Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. Use social media for early marketing. Social media is not rocket science. If your runway is less than a year, it’s time to either begin looking for a new cash infusion or defining and implementing a Plan B to assure survival.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2020

It’s equally easy to go online and incorporate your new entity, register some intellectual property and have some fun with social media for marketing and interacting with customers. Use multiple social-media channels, blogging, email and voicemail to build the same image and responsiveness as larger competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

In fact, for startups, it usually makes sense to announce your solution on social media and blogs even before you have built the first one. All investors want to see real evidence that the dogs will eat the dogfood before they give any credibility to your hockey-stick projection curves.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

In essence Muhammad thinks the “growth hacking” is a charlatan term for online marketing that consists of a bunch of everyday tasks that all online businesses should be doing: SEO, SEM, Content Marketing, Social Media, Referral Marketing, etc. “How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. You suddenly need to enhance your in-house social media efforts with a public relations firm. An expanding customer base demands better support.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Forecasts might also predict or estimate other business numbers such as web traffic, conversion rates, or social media engagements. Why do entrepreneurs sometimes resort to the “hockey stick forecast,” especially when they pitch to investors? The turn upward is like the bend in the hockey stick.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 8, 2014

When you play unicycle hockey, you typically use a unicycle, an ice-hockey stick and a tennis ball. To cater to a unicycle hockey player’s needs, Unicycle.com, headquartered in the UK, has decided to stock ice-hockey sticks. James Shields uses an ice hockey stick during a serious unicycle hockey competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. You suddenly need to enhance your in-house social media efforts with a public relations firm. An expanding customer base demands better support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2016

It’s equally easy to go online and incorporate your new entity, register some intellectual property and have some fun with social media for marketing and interacting with customers. Use multiple social-media channels, blogging, email and voicemail to build the same image and responsiveness as larger competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2018

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. You suddenly need to enhance your in-house social media efforts with a public relations firm. An expanding customer base demands better support.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

The viral nature of social media no doubt aided this growth, as did improvements in the online shopping experience. Discovery, in contrast to search, took center stage as Pinterest displayed hockey stick growth (and raised VC money near a $200M valuation in late 2011). And Beyond….

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

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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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

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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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. You suddenly need to enhance your in-house social media efforts with a public relations firm. An expanding customer base demands better support.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 7, 2010

As consumer technology companies begin to get off the ground and make forecasts, there is the inevitable user adoption hockey stick that rockets the local user count to ridiculous heights with no market budget but significant “viral effects&# and “social media.&#

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

She is regularly invited to participate as a judge for business plan competitions, as well as speak on topics including entrepreneurship, angel investing, social media, and authentic self promotion. I’m also very available on Twitter and social media. If you’re sure … Peter I think you need to mute yourself again.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 31, 2016

It used to be much bigger, but like on other blogs the comments have been impacted by social media's evolution. Selling it recently to Simplilearn was a thrill, we are all so excited for the hockey stick growth that we expect MM to have now. But this is well beyond my wildest imagination.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2017

It came out right after blogging, it was kind of hot and then social media just killed it because everybody got into that, and now everybody wants to be a podcaster. Rob Greenlee: It’s great to be here, Jon. Thanks for the invite. John Jantsch: So podcasting is huge now. I always laugh. What do you suppose is behind that?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

If these claims were true: Social media would be pure pleasure. 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). Dopamine mythology claims that Dopamine is the pleasure or happiness neurotransmitter.

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