Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2014

It’s popular these days for startup founders to operate in stealth mode, meaning no details about the idea or progress are shared with anyone until the big reveal and rollout. Startups in stealth mode often have a false sense of security that they can take extra time to do the job right the first time. Marty Zwilling.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 28, 2011

They explained they were building it "stealth". Interestingly, very active angel and COO at Square , Keith Rabois weighted in on Quora in response to the question: "What are some concrete reasons for *actively* stealthing a startup?" Saying you are a "stealth" company with no details certainly doesn't leave much to go on.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. I learned something: technical co-founders are a myth. Captain Recruiter. Real Advice. No Nonsense.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

cdixon.org - chris dixons blog. My posterous blog. Great tips, fully inline with “Four Steps to the Epiphany” Also reminds me of Dharmesh’s “Stealth Mode, Schmealth Mode” — [link]. link] Lean Startups Blog – rants and raves from the startup trenches. Follow @cdixon. Eric Paley.

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

Two bucket list items got ahead of my blogging so I’ve combined the final two lecture weeks of the class into this one blog post. The founder of this 1964 Silicon Valley startup was Bill Perry. His work at ESL made him one of the 10 founders of National Reconnaissance.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: mor.sl | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. The Founders Lie About Comfort Zones – [link]. Investors Need to Lose Their Egos and Founders Need to Gain Some Confidence – [link]. crowdSPRING Blog – [link].

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 6, 2018

In our case customers = founders, and supporting the ones we’ve backed is our firm’s #1 priority. You might have detailed these ideas lovingly in a blog post or elsewhere on your site but almost all the time, your portfolio page helps teams decide if they should reach out to your or not. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2016

It’s still popular these days for startup founders to operate in stealth mode, meaning no details about the idea or progress are shared with anyone until the big reveal and rollout. Startups in stealth mode often have a false sense of security that they can take extra time to do the job right the first time.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. The United States Digital Service, a federal government agency, is building a ‘stealth startup.’ Tweet us @leanstartup , and we might feature you in a blog post, too! Get the details here.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Five years ago, as the mania around seed fundings was accelerating, Founders were very eager to announce their seed round to the world. Typically, one that is orthogonal to the Founders’ network that wouldn’t have surfaced otherwise. There are legitimate reasons for a startup to be in stealth mode. Always be fundraising.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2023

I’m not proposing that anyone promise things that they don’t intend to deliver, but it’s time that founders switch to start selling their product before they build it, rather than believing the old adage of “if we build it, they will come.” Start actively blogging on your own site, as well as on industry forums.

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genuinevc.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

What's Your Founder Superpower? Stealth Mode. I’ve recently been introduced to a number of startups that are operating in “stealth mode,” and have been thinking about what to make of this fact. To completely dismiss a company as making a poor decision because it is in stealth mode is off the mark. Previous Entries.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Communism being a bad science experiment) ESL’s founder Bill Perry was moving the chess pieces. One key difference: unlike HP, which had restricted stock ownership to the founders and top management, Perry made sure everyone at ESL had stock. Smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth. Blog at WordPress.com.

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

We started with a general webinar about how to turn your website into a marketing machine, then we went on to SEO, then blogging, then social media. For awhile, that channel was a share option on all our blog posts, and we tried paying for stumbles for some campaigns. How did you address that? EM: We had waves of topics.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

The same has been true of an unfortunate number of startups, they manage to generate a lot of hype, raise a lot of money, and sometimes make some of their investors, employees, or founders rich. bigs : @ericries says Stealth dev is a (undesirable, failure-presaging) customer-free zone. Danger, Will Robinson. Iterating at whiteboard !=

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OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2020

If you’ve been reading this blog for a long time (amazingly, it is over 16 years old now!), We’re still in quasi-stealth mode, so I’m sorry I can’t talk about it much yet, but I will as soon as we publicly launch sometime after Labor Day.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 3, 2017

For more details, here’s founder/CEO Jevon MacDonald’s blog. If you’re interested in learning more, here’s a post from Gencove founder Joe Pickrell making the case on why it’s time to switch from genotyping technologies to sequencing technologies. Manifold raised $15M, led by Omers Ventures. You can relive the event here.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 28, 2021

Consider this: Jack Conte , Patreon’s CEO summarised it beautifully in the video below (or on this blog post if you prefer reading) by breaking down the evolution of the creator economy. If you’re a founder in the creator economy with a fresh take on these issues, we’d love to hear from you!

