[a_m_kelly]

"A Stable (but perhaps unexciting) Business - This is where most people end up."

Really? "Most people" with a new business end up with stable but unexciting businesses?

I suspect most people end in failure, not Stable Business. In a post full of deeply questionable logic, this little gem takes the cake for me. I suspect some anecdotal evidence from otehr commenters will back this up or that there is a bevy of statistics to prove that this is true, even in the rarefied atmosphere of web companies.

[rrwhite]

I meant that most people end up here rather that in the first scenario of hyper-growth. "Most people (who don't fail) end up here" would have been more clear. Point taken.