NPR: Five vital signs for scaling your big idea
“Back in the mid-90s, McDonald’s had a problem. Competitors were eating into their sales, and they were struggling to reach adults. Their solution: a new burger named the Arch Deluxe, which they spent hundreds of millions of dollars marketing to grown ups. That burger, however, has gone down in history as one of the biggest product flops ever. But did it have to turn out that way?”