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7 Reasons To Avoid Stealth Mode For Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s still popular these days for startup founders to operate in stealth mode, meaning no details about the idea or progress are shared with anyone until the big reveal and rollout. Startups in stealth mode often have a false sense of security that they can take extra time to do the job right the first time.

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7 Incentives For Testing Your Startup Marketing Early

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s still popular these days for startup founders to operate in stealth mode, meaning no details about the idea or progress are shared with anyone until the big reveal and rollout. Startups in stealth mode often have a false sense of security that they can take extra time to do the job right the first time.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. To that point, we are most excited when our founders are able to go from slide deck to product-market fit and Series A and beyond. First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #13: To be stealthy or not?

Austin Startup

We recently invested in Osano , which is led by the very talented Arlo Gilbert and is currently in stealth mode. By contrast, MOON is going to launch soon and is not in stealth mode at all. We went with the stealth mode approach prior to our launch, as I’ll reflect on at the bottom of this lesson. I could waste no time.

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Startup Due Diligence Is Not a Mysterious Black Art

Startup Professionals Musings

Remember that up to this point, the investor has primarily seen and talked to the founder and CEO, and studied written documents. Technical due diligence typically starts with a full one or two day review with the engineering and product marketing staff. Product or service readiness. Business and financial status.

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Understanding the Dreaded Investor Due Diligence

Startup Professionals Musings

Remember that up to this point, the investor has primarily seen and talked to the founder and CEO, and studied written documents. Technical due diligence typically starts with a full one or two day review with the engineering and product marketing staff. Tags: entrepreneur investor due diligence founder business. Marty Zwilling.

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Money Doesn’t Talk. Why Most Startups Aren’t Announcing Their Seed Financings

Hunter Walker

Not because they’re all operating in stealth or pre-product – in fact some already are earning $1m+ in revenue per annum. Founders are building small, focused teams based on people they worked with previously and referrals from their networks. And my sense is the trend carries outside of our portfolio these days.