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Are You And Your New Venture Positioned For Success?

Startup Professionals Musings

The best founders operate with a key set of internal principles that allow them to break through all but the toughest business obstacles. He cites several studies, in addition to his own experience, that highlight the following key people drivers to business success: Founders need to be driven by impact rather than money.

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Stealth Mode Startup

www.frozennorth.org

Stealth Mode Startup. Ideas dont have a lot of value by themselves, they tend not to be unique, and by staying secret a startup gives up the chance to get valuable feedback from prospective customers and partners. Let me add another reason to that list: it isnt always that hard to figure out what a stealth-mode startup is really doing.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

We had another solid year filled with learning, growth, laughter, and new projects and partners. Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth. First check to Series A?—?congrats

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Weeks 8 and 9

Steve Blank

the teams spent the last two weeks learning what activities, resources and partners they would need to actually deliver their solution. The founder of this 1964 Silicon Valley startup was Bill Perry. His work at ESL made him one of the 10 founders of National Reconnaissance. The result is evidence-based entrepreneurship.

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These 8 Disciplines Define A Fundable Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

A popular approach these days seems to be for founders to regale investors early with a pitch touting the newest “million-dollar idea.” Find a partner and core team early to supplement your expertise. If your strength is technology, find a co-founder who has a comparable strength in business, finance or marketing.

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Breyer Capital Austin?—?End of Year Update

Austin Startup

On the entrepreneur side, founders like Brett Hurt and John Berkowitz have gone above and beyond for Breyer Capital. Alongside top-tier co-investors like Bessemer Venture Partners, Capital Factory, Live Oak, Mark VC, Valar Ventures, S3, and so many others, we aspire to help these companies achieve their trailblazing potential.

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Expa Labs? ?2017 Companies

Eric Friedman

We started Expa Labs to help founders build and ship new ideas. After reviewing over 1,000 companies and meeting with less than 5% for final interviews, we are happy to start the 2017 program working with an incredible group of founders. A stealth neural training company. (PS — if Earlier today we announced this at Expa.com.

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