The Product Vision blog » data http://productvision.org/blog Articles about Product Vision and Strategy by D. Philip Haine Thu, 13 Jan 2011 07:56:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 What is a realistic growth rate? http://productvision.org/blog/growth-rat/ http://productvision.org/blog/growth-rat/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:17:45 +0000 Philip Haine http://productvision.org/blog/?p=562 What is realistic growth rate to expect for a high-potential startup?

Here is an inflation-adjusted chart of 100 high-tech companies (click for interactive chart):

growth-chart

This chart is a useful reality check on business plans.  It’s very hard to be a “rocketship” – one of the red curve companies in the chart that attains $50mm within 5 years.  Neither Microsoft nor Oracle did so and if your business plan says you will, it’s probably incorrect.

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