crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: mor.sl | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. The Founders Lie About Comfort Zones – [link]. Investors Need to Lose Their Egos and Founders Need to Gain Some Confidence – [link]. crowdSPRING Blog – [link].

Social Media 100

Social Media Small Business Central African Republic Design 100

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

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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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Cofounder 60

Genuine VC

MARCH 16, 2015

A couple weeks ago my colleague Dimitri Dadiomov published a post on NextView’s “View From Seed” blog which answered the question “Should we take Harvard MBAs Seriously as Startup Founders?” From the group, over 260 founders have launched around 90 startups, raising more than $2.5B in capital. Quite the contrary.

Cofounder 100

Cofounder Stealth Warrant Venture Capital 100

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

This is one of the blog we posted about how some company is doing SEO to promote the website. To help find the right keywords, Ive written an article on my blog Web Startup Help that details How to Do Keyword Research for startups. This post has been removed by a blog administrator. link] November 8, 2008 7:13 PM Jason said.

Demand 167

Demand San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 167

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 16, 2018

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. Note: this was originally posted on my blog at Lucky7.io Years after writing this post I was having lunch with John Mackey, the co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods.

Part-Time VPE 48

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Hiring Austin 48

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.

Stealth 90

Stealth NDA Startup IP 90

Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

This company will remain in stealth mode for at least a little while and it isn’t my place to divulge their plans, but we’re very excited about the founding team, market opportunity, and syndicate we will be part of.

Internet 100

Internet Stealth Cofounder Seed Stage 100

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2010

I was recently speaking with some founders about their fund raising process. I list all of the companies (except one in stealth) on my blog and this includes both VC investments and angel ones. You’d be surprised how many ex-founders and ex-CEO’s you can find this way. When the world was ending?

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Term Sheet Venture Capital Stealth Cofounder 298

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

What are “Reg D” filings with the SEC and why does this make it harder to stay in stealth mode? I asked some of the participating VCs, and they told me their attorneys had figured out a way to keep their stealth-mode companies stealthy.Yes, this strategy is not for every company. We spoke briefly about why. YOu should check it out.

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Stealth SEC Advertising Accredited Investor 285

K9 Ventures

MAY 27, 2011

Founders know this at the bottom of their heart — because their idea is like their precious little baby. In fact, most founders tend to take it to the other extreme that they don’t want to share their idea (subject of another future blog post on why Stealth is Overrated). The truth is that Ideas DO Matter.

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Equity Cofounder Silicon Valley Stealth 133

Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

He introduced me to Christian Gheorghe, founder of TIAN Software, a predictive analytics company acquired by OutlookSoft, where, as Chief Technology Officer, he introduced important and innovative Enterprise Performance Management applications into the market. With this as a background, I couldn’t wait to hear what Christian had created.

Cloud 73

Cloud Romania Stealth United States 73

VC Cafe

MARCH 17, 2023

The Generative AI gaming landscape Nov 2022 ( source ) In my small data sample (of Israeli gaming startups) a lot of startups in the generative AI gaming space are either missing in this map, or are choosing to remain in stealth until they have a solid demo out. steampunk airships flying in the sky. Generated in [link]. Here's why ?

Generative AI 195

Generative AI Stealth IP San Francisco 195

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Kanye West. Let's recap.

Technology 191

Technology Product San Francisco CTO Hire 191

Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. Co-workers arent’ comfortable with commandeline/Tortoise. 37 Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for August 12th - The zeitgeist daily on 08.12.09 Educated Nation | Higher Education Blog on 08.13.09

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Open Source Software Review Non-Compete Software 62

www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home About Contact Home About Contact The Metamorphosis Becoming an Entrepreneur, by Matt Mireles Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder I started SpeakerText in October 2008 during the financial apocalypse. You need a Co-Founder, not an Engineering Bitch. Treat everyone you hire like a co-founder. Start a blog.

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Founder Startup Cofounder Vesting 51

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

I feel like I would have to introduce this by stealth. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

San Francisco 164

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Software Review 164

mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

In April, “stealth” social media startup Kohort announced its upcoming launch. Within a few days, the site received thousands of user signups, according to its founder Mark Davis. It may not matter to you what Kohort is or isn’t, nor whether stealth is good or bad. To this day, the purpose of the site is still secret.

Pakistan 94

Pakistan Social Media Startup Stealth 94

VC Adventure

MARCH 18, 2010

Trada has been working in stealth mode for the last 18 months to build a system that harnesses the power of a “crowd” of search experts to work on behalf of advertisers. Tags: Foundry Companies stealth. Today we’re launching Trada. And fundamentally changing the game in search marketing. Related posts: Are you a PPC expert?

Search 83

Search Stealth CPA Campaign 83

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 21, 2018

There are many gems in there, including a screen capture of the texts I sent to Matt Laessig and Jon Loyens asking them if they would like to brainstorm ideas with me (thankfully they said yes, and then Bryon Jacob, our fourth co-founder, got involved pretty quickly after and has been an amazing addition to our founding team).

Cofounder 48

Cofounder Austin Incubator Stealth 48

VC Cafe

JANUARY 30, 2011

Last week I had the pleasure to attend the DLD 2011 (Digital Life Design) conference in Munich, which was co-hosted by Dr Yossi Vardi and Burda Media, a large German media company (for those who don’t know). I’ve attended quite a few conferences and industry events, but DLD manage to stand out. What was so special about it?

Europe 92

Europe Cofounder Stealth 92

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000.

Angel Investor 80

Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments. I mean, this is a big, big thing — big change for us, so we have a bunch of stealth investments — I mean, companies that haven’t talked about what they are doing yet. Mr. Marc Andreessen is a co-founder and general partner of the venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Build the product in stealth mode to build buzz for the eventual launch. Stealth is a customer-free zone. I know of at least five former employees that went on to become startup founders. Build a world-class technology platform, with patent-pending algorithms and the ability to scale to millions of simultaneous users.

San Francisco 150

San Francisco Lean Agile Continuous Deployment 150

Seeing Both Sides

JUNE 3, 2009

The founder and former CEO and chairwoman of iRobot, Helen has been the godmother of the robotics industry in Massachusetts. Helen is starting another robotics company (currently in stealth mode) and serves as chair of the national Robotic Technology Consortium. 4) Helen Greiner. 5) Yet Ming Chiang. 6) Eric Lander. 7) Paul Sagan.

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Rhode Island Technical Review Massachusetts Stealth 34