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The Startup Copycat Fallacy

View from Seed

As a seed stage VC, I have a unique privilege of confidentially spending time with a number of entrepreneurs throughout their company formation and initial product development process. independently come to launch very similar products/services. without any knowledge of the other’s activities?—?independently

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7 Keys To Being An Exceptional Business Leader Today

Startup Professionals Musings

Many people believe that Steve Jobs did not become a recognized business leader until after his return to Apple in 1997, when he became more visible, changed his business style, and focused on communicating the big picture, rather than product development. Build relationships with known business leaders.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Disruptors

Hearpreneur

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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Twitter Link Roundup #130 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Six Myths of Product Development – [link]. Unlimited Vacation Doesn’t Create Slackers–It Ensures Productivity – [link]. Six Myths of Product Development – [link]. Sequoia Confirms Existence of “Stealth” Scout Program. The 5 Qualities of Remarkable Bosses – [link].

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Q2 2020 Quarterly Update

Version One Ventures

Cape Privacy emerged from stealth and announced a $5 million seed round , which we co-led with Boldstart Ventures. The funding will be used for product development and to continue their geographic expansion (more in Europe and eventually Asia). You can read more about our thoughts here. Funding Announcements .

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Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

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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The Entrepreneur’s Guide To 4 Categories Of Business Meetings

YoungUpstarts

by Dori Sella, author of “ Business Meetings that Work: 6 Steps to Increase Productivity “ Starting a business, whether it’s based on technology, a new marketing concept or a product is always exciting. This is of course assuming you are prepared to go out of ‘stealth mode’ – don’t laugh.

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