crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How To Choose A Market For Your Startup Or Small Business – [link]. The Founders Lie About Comfort Zones – [link]. 10 adjustments to make when working for a Big Co.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

The first time I met Matan, the founder of Melio, he told me that his mission was simple: he wanted to “help small businesses stay in business” by making B2B payments fast, simple and flexible. And he and his co-founders Ziv and Ilan made it happen: Melio’s now processing multi-billion dollar payment volumes less than two years after launch.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

2017 was another year of growing, learning, investing and partnering with amazing founders. Once again, we are grateful to have the opportunity to work with so many amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, and other collaborators to bring the boldstart family together. 2017 Recap. 2 exits including yhat (sold to Alteryx?

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The company emerged from stealth in November 2016 and announced a $100 million investment round from Sir Ronald Cohen, Lloyd Dorfman, OCAPAC Holding Company, and Horizons Ventures. Orcam was created by the founders of Mobileye (NYSE: MBLY and one of Israel’s largest IPOs ), Prof. Logz.io (2014) – Logz.io

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VC Cafe

MARCH 17, 2023

Generative AI is already being used in developer workflows. At GDC, the Games Developer Conference, in San Francisco next week, generative AI is sure to be one of the hot topics. In the meanwhile, AI is here not to replace game developers, but to be a helper, writer, tutor, debugger, sketch artist, etc. Will it work?

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Ryan Hoover is the co-creator of Product Hunt , creator of Startup Edition , and instructor at Tradecraft. GitHub can be a fantastic resume for software developers. Several followers offered me a job and introductions to other founders. Can we all agree resumes are crummy? x 11 sheet of paper? And this is where GitHub shines.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

Or maybe the co-founders have a poisonous relationship that will hinder the companys growth. Maybe they never thought about product-market fit. Check out the tips below from founders, CEOs and investors alike. Perhaps the team is working on a product that really isnt that great or useful. Leave it in the comments.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

We are truly to our founders, limited partners, co-investors, and friends for another year of growth and learning. boldstart kicked off 2021 by announcing the closing of $230M of funds, $155M fund V and $75M opportunities ii, to continue supporting developer first & SaaS founders from Day 1 to scale( ).

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Hopefully by that time you’ve developed the idea much further and in much greater detail – by talking to as many people as possible. Great tips, fully inline with “Four Steps to the Epiphany” Also reminds me of Dharmesh’s “Stealth Mode, Schmealth Mode” — [link]. Share: [link] Jerry Ji.

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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?" Building a reputation and community in your target market. Leveraging Product Feedback Earlier.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

want to sidestep the argument about whether or not it's good to be " stealth " or not, and work with the assumption that if you've purchased the domain name, you're going to put up some sort of website. How To Pick A Co-Founder , by Naval Ravikant (Venture Hacks). Simply put, there is no market for RSS.

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JANUARY 9, 2014

No clear vision or purpose This should be the starting point for any startup founder, but it’s often overlooked. I recently developed a more human framework for early-stage startups to define their startup DNA and lay some foundations for a sustainable business. By focusing on the ‘why?’

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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. Use some customer development to find out.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

C ustomer Development – We have relationships with hundreds of large global corporations. Effectively, we are a market maker between our portfolio companies and the late-stage VCs and large enterprises which are our co-investors. FundedBuy is targeting this market; AnyPerk offers the same model to a larger client base.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Build the product in stealth mode to build buzz for the eventual launch. Stealth is a customer-free zone. Without conscious process design, product development teams turn lines of code written into momentum in a certain direction. This is why agility is such a prized quality in product development. We can skip the chasm.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode. Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. What are some of the unique benefits and constraints from the point of view of a founder? .

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

In April, “stealth” social media startup Kohort announced its upcoming launch. Within a few days, the site received thousands of user signups, according to its founder Mark Davis. It may not matter to you what Kohort is or isn’t, nor whether stealth is good or bad. It was a spin on its own market: data visualization.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Greylock investor Sridhar Ramaswamy , who co-founded search engine startup Neeva , says it’s more important for startups to think about creating a product that is useful and resonates with people before worrying about whether a large incumbent is doing it. TRANSCRIPT. Reid, why don’t you start?

