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10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups

Both Sides of the Table

Where Stealth is Good – There’s a lot of discussions on the web about whether startups should be stealthy before they launch or not. My general rule is that it’s good to be stealth in the early days while you’re building your product and testing your market. Most people totally advise against stealth.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Before starting Bizstim Software Solutions I was a college professor and I had a tutoring company as a side hustle. While operating a tutoring business I was able to identify a demand for niche business software. 18 months and 2000 hours later I finished coding the software and released it. 11- Out of necessity.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

What are “Reg D” filings with the SEC and why does this make it harder to stay in stealth mode? I asked some of the participating VCs, and they told me their attorneys had figured out a way to keep their stealth-mode companies stealthy.Yes, this strategy is not for every company. Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000.

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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

And thus it is with the majority of open source software: Open source software is free if your time is worth nothing. I’m bracing my inbox for emails from disgruntled Gimp users explaining how charging for software is bad, commercial software is evil, and my mother dresses me funny. But I don’t buy it.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

Marc Andreessen: So the computer industry started in 1950 and basically ran for 50 years with the same model, which was a model where all of the new computers, all the new technology, all the new software started out being sold for the highest prices to the biggest organizations. Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments.