Feld Thoughts

JUNE 27, 2012

Today one of our portfolio companies, LinkSmart , has come out of stealth mode and unveiled its product, Total Link Management and $4.7M This publisher then runs a never-ending fire drill with their sales, SEO and yield management teams to fulfill those obligations with their advertisers. in financing led by Foundry Group.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Craig is currently the CEO and founder of stealth-ish startup BetterWorks. Serbinski has since gone on to invest in a handful of stealth startups in the gaming, mobile and location arenas. If you’re lucky enough to score a meeting with Gordon, make the most of it — and don’t forget to talk revenue potential.

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VC Adventure

JUNE 27, 2012

This is a huge opportunity for publishers to take control of their key asset – the content which they produce – and use it most effectively to better the experience for their site visitors while at the same time generating more traffic and more revenue for their business. LinkSmart was built for publishers by a publisher.

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Stealth Affiliate Partner Internet 78

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

Israeli startup FootTraffic offers advertisers a performance marketing platform for location-based offers. Today, advertisers need to target each app separately to promote their location-based deals. Advertisers would normally have to go through agencies and it would cost them additional time and money.

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adamac.blogspot.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Stealth-mode" is generally unecessary and more likely harmful to your startup (and calling it stealth-mode calls you out as a noob). You start hiring a lot of people in sales and marketing to drive revenue, and while you may still be hiring people to do real work, the weight from the top starts to push down on everything else.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

For years and years fashion magazines have known for years that editorial and advertising is a blurry one at best--and it's what the consumer wants anyway. The Wall Street Journal is getting into the community and content game as well with their soon to be released stealth GetSocial effort. Picked up a fashion magazine lately?

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 3, 2019

They infiltrate the mind by stealth. I’d imagine you’re already doing this and it will only increase to the chagrin of social media forums which harvest attention for revenue. In 2019 I expect traffic declines in public social media and actual social conversations to be in back channels and in person.

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VC Adventure

JUNE 27, 2012

This is a huge opportunity for publishers to take control of their key asset – the content which they produce – and use it most effectively to better the experience for their site visitors while at the same time generating more traffic and more revenue for their business. LinkSmart was built for publishers by a publisher.

Stealth 48

Stealth Affiliate Partner Internet 48

This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Full disclosure: I'm an investor in a stealth daily fantasy sports company. DFS sites are major advertisers as well. You remember tax revenue, right states? Daily fantasy sports have exploded onto the scene in the last couple of years, and recent events have caused regulators to look at the area with increased scrutiny.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 30, 2011

The Big Picture panel: social, mobile, advertising, TV, media – with Google’s Nikesh Arora, Jim Breyer (partner at Accel and board member at Facebook), Thomas Ebeling, Reid Hoffman (founder of LinkedIn, angel investor and partner at Greylock), and Paul-Bernhard Kallen. Vast majority of revenue comes from payTV 70% in EU.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

I work in advertising and this system would work to analyze failures. We just add up the revenue we've made in the past few months from Win98 users, and compare to the pain that Win98 has caused as identified in 5Ys. I feel like I would have to introduce this by stealth.

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