Thank you!  Your point about &quot;starting from small numbers&quot; is something else I was considering -- obviously increasing from $1&#x2F;week to $10&#x2F;week of revenue over the course of three months is not that impressive, despite being a 20%&#x2F;week growth rate!<p>I wonder if a good way to explain this would be via examples of (starting point, growth rate, duration) tuples and an &quot;interesting&quot; &#x2F; &quot;not interesting&quot; assessment for each.  (Can YC publish anonymized data on its portfolio companies?)  This would allow readers to look for an example which roughly matches their performance -- which may sound silly to people in the valley who are surrounded by startups all day long, but there are a lot of us outside of the valley who rarely meet anyone working for a startup and never see any sort of concrete numbers like these.<p>I absolutely agree about keeping the guide short though -- this is more a matter of something I&#x27;d like to see you (or someone else at YC) write more about in the future.