Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

This whole framework breaks down when teams confront entrepreneurial situations in which theyre trying to build something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. For a little while, the team can resort to the last defense of entrepreneurs in trouble: the promised hockey-stick. Read the rest here. Read the rest here.

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Hockey Stick San Francisco Entrepreneur Lean 105

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

As a result, unfounded hockey-stick graphs and unicorn promises give way to financial fluency, realistic expectations, frank conversations about what a business can credibly achieve, and transparency. . Less established regulatory framework. . Doesn’t fit into traditional VC funds. Lower level of community familiarity.

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

This wasn’t very impressive, but we had two things going for us: A hockey stick shaped growth curve. People often forget the most important part of the hockey stick: the long flat part. Now that Im in a web based company Im finding a difficult match the framework, culturally.

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

K9 Ventures

MAY 31, 2012

A Series A investor will look at these numbers and will hope that things will continue to trend in the right direction and in the best case scenario will start to hockey stick. At this stage the numbers are not compelling, but they’re starting to emerge and are trending in the right direction.

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Hockey Stick Seed Stage Framework Early Stage 112

K9 Ventures

MAY 31, 2012

A Series A investor will look at these numbers and will hope that things will continue to trend in the right direction and in the best case scenario will start to hockey stick. At this stage the numbers are not compelling, but they’re starting to emerge and are trending in the right direction.

Hockey Stick 101

Hockey Stick Seed Stage Framework Early Stage 101

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Yet, we know very well that the most thoughtfully constructed cashflow models and hockey stick traffic predictions never come out the way we thought they would, so what's the point of making them at all? With this framework, we could continuously measure our results and test our hypothesis.

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Hockey Stick PR Framework Engineer 111

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Forget about traction and hockey stick growth. So if we use Christoph Janz’ animal framework for building a big business for types of customers you can be going after, these founders won’t be hunting elephants. Unit economics are something I’ve found most entrepreneurs (and investors!)

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Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48