- Duh. It's the curve at the end of a hockey stick. My preference is a light mid-heel curve at a 5.5 lie. I'm just like Mike Modano, but I don't skate as fast, shoot as hard, stickhandle as well, and I'm not as good looking. But I'm less of a wuss [1] .
- Apparently it is also a controversy over global warming [2] . Yeah, I got nothing on that.
- A chart used by entrepreneurs and salepeople to illustrate exponential growth following a short, flat incubation period. It's extremely convenient for someone trying to pitch a business venture because it
- makes potential investors instinctively drool over the prospect of huge return on investment, but also
- buys time to burn any cash invested, effectively building in an excuse for initial failure, which, almost inevitably, leads to total failure. In 1998 it was common for mobile-related startups to bandy these things around.
In 2007 it looks like this:
I guess the more things change the more things stay the same.