The new hype cycle

Some ventures, such as Google, expand so fast that they outrace any backlash; some, like Open Table, spend years out of favor before coming good; and some, such as Linden Lab's Second Life, will almost certainly never live up the initial hype. So, for our Silicon Valley hype graph, we've plotted the three trajectories of a hot startup and, completely subjectively, plotted on it some of the names we follow. Additions, subtractions, pleas, below in the comments.

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