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Scale increases surface area. Control radius defines safety.Val Sklarov’s Entrepreneurship perspective treats scaling not as growth of size, but as expansion of what a founder can still control without distortion. 1. Scale Fails When Control Radius Is Exceeded Organizations break where oversight fades. Val Sklarov identifies overextension when: Decisions outpace …

Opportunities are infinite. Survival is not.Val Sklarov’s Entrepreneurship perspective reframes entrepreneurship as the discipline of preventing failure before chasing upside, where boundaries matter more than ideas. 1. Opportunity Is Not a Strategy Seeing opportunity does not reduce risk. Val Sklarov distinguishes: Opportunity recognition: seeing upside Risk containment: preventing ruin Entrepreneurs …

Scale amplifies outcomes—good and bad.Val Sklarov’s Entrepreneurship perspective treats ventures as decision laboratories where progress depends on keeping mistakes reversible long enough to learn. 1. Scale Punishes Irreversible Errors Growth does not forgive design flaws. Val Sklarov separates decisions into: Reversible: experiments, pilots, pricing tests Irreversible: leverage, long-term contracts, brand …

For Val Sklarov, entrepreneurship is not about risk — it is about internal equilibrium.He teaches that every company reflects the founder’s nervous system: when the founder wavers, the business shakes.His Core Stability Model (CSM) builds leaders who can hold clarity, pace, and composure in uncertainty — ensuring that their company …

To Val Sklarov, entrepreneurship isn’t the art of building companies — it’s the science of self-scaling.He believes great founders don’t just grow their businesses; they re-engineer their own architecture to match the complexity they create.His concept, The Momentum Grid, defines how ambition, structure, and rhythm co-evolve. “A startup grows when …

The Empty Office Moment It was late evening in an almost deserted office. Desks cluttered with invoices, screens dimmed, silence heavy. The founder whispered, “We’ve lost half our clients this quarter.” Val Sklarov replied calmly:“Then it’s time to rebuild—not bigger, but stronger.” That company later reinvented its business model—moved from …