Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. Use social media for early marketing.

Burn Rate 258

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Management Salary 258

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. Use social media for early marketing.

Burn Rate 310

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Salary Angel Investor 310

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. Use social media for early marketing.

Burn Rate 223

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Startup Salary 223

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Your goal is that magical break even point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. Use social media for early marketing.

Burn Rate 262

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Entrepreneur Salary 262

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. Use social media for early marketing.

Burn Rate 120

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Startup Salary 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I discovered my product was a “nice to have,” not a “must have,” and we shut the company down a year a later. However, when I looked into the detail, most of them did not have even early adaptors and the problem wasn’t “chasm crossing,” it was that almost nobody wanted their products. Maysee now enjoys hockey stick revenue growth.

Japan 296

Japan Customer Development Developer Customer 296

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? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal. What’s going on?

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167