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Breyer Capital Austin?—?End of Year Update

Austin Startup

Breyer Capital Austin?—?End End of Year Update After officially announcing Breyer Capital Austin earlier this year after two years of active planning and due diligence, I received a humbling number of gracious emails and messages from Austin-based leaders, entrepreneurs, executives, and investors.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #13: To be stealthy or not?

Austin Startup

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. data.world is the sixth startup that I’ve co-founded and led. I think Visual Sciences stayed in stealth too long, though?—?and

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Stealth Startup Magic Leap Officially Opens its Austin Office

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News A few years ago, Michael Klug left his job as co-founder and chief technology officer at Zebra Imaging. Klug, who has […] The post Stealth Startup Magic Leap Officially Opens its Austin Office appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Hypergiant Aims to Dominate the AI Industry on Earth and in Space

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK, publisher of Silicon Hills News At Hypergiant’s Austin headquarters, Ben Lamm, CEO, and Co-founder takes to the conference room’s whiteboard to explain its structure and expansion plans. Its […]. The post Hypergiant Aims to Dominate the AI Industry on Earth and in Space appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Is "Stealth" the Best Way to Build Your Business?

ReadWriteStart

It's always fun to meet up with so many new and old friends in just a few days in Austin. 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?"

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #10: The most proven way to hire well

Austin Startup

This was exceptionally hard for a candidate to prepare for in the early days because our company was in stealth-mode, as I wrote about in this post. And our sales defied gravity as compared to most startups in Austin. Years after writing this post I was having lunch with John Mackey, the co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods.

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Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

The same has been true of an unfortunate number of startups, they manage to generate a lot of hype, raise a lot of money, and sometimes make some of their investors, employees, or founders rich. bigs : @ericries says Stealth dev is a (undesirable, failure-presaging) customer-free zone. Danger, Will Robinson. Iterating at whiteboard !=

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