Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. Use social media for early marketing.

Burn Rate 258

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Management Salary 258

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. Use social media for early marketing.

Burn Rate 310

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Salary Angel Investor 310

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. Use social media for early marketing.

Burn Rate 223

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Startup Salary 223

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Your goal is that magical break even point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. Use social media for early marketing.

Burn Rate 262

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Entrepreneur Salary 262

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. Use social media for early marketing.

Burn Rate 120

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Startup Salary 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

By then, I had become a venture capitalist at Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance and found myself talking to a lot of entrepreneurs who were proclaiming their great technology yet were struggling with little revenue, and claiming they were “crossing the chasm”. Maysee now enjoys hockey stick revenue growth.

Japan 292

Japan Customer Development Developer Customer 292

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Usually, they are delivering only a fraction of the revenue they promised. For a little while, the team can resort to the last defense of entrepreneurs in trouble: the promised hockey-stick. One thing that is often overlooked about the hockey-stick growth shape: its most distinctive characteristic is the long, flat part.

Hockey Stick 105

Hockey Stick San Francisco Entrepreneur Lean 105