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The Next Bubble – Don’t Get Fooled Again

Steve Blank

Dr Jean-Paul Rodrigue , in the Department of Global Studies & Geography at Hofstra University, observed that bubbles have four phases; stealth, awareness, mania and blow-off. In the stealth phase , prescient angel investors and Venture Capitalists (VCs) start investing in an industry or market segment that others have not yet found.

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How to get beta signups for your startup in 9 steps

thenextweb.com

Social Media. 16th September 2011 by Harrison Weber. 3 Don’t go too stealth. Unless you have tons of funding (see Kohort ), be careful about going too “stealth.” Sources: The Social Network Screenshot. Join TNW Social Media on: Follow @tnwsocialmedia. All Stories. Top Stories.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice.

www.humbledmba.com

February 15, 2011. Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. As in stop being in stealth mode. Let me a share a few reasons why you dont need to be in stealth mode: 1.) Perhaps the biggest reason not to be in stealth is that youre robbing yourself of great feedback. humbledMBA. « Back to posts.

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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

mashable.com

Since getting started in October, the board has already invested work in three startups (all in stealth mode): whoisgreen.com , burringo.com and doitinperson.com. May 3, 2011 18:24:08 Reply 0 Flag this comment LeoWid Follow Sarah, this is an interesting one. Do you think it might lead to startups losing the grip on their own idea?

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HOW TO: Sign Up Users Even Before You Launch Your Startup

mashable.com

In April, “stealthsocial media startup Kohort announced its upcoming launch. It may not matter to you what Kohort is or isn’t, nor whether stealth is good or bad. Kohort said the site was “stealth&# to play up the sense of mystery around its brand and to generate interest. Have an account? quiet interesting.

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Our Investment in Cloze ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The company has been in stealth mode for the last couple months but I wanted to take this opportunity to talk about NextView’s investment in the company and our enthusiasm to be working with co-founders Dan Foody and Alex Cote. Cloze has the opportunity to prevent lags like this between their website and their mobile app. .

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DLD 2011: Probably the best organized conference in Europe

VC Cafe

Last week I had the pleasure to attend the DLD 2011 (Digital Life Design) conference in Munich, which was co-hosted by Dr Yossi Vardi and Burda Media, a large German media company (for those who don’t know). young entrepreneurs now develop for mobile first , not the desktop. Overall, DLD 2011 was a great conference.

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