Getting bigger shines a spotlight on every sloppy habit you got away with when you were small.

Scale does not create problems so much as expose the ones already running. A messy system works fine with five customers and breaks at five hundred, and the same is true of how you handle email, money and promises. Growth is an audit nobody scheduled.

Look at what currently works only because the numbers are small, and fix one of those things before you need to. Write down the process you have been carrying in your head. The habits that survive an increase in size are the ones you tightened while it was still optional.