The Startup Curve

http://adam.blog.heroku.com/past/2008/4/23/the_startup_curve/

by prakash • 18 years ago

42 10 18 years ago

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pg• 18 years ago

I didn't add those labels, though. Those were added by Trevor as a joke.

jkush• 18 years ago

I would have thought there'd be a few more wiggles of false hope just before the trough of sorrow. You know, to make the trough of sorrow that much deeper and painful!

alex_c• 18 years ago

The labels are what really make it shine. "Wiggles of false hope" is so very true.

JacobAldridge• 18 years ago

We apply a similar framework that tracks all the Stages of a business journey; I like the additional depth and experience this adds (through both the graph and the labels, however humourous) to the initial Start-Up Stage.

immad• 18 years ago

The first 3 comments on that post are hilarious

diego• 18 years ago

The first comment says "Techcrunch only shows startups in the US or startups from the insiders - people who know Mike Arrington personally."

I know this is not the case. My company is not in the US and I don't know Mike Arrington. I just contacted them through their standard form, they liked one of our products and reviewed it favorably:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/23/twitter-trends-twist/

ivankirigin• 18 years ago

Note that comment's author.

abstractbill• 18 years ago

This is exactly what justin.tv's traffic curve looks like. I joined just around the first Wiggles Of False Hope.

edw519• 18 years ago

Looks like the seeds of a meta-essay.

mhartl• 18 years ago

N.B. This is from the whiteboard at the Y Combinator Mountain View office. Seeing it gives me an eerie Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate feeling. The hockey stick at the end gives me a little hope, but that trough looks awfully long...

The Startup Curve

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