO of Pipeliner CRM, discusses common strategic mistakes early-stage startup founders make when chasing initial revenue.
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“The problem is you end up doing a lot of one-offs and ultimately I I've seen this before where you end up doing more one-offs than you do of what you actually set out to do. And now you've set yourself up as kind of being a custom. Everything is customized and therefore that becomes expensive. It's not scalable.”
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