Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Build the product in stealth mode to build buzz for the eventual launch. It was considered naive that the "next AOL" would ship a product that wasnt ready for prime time. Stealth is a customer-free zone. This is why agility is such a prized quality in product development. We can skip the chasm.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. AwesomeBox : AwesomeBox is currently in stealth mode so I’ll respect that. And of course we had, TheMan.

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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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Turns out, there was aboslutely no demand whatsoever for that particular product. 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. A very interesting strategy.

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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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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. Guarding The "Big Idea".

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2011

Go Anti-Stealth. Every product is built in isolation and while the details of Apple's product development process are not that "open" either from what I've heard often engineers don't even have a full picture of the product they are building. Building a reputation and community in your target market.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

It allows teams to diagnose sources of waste in their development process and continuously improve, reversing the usual trend of teams getting slower over time. These problems can be anything: development mistakes, site outages, marketing program failures, or even internal missed schedules. My experience is: usually not.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2018

million daily active users, expand into India as a second home market and launch the second generation of our Halo Sensor that has significantly more sophisticated sensing capabilities. It’s one that I can’t talk about, they are in stealth for at least another three years but it involves the most insane team of talent I’ve ever heard of.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And then five years later computers became — they dropped half in price and then the big insurance companies could buy them, and that’s when Thomas Watson, who ran IBM at the time, was quoted as saying, “There’s only a market need in the world for five computers.”. Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

Helps make marketing better. Every web analytics tool in the market measures single-session conversion rate, so if visitor, your potential customer, does not convert in that single session (i.e, I've developed distaste for the time on site metric. Yes, data is important. Makes for smart organizations. Blah, blah, blah.

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