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Scaling Is Hard. Here's How Akamai Did It.

Harvard Business Review

But once the company has honed in on a strong value proposition and found initial product-market fit, what is the best approach to scaling it? Later joined by Jonathan Seelig, an MIT Sloan MBA student, the Akamai team raised an $8 million Series A based on the lab prototype in order to commercialize the product. Really hard.

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