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. My experience (3 time founder, 6 startups, 1 IPO, 5 colossal failures) is that we spend too much time looking for what we do wrong, when in fact, we may have done nothing wrong. February 5, 2009 5:43 PM Chris Lunt said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

bigs : @ericries says Stealth dev is a (undesirable, failure-presaging) customer-free zone. LeanStartup Of course, a big enabler of those kinds of mistakes is stealth-mode. Another recent meme that I hope more and more startups will take to heart: "stealth is a customer-free zone."

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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. Adamac Attack! If its your company, bear this strongly in mind.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

They had previously all worked together at a very successful company in the “telecoms meets Internet&# space, CallWave, which IPO’d 5 years ago or so. It’s still in stealth but plans to make announcements soon. For starters – the team is exactly what I look for when I’m looking to fund entrepreneurs.

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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. Co-founded by Yiftah Frechter, Yoav Arnstein and Ran Cohen, all former execs of recently IPO-ed Eyeblaster. Roi Carthy covered them on Techcrunch and Hebrew coverage is available on TheMarker.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 26, 2011

Nonetheless, let’s look at the prices of the new technology IPOs that Mr. Blank highlights in his argument: LinkedIn—Mr. Pandora—Is down 17% since its IPO. So, this is a technology IPO bubble in which all of the bubble companies are going down in price. Perhaps we should rename it the Incredible Sinking Bubble.

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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. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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Seeing Both Sides

JUNE 3, 2009

Helen is starting another robotics company (currently in stealth mode) and serves as chair of the national Robotic Technology Consortium. He recently founded another company, Entra (currently in stealth mode), with fellow MIT Professor Michael Cima. 5) Yet Ming Chiang. Yet isn't resting on his innovation laurels. 6) Eric Lander.

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

We’re filling it with our own team , plus a couple of startups in our portfolio ( Parsely , Phone.com , some in stealth mode). Although we don’t do too many jetés in our work (except when a portfolio company IPOs ), these floors are a pleasure to use particularly when wearing minimal shoes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

I feel like I would have to introduce this by stealth. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments. I mean, this is a big, big thing — big change for us, so we have a bunch of stealth investments — I mean, companies that haven’t talked about what they are doing yet. So that will be another enabler for a lot more of the Bring Your Own Device stuff.

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