Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 11, 2014
“Growth hacking perpetuates this myth that you can magically achieve hockey-stick growth by using short-term “hacks.” “ I have always encouraged teams to think about growth as daily blocking-and-tackling rather than a dark art. For starters it brings a mindset to startups that not all of them have innately.
Version One Ventures
OCTOBER 31, 2016
As an investor and former founder, I know that scalable growth (and the pretty hockey stick graph) is the holy grail for every startup. As part of our fireside chat, Andrew and I discussed some of the most important growth strategies for startups. Then, the startup needs to get strong product-market fit.
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The Next Web
APRIL 22, 2016
With the advent and proliferation of “growth hacking”, many products are launching with hopes of leveraging data, A/B tests, and viral loops to manufacture a hockey stick growth curve. Instead, it looks more like this in the early days/months/years: Startups take off because the founders make them take off.
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?
thebarefootvc
DECEMBER 16, 2011
Startups such as Shopkick offered real time deals when users were in stores and Shopsavvy and similar mobile price comparison tools from Amazon and Google empowered consumers to find the best deals. The viral nature of social media no doubt aided this growth, as did improvements in the online shopping experience.
Agile VC
JANUARY 27, 2012
AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Something has clearly changed within the last 5-6 years in terms of the speed with which monster startups are created in the software and internet space. Multi-billion dollar valuations for late stage startups like Dropbox, et al. Are Google-Scale Outcomes More Frequent?
Hippoland
AUGUST 8, 2018
One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. Forget about traction and hockey stick growth. 2) B2B startups have high margins. don’t think about at all. Marketing first. Product second.
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