Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The book has been shepherded and edited by a great Japanese VC at Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Venture Capital, Takashi Tsutsumi, with help from Masato Iino. Maysee now enjoys hockey stick revenue growth. Some have actually established new startups with tested business model hypotheses under their belt.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. We detail below the major categories of VC: VENTURE CAPITAL TYPOLOGY. FLEXIBLE VC VS. OTHER VENTURE CAPITAL MODELS.

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Up and Running

MARCH 14, 2018

Your revenue or business model. If your financial chart shows “hockey-stick growth,” be sure to explain what happens to cause those inflection points. Be realistic about who you’re building your product for and break out your market into TAM, SAM, and SOM. Investors tend to care about this slide the most.

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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.). Lets take venture capital and grow this thing into a real business.”.

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Professor VC

AUGUST 26, 2011

Everyone seems to know someone who has raised huge amounts of venture capital without ever putting together even back of the envelope projections. The objections range from "its hard", "nobody believes them" to "all hockey sticks look alike". Is the model consistent with the business plan? Steve Bennet.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

I was able to work with him, and he did some due diligence on my financials, because we had a similar business model, and I was able to show this is a comparable for our exit strategy. Pitching a Business entrepreneur funding pitching startup venture capital webinar' You want to explain those inflection points.

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