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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

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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Cyber Threats Startups Need To Watch Out For In 2015

YoungUpstarts

Also, if it’s a company where the owner is wearing the hat of the CIO, information security officer, manager, web developer, and he’s managing everything because he is a startup owner, that person’s business is at a high risk of being a victim to cyber crime activity. Why are startups so exposed?

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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

mashable.com

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. As a rule, Kayserian says that Kayweb will take no more than 40% of a company in exchange for development work.

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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

Ubuntu is free, after 6 hours of research and command line tricks trying to get your laptop to connect to your network. I’ve been a web developer for 10 years and I cringe when I see that I need a module that’s not included…there goes two hours of my day searching, configuring and installing dependencies.

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HOW TO: Sign Up Users Even Before You Launch Your Startup

mashable.com

In April, “stealth” social media startup Kohort announced its upcoming launch. It may not matter to you what Kohort is or isn’t, nor whether stealth is good or bad. Kohort said the site was “stealth&# to play up the sense of mystery around its brand and to generate interest. Good to see the international representation.

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

page, can -- despite the occasional new release from Adobe -- be considered a dead language, with all that this entails (difficulty finding and retaining good developers, vendor lock-in, horrendous cost, poor support, porting nightmares, infrastructure constraints).

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

Craig is currently the CEO and founder of stealth-ish startup BetterWorks. Ted Serbinski: Angel investor Ted Serbinski sold his startup MothersClick to Lifetime in 2008 and joined the cable network as CTO of the ParentsClick Network. And for Serbinski, it’s a combination of the network referral effect and team personality.