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?" Saying you are a "stealth" company with no details certainly doesn't leave much to go on.

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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 Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for Mapl. Expo SF (May.

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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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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]. link] Lean Startups Blog – rants and raves from the startup trenches. link] The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth | Trada Blog. [.]

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

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. F-117 Nighthawk - 1st Stealth Ground Attack Plane These changes in American defense policy spooked the Soviets.

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

But a decade earlier as undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, he was the father of the second offset strategy using software and semiconductors to build smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth aircraft that helped end the Cold War. Second: I also gave the commencement speech at the NYU engineering school here.

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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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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 2, 2022

This cycle of solutions delivered and value received has been a staple for us since our inception and we expect to lean on this approach for the foreseeable future. . Thanks to Teo Vanyo, Stealth Agents ! #20- Thanks to Neil John, One Computer Guy ! #16- 16- Hit $1 million revenue. Photo Credit: Alina Clark. Photo Credit: Daniel Foley.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2014

The University of Maryland is now integrating the Lean LaunchPad ® into standard innovation and entrepreneurship courses across all 12 colleges within the University. It was Steve who first brought Will Harvey to visit Immersion, which led to a strategic investment in There.com, Will’s stealth-mode but sure-fire, can’t-miss startup.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 29, 2012

SS: You have to be strategic because there’s no stealth mode. It’s important to know upfront who you can call on for support, because you’re going to need to lean on your backers, partners, and friends and family. Think of your campaign as a series of battles in an ongoing war.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 6, 2011

Although the industry is in much better shape than the dark days of 2008 and 2009, many CEOs have fully embraced the continue to internalize the lean startup principles that came out of those years. I asked the CEO’s of the companies that I work with, ”What are your company related new years resolutions?”

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

One of the most important lessons entrepreneurs can learn from Dropbox is to adopt the lean start-up methodology and start. Thanks to Teo Vanyo, Stealth Agents ! #21- He may not have rendered the other options obsolete, but the world has most certainly benefited from Elon Musk the disruptor. 2- Dropbox. Photo Credit: Jared Stern.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Graphcore (in stealth, see this video at 28:58) calls them Intelligent Processor Units. But these processors were designed for graphics. The next step-change for efficient learning and inference will come from processors designed specifically for machine learning. A service for the insatiably curious.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

The problem with a Lean Startup: the Minimum Viable Product | Paul Kortman – [link]. The Difference Between Stealth Mode and Quiet Mode – [link]. Ad Nauseum Leadership: Use Repetition to Reiterate What’s Important – [link]. In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P.

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JANUARY 9, 2014

Launching too late (or too early) Too many startups spend months (or years in some cases) in ‘stealth mode’, hidden away from prying eyes, and end up never releasing at all as uncertainty and competition spoil the show. Equally there are others that launch a poor early version of their product in true lean startup style.

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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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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 26, 2012

I was headed to my second Lean LaunchPad launch, excited that the first one in June had led to four funded startups raising some $2-million from Russian VC’s. The problem was that I had 25 founders from all over the Russian republics expecting me to teach a Lean LaunchPad class 12 hours later in Moscow. Ukraine was magnificent.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2011

Forget about keeping things in stealth. 10 Stay lean and focused. Embrace the open concept. #9 9 Work hard, play hard. You need to have a healthy mind to run a healthy business. Work isn’t everything. Exercise, drink some booze and dance wildly to keep your mind sharp. What’s your current performance indicator?

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The Next Web

JULY 20, 2012

Here’s a mind-numbingly easy guideline : as soon as words like disrupt, stealth, rock star and gamification are used, all is likely lost. Joking about a Microsoft Kin for Tech Incubators is always fun, but when you’re wrapped up in a vision, it’s surprisingly easy to lean on the crutch of familiarity.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 14, 2015

Instead of taking one big swing with the launch of a new product—devoting months to the design of one technical feature or spending years in stealth mode developing a product without evidence that customers want it—it is an iterative approach to learn who the customer actually is, and what’s honestly required to delight them.

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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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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode. Conventional R&D can only address so many areas and it’s not exactly lean or fast. Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

We used these tools to keep pace with the Soviet threats and eventually used silicon, semiconductors and stealth to create an offset strategy to leapfrog their military. The Lean Innovation process is a self-regulating, evidence-based innovation pipeline. We and our contractors had the best technology domain experts.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Two very well-funded competitors dropped out of stealth when we pushed our alpha and I started putting far too much emphasis on competitor-killing features and not enough time getting to market. I was determined to have a well-branded, polished, feature-loaded, completely bug-free product for launch.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 17, 2023

The Generative AI gaming landscape Nov 2022 ( source ) In my small data sample (of Israeli gaming startups) a lot of startups in the generative AI gaming space are either missing in this map, or are choosing to remain in stealth until they have a solid demo out. steampunk airships flying in the sky. Generated in [link].

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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

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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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.

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onstartups.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

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. Follow @dharmesh. Subscribe to Updates.

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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]. To Succeed, Don’t Obsess About Reasons You Might Fail – [link]. micah says not for all – [link]. How To Name Your Company – [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. The 1970’s and ‘80’s were the endgame of the cold war, and the U.S. military realized that our advantage over the Soviet Union was in silicon, software and systems. These technologies which allowed 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

The advent of the cloud, open source development tools and lean startup practices have led to a different evolutionary pattern for startups. We heard a consistent set of themes: treat them with respect, bring real expertise to the table, and have an investment approach that is consistent with the new world of the capital-efficient startup.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Stealth mode” and other f’ing brilliant strategies – [link]. lean Democrat – [link]. Small Business and Startups – 13 Great Reads From The Business Press - [link]. Is Three Founders One Too Many? - [link]. 10 Things I, As A Developer, Wished More Entrepreneurs Knew – [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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Genuine VC

MARCH 20, 2012

info@startup.com <– The team is running in stealth-mode to look inconspicuous, but really wants people to ask. js@startup.com <– The founder is a Lean Startup disciple who wanted to put out a Minimum Viable email address. “I “I was the first John”) that will not whither as the company grows.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 20, 2012

info@startup.com <– The team is running in stealth-mode to look inconspicuous, but really wants people to ask. js@startup.com <– The founder is a Lean Startup disciple who wanted to put out a Minimum Viable email address. “I “I was the first John”) that will not whither as the company grows.

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