cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

A frequent question entrepreneurs have when they are just starting their company is: how secretive should I be about my idea? This includes investors, entrepreneurs, people who work in similar areas, friends, people on the street, the bartender, etc. (I Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret. Share: [link] Jerry Ji.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Now were not exactly in stealth-mode - weve pitched at Techcrunch - but Id rather not go dancing in my competitors faces. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

If you’re an entrepreneur, ESL is the most important company you’ve never heard of. It involved building stealth aircraft to deliver these precision weapons unseen by any enemy radar, and designing intelligence and reconnaissance systems that would target for them. Smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 29, 2012

Serial tech entrepreneur, speaker and consultant Scott Steinberg , author of The Crowdfunding Bible , explains how to make crowdfunding work for your startup. SS: You have to be strategic because there’s no stealth mode. RWW: What are the most common misconceptions startup entrepreneurs have about crowdfunding?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2012

Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media – [link]. Sequoia Confirms Existence of “Stealth” Scout Program. Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media – [link]. Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media – [link]. Who’s Next? – [link].

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

In my blockchain investment work (we have invested in six early-stage projects, including bloXroute , Enigma , FalconX , NEX and two stealth projects), I have been struck by the fact that decades of progress on applying the scientific method to entrepreneurship (e.g.,

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JANUARY 9, 2014

I’m hoping this will help to save entrepreneurs time in their hunt for success, whilst adding some more meaning to their businesses. It takes discipline to stay on track and not lose focus, but it’s a valuable trait that all successful entrepreneurs seem to have. Failing to ask for help Entrepreneurs can be a stubborn lot.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Graphcore (in stealth, see this video at 28:58) calls them Intelligent Processor Units. accelerators like Entrepreneur First actively targeting machine learning talent), and the location of target customer hubs?—?financial, But these processors were designed for graphics. A service for the insatiably curious.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 26, 2012

I reminded my Startup Owners Manual co-author Bob Dorf this is how entrepreneurs played the game, blah, blah, blah. —– Usually when you teach entrepreneurship, one of the key things you teach is tenacity , a vital characteristic of great entrepreneurs. Four entrepreneurs in a car. As usual Bob did one better.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

An Entrepreneur’s Guide To Patents: How To Determine Whether They Are Right For Your Company | TechCrunch – [link]. The problem with a Lean Startup: the Minimum Viable Product | Paul Kortman – [link]. The Difference Between Stealth Mode and Quiet Mode – [link]. Campaigns | NYT FiveThirtyEight – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2011

A little air of arrogance is needed in an entrepreneur. Forget about keeping things in stealth. 10 Stay lean and focused. What’s yours, entrepreneur? That’s how I get involved in the tech community and I’m still meeting and connecting. It is never a waste of time. The connections you make might come handy in the future.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

BMNT , a new Silicon Valley company, is combining the Lean Methods it learned in combat with the technology expertise and speed of startups. The offset strategy was smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth using silicon chips, electronics and computers that only the U.S. The OODA Loop was the Lean Startup philosophy before lean.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 14, 2015

Lately, I’ve been hearing from a lot of entrepreneurs experiencing pushback to the concept of minimum viable product. But remember that the goal of Lean Startup methodology isn’t just to build a product, but to learn how to build a sustainable business: a cross-functional approach is key to this kind of learning.

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The Next Web

JULY 20, 2012

Here’s a pro tip that’s extremely obvious, but often completely ignored by entrepreneurs everywhere: You should be able to explain your startup in one sentence. Here’s a mind-numbingly easy guideline : as soon as words like disrupt, stealth, rock star and gamification are used, all is likely lost. That’s it.

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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. Entrepreneurs today expect more than just capital from their investors. Teten: The new generation of entrepreneurs is asking more from their investors than just money. Can the founders communicate well?

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Like any juicy breakup from our adolescence, entrepreneurs also crawl their way through similar stages of grief when faced with startup failure. So, in an attempt to thwart other very eager entrepreneurs from making the same mistakes I did, here are 7 things I learned from my most recent of tragic startup failures.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 2, 2009 How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis In the lean startup workshops , we’ve spent a lot of time discussing the technique of Five Whys. My intention is to describe a full working process, similar to what I’ve seen at IMVU and other lean startups. Expo SF (May. .

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

A Lean Startup methodology offers entrepreneurs a framework to focus on what’s important: Business Model Discovery. Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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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. It’s the first of two posts on the subject, and [.]

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Just to rank how difficult it was to protect a B-52 in a dense defensive radar environment, our current B-2 stealth bomber has a radar signature of about an aluminum marble, while the B-52 designed in 1950 has the radar signature of a 170-foot sphere. It was like trying to fly a whale through a fish tank and not get noticed.

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onstartups.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

This site is for entrepreneurs. 23 Tweetable Insights From "The Lean Startup" (5 days ago). Stealth Mode, Schmealth Mode: The Real Reasons Why Startups Dont Talk. But, this is rarely because they are in so-called “stealth” mode, and have some big secret to global domination that they can’t tell you.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 21, 2010

Are there benefits for a startup to work in “stealth&# mode? 3 Rules for Building Features in a Lean Startup – [link]. An entrepreneur’s guide to crowdsourcing – [link]. – [link]. An entrepreneur’s guide to crowdsourcing – [link]. micah says not for all – [link].

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Steve Blank

JULY 23, 2009

to build sensors, stealth and smart weapons previously thought impossible or impractical, would give us a major military advantage. Unbeknownst to me, I was facing a choice between becoming an entrepreneur or working for a large company. The 1970’s and ‘80’s were the endgame of the cold war, and the U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Build the product in stealth mode to build buzz for the eventual launch. Stealth is a customer-free zone. As we move into a new economic climate, its my hope that our industry will stop this expensive kind of learning and start building lean startups instead. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 12, 2016

As a former entrepreneur, I have always viewed venture capital as a service business. The advent of the cloud, open source development tools and lean startup practices have led to a different evolutionary pattern for startups. In our experience, great entrepreneurs don’t want to be hatched, incubated, promoted or optioned.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

10 Things I, As A Developer, Wished More Entrepreneurs Knew – [link]. Stealth mode” and other f’ing brilliant strategies – [link]. 7 Habits of Highly Effective and Successful Entrepreneurs – [link]. lean Democrat – [link]. Is Three Founders One Too Many? - [link]. Literally – [link].

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

Number six is an interesting one and this mainly applies to technology companies or people who are building products is remaining stealth too long and with that is also being slow to launch. Jonathan: He’s got to earn it. Caroline: That’s right. A lot of companies say, “Oh, I just … I can’t put it out there yet.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

Lucky for you, time-strapped entrepreneur, weve gathered some tips from the pros to help you avoid some of the most common, game-ending mistakes committed by young startups. How many entrepreneurs opening words are about how stealth their project is, followed by a 10-page NDA to hear word one? Guarding The "Big Idea".

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