Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

Every year, our team conducts more than 500 customer development calls to understand what challenges the community is facing. ReadyTalk became interested in Lean Startup principles to develop new lines of business. The United States Digital Service, a federal government agency, is building a ‘stealth startup.’

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

He has been instrumental in the development of artificial intelligence and machine learning, which are key areas of focus for Google. Unpakt has experienced enormous development, with over one million move books currently available on its site. Thanks to Teo Vanyo, Stealth Agents ! #21- Thanks to Garrett Hayes, Birding Hub ! #10-

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 15, 2010

I ntential : co-founded by Geoffrey Mugliston (who previously guest-posted on VC Cafe), Interntial is developing serious technology using NLP technology. Self reported: Intential develops next-generation language processing technologies that enable businesses to derive greater value from their unstructured data assets.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 15, 2010

I nterntial : co-founded by Geoffrey Mugliston (who previously guest-posted on VC Cafe), Interntial is developing serious technology using NLP technology. Self reported: Intential develops next-generation language processing technologies that enable businesses to derive greater value from their unstructured data assets.

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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. with the clips.

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thenextweb.com

OCTOBER 17, 2011

3 Don’t go too stealth. Unless you have tons of funding (see Kohort ), be careful about going too “stealth.” Despite this, developing a physical presence can attract a lot of attention. Always develop ahead of promotion and only announce what you’re already working on (this prevents rumors of vaporware ).

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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. Stay hungry, stay foolish. Marketing who we are, not who we may want to be one day.

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adamac.blogspot.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Stealth-mode" is generally unecessary and more likely harmful to your startup (and calling it stealth-mode calls you out as a noob). Adam"s shared items FEEDJIT Live Traffic Feed My Blog List 2904 S Washington St :: mobiface :: next gen mobile interface thoughts A Sack of Seattle A VC Adam Lovings Blog Adamac Attack!

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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. Ill help with product development ideas, offer feedback, make intros to investors (if I would myself invest.)--anything Let me a share a few reasons why you dont need to be in stealth mode: 1.) humbledMBA. « Back to posts.

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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. New applications are being created and deployed at an explosive rate and an army of mobile users are demanding the same application performance as desktop users.

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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). The weapons were then manufactured in volume by U.S.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Start-ups often hire at one extreme -- closer to a Lead Developer or VP of Engineering -- whereas corporates may focus on their CIO, which is potentially quite a different role. Contribute to development of primary business plan, with input on focus, costing and approach (platform, build vs. buy, resourcing, hosting strategy, time & cost).

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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. At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising. It can help develop applications for the startup’s technology in its early days.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

What are “Reg D” filings with the SEC and why does this make it harder to stay in stealth mode? I asked some of the participating VCs, and they told me their attorneys had figured out a way to keep their stealth-mode companies stealthy.Yes, this strategy is not for every company. We spoke briefly about why. Primarily targets SMBs.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

To date our messaging has been clear, but we also could not ignore the fact that companies like Plain Vanilla Games took off quickly and became known as the fastest growing mobile game in history. focus on the mobile, agile, and smart enterprise". The big trend in technology today is the growth of mobile.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

Since we have the phone on us 24/7, most mobile applications can provide a better service to the user by requesting access to his location. In addition, e-commerce and daily deals have been breaking all-time records with a rise sharp of redemptions on the mobile. billion in 2011. ” So how will FootTraffic make money?

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

I recently met a junior software developer working for $200/week + room & board at a business geeks house. But AGAIN LEARN HOW TO CODE; front end, back end and or mobile development - SOMETHING CAUSE NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOUR STARTUP. understand that most of the risk is borne up front by the Developer. ONLY YOU DO!

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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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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2018

We marry the mobile-first pragmatism and ingenuity of China’s tech scene with the core creative and technical innovation Silicon Valley is known for, particularly in digital devices and healthcare innovation. AirPop currently splits time between San Francisco and Shanghai. How does that split in cities work?

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 13, 2014

Unbeknownst to the rest of the world because it was in deep stealth, GM was trying to create what we now know as the mobile Web with the world’s largest telecom service providers and consumer electronics companies based on GM’s technology. Not sure he knew, but I was dead serious. There was no hesitation from my partnership.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

Kayserian sees what he calls “angel developing&# as a way for entrepreneurs to accomplish the same end — a product — without giving up control of their companies in the process. Kayweb is named for its majority owner, the design and development firm Kayserian founded in Australia seven years ago. Have an account?

