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mellosouls
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How to Escape the Startup Trough of Sorrow
(Very) OT: I would hazard a guess the striking phrase in the title originates (indirectly if not intentionally by the author) from "Slough of Despond" in
The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough_of_Despond
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/131
Vagantem
on Sept 16, 2023
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And to add on to this, here is where I got the image in the blog post :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=173261
WJW
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Oh I thought it was referencing the SaaS "ramp of death" from
https://baremetrics.com/blog/long-slow-saas-ramp-of-death
. Shows how much interpretations can change based on what you've already heard of I guess. :)
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