The Startup Curve

The startup curve, the idea that a business startup is not a single, always uplifting idea that makes all your dreams come true. It's a graphical description of the ups and downs of the process. Paul Graham defined the process for Silicon Valley tech startups with the following chart.

 This process with its tongue-in-cheek descriptions, shows the emotional process of the tech startup. This has nothing, directly, to do with profitability or viability, it has to do with the emotional roller coaster that entrepreneurs experience as they mold their idea and try to create a valuable, efficient, and profitable entity that can someday make them actual money or be sold to create actual money.


It's just one more thing to consider as we tweak our great ideas into the promised land.


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