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"We just were victims of our own success and could not deploy customers fast enough to get free time to build the automated system that AppCloud is today."

This is a really hard problem IMHO. Obviously it depends on your business model, but I've found it at times an unsolvable problem...

hire contractors (or setup a team) and isolate them from the rest of the business. happens in both small and large companies all the time.

Yeah, it seems to be quite a common problem at the moment. Look at Twitter; more specifically Digg, who have suffered from this for years and are only now getting out from it.

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