BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

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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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

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 Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. Product or service readiness. Investors are evaluating your process as well as your product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2010

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. Product or service readiness. Investors are evaluating your process as well as your product.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 20, 2017

As Ada Support launches its automated chat platform from stealth and announces an impressive $2.5 million seed round, we’re looking back at our journey with founders Mike Murchison and David Hariri. With great new traction and product market fit, the Ada team came out to SF to raise their Seed round in October 2016.

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K9 Ventures

JANUARY 26, 2016

“ US Navy Sea Shadow stealth craft ” by US Navy employee – [link]. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Stealth is overrated. …and I’ve said it to founders on more occasions than I can count: For startups steath is overrated. The same thing applies to product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

A popular approach these days seems to be for founders to regale investors early with a pitch touting the newest “million-dollar idea.” If your strength is technology, find a co-founder who has a comparable strength in business, finance or marketing. Ship a minimum viable product quickly, test the market and iterate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Ideas to improve the usability of an existing product, or ways to extend its audience, are not likely to be unique to you, and difficult to win over competitors. You may be a product expert, but have little experience with running a business, or marketing, or sales. Be prepared to ship a minimum viable product and pivot.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 29, 2022

The issue is that existing products focus on endpoints and on-premise datastores. Many of these products rely on an agent-centric architecture which must be installed on each endpoint in order to monitor data. Sub-categories include DLP (e.g.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

Companies like iHeartMedia, SiriusXM, and Spotify are investing in and leading the evolution of audio, focused on music streaming (on-demand and lean-back modalities), podcasting and content production. Disclaimer: we have three portfolio companies in the consumer mobile space, still in stealth). credit App Annie. social media.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Ryan Hoover is the co-creator of Product Hunt , creator of Startup Edition , and instructor at Tradecraft. Follow him at @rrhoover or visit his blog to read more about startups and product design. The way product managers, UX designers, and other “non-technical” roles think , communicates their ability and culture fit.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2014

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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2014

It’s 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. Before you finalize the product is the best time to talk about it and see if you can get some buzz started. Demonstrate a minimum viable product (MVP).

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Eric Friedman

JUNE 26, 2017

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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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Daria Shualy is Don Draper/product marketer at daPulse. They sell one startup (or more likely shut it down) and shortly after, they’re telling you how they’re “working on something new, it’s still in stealth mode.” The post Why every founder should work for someone else in between startups appeared first on The Next Web.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 28, 2011

They explained they were building it "stealth". Interestingly, very active angel and COO at Square , Keith Rabois weighted in on Quora in response to the question: "What are some concrete reasons for *actively* stealthing a startup?" Leveraging Product Feedback Earlier. Building a reputation and community in your target market.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. Product or service readiness. Investors are evaluating your process as well as your product.

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

Understanding the left-side of the mission model canvas ( activities, resources , partners , and costs) forces all teams to ask, “Are we building a product for a DOD/IC customer only or do we have a “dual-use” product that could be sold commercially and get funded by venture capital?”. This post is a continuation of the series.

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The Next Web

MARCH 10, 2013

This is a guest post by Chris Hollindale, co-founder and CTO of Hasty. Hasty is a seed-funded stealth startup whose mission is to improve the health of humanity. If you’re an entrepreneur, you’re probably measuring everything you possibly can about your business and your product.

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SiliconHills

AUGUST 17, 2016

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News A few years ago, Michael Klug left his job as co-founder and chief technology officer at Zebra Imaging. At Zebra, Klug worked for 17 years on its dynamic 3D holographic and light-field display products. He helped the company raise money and launch its products.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. I learned something: technical co-founders are a myth. Captain Recruiter. Real Advice. No Nonsense.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

2017 was another year of growing, learning, investing and partnering with amazing founders. Once again, we are grateful to have the opportunity to work with so many amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, and other collaborators to bring the boldstart family together. 2017 Recap. 2 exits including yhat (sold to Alteryx?

