Keeping On the Blade: How Successful Startup Founders Persist To Discover Hockey Stick Growth

Coverage of the supposedly meteoric revenue growth of a number of Silicon Valley startups has fueled unrealistic notions: what a good idea looks like; how fast a founder should expect to be able to attract investment capital; and how quickly, even with a really great idea, growth will take off. If we use unicorns as a guide for our own startups, it appears that success … [ Read more ]