Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

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. Or conversely business team members draw timelines and costs without a deep understanding of the technology hurdles. Dr. Perry eventually became the 19th secretary of defense.

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Around the same time we were doing those webinars, we launched our first ebook, and that did much better in terms of conversions — click-through-rate on emails, conversions on landing pages, and so on. Some startups are in stealth mode and maybe branding and beautiful design is important.

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genuinevc.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

What's Your Founder Superpower? Conferences are for Conversations » Wednesday Oct 12 2005. 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. GenuineVC - David Beisel RSS. Most Popular Entries.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Moderator Matt with 4 relieved Founders Weekly 5 am Skype calls began and I’d jump online blurry-eyed to see a bunch of smiling faces who’d already put in big work days. Sprung in stealth mode! It was so wonderful to know that three other founders, keen to progress their own businesses, were so supportive of me doing the same.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

by Falon Fatemi , founder and CEO of Close. If so, you can thank the founder Nick Swinmurn. Be aware, though, that the person who introduces you is important and can make or break your conversation, so choose wisely. I always begin conversations by asking my new connection about herself. So what’s next?

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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. Whilst the tide is turning, there’s still a need to educate startup founders about the competitive advantage well-designed products and services can bring. Life’s too short to build something nobody wants.”

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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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

There were prominent founders of business like PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills and MyLife. 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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Most of the time, the experiments you run will have a zero percent conversion rate - meaning no customers were harmed during the making of this experiment. I would aim to get no more than 1o0 clicks per day - over the course of a week or two, youll get pretty good conversion data. Measure conversion rates.

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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. Years after writing this post I was having lunch with John Mackey, the co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods. It would “ruin” the candidates weekend as they spent 8–16 hours preparing.

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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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The Next Web

JULY 24, 2013

Xan Blacker, co-founder of Ticckle, explained to The Next Web that Ticckle’s main aim was to “tickle your brain” through discussion of ideas – he actually doesn’t really like the word debate, he explained. Fry’s involvement is largely thanks to Blacker’s co-founder Richard Hardisty. It all sounds very light-hearted.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

At at time where nearly all advertising was purchased on a CPM (cost per thousand) basis and not very measurable this was a huge innovation that should be credited to Bill Gross, the founder of IdeaLab. It should lead to higher conversion rates and happier customers. Social networks continue to drive conversion of marketers.

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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 What do you eat when you are low on energy?

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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. I’ve had to have hard conversations with entrepreneurs when things aren’t going well. When the world was ending?

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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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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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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2018

AirPop’s co-founder Chris Hosmer (pictured above) answered our questions for this interview. One of our headquarters is in San Francisco and the other is in Shanghai, each headed by one of our two founders. Capture, conversion and storage economics are getting to the point where real multiplier effects can be realized.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 6, 2007

recently broke the news on my fund’s ( Dawntreader Ventures) latest investment which is still in stealth mode. Matt correctly updated that Dan Ciporin, the former CEO of Shopping.com, is not a founder but a seed investor and board member of the company.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Two very well-funded competitors dropped out of stealth when we pushed our alpha and I started putting far too much emphasis on competitor-killing features and not enough time getting to market. I was determined to have a well-branded, polished, feature-loaded, completely bug-free product for launch.

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The Startup Lawyer

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

But before your startup signs up and cashes that $[XX,000] check, your startup’s co-founders should sit down and evaluate the incubator’s offer. Most incubators take common stock and sit “side-by-side&# with the founders, but some may want some (weak) preferred stock and/or dilution protection.

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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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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

But the key is to ensure your product has a strong differentiator, which is exactly how Ramaswamy and his Neeva co-founders positioned the search engine company when it launched last year. You can listen to the podcast here, and read the full transcript of the conversation below. TRANSCRIPT.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

But the key is to ensure your product has a strong differentiator, which is exactly how Ramaswamy and his Neeva co-founders positioned the search engine company when it launched last year. You can listen to the podcast here, and read the full transcript of the conversation below. TRANSCRIPT.

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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. Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. Here’s how the conversation in Best Buy would go: My Mom: “My son told me I should get a laptop with Linux on it.&#

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2023

And new technologies, like generative AI, are creating new opportunities for founders to stand out in the consumer space. One of the first companies (outside of Disney) to get access to the Snap Camera SDK, Zoog has some of the best conversion metrics I’ve seen for a B2C consumer app. founded in 2019, raised $13.5M

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Shortly after we sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard, I had a conversation with the legendary venture capitalist Doug Leone of Sequoia Capital. How To Pick A Co-Founder , by Naval Ravikant (Venture Hacks). Kanye West. He wanted to hear the story of how we went from doomed in the eyes of the world to a $1.6B

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

He had tens of conversations with consumers, homeowners and agencies which validated his core assumptions about unsold inventory, willingness to discount, willingness to book late and appetite for discounts and gave him a detailed picture of exactly what he should do to make the business fly straight out of the traps.

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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 got 10% conversion,” Carrella says.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 6, 2019

CEO and co-founder Arlo Gilbert answered some questions about his just launched product. 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! More importantly, though, there is a real sense of camaraderie between the founders. What is your competitive advantage?

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VC Adventure

MARCH 18, 2010

Trada has been working in stealth mode for the last 18 months to build a system that harnesses the power of a “crowd” of search experts to work on behalf of advertisers. These experts get paid only for generating clicks and/or conversions for Trada advertisers (depending on whether a campaign is in pay per click or pay per action mode).

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 21, 2018

There are many gems in there, including a screen capture of the texts I sent to Matt Laessig and Jon Loyens asking them if they would like to brainstorm ideas with me (thankfully they said yes, and then Bryon Jacob, our fourth co-founder, got involved pretty quickly after and has been an amazing addition to our founding team).

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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. The people - I had great conversations and good laughs.

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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. 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.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 29, 2019

but it’s not a place ordinarily discussed among with the likes of Venice and Berlin … unless Airbnb happens to be the topic of conversation. temperate climes, great barbecue, and hosting multiple internationally known music/film/tech festivals each year?—?but Even today?—?in in a city that now has the highest median home prices in America?

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thebarefootvc

APRIL 18, 2010

It is great to see that a conversation is finally evolving on the importance of gender diversity in the technology and venture capital sectors. My twitter stream and email inbox has been full of links to the NY Times article published yesterday — Out of the Loop in Silicon Valley.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 28, 2017

He is a founder and principle of Black Swan Group, a former FBI top hostage negotiator and the author of a book we’re going to talk about today called Never Split the Different; negotiating as if your life depended on it. Learn more at klaviyo.com. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Ducttape Marketing podcast.

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