VC Cafe

APRIL 28, 2021

Creators are also increasingly becoming angel investors in B2C startups, similar to celebrity investments which are also on the rise, leveraging their profile to help their portfolio stand out. We’ve made several investments in the space (some are still in stealth). Finally, a small plug to Remagine Ventures.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

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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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Gary Vaynerchuk: Personal branding master and creator of Wine Library TV, Gary Vaynerchuk is also an angel investor with an expanding portfolio of companies. Paige Craig: Adrenaline-junkie Paige Craig is a former marine and intelligence consultant who’s now a prolific angel investor and startup advisor based out of Los Angeles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2016

Angel investors typically provide early-stage rollout funding, while venture capital firms won’t be interested until you have real traction and revenue during scaling. Looking in the right place for the wrong investor won’t help you.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

Like a traditional capital fund, Kayweb Angels also has a board of directors that provides its startups with connections, guidance and help securing further funding. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2015

Every entrepreneur in stealth mode who insists on waiting for their product runs the risk of being a non-starter. As an angel investor, I often hear startups touting inflated expectations, or refusing to pivot in the face of disillusionment for their technologies. Peak of inflated expectations.

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onstartups.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

5 Reasons An Angel Investor Will Walk From Your Deal (1 month ago). Stealth Mode, Schmealth Mode: The Real Reasons Why Startups Dont Talk. But, this is rarely because they are in so-called “stealth” mode, and have some big secret to global domination that they can’t tell you. Article Index]. OnStartups.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

AwesomeBox : AwesomeBox is currently in stealth mode so I’ll respect that. The team has experience in building startups (Doug Ludlow was formerly a founder in a TechStars company) and have all worked at local Los Angeles based startups. . But at the highest level they’ve created a marketplace for “flash&# sales.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The Investment Readiness Level (IRL) The collective wisdom of venture investors (including angel investors, and venture capitalists) over the past decades has been mostly subjective. We propose we can do the same for new ventures – provide a simple and visual way to share a common understanding of startup readiness status.

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JANUARY 9, 2014

If you’re a true entrepreneur you should be worrying about the things that you can control (building a great product and keeping customers happy) than things you can’t (chasing VCs, angel investors, etc). Equally there are others that launch a poor early version of their product in true lean startup style.

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The Next Web

JULY 24, 2013

Ticckle itself has been operating in stealth mode for more than nine months already, but in June had its proper launch for the iOS app, with iOS being the target of choice not least because of Stephen Fry’s known love of Apple, and therefore the amount of traffic he drives every time he posts a Ticckle. It all sounds very light-hearted.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 6, 2019

We just launched out of stealth on March 5, so it’s great to finally be able to share what we’ve been up to! There are world famous accelerators like Capital Factory, supportive angel investors, tons of VCs (and growing), and the cost of living here is really cheap relative to the coasts.

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The Startup Lawyer

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

If the incubator doesn’t take its class “stealth,&# take a look at what the incubator does to market itself and its incubated startups. A startup that is accepted by an incubator may have an alternative funding offer from an angel investor. 6) Search For the Incubator’s PR and Marketing Efforts.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 30, 2011

The Big Picture panel: social, mobile, advertising, TV, media – with Google’s Nikesh Arora, Jim Breyer (partner at Accel and board member at Facebook), Thomas Ebeling, Reid Hoffman (founder of LinkedIn, angel investor and partner at Greylock), and Paul-Bernhard Kallen.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments. I mean, this is a big, big thing — big change for us, so we have a bunch of stealth investments — I mean, companies that haven’t talked about what they are doing yet. So that will be another enabler for a lot more of the Bring Your Own Device stuff.

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