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. Founders tend to be most worried about competition and press.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

Disclaimer: we have three portfolio companies in the consumer mobile space, still in stealth). Video + shopping is also highlighted in Global Web Index 2021 consumer trends report : “ The explosive growth of TikTok, the rise of influencers, and the need for brands to distinguish themselves online. credit App Annie. social media.

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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. 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. Marty Zwilling.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The company emerged from stealth in November 2016 and announced a $100 million investment round from Sir Ronald Cohen, Lloyd Dorfman, OCAPAC Holding Company, and Horizons Ventures. Orcam was created by the founders of Mobileye (NYSE: MBLY and one of Israel’s largest IPOs ), Prof. The company has no public URL yet.

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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. Workflowy (Web & iOS; free). MyFitnessPal (Web, iOS & Android; free). It’s how you improve things – you build, you measure and you learn.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

million to date and has managed to sign partnerships with some of the web’s leading video publishers. With verticals such as web, gaming, mobile and desktop software, utest has managed to tap into the vast market of companies that don’t have in-house QA teams. SimpliVT , a new venture in stealth has raised $9.2

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 13, 2014

I first met Tony Fadell, co-founder and CEO of Nest, in the summer of 1991. Unbeknownst to the rest of the world because it was in deep stealth, GM was trying to create what we now know as the mobile Web with the world’s largest telecom service providers and consumer electronics companies based on GM’s technology.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Founders Lie About Comfort Zones – [link]. Investors Need to Lose Their Egos and Founders Need to Gain Some Confidence – [link]. Want Venture Capital Funding?

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. I know you are still in stealth, but what can you tell us. Tell me a bit about the Founder's Institute.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Is Three Founders One Too Many? - [link]. Stealth mode” and other f’ing brilliant strategies – [link]. 18 New and Free Fonts For Web Designers – [link].

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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. 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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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Its founding team includes pre-eminent experts in the domains of computational linguistics and web-scale data mining. Self reported: INEZE (pronounced I-NE-ZE, means “here it is&# in hebrew) will dramatically change how people find products on the web. Currently in R&D mode and working with select partners.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Several followers offered me a job and introductions to other founders. Lenny recently sent me this direct message on Twitter: hey ryan, I got hired on as a short-term consultant for a stealth startup… so random. Fortunately, writing paid off. I ended up having more than enough opportunity. I was going to be fine. And it paid off.

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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. Inbound partners.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Its founding team includes pre-eminent experts in the domains of computational linguistics and web-scale data mining. Self reported: INEZE (pronounced I-NE-ZE, means “here it is&# in hebrew) will dramatically change how people find products on the web. Currently in R&D mode and working with select partners.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Great tips, fully inline with “Four Steps to the Epiphany” Also reminds me of Dharmesh’s “Stealth Mode, Schmealth Mode” — [link]. bruce – i’m not saying you should publish your idea on the web (which is what my describing them on my site would amount to). link] Stealth mode is back.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. ReadyTalk, a 15-year-old web conferencing software company, launched an internal startup. The United States Digital Service, a federal government agency, is building a ‘stealth startup.’

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 27, 2012

Today one of our portfolio companies, LinkSmart , has come out of stealth mode and unveiled its product, Total Link Management and $4.7M The technology LinkSmart’s founder Pete Sheinbaum and his team have assembled is analogous to many of the solutions we’ve seen and invested in for search engine optimization (SEO) such as SEOMoz.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

The same has been true of an unfortunate number of startups, they manage to generate a lot of hype, raise a lot of money, and sometimes make some of their investors, employees, or founders rich. bigs : @ericries says Stealth dev is a (undesirable, failure-presaging) customer-free zone. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

In April, “stealth” social media startup Kohort announced its upcoming launch. Within a few days, the site received thousands of user signups, according to its founder Mark Davis. It may not matter to you what Kohort is or isn’t, nor whether stealth is good or bad. To this day, the purpose of the site is still secret.

