Growthink Blog

AUGUST 24, 2016

And as an investor, I know that the only way to earn outsized profits is to identify businesses early , before they go through their "Hockey Stick" growth phase, and most of these kinds of companies are to be found in fast growth industries like those listed above.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

They and us will talk about which companies and technologies are best positioned to profit from huge government stimulus dollars being thrown at the sector, how "cloud computing" applications are beginning to see real adoption rates, and what has been driving the robust financing and acquisition activity in the sector.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

For tax and finance professionals, managing spikes in demand – and making sure that seasonal business cash flow remains stable – is a year-round exercise. In the accounting business, your revenue chart basically looks like a hockey stick,” says Ernie Mayhorn, owner of Capital Tax Solutions in Carson City, Nev.,

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The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 11, 2010

Each time a new set of docs get released, I don’t cringe because it means I then have to remove the hockey stick from my revenue projections. I welcome these and future standardized seed funding docs because they provide entrepreneurs with the chance to take a look at financing terms.

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The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 11, 2010

Each time a new set of docs get released, I don’t cringe because it means I then have to remove the hockey stick from my revenue projections. I welcome these and future standardized seed funding docs because they provide entrepreneurs with the chance to take a look financing terms.

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Professor VC

AUGUST 26, 2011

The objections range from "its hard", "nobody believes them" to "all hockey sticks look alike". To that last one, there is certainly some truth as the standard time vs. revenue chart in most business plans looks like this: Im not teaching Entrepreneurial Finance this semester for the first time since Fall 2007. Steve Bennet.

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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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Cracking the Code

APRIL 21, 2021

After going $0 to $1mm in their first 10 years, UiPath has now hockey-sticked to over $600mm in revenue in 2020, and the automation market is still in early innings. When we got to know Daniel in late 2016, we saw someone who was thinking differently.

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David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use. There’s less selling the big dream, pie in the sky, hockey stick forever. Kim Folson, Co-Founder, Founders First Capital, observed, “RBI financing is more intimate than traditional equity.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 21, 2010

You can’t make return unless you take risk—as a finance guy, I understand that. But sometimes, the finance guy in me sees opportunities that seem to present way more risk—potentially unnecessary risk—than it would seem the investment has relative to some near term point where that could go away. Don’t get me wrong.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

This is the part that people hate the most, unless you’re a finance geek. That’s where, those are a few places that you can get started so hopefully that helps. Moving into your financial projections. Most people do not like putting their financials together because they think, “Where do I pull these numbers from?”

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

Talk to your finance people: What performance indicators get attention? 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). How to make the case internally: Quantitative or qualitative research from your customers (e.g. Tell Don’t Sell.

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