Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 13, 2012
The Japanese edition of The Startup Owner’s Manual hit the bookstores in Japan this week. Back in 1990’s, I was working for one of the leading sogo shohsa (trading company) in Japan, building data communications startups. The result: great success of my third startup, a load balancing technology for web servers back in the late 1990’s.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Adding free users or customers to increase valuation makes sense for a venture-backed startup looking to go public, but will kill bootstrapping. Investors have spread the word that you can’t get “hockey-stick” growth without a large cash infusion. You can have fun without spending big money. Marty Zwilling
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Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 18, 2020
Adding free users or customers to increase valuation makes sense for a venture-backed startup looking to go public, but will kill bootstrapping. Investors have spread the word that you can’t get “hockey-stick” growth without a large cash infusion. You can have fun without spending big money. Marty Zwilling.
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 15, 2010
For a little while, the team can resort to the last defense of entrepreneurs in trouble: the promised hockey-stick. One thing that is often overlooked about the hockey-stick growth shape: its most distinctive characteristic is the long, flat part. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue?
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 28, 2008
Ill exclude those non- lean startups who basically exist for the purpose of raising bigger and bigger sums of money. Most important slide: hockey stick Micro-scale results Key questions: who is the customer, and how do you know? How does a lean start-up find the all-star team worthy of pitching? Expo SF (May.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 6, 2016
Adding free users or customers to increase valuation makes sense for a venture-backed startup looking to go public, but will kill bootstrapping. Investors have spread the word that you can’t get “hockey-stick” growth without a large cash infusion. You can have fun without spending big money.
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