How did you forecast your future revenue/growth when you were just getting started?

In short, you can’t accurate project. Everyone’s projections look like a hockey stick up and to the right any way.

What’s more important is to show how much money you can make per user or per transaction. Some businesses (like Social networks) only make a couple of dollars per user per year, and therefore need 10m+ users before they will make any real money. And getting to that level is rare. Mint is at 4.0m users have 3 hard years.

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