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The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth

trada.com

Skip to content Tina MVC for WordPress « Finding The Need for International Pay-Per-Click Campaigns Lijit: A Fun Tool in Your PPC Arsenal » The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth Debate: Stay Stealth? One of my favorite startup debates is about stealth mode.

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The Next Bubble – Don’t Get Fooled Again

Steve Blank

Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation. I contend that we are approaching the early part of the mania phase. In December 2010, Youku—the YouTube of China —went public, with a valuation of $4.4

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

Both Sides of the Table

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. What are “Reg D” filings with the SEC and why does this make it harder to stay in stealth mode? and who had biz reasons for wanting to remain stealth.”. - We spoke briefly about why.

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

« Launch48 last weekend Posted by Aidan, 20 th January 2010. Java is a great language for enterprises and is commonly used by many big dotcoms, banks and airlines, but its relatively slow development pace and higher barrier to entry make it inappropriate for most early-stage businesses. on February 1, 2010 Great post.

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

www.metamorphblog.com

We launched in January 2010 after burning through just $4k of cash. “Stealth Mode&# = FAIL. I surmise this is something I might not need to think about in the early stages of developing an idea but I’d like to know more about this. No one funded us. No one was gonna fund us. And I’m definitely a nobody.

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Bitesize Friday – Israeli Funding Recap

VC Cafe

V enture capital funding of Israel companies opened strongly in Q1 2010, with 55 deals completed since January 1oth 2o1o, according to Capital IQ. An undisclosed round in stealth startup ToyToyToy, which offers an online service that links websites for actual toys. Apr-8-2010. Apr-8-2010. Apr-7-2010. Apr-7-2010.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000.