The Startup Curve

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/

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.