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Small team to invent, bigger team to scale

1–3 people to start it. Add people once it works.

SWe reviewed the research on it.People and teams

How to use it

Across 65 million papers, patents and software products, small teams disrupted and large teams developed. Start new things with one to three people; add people once it works.

How sure we are

S Evidence: strong. Large trials or many studies, pointing the same way.

Sources

Wu, Wang & Evans 2019 (Nature).

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