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

We are truly to our founders, limited partners, co-investors, and friends for another year of growth and learning. boldstart kicked off 2021 by announcing the closing of $230M of funds, $155M fund V and $75M opportunities ii, to continue supporting developer first & SaaS founders from Day 1 to scale( ). What’s in Enterprise 2022.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2016

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. Before you finalize the product is the best time to talk about it and see if you can get some buzz started. Optimize your web history and presence.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Our years of product management experience taught us that often the best insights can come from your customers. In our case customers = founders, and supporting the ones we’ve backed is our firm’s #1 priority. Here at Homebrew , we’re pretty into the idea of constant improvement.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Self reported: smart product sourcing (that’s it!). Self reported: INEZE (pronounced I-NE-ZE, means “here it is&# in hebrew) will dramatically change how people find products on the web. The aggregated product data can be easily queried, and thus compared, matched and filtered with unprecedented ease and power.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Self reported: smart product sourcing (that’s it!). Self reported: INEZE (pronounced I-NE-ZE, means “here it is&# in hebrew) will dramatically change how people find products on the web. The aggregated product data can be easily queried, and thus compared, matched and filtered with unprecedented ease and power.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. You’ll gauge people’s excitement level for the product and for various features. Great tips, fully inline with “Four Steps to the Epiphany” Also reminds me of Dharmesh’s “Stealth Mode, Schmealth Mode” — [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

Product Hunt, an 18-month old startup, has evolved from a basic idea into a thriving online community. It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. Check out his post on how he launched Product Hunt, a story captured in tweets, emails, and photos.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Five years ago, as the mania around seed fundings was accelerating, Founders were very eager to announce their seed round to the world. Typically, one that is orthogonal to the Founders’ network that wouldn’t have surfaced otherwise. There are legitimate reasons for a startup to be in stealth mode. Always be fundraising.

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The Next Web

JUNE 7, 2013

The eighth is currently operating in stealth mode (yes, even on demo day) but we’re digging to find out more about them. Its first product will be aimed at mixed martial arts (currently the seventh largest sport in the world, Cains says) and talks are already underway for getting products onto shelves.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

The Founders Lie About Comfort Zones – [link]. Investors Need to Lose Their Egos and Founders Need to Gain Some Confidence – [link]. The ABCs of MVPs: How to Get the RIGHT Product out Faster – [link]. The problem with a Lean Startup: the Minimum Viable Product | Paul Kortman – [link].

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Last week, one of our most recent portfolio companies, Ten Little , came out of stealth and announced its public launch. . Investing pre-launch is largely about building conviction around a founder, and we’ve been fortunate to have the opportunity to get to know Fatma over the past 9 years. seed round for Ten Little. .

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JANUARY 9, 2014

No clear vision or purpose This should be the starting point for any startup founder, but it’s often overlooked. Having a clear focus means it’s easier to communicate what your product is and who it’s for. One thing we make a point of doing with each product we work on at Spook Studio is to make a list of things we won’t do.

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genuinevc.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

What's Your Founder Superpower? Stealth Mode. I’ve recently been introduced to a number of startups that are operating in “stealth mode,” and have been thinking about what to make of this fact. To completely dismiss a company as making a poor decision because it is in stealth mode is off the mark. Seven Founding Sins.

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View from Seed

JULY 11, 2019

On Tuesday, one of our most recent portfolio companies, Otis, came out of stealth and announced its public launch. Investing pre-launch is largely about building conviction around a founder. In our view, Michael is an extremely high-potential founder that we have known for almost as long as NextView has been around.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

What better way to test your product and business model than in front of 200 people within your target sector! Moderator Matt with 4 relieved Founders Weekly 5 am Skype calls began and I’d jump online blurry-eyed to see a bunch of smiling faces who’d already put in big work days. Sprung in stealth mode! Matt was a stellar coach.

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