Straight Lines And Hockey Sticks On The Road To A Cash Crunch

Norman Jacknis
5 min readNov 19, 2020

As a member of a couple of angel investor networks, a former software executive, and a teacher of a graduate course on new product/service creation, I have seen many financial projections from startup founders and new product managers in large companies.

One very common pattern for sales projections is a straight rising line (simple linear trend). Here’s one…

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Norman Jacknis

Senior Fellow, Intelligent Community Forum; Columbia University Faculty. Former Director, Cisco IBSG Public Sector & CIO Westchester County, NY