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# [Weekly Retro] Scaling up your product: balancing Structure and Design
- URL: https://www.cesarrg.com/weekly-retro-scaling-up-your-product-balancing-structure-and-design/
- Published: 2024-09-13T11:54:35.000Z
- Updated: 2024-10-07T18:58:33.000Z
- Author: César Rodríguez
- Tags: Weekly Retro, Design, Insights

#184 - Sep.2024

Happy Friday!

💡 Here is a quick idea before you head off to the weekend:

The secret (and most difficult part) of growing a product is finding the right balance between a **solid structure to operate** effectively and **designing at scale**.

If you focus only on efficiency, you will likely start solving (efficiently) problems that are not relevant to your customers.

If you focus only on design, you will lack the foundation to serve customers at scale and at a cost that is feasible for the business.

**You need both.**

### **𝕏 On Apple's latest announcement**

> It’s fascinating to see [#Apple](https://twitter.com/hashtag/Apple?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=cesarrg.com) making a move to a 30B (30) market of hearing aid devices.   
>  
> Sure, most traditional companies might not feel an impact right away, but the move shows the leverage Apple gets through devices.  
>  
> Is Apple challenging Christensen’s Innovator’s dilemma? [pic.twitter.com/G9LYJgGrEw](https://t.co/G9LYJgGrEw?ref=cesarrg.com)
> 
> — César Rodríguez (@cesarrgv) [September 10, 2024](https://twitter.com/cesarrgv/status/1833471531462135991?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=cesarrg.com)

### **✉️ Post from this week**

This week I wrote strategies and core principles on **how to transition products from market-fit to scale-up and achieve 100X growth**: 

[From product-market fit to scale-up: how to make the leap and grow 100XLessons from taking a solution global![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/10/f4/10f4a52f-1b7d-4284-b66d-0fccfd9dc5da/content/images/icon/CRLogo_2024-60-60.png)César's blogCésar Rodríguez![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/10/f4/10f4a52f-1b7d-4284-b66d-0fccfd9dc5da/content/images/thumbnail/CRG-6-2.png)](https://www.cesarrg.com/from-product-market-fit-to-scale-up/)

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### **👨🏻‍💻 Interesting links**

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(I just love coffee! ☕️ )

### **🖋️ Quote of the week**

> **“Earth sure looks like a perfect world”** – Jared Isaacman during the [first private spacewalk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pupZE%5FQJBX0&ref=cesarrg.com).

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