VC Cafe

OCTOBER 15, 2010

I nterntial : co-founded by Geoffrey Mugliston (who previously guest-posted on VC Cafe), Interntial is developing serious technology using NLP technology. SourceFox -started by Aviv Revach, who organizes the Mobile Monday Meetup in Tel Aviv and previously co-founded Mominis. Currently in R&D mode and working with select partners.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 15, 2010

I ntential : co-founded by Geoffrey Mugliston (who previously guest-posted on VC Cafe), Interntial is developing serious technology using NLP technology. SourceFox - started by Aviv Revach, who organizes the Mobile Monday Meetup in Tel Aviv and previously co-founded Mominis. Currently in R&D mode and working with select partners.

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Stealth Cofounder Matching Artificial Inteligence 74

JANUARY 9, 2014

No clear vision or purpose This should be the starting point for any startup founder, but it’s often overlooked. Whilst the tide is turning, there’s still a need to educate startup founders about the competitive advantage well-designed products and services can bring. Life’s too short to build something nobody wants.”

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Early Stage Startup Cofounder Design 102

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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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

Effectively, we are a market maker between our portfolio companies and the late-stage VCs and large enterprises which are our co-investors. Ideally each portfolio company would also report their own data to the data-trackers (except when they’re in stealth), but not all of them are diligent. For example, consider public relations.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

There were prominent founders of business like PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills and MyLife. AwesomeBox : AwesomeBox is currently in stealth mode so I’ll respect that. The team has experience in building startups (Doug Ludlow was formerly a founder in a TechStars company) and have all worked at local Los Angeles based startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Labels: customer development , search engine marketing 13comments: Jim Lindstrom said. Another way to promote the website is doing organize search. For example, make sure your website is in the first page of Google search for the given keyword. Eric -- This is a pretty interesting idea. November 8, 2008 8:44 AM OneDish said.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2010

I was recently speaking with some founders about their fund raising process. Do a web search to find companies that they didn’t give you. I list all of the companies (except one in stealth) on my blog and this includes both VC investments and angel ones. But what was the VC like when the chips were down? After Sept 11th?

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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.

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K9 Ventures

MAY 27, 2011

There is this common adage that gets thrown around in startup circles that “ Ideas don’t matter, and it’s all about the execution “ In fact, you can see for yourself what Google says when you search for “ It’s not the idea, it’s the execution.” Did search engines exist before?

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Equity Cofounder Silicon Valley Stealth 133

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. DEAL OF THE WEEK.

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The Startup Lawyer

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

But before your startup signs up and cashes that $[XX,000] check, your startup’s co-founders should sit down and evaluate the incubator’s offer. Most incubators take common stock and sit “side-by-side&# with the founders, but some may want some (weak) preferred stock and/or dilution protection.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Greylock investor Sridhar Ramaswamy , who co-founded search engine startup Neeva , says it’s more important for startups to think about creating a product that is useful and resonates with people before worrying about whether a large incumbent is doing it. TRANSCRIPT. But the business principles are very different.

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Cofounder Differentiation Search Advertising 69

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Greylock investor Sridhar Ramaswamy , who co-founded search engine startup Neeva , says it’s more important for startups to think about creating a product that is useful and resonates with people before worrying about whether a large incumbent is doing it. TRANSCRIPT. But the business principles are very different.

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Cofounder Differentiation Search Advertising 69

Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

I’ve been a web developer for 10 years and I cringe when I see that I need a module that’s not included…there goes two hours of my day searching, configuring and installing dependencies. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. Enter VisualSVN.

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Open Source Software Review Non-Compete Software 62

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The company emerged from stealth in November 2016 and announced a $100 million investment round from Sir Ronald Cohen, Lloyd Dorfman, OCAPAC Holding Company, and Horizons Ventures. Orcam was created by the founders of Mobileye (NYSE: MBLY and one of Israel’s largest IPOs ), Prof. The company has no public URL yet.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

VC Adventure

MARCH 18, 2010

While search marketing is already a huge business, more and more companies each day are discovering the advantages of advertising directly to customers through search engines. With different ad groups, ad copy and landing pages, search marketers can customize their campaigns to fit their business needs.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

want to sidestep the argument about whether or not it's good to be " stealth " or not, and work with the assumption that if you've purchased the domain name, you're going to put up some sort of website. Some of the traffic-tactics we use involve good old fashioned payola: paid search, banner ads, affiliate programs, etc.

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Agile VC

JUNE 25, 2012

The company has been in stealth mode for the last couple months but I wanted to take this opportunity to talk about NextView’s investment in the company and our enthusiasm to be working with co-founders Dan Foody and Alex Cote. And in it’s raw format, just searching for a contact may not provide much value.

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Cofounder Stealth Silicon Valley Mobile 140

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. No one funded us.

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Founder Startup Cofounder Vesting 51

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

Instead of telling people to look for *the* root cause, I have them search for *a* or *some* root causes. I feel like I would have to introduce this by stealth. As usual, this is a great post. I'm a big fan of doing a Five Whys analysis, and wanted to add one tip. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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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.

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Pakistan Social Media Startup Stealth 94

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

has announced this morning a $1 million round led by Genesis Partners, Blumberg Capital and Innovation Endeavors , Eric Schmidt’s investment fund, as well as private investors including Joe Londsdale (founder of Palantir). I sraeli startup Any.Do

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Mobile Stealth Semantic Algorithm 94

VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2010

Legolas Media – Currently in stealth mode, The Legolas Media team is focused on innovating digital display media. Co-founded by Yiftah Frechter, Yoav Arnstein and Ran Cohen, all former execs of recently IPO-ed Eyeblaster. Supersonicads was founded in 2008 by Gil Shoham (CEO) and Arik Czerniak (COO) and Nissim (Romi) Romano (CTO).

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Media Stealth Venture Capital 109

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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Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

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.

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Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

Read also: Q&A with Business Incubator Co-founder Joe Maruschak. Peter: Yeah, that’s a perfect question for a recent article we posted called Q&A with Business Incubator Co-founder Joe Maruschak. The second reason is actually still a part of team but it’s the single founder. Where do I go?

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Incubator Email Startup Oregon 60

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.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

see more > Search. Or maybe the co-founders have a poisonous relationship that will hinder the companys growth. Check out the tips below from founders, CEOs and investors alike. Young founders tend to complicate things too much, from structuring partnership agreements, financing, leases, etc. Follow @mashable.

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