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Airbnb Reflections

Reid Hoffman

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. it took years for Airbnb’s metrics to really start accelerating.

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8 Common Business Plan Mistakes

Up and Running

So make sure you’re ready to wow your prospective investors with your knowledge and leadership skills, and don’t expect your business idea—or the business plan you explain it in—to do the work for you. Hockey stick” shaped growth projections. Investors invest in people, and their businesses, not ideas.

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Twitter Link Roundup #308 – Terrific Reads for Small Business, Entrepreneurs, Marketers, and Designers!

crowdSPRING Blog

We regularly share our favorite posts on entrepreneurship, small business, marketing, logo design , web design , startups, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Good insight … Navigating The Make-Or-Break Years As You Create Hockey Stick Growth [link]. – [link].

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Twitter Link Roundup #308 – Terrific Reads for Small Business, Entrepreneurs, Marketers, and Designers!

crowdSPRING Blog

We regularly share our favorite posts on entrepreneurship, small business, marketing, logo design , web design , startups, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Good insight … Navigating The Make-Or-Break Years As You Create Hockey Stick Growth [link]. – [link].

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

2011 was finally the year when the media spotlight shone on how under-represented women are in almost all power structures in business, government, technology and media – and how crucial it is that we leverage the leadership skill set that they bring to the table to tackle the problems facing the world today.

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From humble beginnings to market leadership: UiPath rings the NYSE bell!

Cracking the Code

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.

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Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

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.