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adamac.blogspot.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Adam MacBeth Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10 Startup Red Flags Ive worked on a number of startups: from seed-stage through IPO, as a founder, employee, advisor, and consultant, as well as evaluating a bunch from the outside, so Ive seen my share of screw-ups. This means there MUST be a technical founder in a startup. Adamac Attack!

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www.humbledmba.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 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.) One of the reasons youre foolishly in stealth mode is probably because you havent done enough market research to realize that people are already working on this.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 16, 2015

A couple weeks ago my colleague Dimitri Dadiomov published a post on NextView’s “View From Seed” blog which answered the question “Should we take Harvard MBAs Seriously as Startup Founders?” From the group, over 260 founders have launched around 90 startups, raising more than $2.5B in capital. Quite the contrary.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

This is one of the blog we posted about how some company is doing SEO to promote the website. To help find the right keywords, Ive written an article on my blog Web Startup Help that details How to Do Keyword Research for startups. This post has been removed by a blog administrator. link] November 8, 2008 7:13 PM Jason said.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 16, 2018

This was exceptionally hard for a candidate to prepare for in the early days because our company was in stealth-mode, as I wrote about in this post. Note: this was originally posted on my blog at Lucky7.io Years after writing this post I was having lunch with John Mackey, the co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2011

No matter how busy we are, we do our part by helping founders to connect with investors and mentors in Asia. Forget about keeping things in stealth. This article was first published on Penn-Olson , a tech, business and marketing blog focusing on US and Asia. It is our vision to help build a connected Asian tech community.

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

Many of these founders are creating businesses that are an ambitious blend of data, software, and services. We are excited about software entrepreneurs who are diving into this emerging wealth of data to develop new applications and business models that this market may never have encountered before.

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The Next Web

JULY 20, 2012

Beyond the obvious rule that founders should never start a company just because they really like calling themselves “CEO,” being able to explain what you do in as little as one sentence is perhaps the absolute best way you can prepare yourself for success. That’s it. No exceptions. All you can do is stay cautious.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

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. We spoke briefly about why.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2010

I was recently speaking with some founders about their fund raising process. I list all of the companies (except one in stealth) on my blog and this includes both VC investments and angel ones. You’d be surprised how many ex-founders and ex-CEO’s you can find this way. When the world was ending?

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

This company will remain in stealth mode for at least a little while and it isn’t my place to divulge their plans, but we’re very excited about the founding team, market opportunity, and syndicate we will be part of.

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K9 Ventures

MAY 27, 2011

Founders know this at the bottom of their heart — because their idea is like their precious little baby. In fact, most founders tend to take it to the other extreme that they don’t want to share their idea (subject of another future blog post on why Stealth is Overrated). The truth is that Ideas DO Matter.

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

He introduced me to Christian Gheorghe, founder of TIAN Software, a predictive analytics company acquired by OutlookSoft, where, as Chief Technology Officer, he introduced important and innovative Enterprise Performance Management applications into the market. With this as a background, I couldn’t wait to hear what Christian had created.

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home About Contact Home About Contact The Metamorphosis Becoming an Entrepreneur, by Matt Mireles Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder I started SpeakerText in October 2008 during the financial apocalypse. You need a Co-Founder, not an Engineering Bitch. Treat everyone you hire like a co-founder. “Stealth Mode&# = FAIL.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 17, 2023

The Generative AI gaming landscape Nov 2022 ( source ) In my small data sample (of Israeli gaming startups) a lot of startups in the generative AI gaming space are either missing in this map, or are choosing to remain in stealth until they have a solid demo out. steampunk airships flying in the sky. Generated in [link].

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. 37 Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for August 12th - The zeitgeist daily on 08.12.09 Educated Nation | Higher Education Blog on 08.13.09 Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. at 5:04 am [.] at 7:48 am [.]

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Kanye West. Let's recap.

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onstartups.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Home About Resources Answers Speaking Community Top Blogs. About This Blog. Your email: Blog Navigator. Stealth Mode, Schmealth Mode: The Real Reasons Why Startups Dont Talk. This site is for entrepreneurs. A full RSS feed to the articles is available. Please subscribe so we know youre out there. dharmesh on Twitter.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

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. But a new angel fund is hoping that they’ll do the same in exchange for engineering talent.

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