The Next Web

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

We asked these companies to tell us the data backed story on how key decisions were made, which growth hacks led to the much loved hockey stick curve, and how this impacted their company. … This story continues at The Next Web.

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The Next Web

APRIL 22, 2016

With the advent and proliferation of “growth hacking”, many products are launching with hopes of leveraging data, A/B tests, and viral loops to manufacture a hockey stick growth curve. Once the engine was going, it would keep going, but there was… This story continues at The Next Web.

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2014

So if your numbers are here, going up in a hockey stick—and let’s just say this is your hockey stick—and your marketing expenses go up, and how do I do? When reading business plans, we can’t afford to believe that you’re this next huge breakthrough.

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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. Now that Im in a web based company Im finding a difficult match the framework, culturally. Perhaps thats a fallacy?

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

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). The viral nature of social media no doubt aided this growth, as did improvements in the online shopping experience.

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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 Web and Startups. Herein lies the confusion; not every business on the web can scale big. The Internet has created a series of new and innovative business models.

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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 Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Most important slide: hockey stick Micro-scale results Key questions: who is the customer, and how do you know? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, or drive traffic to that profitable destination?) what is the potential market size?

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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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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.  The post Sundance and a movie about a web pioneer you may have never heard of appeared first on BeyondVC.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

You get more traffic, more conversions, more money – in an endless hockey stick shaped cycle. Web loading concerns. Therefore, the more you test and improve your site, the higher it should appear in the rankings. Of course, it’s not so simple. What they worried about, generally, were these four things : Content cloaking.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 27, 2012

As a result of a convergence of many factors (lean startup methodology, broadband & smartphone penetration, social web, cloud computing, etc), breakout startups are clearly getting scale faster than they used to. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Meet the Industry Leaders I would like to invite you to an exclusive opportunity to meet, via web conference, the CEOs of two of the fastest-growing and innovative health-care IT companies in the country. HIT is comprised of BIG sectors: -- Practice Management Systems (PMS) - a $2.9

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

You already have the hockey stick and exponential growth. Reply A dozen of the best start-up pitches on the Web | JonBischke.com , on November 13, 2009 at 10:05 pm Said: [.] The rest is just fluff. Reply Rishi , on November 12, 2009 at 6:35 pm Said: Thanks for sharing those slides.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

With that implicit assumption, startups hire a VP of Sales with a great rolodex and call on established mainstream companies while marketing creates a brand and buzz to create demand and drive it into the sales channel (web, direct salesforce, etc.) They never understood Market Type.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2014

When you look at SaaS metrics, keeping your CAC low and increasing your ARPU is going to be the fastest way to the hockey stick that SaaS companies are trying to achieve. Really understand what you are projecting for your ARPA and your ARPU. If we increase our-. Caroline: Sorry, to interrupt you.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 31, 2016

An off-topic post this week, to celebrate this incredible outpost you've helped create on the web, Occam's Razor. My very first post, audaciously, was titled Traditional Web Analytics is Dead (05/15/06). The 10 / 90 Rule for Magnificent Web Analytics Success. This month my beloved blog is ten years old.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 10, 2020

Hockey-stick growth requires being ahead of, not in line with, conventional wisdom: The most impactful ideas won’t be found in “best practices.” You can become the best web analyst,” explained Simo Ahava , “but that’s really insignificant when you consider that analytics today is cross-disciplinary. Simo Ahava.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2017

Though I would say based on the numbers that I see it’s not like a hockey stick growth, but the growth in people’s desire to listen to the content and people’s desire to create terrific podcast content has really never been higher. So it’s good times for podcasting.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

Why are we always focusing on the web? 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). Product and marketing teams should be involved. Optimizing email, social, etc., is also optimization.

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