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Greylock investor Sridhar Ramaswamy , who co-founded search engine startup Neeva , says it’s more important for startups to think about creating a product that is useful and resonates with people before worrying about whether a large incumbent is doing it. TRANSCRIPT. Reid, why don’t you start?

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 6, 2011

Lisa Marino of RockYou , a leading developer of social games and advertising solutions for social media, is focused on building a great team with more gaming DNA to improve the quality of the games it publishes: Make RockYou the place talent wants to be. Marketing who we are, not who we may want to be one day.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. Kapor is the original designer of Lotus 1-2-3 and former CEO of Lotus Development. He also sits on the board of the Mozilla Foundation and created Second Life.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

There were prominent founders of business like PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills and MyLife. We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. And of course we had, TheMan.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

He has startup experience having co-founded his previous company PureHolidayHomes. SnapTrip’s opportunity is to own the late availability/discounted end of the market where the competition is limited. We’re attracted to this market for two reasons. Secondly, Matt was a sole founder when he joined us.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2016

by Brent Freeman , co-founder and president of Stealth Venture Labs. To maintain stability, you have to update your operating procedures, processes, and people as your organization develops. To maintain stability, you have to update your operating procedures, processes, and people as your organization develops.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Oops - there went several precious weeks of development effort down the drain. Even more importantly, you can start to experiment with feature set, positioning, and marketing - all without building a product. And if you dont know who your customer is, perhaps some customer development is in order? A very interesting strategy.

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Agile VC

JUNE 25, 2012

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. I first met co-founder/CEO Dan Foody a little over six months ago. Ahmed Diabate.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 16, 2018

and Brant and I developed it since the beginning of Bazaarvoice before. They shrugged it off and said they trust their instincts and it was too competitive of a job market to “slow the process down” (this is a very common excuse, by the way). We’ve followed this lesson since the beginning of data.world?—?and

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

The first time I met Matan, Melio's co-founder and CEO, he told me that his mission was simple: he wanted to “help small business stay in business” by making B2B payments fast, simple and flexible. But we learned so much, our engineers could develop a product that would imitate many of the things we did manually.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

It allows teams to diagnose sources of waste in their development process and continuously improve, reversing the usual trend of teams getting slower over time. These problems can be anything: development mistakes, site outages, marketing program failures, or even internal missed schedules. My experience is: usually not.

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San Francisco Lean Technical Review Software Review 164

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. No one funded us.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. 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.”. -

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

PurePlus is disrupting candy with stealth nutrition. Amy Keller , PurePlus Co-Founder and CEO calls this a revolution in the whole plant foods-based economy. I am most impressed by Jaden Smith, Founder of JUST Water and 501CThree. In a new category called Earth Functional Food?—?food We are surrounded by top-notch people.

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Los Angeles Stealth Cofounder Bandwidth 62

BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

We kicked it off Sunday night with a boldstart founders and execs dinner where we talked about what’s next in cybersecurity with some of our portfolio companies like security scorecard , bigid , snyk , stealth co and many friends from the industry representing strategic partners and IT buyers. Is PII and GDPR real?

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VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2010

Legolas Media – Currently in stealth mode, The Legolas Media team is focused on innovating digital display media. Co-founded by Yiftah Frechter, Yoav Arnstein and Ran Cohen, all former execs of recently IPO-ed Eyeblaster. Co-founded by Yiftah Frechter, Yoav Arnstein and Ran Cohen, all former execs of recently IPO-ed Eyeblaster.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Passing equity around before you’ve done anything is like budgeting your lottery winnings before you’ve even bought the ticket – at this point it’s nothing more than unicorns and rainbows as my developer would say. You are NOT more valuable than your cofounders. of an idea is 100% of nothing.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

Israeli startup FootTraffic offers advertisers a performance marketing platform for location-based offers. We’ll be able to start partnering soon (we are currently under Alpha-stealth mode).” In other words, a way to reach a bunch of location based apps at scale via API and paying only for those that convert.

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