news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Hacker News new | comments | ask | jobs | submit login Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. I work for a stealth startup. The idea is just a very small part of the reason why we are in stealth. If we are not in stealth mode, it will just draw unwanted attention. niyazpk 215 days ago | link. Shocking, I know.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Because I knew that Ethan was on to a powerful idea and one in which he had developed huge competence and domain knowledge in. But more importantly Ethan developed the belief over time that consumers really needed a service that would allow them to book across many different service businesses from one convenient location.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 29, 2022

One of the benefits of the cloud is that it gives development teams more agility and flexibility, but with increased flexibility comes the downside of a loss of control and visibility. That said, some large sectors like financial services and healthcare only started to migrate their core workloads and data to the cloud more recently.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth. Some of these themes include privacy/ML, next gen CMS, intelligent automation, and developer productivity. congrats to Fortress IQ on its $12mm Series A led by Lightspeed and a stealth co on their $13.5mm Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Gust

OCTOBER 7, 2012

Every time I hear about a new startup that is in stealth mode, I wonder what problem they are hiding from whom. I believe stealth makes sense for large companies who can be sued for “pre-announcing” a new product to stall the market or kill a competitor. “No With stealth mode, you can’t learn early enough to pivot gracefully.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2023

The advantages are many, including avoiding all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding and managing external investors, allowing you to retain full control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. Friends and family are key at the idea and early development stages, when you have minimal business valuation.

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

And they’re getting a handle on what it costs to build a company to deliver it. But a decade earlier as undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, he was the father of the second offset strategy using software and semiconductors to build smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth aircraft that helped end the Cold War.

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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. Provides real-time access to data insights based on the collaborative knowledge of system administrators, DevOps engineers, and developers throughout the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

The advantages are many, including avoiding all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding and managing external investors, allowing you to retain full control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. Friends and family are key at the idea and early development stages, when you have minimal business valuation.

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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. In my view, this paranoid approach costs them much more than the risk of being open. Evaluate customer response prior to development.

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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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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2022

As they are short several orders of magnitude of Qubits, NISQ computers cannot perform any useful computation, however they are a necessary phase in the learning, especially to drive total system and software learning in parallel to the hardware development. Think of them as the training wheels for future universal quantum computers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Startups which insist on operating in stealth mode in fear of competitor response miss the more important customer response. A soft launch is less stressful to the team and lets them more gradually re-acclimate from a development environment to a delivery environment. Time to train and prepare staff to deal with customers.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

In many cases, the monthly savings is greater than the monthly cost. . But they quickly realized that increased savings on their own weren’t enough to spark adoption and thus, developed the payment platform. The customers pay for their energy project on their existing utility bills using savings from the project.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

These businesses were helping people straighten their teeth at a much lower cost and with less pain than traditional alternatives such as braces. If manufacturers can increase productivity , they can produce more without increasing costs, then they are more globally competitive. Thanks to Teo Vanyo, Stealth Agents ! #18-

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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. In my view, this paranoid approach costs them much more than the risk of being open. Evaluate customer response prior to development.

Stealth 120

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 2, 2022

I'm proud of the fact that we've managed to bring down costs and managed to solve many of the problems we initially had. So, I've never conveyed mixed cost signals like that to our staff. So, I solved the problem when I decided to take the initiative and develop a new HR document management software for the team.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

He has been instrumental in the development of artificial intelligence and machine learning, which are key areas of focus for Google. Unpakt is the first company in the industry that allows users to compare movers and costs in real-time before booking their move online. Thanks to Teo Vanyo, Stealth Agents ! #21- 17- Improbable.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

Every year, our team conducts more than 500 customer development calls to understand what challenges the community is facing. ReadyTalk became interested in Lean Startup principles to develop new lines of business. The United States Digital Service, a federal government agency, is building a ‘stealth startup.’

