KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
Now, you can understand why an online business is positioned for exponential growth rather than linear growth. There are three types of growth: cubic, linear, and exponential. You can see why the growth opportunity today is expoentital.
Difference in cubic, linear, and expontential growth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_growth#/media/File:Exponential.svg

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