Berkonomics

MARCH 21, 2019

Careful about “hockey stick” forecasts. Email readers, continue here…] Most VC’s look for a 10x opportunity – that is – a ten times increase in the valuation from investment to liquidity event. And note that projections showing “unbelievable” rapid growth are always suspect. How much money can you get? .

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

VC companies need hockey stick growth. It’s possible to wake up everyday, as the founder of a bootstrapped startup, and manually email possible customers one-by-one, and actually acquire enough new customers over the course of a few months to reach your goals. As a bootstrapper you are playing by a different set of growth rules.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The new device could hold names, email addresses, phone and fax numbers and incoming and outgoing messages. While the device was actually was doing email, people understood it as “the pager that you could respond with.” Or they could have said, “corporate email now seamlessly forwarded from your company’s network to your pocket.”

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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. For example, I’ve talked a few times about how IMVU raised its first venture round with monthly revenues of around $10,000.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Most important slide: hockey stick Micro-scale results Key questions: who is the customer, and how do you know? Get in touch: Twitter Email Facebook Linkedin Additional resources Startup LessonsLearned, All Seasons : Every post from the blog, in one 600+ page PDF. or drive traffic to that profitable destination?)

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

You get more traffic, more conversions, more money – in an endless hockey stick shaped cycle. Email – Goal is conversions. Social, Email, SEO, etc can all play into a conversion but it becomes a question of attribution which can vary vastly depending on the company. Of course, it’s not so simple.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

VC companies need hockey stick growth. It’s possible to wake up everyday, as the founder of a bootstrapped startup, and manually email possible customers one-by-one, and actually acquire enough new customers over the course of a few months to reach your goals. As a bootstrapper you are playing by a different set of growth rules.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 7, 2010

As consumer technology companies begin to get off the ground and make forecasts, there is the inevitable user adoption hockey stick that rockets the local user count to ridiculous heights with no market budget but significant “viral effects&# and “social media.&# In addition to the Do512.com

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The Startup Toolkit

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Your traffic graph isn’t going to spike or hockey-stick, and that doesn’t matter one bit if you’re talking to the right people. I get occasional emails from founders, which is fun and has led to some cool collaboration opportunities.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Forget about traction and hockey stick growth. Or second time founders focus on lucrative verticals that pay more per eyeball or focus on ad formats that pay more (such as email newsletter sponsorships). Unit economics are something I’ve found most entrepreneurs (and investors!) don’t think about at all.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Forget about traction and hockey stick growth. Or second time founders focus on lucrative verticals that pay more per eyeball or focus on ad formats that pay more (such as email newsletter sponsorships). Unit economics are something I’ve found most entrepreneurs (and investors!) don’t think about at all.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 26, 2023

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Reply jordancooper , on November 12, 2009 at 8:08 am Said: Steve, sorry to do this in your comment forum, but I don’t see an email or contact. You already have the hockey stick and exponential growth. Brendan McManus said: “Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch [link] #startup #advice [.] Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

A startup in a New Market (enabling customers to do something they never could before,) might be unprofitable for 5 or more years, (hopefully with the traditional hockey stick revenue curve,) while one in an Existing Market might be generating cash in 12-18 months. Even more serious, startups can have radically different cash needs.

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Professor VC

AUGUST 26, 2011

The objections range from "its hard", "nobody believes them" to "all hockey sticks look alike". Related to this, I got an email from an entrepreneur this week interested in meeting with me. Unfortunately, I dont have time to take all of these requests, but always try and help where I can so offered to respond by email.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2014

One of the biggest mistakes people do is they are trying to build things very quickly and as you put together forms, integrate newsletters, and email marketing tools, integrate shopping carts, and different eCommerce tools, oftentimes people don’t put the proper tracking in place. If we increase our-. Caroline: Sorry, to interrupt you.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 10, 2020

Hockey-stick growth requires being ahead of, not in line with, conventional wisdom: The most impactful ideas won’t be found in “best practices.” Oh, and email marketing, that seems to keep surviving the test of time.” Then, we can spend time pushing our thinking toward bold new ideas. Mailchimp’s Willie Tran agrees.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 31, 2016

Selling it recently to Simplilearn was a thrill, we are all so excited for the hockey stick growth that we expect MM to have now. But above and beyond all else, my absolute favourite benefit is the stories strangers tell me when I see them after my keynotes around the world, or in the emails they send to me. No response needed.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

I do want to remind everybody that we will send an email after this with links to some of the articles that I mentioned, to help you with writing a one-page business plan, and how to segment out your target market, the TAM, SAM and SOM. If you’re sure … Peter I think you need to mute yourself again.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2017

Though I would say based on the numbers that I see it’s not like a hockey stick growth, but the growth in people’s desire to listen to the content and people’s desire to create terrific podcast content has really never been higher. So it’s good times for podcasting.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

Optimizing email, social, etc., Ryan Thomas: “Optimizing for Email Signups”. Email capture can sometimes work against your primary goals Ex. The reality is that it’s hockey stick growth—you have to spend tons of money before you see any results (and then the results are exponential). is also optimization.

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