Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2010

Not only did their sales curve look like a textbook case of a VC-friendly hockey stick, but their Lessons Learned funding presentation was an eye-opener.). The Internet has created a series of new and innovative business models. For its first year IMVU had funded itself with money from friends and family. The Web and Startups.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 20, 2011

When I ran Opsware, we had the non-linear quarter problem also known affectionately as the hockey stick. The hockey stick refers to the shape of the revenue graph over the course of a quarter. Our hockey stick was so bad that one quarter, we booked 90% of our new bookings on the last day of the quarter.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 9, 2020

Products and services will be considered as related by the authorities if they are: Used together – hockey sticks and ice skates; Sold together – underwear and socks; Made with similar materials or ingredients – butter and cheese. internet search engines. domain name registries on the internet. yellow pages.

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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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Agile VC

JANUARY 27, 2012

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. What if the new paradigm is simply that software and internet startups accelerate much faster than before, but terminal velocity so to speak remains the same? January 27, 2012.

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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? Most important slide: valuation Promising results Key questions: can you monetize that traffic? (or or drive traffic to that profitable destination?) do you know why youve achieved those results?

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

Most internet opportunities were of modest scale – often worth pursuing – but not usually worth taking public. Because most internet business concepts were not capable of productively employing tens of millions of dollars of venture capital does not mean they were bad ideas." In other words, good ideas were oversold as big ideas.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 22, 2009

  As a VC, you couldn't believe them, but it didn't stop every entrepreneur from using the hockey stick projections in their business plans.  " He then went on to wire his house with heat sensing cameras so that his and his girlfriend's every move would be streamed live over the Internet." 

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Maybe you have a quick question about a pitch, you can surely shoot that over to me, and that’s what’s great about the internet today. If you’re sure … Peter I think you need to mute yourself again. You want to explain those inflection points.

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