Agile Business Model Customer Development Hockey Stick 
Steve Blank
JANUARY 4, 2010
Now with customers and early revenue, it was out raising its first round of venture money. Not only did their sales curve look like a textbook case of a VC-friendly hockey stick, but their Lessons Learned funding presentation was an eye-opener.). The Internet has created a series of new and innovative business models.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) People often forget the most important part of the hockey stick: the long flat part.
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