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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

mashable.com

Like a traditional capital fund, Kayweb Angels also has a board of directors that provides its startups with connections, guidance and help securing further funding. 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.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Disruptors

Hearpreneur

They have completely changed the social network space, managing to innovate new ways to monetize creativity while competing against popular social media platforms. Cryptocurrency is going to really disrupt banking by taking over one of its essential services, namely, secured payments. 9- Discord. 19- Bitcoin.

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

mashable.com

In April, “stealthsocial 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. I think this strategy works.

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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]. link] Security. ???????? ????????? ???????. ??????? ???? ?????????? ? ???????????. ????? ????????????. I’ve personally never heard of it happening. link] Stan James.

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Socialware Launches Social Middleware Platform

Austin Startup

Socialware is emerging from stealth mode, and being increasingly public about its products and services. Now, for the first time, enterprises are able to integrate and leverage the public social networks where employees, customers and partners congregate. managing partner at Maples Investments.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode. At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising. Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. Then from a bottoms-up standpoint what you said is exactly right, I think, which is that the new generation of employees grew up on smartphones and tablets and touch and everything, social networking and Twitter and everything else. Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments.