Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

For example, Maysee , a business card cloud services startup, got out of the building and then developed an MVP, avoiding costly UI development that customers in fact found no need for. Maysee now enjoys hockey stick revenue growth.

Japan 292

Japan Customer Development Developer Customer 292

Up and Running

OCTOBER 8, 2014

My partner, James Shields , is an avid unicyclist. More than that, he’s an avid unicycle hockey player. When you play unicycle hockey, you typically use a unicycle, an ice-hockey stick and a tennis ball. James Shields uses an ice hockey stick during a serious unicycle hockey competition.

Hockey Stick 144

Hockey Stick South Africa Africa Cambodia 144

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

We pitch to potential partners, vendors, publishers, conferences, employees, and even lawyers. Most important slide: hockey stick Micro-scale results Key questions: who is the customer, and how do you know? If you still cant do it, move one level down the hierarchy and see if you can make that story stick.

San Francisco 128

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 128

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

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). The viral nature of social media no doubt aided this growth, as did improvements in the online shopping experience.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

Agile VC

JANUARY 27, 2012

As a result of a convergence of many factors (lean startup methodology, broadband & smartphone penetration, social web, cloud computing, etc), breakout startups are clearly getting scale faster than they used to. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. Previous Entries. Avatars by Sterling Adventures.

Hockey Stick 113

Hockey Stick Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate 113

Cracking the Code

APRIL 21, 2021

Founded in Bucharest, and now headquartered now in New York City, UiPath rang the bell this morning at the NYSE, becoming the largest public cloud company born in Europe. After going $0 to $1mm in their first 10 years, UiPath has now hockey-sticked to over $600mm in revenue in 2020, and the automation market is still in early innings.

Leadership 62

Leadership Hockey Stick North America Europe 62

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

It was really great because when I got funded I was able to invite my investors in, I was able to invite my board members in to look at my business plan, to look at my pitch, to make comments on my financials, and because it’s in the cloud, you can track and plan your business from anywhere. That’s really the purpose of the pitch.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Exit Strategy 60