Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

A popular approach these days seems to be for founders to regale investors early with a pitch touting the newest “million-dollar idea.” Very few individuals have the skills and energy to build a startup alone. If your strength is technology, find a co-founder who has a comparable strength in business, finance or marketing.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2020

On the entrepreneur side, founders like Brett Hurt and John Berkowitz have gone above and beyond for Breyer Capital. Alongside top-tier co-investors like Bessemer Venture Partners, Capital Factory, Live Oak, Mark VC, Valar Ventures, S3, and so many others, we aspire to help these companies achieve their trailblazing potential.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret. I have a personal diligence rule that when speaking to people at large companies, the facts that they tell you are very useful but their opinions about startup ideas no more valuable than any other smart person’s opinions). Peter Coles. Jon Russell. Jonah Peretti. Lauren Leto.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Ryan Hoover is the co-creator of Product Hunt , creator of Startup Edition , and instructor at Tradecraft. Follow him at @rrhoover or visit his blog to read more about startups and product design. I write about startups, product design, user experience, psychology, and other topics I’m passionate about.

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JANUARY 9, 2014

No clear vision or purpose This should be the starting point for any startup founder, but it’s often overlooked. Tony Hsieh Without a clear purpose, a startup can meander along without much momentum. in business we can create much deeper connections with our audience and give our startups a better chance of success.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 3, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up Last week I had a real blast meeting with the companies at the fbFund incubator at Palo Alto. The Lean Startup fbFund Edition View more documents from Eric Ries. We tend to equate startup success with making money, but that is a poor choice.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

2017 was another year of growing, learning, investing and partnering with amazing founders. Once again, we are grateful to have the opportunity to work with so many amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, and other collaborators to bring the boldstart family together. 2017 Recap. 2 exits including yhat (sold to Alteryx?

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K9 Ventures

JANUARY 26, 2016

“ US Navy Sea Shadow stealth craft ” by US Navy employee – [link]. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Stealth is overrated. Startups should use every opportunity to get their name out. …and I’ve said it to founders on more occasions than I can count: For startups steath is overrated.

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SiliconHills

AUGUST 17, 2016

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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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. I know you are still in stealth, but what can you tell us. Earlier this year I founded a new startup called KlickFu.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

We are truly to our founders, limited partners, co-investors, and friends for another year of growth and learning. boldstart kicked off 2021 by announcing the closing of $230M of funds, $155M fund V and $75M opportunities ii, to continue supporting developer first & SaaS founders from Day 1 to scale( ).

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 28, 2011

They explained they were building it "stealth". I fear this has become the default course of action for far too many startups and in many cases it's not the best plan. My friend Charlie O'Donnell (currently a principal at First Round Capital) coined the term "anti-stealth".

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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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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. If you’re an entrepreneur, you’re probably measuring everything you possibly can about your business and your product.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business and Startups: 5 DIY Things To Do For Your Brand! How To Choose A Market For Your Startup Or Small Business – [link]. crowdSPRING Blog – [link].

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 6, 2011

And congrats to Alex Le, cofounder of a prior investment, Serious Business, whose first game since the Zynga acquisition is CityVille.]. Although the industry is in much better shape than the dark days of 2008 and 2009, many CEOs have fully embraced the continue to internalize the lean startup principles that came out of those years.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We want to give our brightest new startups the connections and interactions they need to help streamline success. There were prominent founders of business like PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills and MyLife. AwesomeBox : AwesomeBox is currently in stealth mode so I’ll respect that. We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!,

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

We have built relationships with a set of service providers specializing in startups, and have pre-negotiated discounted rates with them. Effectively, we are a market maker between our portfolio companies and the late-stage VCs and large enterprises which are our co-investors. For example, consider public relations.

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View from Seed

JULY 9, 2015

It’s a common question that every VC fields from founders — and founders field from other founders, and marketers field from founders, and PR people field from founders. So, when should they — or any seed-stage startup — think about drumming up some PR and making noise around funding?

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 16, 2018

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. But as a startup, it is the difference between life and death. Startups are very hard.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

And they should be; the feeding frenzy in the innovation economy is in some cases because startups are eating the lunch of more established companies. Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode. New York Times’ timeSpace is a good example.

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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.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2016

by Brent Freeman , co-founder and president of Stealth Venture Labs. Startups that successfully scale understand they can’t just throw warm bodies at their problems — they often need to recreate processes that got them to where they are today.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

We kicked it off Sunday night with a boldstart founders and execs dinner where we talked about what’s next in cybersecurity with some of our portfolio companies like security scorecard , bigid , snyk , stealth co and many friends from the industry representing strategic partners and IT buyers. All is not lost!

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

It was one of those brilliant startup brainstorms that comes to the team in a flash, with a giant thunderclap. Eric, Excellent article about an essential technique for startups. 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.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 26, 2012

I reminded my Startup Owners Manual co-author Bob Dorf this is how entrepreneurs played the game, blah, blah, blah. I was headed to my second Lean LaunchPad launch, excited that the first one in June had led to four funded startups raising some $2-million from Russian VC’s. As usual Bob did one better.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

by Lihi Pinto Fryman, Co-Founder and CMO of Syte. The truth is, we operated in stealth mode for three years to make sure that our product could stand up against the solutions created by the likes of Pinterest and other monolithic companies. The truth is, there are so many startups making incredible products and guess what?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: March 4, 2018 At the 2018 SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event on March 10 and 11, 50 startups from around the world will attempt to impress a panel of judges with their skills, creativity and innovation. AirPop’s co-founder Chris Hosmer (pictured above) answered our questions for this interview.

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The Next Web

JULY 24, 2013

As such, when Fry gets uses and invests in your fledgling startup, you know you’re off to a good start but London-based Ticckle can boast just that. Fry’s involvement is largely thanks to Blacker’s co-founder Richard Hardisty. Like the two co-founders, rather than looking to make quick millions he was intrigued, Blacker said.

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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. So the answer to “Do you guys invest in hardware startups?” ” is indeed yes.

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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. So the answer to “Do you guys invest in hardware startups?” ” is indeed yes.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Amy Keller’s startup PurePlus transforms produce that would be wasted into healthful candy The Forrest Four-Cast: February 24, 2020 If food waste were a country, it would be the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases behind China and the U.S. PurePlus is disrupting candy with stealth nutrition. Female entrepreneurs must have grit.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

by Lihi Pinto Fryman, Co-Founder and CMO of Syte. The truth is, we operated in stealth mode for three years to make sure that our product could stand up against the solutions created by the likes of Pinterest and other monolithic companies. The truth is, there are so many startups making incredible products and guess what?

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The Startup Lawyer

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Great news — your startup just got accepted to an incubator! 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. Pre-money valuations startups receive from incubators are typically low…really low.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Like any juicy breakup from our adolescence, entrepreneurs also crawl their way through similar stages of grief when faced with startup failure. So, in an attempt to thwart other very eager entrepreneurs from making the same mistakes I did, here are 7 things I learned from my most recent of tragic startup failures.

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