Making Progress in the Real World of Startups
Big Red Car here on a crisp, sunny Texas winter day. It is 40F, which is bone chilling cold in the ATX.
So, the BRC is talking to a couple of CEOs and they are describing their growth curve–from founding to launch to the Promised Land. All of them have made it to the pay window, a nice arrival point.
It was an interesting discussion and one you might want to have with yourself.
In an ideal situation — something that never, ever happens — fictitious growth might look something like this. You are looking at performance over a period of time. We all want it to be high and to the right. Performance appears to increase at a uniform rate, at a steady rate. Not very realistic?