Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2018

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. Unfortunately, the market is changing so fast these days that any upward climb can level off quickly, as the core business growth begins to stall.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Mobile advertising became more targeted and user friendly by adapting to the small screen — but advertisers are slow to adopt , with much upside still to come. Discovery, in contrast to search, took center stage as Pinterest displayed hockey stick growth (and raised VC money near a $200M valuation in late 2011).

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. Unfortunately, the market is changing so fast these days that any upward climb can level off quickly, as the core business growth begins to stall.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

This results in a much slower adoption curve – the classic hockey stick. TiVo had plenty of other battles to fight: competition, issues with channel partners, patent battles, as well as the movie studios, cable companies, broadcast networks and advertisers who all wanted TiVo dead. New Market Revenue Curve.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 7, 2010

As consumer technology companies begin to get off the ground and make forecasts, there is the inevitable user adoption hockey stick that rockets the local user count to ridiculous heights with no market budget but significant “viral effects&# and “social media.&# com) and Chicago (Do312.com), In addition to the Do512.com

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 21, 2010

Since we often invest before the big “hockey stick” traction that bigger VCs wait for, a lot of times the company is still trying to tweak exactly what service or application will take off in a given market. At First Round , I often hear the term “product-market” fit.

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The Startup Toolkit

DECEMBER 14, 2011

The advertising value of blogging is essentially nil. Your traffic graph isn’t going to spike or hockey-stick, and that doesn’t matter one bit if you’re talking to the right people. Don’t obsess — publish posts on the 2nd draft. Blogging makes money, sort of, eventually.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

A startup in a New Market (enabling customers to do something they never could before,) might be unprofitable for 5 or more years, (hopefully with the traditional hockey stick revenue curve,) while one in an Existing Market might be generating cash in 12-18 months. Prodigy spent $50 million on advertising and in-store displays.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2014

You should never have a landing page from any sort of paid advertising that doesn’t have great calls-to-action. I’ve had friends who’ve told me, “Why are you advertising on tennis websites?” ” We’re not advertising on tennis websites. Hopefully, all your advertising cost are variable.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 31, 2016

Selling it recently to Simplilearn was a thrill, we are all so excited for the hockey stick growth that we expect MM to have now. I'd decided early on that I would not have any advertising on the blog, in fact I would never ask people to hire me as a consultant or speaker or anything else. The Story Of Three Early Choices.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

We actually advertise on Facebook, and it works really well. Are you doing advertising? If you wanted to advertise that you’re selling something, or you’re looking for a job, you want to put a job posting up there. That’s when they started to pull away the 14-34 year olds from Myspace. What does that look like?

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