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

This year was a banner year as boldstart portfolio cos raised over $150mm of follow on capital from some of the top Series A and B investors (highlights below). 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.

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

Now with over 917 interviews of beneficiaries (users, program managers, stakeholders, etc.), Each week the teams marched through another box of the canvas, testing their hypotheses in front of beneficiaries using the customer development methodology, all while building and updating their minimal viable product. It’s a ton of work.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ]. Other venture capital links. venturebeat ].

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

just months after it came out of stealth. It’s an industry that’s long been in need of digitisation and many businesses still find themselves wading through piles of paper invoices, manual processes and managing heterogeneous payment cycles. Managing the timing of payments is critical and can have dire consequences.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ]. Other venture capital links. venturebeat ].

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ]. Other venture capital links. venturebeat ].

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ]. Other venture capital links. venturebeat ].

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

We have lower AUM, therefore lower management fees. 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. Ethics Policy, Expenses policy).

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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 1964, Bill Perry, the head of the lab, frustrated with GTE’s management, quit (GTE, a phone company had bought Sylvania in 1959.) And in the tradition of great startups, on the way out Perry took 6 of his best managers with him.

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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. Similar tools for recruitment, insurance, financial management etc. Of course there are exceptions?—?last Revolution healthcare.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

How does a cat manage to always land on their feet when falling from any height? Amazon’s Jeff Bezos: The ultimate disrupter | Fortune Management – [link]. The Difference Between Stealth Mode and Quiet Mode – [link]. Want Venture Capital Funding? A VC: What Has Changed – [link].

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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

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2012

Six Myths of Product Development – [link]. The Scarcest Resource at Startups is Management Bandwidth – [link]. What I learned from raising venture capital – [link]. Six Myths of Product Development – [link]. Sequoia Confirms Existence of “Stealth” Scout Program. – [link].

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

boldstart kicked off 2021 by announcing the closing of $230M of funds, $155M fund V and $75M opportunities ii, to continue supporting developer first & SaaS founders from Day 1 to scale( ). Today, we are up to announce boldstart v + opportunities ii, $230m to continue backing Developer First + SaaS founders from Day 1 to Scale.

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

We don’t seed companies that are developing drugs or medical devices that will require FDA approval. Outside of life-sciences, we’ve noticed something interesting emerging: There is a huge dearth of seed capital for health care services and software-driven health-tech companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2016

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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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. Kapor is the original designer of Lotus 1-2-3 and former CEO of Lotus Development. Qualcomm Ventures is invested in a number of startups including Livescribe, Obopay , Arieso and Zeebo.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2016

by Brent Freeman , co-founder and president of Stealth Venture Labs. To maintain stability, you have to update your operating procedures, processes, and people as your organization develops. To maintain stability, you have to update your operating procedures, processes, and people as your organization develops.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. What are “Reg D” filings with the SEC and why does this make it harder to stay in stealth mode? and who had biz reasons for wanting to remain stealth.”. - We spoke briefly about why. Primarily targets SMBs.

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VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

Worth noticing that Battery Ventures and Sequoia are picking pace amongst the foreign funds and Carmel and Gemini. On June 22, 2010 - Perfecto Mobile closed an undisclosed third round of funding from new investor Vodafone Ventures and returning investors Carmel Ventures and Vertex Venture Capital.

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VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

Worth noticing that Battery Ventures and Sequoia are picking pace amongst the foreign funds and Carmel and Gemini. On June 22, 2010 - Perfecto Mobile closed an undisclosed third round of funding from new investor Vodafone Ventures and returning investors Carmel Ventures and Vertex Venture Capital.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Before diving into the standard year-end predictions on the enterprise, I thought I would share some data on our firm and our founding teams from 2016: we welcomed 9 new enterprise founding teams to the portfolio including Workrails (started by venture partner Jeff Leventhal), BigID , Hypr , Init.ai , and 5 stealth companies.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 9, 2010

Benchmark Capital and existing investors including Mangrove Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners funded the round for future product development, likely for iPad related Flash content (more here ). Benchmark Capital; Bessemer Venture Partners; Mangrove Capital Partners. Kinrot Ventures. -.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

In the last five years, there’s been this sort of acknowledgment of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is consumer product development, design methods applied to business software, of which SaaS and cloud and all these things are examples. Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments. You can’t fight the future.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

We opened a small bookkeeping firm and managed end-to-end accounting and payables for 10 small businesses for around four months, purely for research purposes. But we learned so much, our engineers could develop a product that would imitate many of the things we did manually. We’d then manually update the accounting software.

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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. Coworking Spaces - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , September 2, 2010 I've never been much of a fan of incubators. Except they won’t be called Product Managers.

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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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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 12, 2016

As a former entrepreneur, I have always viewed venture capital as a service business. 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.

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