That number represents Doba’s three year revenue growth percentage from 2003 to 2006. 3,206% It’s a big number. Actually, in terms of business growth, it’s a REALLY big number. What that means is that Doba has undergone extreme (one might even call it ridiculous) growth in the past 3 years.

This week Doba and I were featured in an article in Connect Magazine called The Dilemma of Growth.

The article also talked about fellow Utah entrepreneurs Lovesac (Shawn Nelson) and Omniture (Josh James) . Besides that it talks about Doba, you should read the article as is contains some hard learned lessons about managing growth. I’ve never met Shawn and Josh, but I ought to get together with them sometime to share stories about managing (and probably more often than not, mismanaging) growth.

The thing about growth is this: they don’t reference it as growing pains for nothing. And fundamentally, it’s Doba’s employees and customers that most often deal with these pains. Sure trying to lead a company through such extreme growth is difficult. But I’d wager that working for a company with this type of growth, or purchasing products from a company with this kind of growth, is were the true growing pains are.

So to Doba’s employees and customers: I’ve also heard it said that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Well, last I checked, Doba isn’t dead from these growing pains, so here’s to a stronger company for our employees and stronger products for our customers!! Thank you for your extremely hard work and dedication. And thank you for your business. Without both, we wouldn’t have any growth to worry about.