Startups: Silicon Valley vs. The Emerging World

Re:Startups: Silicon Valley vs. The Emerging World by compman775 on Saturday November 26, 2011 @02:54PM (#3280534)

Your example company would eventually be awesome to own. It's annual revenue after y years would be r(y) = 12 * 2000 * 2^y. After 10 years, the annual revenue would $24,576,000. After 20, $25,165,824,000. After 30 years, $25,769,803,776,000.

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Re:Startups: Silicon Valley vs. The Emerging World by kiba on Saturday November 26, 2011 @04:02PM (#3280686)

After 30 years of growth, your company is the size of several countries, GDP-wise.

Assuming zero inflation in our monetary supply and thus zero price inflation, this is undoubtedly an unrealistic assumption.

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Re:Startups: Silicon Valley vs. The Emerging World by trevelyan on Saturday November 26, 2011 @07:59PM (#3281244)

Sure growth has to slow eventually, but it isn't unrealistic for a successful company to grow 100 percent per year for five years.

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