The Startup Curve(adam.blog.heroku.com)
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The Startup Curve
http://adam.blog.heroku.com/past/2008/4/23/the_startup_curve/
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I didn't add those labels, though. Those were added by Trevor as a joke.
The first 3 comments on that post are hilarious
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/
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/
Note that comment's author.
This is exactly what justin.tv's traffic curve looks like. I joined just around the first Wiggles Of False Hope.
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...
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.
Looks like the seeds of a meta-essay.