Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. An expanding customer base demands better support. This S-Curve, with no correction, can quickly lead to disaster.

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Hockey Stick Guerilla Acquisition Revenue 307

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. An expanding customer base demands better support. This S-Curve, with no correction, can quickly lead to disaster.

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Hockey Stick Guerilla Acquisition Startup 265

Up and Running

OCTOBER 8, 2014

When you play unicycle hockey, you typically use a unicycle, an ice-hockey stick and a tennis ball. To cater to a unicycle hockey player’s needs, Unicycle.com, headquartered in the UK, has decided to stock ice-hockey sticks. James Shields uses an ice hockey stick during a serious unicycle hockey competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. An expanding customer base demands better support. This S-Curve, with no correction, can quickly lead to disaster.

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Hockey Stick Guerilla Acquisition Revenue 263

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2018

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. An expanding customer base demands better support. This S-Curve, with no correction, can quickly lead to disaster.

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Hockey Stick Guerilla Acquisition Revenue 130

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

In places where international diplomacy had failed, citizens around the world found their individual and collective voices to topple dictatorships and demand better lives for themselves and future generations. What comes next remains to be seen but these revolutions even empowered individuals not touched directly by the uprisings.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. An expanding customer base demands better support. This S-Curve, with no correction, can quickly lead to disaster.

Hockey Stick 120

Hockey Stick Guerilla Startup Acquisition 120