Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

It’s still popular these days for startup founders to operate in stealth mode, meaning no details about the idea or progress are shared with anyone until the big reveal and rollout. Startups in stealth mode often have a false sense of security that they can take extra time to do the job right the first time.

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

Skip to content Tina MVC for WordPress « Finding The Need for International Pay-Per-Click Campaigns Lijit: A Fun Tool in Your PPC Arsenal » The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth Debate: Stay Stealth? One of my favorite startup debates is about stealth mode.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Every time I hear about a new startup that is in stealth mode, I wonder what problem they are hiding from whom. I believe stealth makes sense for large companies who can be sued for “pre-announcing” a new product to stall the market or kill a competitor. “No With stealth mode, you can’t learn early enough to pivot gracefully.

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www.humbledmba.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. As in stop being in stealth mode. Let me a share a few reasons why you dont need to be in stealth mode: 1.) One of the reasons youre foolishly in stealth mode is probably because you havent done enough market research to realize that people are already working on this.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The company was backed by Grove Ventures in an undisclosed round (still in stealth, so not much information available yet). Deepchecks, still in stealth ( source ). Deepchecks.com – focus on warning organisations before their deployed AI systems make bad calls using proprietary predictive analytics algorithms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2020

Too many early entrepreneurs go into stealth mode, or are unwilling to share what they know, for fear of ideas being stolen. For example, the hotel chain Ritz-Carlton , incents employees to try new ideas by allowing them to spend up to $2,000 per guest to overcome a particular problem.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

We know a lot of founders in this space choose to remain in stealth and expect the actual number of Israeli startups working on generative AI to be much larger and grow quickly. We made two new investments in this space which are still in stealth. In just a couple of months the current version includes 68 startups.

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www.frozennorth.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Stealth Mode Startup. Let me add another reason to that list: it isnt always that hard to figure out what a stealth-mode startup is really doing. Im at a tradeshow in Dallas this week, and we were visited by some very bright people from a stealth-mode startup. buy it on Amazon. (in)Frequently in)Frequently Asked Questions.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

Where Stealth is Good – There’s a lot of discussions on the web about whether startups should be stealthy before they launch or not. My general rule is that it’s good to be stealth in the early days while you’re building your product and testing your market. Most people totally advise against stealth.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Hacker News new | comments | ask | jobs | submit login Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. I work for a stealth startup. The idea is just a very small part of the reason why we are in stealth. If we are not in stealth mode, it will just draw unwanted attention. niyazpk 215 days ago | link. Shocking, I know.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2011

Every time I hear about a new startup that is in stealth mode, I wonder what problem they are hiding from whom. I believe stealth makes sense for large companies who can be sued for “pre-announcing” a new product to stall the market or kill a competitor. “No These things can’t be done while in stealth mode. Marty Zwilling.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JULY 28, 2021

The post Osmos emerges from stealth to unify enterprise data appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Stay in stealth mode until the last minute. Here’s some of my super-secret winning strategies from fifteen years of building startups. The last thing any startup needs is people finding out about it. You can get attention later — that’s not difficult.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

This wallet utilizes private ring transactions, stealth addresses, and ring signatures to consolidate the amounts, sources, and the intended target of the transactions. Entire transactions are executed through a spread out consensus, and without alterations, they are registered on the blockchain.

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Gust

OCTOBER 7, 2012

Every time I hear about a new startup that is in stealth mode, I wonder what problem they are hiding from whom. I believe stealth makes sense for large companies who can be sued for “pre-announcing” a new product to stall the market or kill a competitor. “No With stealth mode, you can’t learn early enough to pivot gracefully.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2018

BRAVA Investment Launches Stealth Female Project. Fertility is a major issue and so Stealth Female Project is a startup that advertises innovative approaches to women’s fertility issues. If you are interested in startups to watch out for in 2018, here are three that should interest you.

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

The post Hypergiant Emerges from Stealth Mode to Create AI Products appeared first on SiliconHills. Lamm co-founded Austin-based Hypergiant to fashion that future by working with Fortune 500 companies to create products for the artificial intelligence marketplace. And it’s not […].

