![[the-startup-curve.png]] ![[the-startup-curve-whiteboard.jpg]] > [!abstract] The life of a new product depicted as a diagram ## Sources https://web.archive.org/web/20080522125323/http://adam.blog.heroku.com/past/2008/4/23/the_startup_curve/ `PG drew this on the whiteboard at the last dinner of our Y Combinator session:` https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=173261 https://andrewchen.com/after-the-techcrunch-bump-life-in-the-trough-of-sorrow/