Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

It’s nice to finally not be in stealth mode! I think it’s a beautifully designed site and product. The goal is not only to help local service-based merchants find new business but also to help them be more efficient in booking existing customers which should help with loyalty. So there you have it.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Follow him at @rrhoover or visit his blog to read more about startups and product design. The way product managers, UX designers, and other “non-technical” roles think , communicates their ability and culture fit. I write about startups, product design, user experience, psychology, and other topics I’m passionate about.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

We’re excited to announce our investment in EnPowered , an on-bill payment platform designed to make it easier for businesses to invest in energy-efficiency projects. EnPowered closed their initial seed round in February 2020 and have been developing their platform in stealth mode over the past year.

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The Next Web

MARCH 10, 2013

Hasty is a seed-funded stealth startup whose mission is to improve the health of humanity. This productive, uninterrupted “flow time” is crucial for the developers and designers in a small company (as an example, Asana recently announced that they have a “ No Meeting Wednesdays ” rule to encourage flow time).

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Not surprising with a CEO with a PhD in Math, at ESL the engineers ran the company, pursuing bleeding-edge designs in antennas, receivers and microwaves – at times hand in hand with Stanford’s engineering department. Smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Blog at WordPress.com.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Great tips, fully inline with “Four Steps to the Epiphany” Also reminds me of Dharmesh’s “Stealth Mode, Schmealth Mode” — [link]. Entrepreneur Chris Dixon posts on why its really not that dangerous to share your super-stealth idea with other people: There are [.]. Share: [link] Jerry Ji.

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genuinevc.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

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. In a post yesterday, Keith Robinson clearly articulated one of my conclusions, “I’ve heard quite a bit about start-ups and “stealth mode.”

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 29, 2012

SS: You have to be strategic because there’s no stealth mode. We’ve got legendary game designer Tim Schafer to create one. Have a mix of rewards, some designed to draw attention to your campaign or attract the big fish, and some designed to monetize. The pitch was, “Adventure games are not dead.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Last week, one of our most recent portfolio companies, Ten Little , came out of stealth and announced its public launch. . Ten Little was started by Fatma Collins and Julie Rogers , a platform that aims to make finding the perfect fit for your child easy, starting with shoes. My son is 10-month old so he doesn’t need shoes yet (soon!),

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

It's difficult not to include Steve Jobs at the top of that list; he established a brand in Apple that altered global habits and elevated the importance of design in our daily lives. Thanks to Teo Vanyo, Stealth Agents ! #21- All of which are designed to extract more value out of recycling than what is currently being sorted.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 2, 2022

Thanks to Teo Vanyo, Stealth Agents ! #20- Many people told me that a digital publishing platform would go unnoticed amidst the sea of millions of other more successful and established platforms but I held onto the belief that this website had something more to offer and went all-in for the design and launch.

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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. However, locking yourself in a room and designing and then building your product is rarely optimal. Conclusion. As an entrepreneur, you have to figure out the right plan to test and build your product.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

One example is so-called “ stealth neuromarketing ,” which tries to manipulate consumer behavior without their being aware of its influence, threatening consumer autonomy. ’ In today’s age of enforced transparency for business, manipulative tactics that deceive the customer simply won’t work. Conclusion.

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JANUARY 9, 2014

This helps to add some constraints to the design process as everyone has a clear idea of what the product isn’t. Design as an afterthought Mistakenly, many early-stage startups often don’t see value in investing in design early on, believing it is a luxury which can be bolted on later like some kind of magic stardust.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

But these processors were designed for graphics. The next step-change for efficient learning and inference will come from processors designed specifically for machine learning. Graphcore (in stealth, see this video at 28:58) calls them Intelligent Processor Units.

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View from Seed

JULY 11, 2019

On Tuesday, one of our most recent portfolio companies, Otis, came out of stealth and announced its public launch. Michael has a real super-power around identifying outstanding talent, building beautifully designed products, and anticipating the way culture and consumer behavior is shifting.

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View from Seed

JUNE 11, 2015

Startups and their founders who claim to be in “stealth mode” prior to launch are such a commonplace part of the startup ecosystem that it might seem odd to question its merits. But it’s important to address this head on and ask: What are the benefits of stealth mode for startups, really? .

