Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

With the unlimited access to “how-to” videos and detailed instructions on the Internet, you shouldn’t need to hire experts for most things. Use your networking to get advice, but all jobs can be do-it-yourself. Investors have spread the word that you can’t get “hockey-stick” growth without a large cash infusion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2020

With the unlimited access to “how-to” videos and detailed instructions on the Internet, you shouldn’t need to hire experts for most things. Use your networking to get advice, but all jobs can be do-it-yourself. Investors have spread the word that you can’t get “hockey-stick” growth without a large cash infusion.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The other reason I could decide so quickly is that I really know networks and marketplaces. For a long time, when you looked at the graph, it was almost like a classic exponential “hockey stick” curve, where it’s flat for a long time, then hits the bend and takes off. Now here’s an interesting coda to that story.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2016

With the unlimited access to “how-to” videos and detailed instructions on the Internet, you shouldn’t need to hire experts for most things. Use your networking to get advice, but all jobs can be do-it-yourself. Investors have spread the word that you can’t get “hockey-stick” growth without a large cash infusion.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

That year the two founders decided to get serious about being a company, and hired a CEO. First, wireless voice networks – cell phone networks – had started to emerge. These new cellular phone networks were built around two-way circuit switched technology designed to move voice calls without interruption.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Then you can go and join networking groups, depending on what town or city, or country you live in. When I was at a pharmaceutical company before I became an entrepreneur, when I first got hired, I thought, okay I was in the IT department. Now entrepreneurship is the sexiest word on the planet, so a lot of people have startup weekends.

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