Think you know the impact of the Internet? You probably should think again.

Right now, there are 31 Billion searches on Google every month. In 2006, this number was only 2.7 Billion.

Web and mobile technologies have empowered people moving ideas at unprecedented scale.

It took CNN 20 years to reach 100 million viewers. However, it took Yahoo! only 5 years, MySpace 3 years, and YouTube less than 2 years to reach the same achievement.

Believe it or not. We are living in exponential times.

Facebook took 4 years and 6 months to hit 100 Million Users. Growing from 100 to 200 million users? Only 8 months.

However, not every businesses are able to take full advantage of the power of the Internet. Why some companies were able to scale their businesses in such a short time and some didn’t? How businesses differentiated themselves in this fast changing and highly competitive marketplace? We don’t pretend to know the answer but we love to share what we have found and to learn from readers like you.

Users have the unique power to drive innovation in this era. Let’s co-create this blog so that everyone can benefit from it.

Power of Scale is a blog about scalability, differentiation, innovation, branding, web businesses, organization building, culture, and more. Want to learn more about these topics? Come visit our blog in the future!

Part of the inspiration of this blog came from the talk by Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, at Stanford’s Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Lecture series. You can listen to the podcast below or watch the video here.

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