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

If your practice is not designed to cope with uncertainty, it has no place in a startup - even if your startup is located in government or enterprise. 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.

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thenextweb.com

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Design & Dev. 3 Don’t go too stealth. Unless you have tons of funding (see Kohort ), be careful about going too “stealth.” He loves everything related to tech startups, beautiful design and social media gossip. Energy Goes Social On Facebook. Grammy CMO spells out social media savvy. All Stories.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Ada Support (an AI-driven customer support agent) came out of stealth and announced their seed round led by Bessemer. Abstract officially launched this quarter , emerging as the versioning system of record for designers. Booster Fuels raised a $20M Series B. It was an impressive pivot from Volley (which we pre-seeded). .

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2018

This is of course assuming you are prepared to go out of ‘stealth mode’ – don’t laugh. As an author, I consider my editor my partner as well as my designer. Once you have gone past the initial stage of developing your idea and clarifying what your business is going to be, you will have many business meetings.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2013

We’ve seen local filmmakers, musicians and product designers leverage on the new medium but strangely enough, not game developers. That changes with Dusty Revenge , the latest from Singapore-based PD Design Studio. He has a love for stealth and RPGs but is willing to try almost anything. Cue Kickstarter.

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Some startups are in stealth mode and maybe branding and beautiful design is important. It’s so important to line up the type of marketer and leadership that fits the business model, the product, or even the founder’s philosophy or early attempts at marketing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 14, 2015

Instead of taking one big swing with the launch of a new product—devoting months to the design of one technical feature or spending years in stealth mode developing a product without evidence that customers want it—it is an iterative approach to learn who the customer actually is, and what’s honestly required to delight them.

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SVPG

OCTOBER 13, 2011

He tries to draw a distinction between an MVP Test and a feasibility or usability prototype here: “Unlike a prototype or concept test, an MVP (Test) is designed not just to answer product design or technical questions; its goal is to test fundamental business hypotheses.” ” Amen.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. That radars and stealth and antennas and radios and materials.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

In a major break from the past, where the military designed all its own weapons, 10,000 scientists and engineers from academia worked in civilian-run weapons labs (most headquartered in universities) in an organization called the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD). could design and produce. In World War II the U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Such apps deliver unmatched stealth during surveillance activities. Spyic has an intuitive and intelligently designed user interface that makes the app user-friendly. However, the back and forth switch between the menu options and details is definitely a flaw in the user-interface design. Spyic is a completely legit app.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2014

That is, datacenter infrastructures were designed for a three-tier architecture world, yet we now live in a mobile-to-cloud world. Avi Networks officially came out of stealth today, armed with several Fortune 1000 customers in pilots and production.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Design and maintain a roadmap of projects to meet demanding business objectives, taking advantage of trends and new technology where appropriate. Where developing a new system in a start-up environment, work with the business to develop use cases, user stories, user experience design and wire-frames.

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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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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

… An apparently perfect device can provide a safe harbor for numerous threats– in the form of old and vulnerable chip designs, Trojan horses, or kill switches– that are difficult or impossible to detect.” networks, an approach that is very different from the current path that the U.S. is following.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

PurePlus is disrupting candy with stealth nutrition. Designed to have a long-standing and meaningful role in a cultural revolution in health of people and the planet, PurePlus, won a 2019 Environmental Media Association (EMA) IMPACT Future Innovator of the Year Challenge. In a new category called Earth Functional Food?—?food

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Now were not exactly in stealth-mode - weve pitched at Techcrunch - but Id rather not go dancing in my competitors faces. One concern I might have with doing this is that you are competing for ad space with your competitors. By putting yourself directly in their space you are alerting them to your emergence as a threat.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 25, 2010

In particular, Austin-based companies – including divisions and local offices of firms from AT&T to GSD&M to Sapient, among many, many others – are hiring interactive producers, creative directors, and artist designers. That’s where Jon Kolko and his Austin Center for Design come in ( [link] ). Keep an eye open!

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Rob Go

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

The initial product is still in stealth (although it has been tested quietly and there are over a hundred companies on the wait list), and we are all excited about Dunwello’s potential to realize Matt’s over-arching belief that “every person at every company should be both happy and productive.” Check that out here.'

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