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8 Ways To Get Off The Ground With Angel Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Angel investors are still the lifeblood of early-stage startups, despite the surge of activity in crowdfunding and an increasing early interest from venture capitalists. Come with a product built and a proven business model. Simplicity is preferred at this stage.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

It was also beneficial because I got some good experience with both B2B and B2C business models. I know you are still in stealth, but what can you tell us. And what do you think about the controversy about stealth vs. not for startups? After BITSource was successfully acquired, I moved to L.A. How did you do that?

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10 ways you’ll probably f**k up your startup — Spook Studio — Medium

in business we can create much deeper connections with our audience and give our startups a better chance of success. I recently developed a more human framework for early-stage startups to define their startup DNA and lay some foundations for a sustainable business. By focusing on the ‘why?’

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Marketing Your Startup: A Billion-Dollar Company’s First Marketer Reflects Back

View from Seed

EM: When you’re at an early stage, you don’t know what that buyer path looks like yet, so you should be trying all different strategies to get data and figure out the playbook. Some startups are in stealth mode and maybe branding and beautiful design is important. Where do you land on that spectrum?

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Putting yourself out there! (part 2)

Austin Startup

What better way to test your product and business model than in front of 200 people within your target sector! Sprung in stealth mode! One of the tips Matt suggested was to research the VC/angel panel to understand their backgrounds, business status and what things interested them.

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A Small Change Seed Funds Can Make To Their Websites To Help Founders (and Themselves)

Hunter Walker

Given that more early stage startups are staying quiet about their financings (not stealth per se, just not announcing they’ve raised money), there can be a substantial lag between a firm’s investments and the display of these logos on their website, sometimes sending incomplete signals to new founders about what the fund is seeking.

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Don’t Jump Too Soon: How To Properly Pace Business Growth

YoungUpstarts

by Brent Freeman , co-founder and president of Stealth Venture Labs. Despite what many entrepreneurs may think, know this: Not all growth is good growth. In fact, expanding too quickly can be just as dangerous as not growing at all. Companies that put their noses ahead of their skis in a quest for glory often lose balance and fall flat.