Not all companies need to grow exponentially

<p>People exposed to the <a class="wikilink" href="/entrepreneurship/">entrepreneurship</a> world, and especially those who seek <a class="wikilink" href="/venture_capitalists/">venture capitalists</a> to help them achieve the goals, are always exposed to the idea of <em>exponential growth</em>, the infamous hockey-stick projection. </p> <p>Especially <a class="wikilink" href="/deep_tech/">deep tech</a> enterprises are not prone to those growth rates, but VC need few exponentially fast companies to justify the losses incurred in the other projects. </p> <p><a class="wikilink" href="/bootstrapping_a_company/">Bootstrapping a company</a>, for example, is probable a path that will not lead to exponential growth, but to <a class="wikilink" href="/organic_growth/">organic growth</a>. It will be a matter of aligning the expectations of the entrepreneur with the possibilities available around them. </p> <p>And although the growth may not be exponential, <a class="wikilink" href="/all_companies_must_grow/">all companies must grow</a>. A company that does not grow, is lagging behind inflation, and especially behind in opportunity costs.</p>