In Startup = Growth, Paul Graham plots the life of a startup as an S-curve. In the first phase, you are exploring to find product market fit. Then you find it, and start growing exponentially. Finally, at some point, growth tapers and becomes linear or even flat. As PG explains, the| Harry Glaser
At my first company, I internalized the standard advice to never think about M&A. The consensus was, and is, to just keep growing the business and good things will come. I did that, and I was lucky that good things did come in the form of a $130M acquisition| Harry Glaser