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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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VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2023

For years, investors asked founders “what if Google/Facebook/Amazon copy you?” Demis Hassabis, the founder of Deepmind, is urging we should proceed with caution. Is there room for a Jasper.ai to be valued at $1 billion when ChatGPT offers something relatively similar for free? Is UX enough of a competitive moat?

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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. I know of at least five former employees that went on to become startup founders. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Launch with a PR blitz, including mentions in major mainstream publications.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

Since getting started in October, the board has already invested work in three startups (all in stealth mode): whoisgreen.com , burringo.com and doitinperson.com. But a new angel fund is hoping that they’ll do the same in exchange for engineering talent.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The Small Business Tips Series is supported by Bantam Live , a web-based collaboration workspace with “Social CRM&# for small business teams. The web and technology bubble has a lot in common with the rest of the business world in that there are essentially two disparate groups — the haves and the have nots.

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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. The project’s founders, José Pinto Ferreira and Catarina Violante, said the device also learns your taste, adapts to your day and learns what and when you eat.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

There were prominent founders of business like PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills and MyLife. Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property. AwesomeBox : AwesomeBox is currently in stealth mode so I’ll respect that. And of course we had, TheMan.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

To help find the right keywords, Ive written an article on my blog Web Startup Help that details How to Do Keyword Research for startups. Now were not exactly in stealth-mode - weve pitched at Techcrunch - but Id rather not go dancing in my competitors faces. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. What a great post.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 6, 2007

recently broke the news on my fund’s ( Dawntreader Ventures) latest investment which is still in stealth mode. Matt correctly updated that Dan Ciporin, the former CEO of Shopping.com, is not a founder but a seed investor and board member of the company. Matt Marshall (amazing how he does it!)

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

This company will remain in stealth mode for at least a little while and it isn’t my place to divulge their plans, but we’re very excited about the founding team, market opportunity, and syndicate we will be part of.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

This company will remain in stealth mode for at least a little while and it isn’t my place to divulge their plans, but we’re very excited about the founding team, market opportunity, and syndicate we will be part of.

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Agile VC

JUNE 25, 2012

The company has been in stealth mode for the last couple months but I wanted to take this opportunity to talk about NextView’s investment in the company and our enthusiasm to be working with co-founders Dan Foody and Alex Cote. I first met co-founder/CEO Dan Foody a little over six months ago.

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The Next Web

JULY 24, 2013

Xan Blacker, co-founder of Ticckle, explained to The Next Web that Ticckle’s main aim was to “tickle your brain” through discussion of ideas – he actually doesn’t really like the word debate, he explained. Fry’s involvement is largely thanks to Blacker’s co-founder Richard Hardisty. It all sounds very light-hearted.

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adamac.blogspot.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Adam MacBeth Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10 Startup Red Flags Ive worked on a number of startups: from seed-stage through IPO, as a founder, employee, advisor, and consultant, as well as evaluating a bunch from the outside, so Ive seen my share of screw-ups. This means there MUST be a technical founder in a startup. Adamac Attack!

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2011

No matter how busy we are, we do our part by helping founders to connect with investors and mentors in Asia. Forget about keeping things in stealth. It could be web visits, building a team, getting users or revenue. It is our vision to help build a connected Asian tech community. We usually help if we can. #8

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2010

I was recently speaking with some founders about their fund raising process. Do a web search to find companies that they didn’t give you. I list all of the companies (except one in stealth) on my blog and this includes both VC investments and angel ones. But what was the VC like when the chips were down? After Sept 11th?

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VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2010

Legolas Media – Currently in stealth mode, The Legolas Media team is focused on innovating digital display media. NYSE: VMW) in 2008 for $67 million; P-cube, which was sold in 2004 for $200 million; web application firewall developer Imperva , B2B market platform developer Bizo , and Web 2.0 services developer Xconnect.

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