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Some examples: AI will be the new mobile. The company emerged from stealth in November 2016 and announced a $100 million investment round from Sir Ronald Cohen, Lloyd Dorfman, OCAPAC Holding Company, and Horizons Ventures. YouAppi (2011)- YouAppi creates adtech to streamline mobile user acquisition.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Innovid has developed an interactive pre-roll ad format called iRoll, that encourages users to click on moving objects with the interactive ads before watching the video. With verticals such as web, gaming, mobile and desktop software, utest has managed to tap into the vast market of companies that don’t have in-house QA teams.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2023

Lighttricks – the suite of mobile apps for photo and video editing, and most recently generative AI photo and video generation. founded in 2020, the company raised $43M to date) Spiritt – text to mobile app. to date) Zoog – a mobile app to connect families, using AR. Passed the $100M revenue mark in 2022.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

In April, “stealth” social media startup Kohort announced its upcoming launch. It may not matter to you what Kohort is or isn’t, nor whether stealth is good or bad. Make A (Smart) Game Of It Subjot , the brainchild of game developer Chris Carella, turned its coming soon page into a social game using a feature available on LaunchRock.

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Agile VC

JUNE 25, 2012

The company has been in stealth mode for the last couple months but I wanted to take this opportunity to talk about NextView’s investment in the company and our enthusiasm to be working with co-founders Dan Foody and Alex Cote. Is CardMuch integration available these days to third party developers? Our Investment in Cloze.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

AnyDo, currently in stealth mode, is developing technology to translate the user’s natural language voice input to the mobile device into actions, using voice recognition and semantic analysis algorithms. I sraeli startup Any.Do

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

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. Attending events around London, or talking with some of the development agencies present at the events, one might hear a startling set of opinions.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

We are seeing Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta rushing to integrate generative AI features into their products for consumers, enterprises and developers, and every week we learn of new mega rounds into AI research teams looking to bring generative AI technology to every field, from health to education, commerce, entertainment, etc.

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

We’re filling it with our own team , plus a couple of startups in our portfolio ( Parsely , Phone.com , some in stealth mode). I find that one of the advantages of practicing parkour and other bodyweight exercises is that the discipline is completely mobile; all I need to exercise when I travel, really, is a floor and a wall.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

You could be still doing that because you’re focused on what’s actually growing and what’s actually developing as a way of doing it. Similarly, mobile created opportunities for a bunch of people. But once we got out of stealth, it actually didn’t make sense to be quiet afterwards. It’s not that hard, is it?”. Why not?”.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

You could be still doing that because you’re focused on what’s actually growing and what’s actually developing as a way of doing it. Similarly, mobile created opportunities for a bunch of people. But once we got out of stealth, it actually didn’t make sense to be quiet afterwards. It’s not that hard, is it?”. Why not?”.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 6, 2019

Available as a browser plugin and mobile app, Osano’s systems read the compliance documents for every website, performing a 152-point inspection. We just launched out of stealth on March 5, so it’s great to finally be able to share what we’ve been up to! Has Osano been involved with other pitch events? like most technology companies?—?put

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VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2010

Legolas Media – Currently in stealth mode, The Legolas Media team is focused on innovating digital display media. Cellcom , the leading mobile provider in Israel, enters the financial services market with new “mobile wallet&# product. services developer Xconnect. See the Soho OS video demo below.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Hundreds of startups will succeed in this world over the next few years, like all the mobile app companies over the past 5 years. Alexia Tsotsis: Oh, the mobile –. Marc Andreessen: The mobile billing. Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments. Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Kapor is the original designer of Lotus 1-2-3 and former CEO of Lotus Development. Craig’s investment portfolio includes Graphic.ly , Klout , Postling, Mobile Roadie and MogoTix. Craig is currently the CEO and founder of stealth-ish startup BetterWorks.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 30, 2011

The Big Picture panel: social, mobile, advertising, TV, media – with Google’s Nikesh Arora, Jim Breyer (partner at Accel and board member at Facebook), Thomas Ebeling, Reid Hoffman (founder of LinkedIn, angel investor and partner at Greylock), and Paul-Bernhard Kallen. Asleep or online.

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