How many people are in your company?

Are you an entrepreneur?  If so, you probably have heard this question a few times - How many people are in your company?  Why do you think people ask this? Are the looking to create conversation or is this how they gauge your company?

I know when we started Evolving Solutions almost 8 years ago, we had big dreams of growing our organization to 50-100 employees.  And we were on that path, as we reached 8 employees at our peak.  As we, (we ='s Adrian and I) grew in employees, it started to feel like we were living someone elses dream and not ours.  We were scaling, but for the wrong reasons.  Scaling because we thought we had to.  That is what society tells you when you start a business.  Grow!  

Don't get me wrong, we worked with some tremendous individuals who helped us get to where we are today.  It's part of the process, the journey.

Is bigger better?  For us it wasn't.  And I think most companies today are to big and that is why they are running into some issues with the current economy.   Seth Godin wrote a great post on The right size, which I think hits the nail on the head.  It's a must read if you are an entrepreneur.

So, where are we now.  Well we want to be small and great.  That is the vision for our company and we will get there following through on our core values.

What do you think?  Does size matter? - keep it clean please :-)