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		<title>Happy 4th Birthday, Motive Force!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today marks 4 years since Motive Force LLC was officially founded. I&#8217;m proud of my baby growing up! There are various stats about survival-rates for nascent companies, but in general they say that about 50% die off in the first year, and then 50% of the remaining companies die each year after. If those stats [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today marks 4 years since <a href="http://motiveforcellc.com">Motive Force LLC</a> was officially founded.  I&#8217;m proud of my baby growing up!  There are various stats about survival-rates for nascent companies, but in general they say that about 50% die off in the first year, and then 50% of the remaining companies die each year after.  If those stats are true, that puts Motive Force at about the 94th percentile so far.  Way-to-go, kiddo!</p>
<p>It&#8217;s been a blast running it all this time, and by any measure they&#8217;ve certainly been four of the most eventful years of my life.<br />
<div id="attachment_149" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://www.seancolombo.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/pageviews_and_uniques_07_thru_091.png"><img src="http://www.seancolombo.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/pageviews_and_uniques_07_thru_091-150x150.png" alt="LyricWiki&#039;s last year and a half of growth" title="pageviews_and_uniques_07_thru_09" width="150" height="150" class="size-thumbnail wp-image-149" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">LyricWiki's last year and a half of growth*<br />(click thumbnail for large pic)</p></div>
<p>Although it has released numerous sites and products, Motive Force&#8217;s most visible success so far has been  <a href="http://lyricwiki.org">LyricWiki</a>.  I felt this would be an appropriate time to share a graph of some of the traffic growth since I don&#8217;t often get a chance to do so &#8211; and we all like to show how our progeny have progressed!</p>
<p><a href="http://lyricwiki.org/Sufjan_Stevens:Happy_Birthday">Happy Birthday</a> Motive Force!</p>
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<p>* <small>For the curious and/or mathematically inclined: an exponential trend-line has a slightly better R-squared value than a linear trend line for the current data (0.89 versus 0.86).  This implies that it&#8217;s likely that the growth is exponential, but it isn&#8217;t quite enough data to be sure in my unprofessional opinion.</small></p>
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