Agile Hockey Stick Product Development 
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 15, 2010
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. Usually, they are delivering only a fraction of the revenue they promised.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule.
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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: lessons learned Working product Key questions: what does the product do? . Most important slide: valuation Promising results Key questions: can you monetize that traffic? (or Expo SF (May.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Market Type also affects the market size as well as how you launch the product into the market.
ConversionXL
APRIL 3, 2019
Optimization is by nature agile: CRO yields new data for the team to prove that whatever the organization did was good or bad. It’s a wave—the agile Tsunami. 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). You can’t see it.)
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