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Re:Why Marketing Flywheels Work by hyko on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @04:49PM (#23316221)
Yes.

All these examples seem to stem from a fundamental misunderstanding about what a flywheel is and what it can do. They are primarily for storing and releasing energy; they don’t generate their own momentum. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel

Re:Why Marketing Flywheels Work by ryanwaggoner on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @07:39PM (#23317735)
Who cares? Seriously, it’s a metaphor that no one has issues understanding, so why the pedantic nitpicking?
Re:Why Marketing Flywheels Work by true_religion on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @08:55PM (#23318283)
I hadn’t heard of the metaphor before and understood it based on the words used.

Flywheels aren’t some kind of academics only term. If you’ve ever touched a mechanical fishing rod, you have used a fly wheel.

Re:Why Marketing Flywheels Work by karatestomp on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @08:00PM (#23317917)
I'd never heard of it and my best guess based on the name would have been some kind of way of "storing up" marketing effort to release it later, like if you had extra marketing $$$ and needed to use it before the end of the quarter but would prefer to spread it out.