Creative Lettering — Do Things That Don't Scale (02/ 07)
Paul Gharam in one of his interviews told us his secret of making startups succeed, Do things that don't scale.
He advised doing a personal effort for each early client. His principle contradicts brand-new founders' tendency. Brand-New founders consider any personal effort a don't-scale action like building great products.
How Does Paul Gharam's Principle Work?
By making personal efforts to delight each customer, we create a base of satisfied clients. (= dots in the design)
By executing this principle in huge numbers, we find we've enlarged the base (= crafted the word SCALE in dots).
Until we get to the moment where the base is strong enough to build a skyscraper. (the dots started to connect together to refer to the word "Scale")
Behind The Scene
You'll never find two identical dots.
I did that intentionally with pen and paper to symbolize accurately what personal efforts mean.