Re:Revenue could be fatal: 3 reasons your startup should con...
by a_m_kelly on Monday April 30, 2012 @08:02PM
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"A Stable (but perhaps unexciting) Business - This is where most people end up."
Really? "Most people" with a new business end up with stable but unexciting businesses?
I suspect most people end in failure, not Stable Business. In a post full of deeply questionable logic, this little gem takes the cake for me. I suspect some anecdotal evidence from otehr commenters will back this up or that there is a bevy of statistics to prove that this is true, even in the rarefied atmosphere of web companies.
Re:Revenue could be fatal: 3 reasons your startup should con...
by rrwhite on Monday April 30, 2012 @08:08PM
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I meant that most people end up here rather that in the first scenario of hyper-growth. "Most people (who don't fail) end up here" would have been more clear. Point taken.
Really? "Most people" with a new business end up with stable but unexciting businesses?
I suspect most people end in failure, not Stable Business. In a post full of deeply questionable logic, this little gem takes the cake for me. I suspect some anecdotal evidence from otehr commenters will back this up or that there is a bevy of statistics to prove that this is true, even in the rarefied atmosphere of web companies.