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

If you are a practitioner of Customer Development, ESL was doing it before most us were born. In 1962 Wheelon left for a new job as the first director of the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology where he was responsible for development of OXCART , the A-12 Spyplane, and three major satellite reconnaissance systems.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

We were first check leads in 8 founding teams including Wallaroo Labs , MState (fka hyperfab ), blockdaemon , and 5 in stealth. AYX NYSE) and init.ai , one an early investment in a data science platform and the other on NLP for developers. 2 exits including yhat (sold to Alteryx? 2 exits including yhat (sold to Alteryx?—?AYX

Cloud 60

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2011

In my last post on ReadWriteStart, I talked about how, in many cases, it wasn't an advantage to build your start-up in stealth mode. Another simple and relatively low cost way to get feedback from a critical mass of potential users is to use Ask Your Target Market.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

AUGUST 11, 2010

I always go back and forth about whether stealth mode is good or bad. I guess that I should back up and explain what I mean by stealth. When someone has a business idea, she may choose not to disclose what the idea is about aka stealth mode. Back to the idea of stealth mode. It’s nothing personal.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

C ustomer Development – We have relationships with hundreds of large global corporations. Ideally each portfolio company would also report their own data to the data-trackers (except when they’re in stealth), but not all of them are diligent. – A database of accurate costs for financial models: salary, rent, IT, etc.

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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. development is the proliferation of web Apps (e.g. What follows is a slightly edited transcript of the full interview.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 29, 2012

SS: You have to be strategic because there’s no stealth mode. For the cost of a latte, people could buy into a historic movement. Brian Fargo, who created Wasteland 2 and [crowdfunded] nearly $3 million, said, “Our software development company all but stopped for three weeks so we could get our ducks in a row.”

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Superfish , an Israeli startup developing image-based search engine, has annouced a third round of $3.4 Superfish’s first prototype, Window Shopper , launched in April, after several years of being in stealth. Headway is using the funding to develop robotic physiotherapy equipment. venturebeat ]. Calcalist Hebrew ].

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Technical Review Matching Venture Capital 80

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Superfish , an Israeli startup developing image-based search engine, has annouced a third round of $3.4 Superfish’s first prototype, Window Shopper , launched in April, after several years of being in stealth. Headway is using the funding to develop robotic physiotherapy equipment. venturebeat ]. Calcalist Hebrew ].

Technical Review 80

Technical Review Matching Venture Capital 80

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Superfish , an Israeli startup developing image-based search engine, has annouced a third round of $3.4 Superfish’s first prototype, Window Shopper , launched in April, after several years of being in stealth. Headway is using the funding to develop robotic physiotherapy equipment. venturebeat ]. Calcalist Hebrew ].

Technical Review 80

Technical Review Matching Venture Capital 80

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Superfish , an Israeli startup developing image-based search engine, has annouced a third round of $3.4 Superfish’s first prototype, Window Shopper , launched in April, after several years of being in stealth. Headway is using the funding to develop robotic physiotherapy equipment. venturebeat ]. Calcalist Hebrew ].

Technical Review 80

Technical Review Venture Capital Matching 80

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

bigs : @ericries says Stealth dev is a (undesirable, failure-presaging) customer-free zone. LeanStartup Of course, a big enabler of those kinds of mistakes is stealth-mode. Another recent meme that I hope more and more startups will take to heart: "stealth is a customer-free zone." Use some customer development to find out.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

We had endless arguments internally about what features it should include, how the avatars should look, and how much it should cost. Oops - there went several precious weeks of development effort down the drain. Just load them all in and choose a low cost-per-click. We finally settled on a $1.99 I used to use $.05,

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 16, 2018

and Brant and I developed it since the beginning of Bazaarvoice before. It is disruptive to your culture and your performance (think about the opportunity cost alone). 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.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2023

Dilbert knows best Here’s a short list: The concentration of power on the API level / Platform dependency – Most Generative AI startups are not developing the core AI tech and are relying on the same APIs for their core technology. On the other hand, mistakes can be costly, especially in a tough market environment like today.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. These three tools allow startups to focus on the parts of an early stage venture that matter the most: the product, product/market fit, customer acquisition, revenue and cost model, channels and partners. Lessons Learned.

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Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 329

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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Stealth Startup Lean Cofounder 60

www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Start-ups often hire at one extreme -- closer to a Lead Developer or VP of Engineering -- whereas corporates may focus on their CIO, which is potentially quite a different role. Contribute to development of primary business plan, with input on focus, costing and approach (platform, build vs. buy, resourcing, hosting strategy, time & cost).

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