eh, the problems with looking at growth percentage is that the starting number? matters. I mean, a company that goes from $10,000 in year one to $14,000 the next year; sure, that's a lot of /growth/ but it's still years away from being self-supporting or likely to generate interest.

I know this because I spent... years in that zone. 40% year over year growth is easy when your revenue is that low, and is no indication that growth will continue once the company starts earning more revenue than the company would make if it just contracted out the engineering team to a profitable company.