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JULY 28, 2020

The post Dexterity exits stealth with 56.2M raised for its collaborative warehouse robots appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 7, 2010

We’ve been having a running joke within Foundry Group for several years about “stealth mode.” My partner Seth alludes to it in his blog post a few years back titled To stealth or not to stealth. Niel wrote a brilliant post on this titled The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth. You should also.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

We recently invested in Osano , which is led by the very talented Arlo Gilbert and is currently in stealth mode. By contrast, MOON is going to launch soon and is not in stealth mode at all. We went with the stealth mode approach prior to our launch, as I’ll reflect on at the bottom of this lesson. I could waste no time.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2024

Kooply , a game development engine in stealth, was of the 20 winners of the 2024 Game Changers list by Lightspeed Ventures. It can now be used to track players in official games. GAMING – Israeli game Lost in Play (by Snapbreak games) won the iPad game of the year in 2023 ( source ).

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K9 Ventures

JANUARY 26, 2016

“ US Navy Sea Shadow stealth craft ” by US Navy employee – [link]. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Stealth is overrated. Today, I have seen it enough times from companies in my portfolio and others that are not in my portfolio that have utilized the “We’re in stealth mode” line.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Type IIA is popular due to its low weight and stealth. It is not visible to others and can protect against certain types of pistols. However, melee weapons can cause significant damage to the user. It is comfortable to wear under a jacket and does not restrict the wearer’s movements at all.

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deal architect

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

I have known Charles Phillips, CEO of Infor for going on 2 decades now. He was a polymath way before I wrote a book celebrating them. He has computer science and law degrees in addition to an MBA.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Being in "stealth mode" is, as Wilson argues, often seen as a bad idea for startups. So why stay stealth? How do you define "stealth"? Is stealth really a matter of locking yourself and your team away in the proverbial garage, working in utter isolation into the day you launch your product?

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VC Adventure

APRIL 8, 2010

Recently Dan Frommer over at the Silicon Alley Insider wrote about the reemergence of “stealth mode ”. Niel Robertson, the CEO of Trada, wrote one of the best articles that I think I’ve read on the subject of stealth on the Trada blog that further describes our thought process around operating the business stealthfully for a number of months.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 19, 2018

After working in stealth mode for two years in China and Austin, Wanchain launched its digital currency platform this week at a Bitcoin conference in Miami. The post After Two Years in Stealth-Mode, Austin-based Wanchain Launches Digital Currency Platform appeared first on SiliconHills.

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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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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Yes, there is certainly risk in this perspective and there is a logical set of reasoning for operating in stealth mode. First, this copycat threat leaves entrepreneurs hesitating to share their startup idea and early experiments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2014

It’s popular these days for startup founders to operate in stealth mode, meaning no details about the idea or progress are shared with anyone until the big reveal and rollout. Startups in stealth mode often have a false sense of security that they can take extra time to do the job right the first time. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2017

Investors avoid startups that are in stealth mode, long development cycles, and an inflexible business model. The lean startup methodology, popularized by Eric Ries about ten years ago, expedites new business success through iterative solution cycles, focused business experiments, and validated learning.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth. congrats to Fortress IQ on its $12mm Series A led by Lightspeed and a stealth co on their $13.5mm Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Smallstep , Clay , Dark , and Windmill emerged out of stealth. First check to Series B?—?congrats First check to Series A?—?congrats

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The post API startup Noname Security launches out of stealth in a hot area of security with $25 million in funding and its CEO explains why resisting layoffs despite the pandemic was crucial appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2023

But operating in stealth mode, or waiting for that perfect investor to find you, or feeling entitled, is even less effective. Angel investors typically provide early-stage rollout funding, while venture capital firms won’t be interested until you have real traction and revenue during scaling.

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

This week, Passage emerged from stealth operations and launched its beta, and announced $4 million […]. A year ago, Anna Pobletts and Cole Hecht hatched the idea for Passage, a passwordless authentication service for a website that uses biometrics.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

It’s nice to finally not be in stealth mode! The goal is not only to help local service-based merchants find new business but also to help them be more efficient in booking existing customers which should help with loyalty. So there you have it. I think it’s a beautifully designed site and product.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2022

It can use fewer emissions to get the same detection result, for better detection accuracy at the same power levels – even detecting stealth aircraft. Quantum sensors could make the ocean transparent for Anti-submarine warfare, create unjammable A2/AD, detect stealth aircraft, find hidden tunnels and weapons of mass destruction, etc.

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