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]. How To Choose A Market For Your Startup Or Small Business – [link]. Brilliant analysis.

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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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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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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

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. In Slide 2 the team made progress on developing their MVP. It’s a ton of work.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

One of the most important lessons entrepreneurs can learn from Dropbox is to adopt the lean start-up methodology and start. In a market where Airbnb has practically stood alone, VRBO has been a welcome sight for many renters and property owners who make money off of their investments. Thanks to Fletcher Wimbush, The Hire Talent ! #2-

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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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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 2, 2022

6- Increased marketing spend. Taking a risk by increasing marketing spend (strategically), has paid off substantially, seeing our annual sales grow by over 30%. A market saved me from wasting a lot of time and money on it. We have been able to break through the noise with our marketing. Photo Credit: Tracey Munn.

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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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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

It’s striking that algorithm developments for machine intelligence have been overwhelmingly open source. Graphcore (in stealth, see this video at 28:58) calls them Intelligent Processor Units. Emotient , RealEyes and Affectiva all use facial expressions to infer emotion, largely (it appears) for marketing purposes right now.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 29, 2012

SS: You have to be strategic because there’s no stealth mode. If you fail with a crowdfunding campaign, your brand and reputation will take a hit and you’re going to have a hell of a time going back to investors after that to convince them there’s a market for your service or product.

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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. Improve the product.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2014

The University of Maryland is now integrating the Lean LaunchPad ® into standard innovation and entrepreneurship courses across all 12 colleges within the University. It was Steve who first brought Will Harvey to visit Immersion, which led to a strategic investment in There.com, Will’s stealth-mode but sure-fire, can’t-miss startup.

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JANUARY 9, 2014

I recently developed a more human framework for early-stage startups to define their startup DNA and lay some foundations for a sustainable business. I see design as a direct route to free marketing through the positive word of mouth it helps to generate. Ben Chestnut’s reverse marketing funnel 9. By focusing on the ‘why?’

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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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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode. Her work included heading Nokia’s location-based services business and app portfolio for emerging markets, which she built from a back-of-a-napkin idea to a 100-person organization with over 10 million users.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 2, 2009 How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis In the lean startup workshops , we’ve spent a lot of time discussing the technique of Five Whys. My intention is to describe a full working process, similar to what I’ve seen at IMVU and other lean startups.

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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 should be perfectly capable of getting your MVP to market for next to nothing.

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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 28, 2009

Just to rank how difficult it was to protect a B-52 in a dense defensive radar environment, our current B-2 stealth bomber has a radar signature of about an aluminum marble, while the B-52 designed in 1950 has the radar signature of a 170-foot sphere. It was like trying to fly a whale through a fish tank and not get noticed. Reply Ben C. ,

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

A Lean Startup methodology offers entrepreneurs a framework to focus on what’s important: Business Model Discovery. Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. Or the founder, or the product, or the market – no metrics can measure those intangibles.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

Stanford’s research on the earth’s ionosphere would lead to meteor-burst communication systems and Over the Horizon Radar used by the NSA and CIA to detect Soviet and Chinese missile tests and ultimately to the research that made Stealth technologies possible. military had to develop new ways to collect intelligence.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 21, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Are there benefits for a startup to work in “stealth&# mode? – [link].

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onstartups.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

23 Tweetable Insights From "The Lean Startup" (5 days ago). Stealth Mode, Schmealth Mode: The Real Reasons Why Startups Dont Talk. But, this is rarely because they are in so-called “stealth” mode, and have some big secret to global domination that they can’t tell you. Follow @dharmesh. Subscribe to Updates.

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Steve Blank

JULY 23, 2009

Hundreds of thousands of people worked on developing strategic weapons, bombers, our ICBM and SLBM missile programs, and the Apollo moon program. to build sensors, stealth and smart weapons previously thought impossible or impractical, would give us a major military advantage. During the cold war, the U.S. government kept up the pace.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 10 Things I, As A Developer, Wished More Entrepreneurs Knew – [link]. Stealth mode” and other f’ing brilliant strategies – [link]. lean Democrat – [link].

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

What if something dramatically changes in the market? I’d implemented a business plan including marketing, engagement, sales strategy and realized a few months in that it wasn’t servicing a key influence or in the sales process. See if you can start developing at that kind of thing. The solution? Jonathan: Okay.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 12, 2016

When we started Flybridge over thirteen years ago, we developed a firm mission statement that we would treat early stage founders as our valued customers and have lived by this mission throughout our history. As a former entrepreneur, I have always viewed venture capital as a service business.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

Maybe they never thought about product-market fit. Your first product will likely be just a little bit ugly, and thats okay — its part of getting to market quickly and testing your idea in front of live customers. Maybe theyre trying to tackle too many problems at once. Dont underestimate the importance of Minimum Viable Design.

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