BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth. 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. Smallstep , Clay , Dark , and Windmill emerged out of stealth. First check to Series B?—?congrats First check to Series A?—?congrats

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. Below, she shares lessons learned from the earliest days of marketing the company and how this has translated to her second startup role as VP of Marketing at Toast. Where do you land on that spectrum?

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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. You can’t get any word-of-mouth or media activity by hiding.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

We also have a better known brand than some of our early stage companies, so we can leverage that to help source talent. We have built relationships with a set of service providers specializing in startups, and have pre-negotiated discounted rates with them. For example, consider public relations. RJMetrics ); technology (e.g.,

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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. There will be more deep enterprise tech startups founded, funded, launched, and scaled out of NYC in 2018. 2 exits including yhat (sold to Alteryx? Previously posted on Medium.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2016

One of the biggest myths I have found in the entrepreneur community is that every startup needs one or more outside investors for credibility and success, and perhaps is even entitled to at least one. By using a service such as Onevest , you can also place your startup in the right shop window and let investors come to you.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Email us or call +44 (0) 844 3579899 home about services blog labs Which language should my startup use? Share this: net c# development django java language php software Were often asked by entrepreneurs which language their startups should adopt when developing their technology. But wait Not all startups are alike.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. A Lean Startup methodology offers entrepreneurs a framework to focus on what’s important: Business Model Discovery.

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onstartups.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

23 Tweetable Insights From "The Lean Startup" (5 days ago). How To Pick The Right Idea For Your Startup (3 weeks ago). From Nashville to Boston: How A Startup Accelerator Changed Our Lives (1 month ago). For A Startup (1 month ago). Questions about startups? Most Likely Reasons Startups Won’t Talk.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2016

by Brent Freeman , co-founder and president of Stealth Venture Labs. Startups that successfully scale understand they can’t just throw warm bodies at their problems — they often need to recreate processes that got them to where they are today. Despite what many entrepreneurs may think, know this: Not all growth is good growth.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

In my blockchain investment work (we have invested in six early-stage projects, including bloXroute , Enigma , FalconX , NEX and two stealth projects), I have been struck by the fact that decades of progress on applying the scientific method to entrepreneurship (e.g.,

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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. Thus, the opportunity cost of joining your half-baked venture is dramatically lower than it is for legit professionals.

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

An additional incentive to remaking the workplace into a healthy, exercise-supportive environment is the cost benefit. Many of the design changes we have implemented cost little or nothing. We’re filling it with our own team , plus a couple of startups in our portfolio ( Parsely , Phone.com , some in stealth mode).

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The Future of Startups 2013-2017, beginning of a series. Marc Andreesen gave a great interview about a year agi about “The Future of the Enterprise” and where the next startups will be playing – Hadoop, Big Data, BYOD, etc. Some of these next big startups are in L.A., You mean startups?

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The Startup Lawyer

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Great news — your startup just got accepted to an incubator! 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. Pre-money valuations startups receive from incubators are typically low…really low.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Few startups set out to compete with the biggest leaders in their respective industry. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen, or that success for the challenger startups isn’t possible. What’s more, says Hoffman, most of the competition comes from fellow startups rather than the large incumbents. “If TRANSCRIPT.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Few startups set out to compete with the biggest leaders in their respective industry. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen, or that success for the challenger startups isn’t possible. What’s more, says Hoffman, most of the competition comes from fellow startups rather than the large incumbents. “If TRANSCRIPT.

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