Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Successful people look for complementary co-founders, and hire a multi-faceted team. Many entrepreneurs are reluctant to expose their idea to others early, often called stealth mode, for fear of it being stolen. Then you need to set goals and metrics to use as the benchmark for your own results and expectations.

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The Next Web

MARCH 10, 2013

This is a guest post by Chris Hollindale, co-founder and CTO of Hasty. Hasty is a seed-funded stealth startup whose mission is to improve the health of humanity. In terms of your health, food consumption is the most important metric to be tracking – “you are what you eat.” Food Consumption.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Now were not exactly in stealth-mode - weve pitched at Techcrunch - but Id rather not go dancing in my competitors faces. ► 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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

" paragraph have the heading "Training New Hires", above the "Returning to the meeting itself." I feel like I would have to introduce this by stealth. It would make article more approachable initially, and easier to scan when I go back to reference it. It's just a thought.

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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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Hire the absolute best and the brightest, true experts in their fields, who in turn can hire the smartest people possible to staff their departments. Build the product in stealth mode to build buzz for the eventual launch. Stealth is a customer-free zone. Departments were built and were even metrics-driven.

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