VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2023

One of the first companies (outside of Disney) to get access to the Snap Camera SDK, Zoog has some of the best conversion metrics I’ve seen for a B2C consumer app. (founded in 2019, raised $13.5M to date) Zoog – a mobile app to connect families, using AR. Disclosure: a Remagine Ventures portfolio company.

B2C 148

B2C Generative AI Artificial Inteligence 148

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. And we can offer investors metrics to play Moneyball – with the Investment Readiness Level. We think we can do better. Here’s how.

Oakland 326

Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 326

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. Departments were built and were even metrics-driven. But there was no feedback loop to help the company find the right metrics to focus on. Launch with a PR blitz, including mentions in major mainstream publications.

San Francisco 150

San Francisco Lean Agile Continuous Deployment 150

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." If youre not doing both, youre missing out.

Lean 60

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Cofounder 60

Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 6, 2011

Shawn Gupta of OhLife , a personal journaling tool over email, has similar sentiments in using metrics to drive product innovation: Make metrics a core part of our product development. Our engineers often come up with great ideas, and they are the most productive when they work on these ideas.

Stealth 60

Stealth Startup Lean Cofounder 60

View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Some startups are in stealth mode and maybe branding and beautiful design is important. If I had a business where there’s a six-month sales cycle instead, I’d need to wait longer and look for affects on some metrics that would provide an early indication of success or failure.

Marketing 120

Marketing Sales Cycle Startup CTO Hire 120

Genuine VC

MARCH 16, 2015

On the number of founders and companies: Some people are likely in stealth mode, and haven’t self-identified themselves currently as founders, which is merely a known bias in the study. Quite the contrary. Rather, as Dimitri noted, we’re at the beginning of the cycle for these recent classes.

Cofounder 100

Cofounder Stealth Warrant Venture Capital 100

SVPG

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Metrics = KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators). A head start is rarely large enough to matter, and time spent in stealth mode-away from customers-is unlikely to provide a head start. Small Batch = Incremental/Continuous Development and Deployment. Large Batch = Big Bang/Waterfall. Early Adopters = Earlyvangelists. ” Amen.

Lean 63

Lean Stealth Portfolio Engineer 63

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. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

Demand 167

Demand San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 167

Austin Startup

MAY 9, 2018

As a venture-backed start-up, you may benefit from stealth mode to prevent copying for a season, but ultimately comes a time when your technology must be promoted and made known to the world in order for you to find commercial success. The reality is far from that.

Non-Compete 55

Non-Compete Stealth Seed Stage Metrics 55

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.

Stealth 60

Stealth Engineer Leadership Design 60

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

So I have personal scars from what it means to over-index success using fundraising as the key metric. Success and fundraising are not one and the same. You can find Brent’s original post here. ). In terms of outlier success, the Class of 2011 was by far the standout entrepreneurial class, with 58 founders cumulatively raising $1.15

North America 120

North America Founder Cofounder San Francisco 120

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

I feel like I would have to introduce this by stealth. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

San Francisco 164

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Software Review 164

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.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22