Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

bigs : @ericries says Stealth dev is a (undesirable, failure-presaging) customer-free zone. LeanStartup Of course, a big enabler of those kinds of mistakes is stealth-mode. Another recent meme that I hope more and more startups will take to heart: "stealth is a customer-free zone." for Harvard Business Revie. Amazon PostRank

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2017

Now that people are used to being able to do some ‘stealth’ intelligence gathering by going online, it seems intrusive and bothersome to make a phone call or request information by mail. Use it to get into conversations with your most enthusiastic customers. Highly motivated prospects may make the effort, but most won’t bother.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 16, 2018

At the time I applied, Wharton’s MBA program was ranked #1 in the country for the prior six years. 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. It was very intimidating to apply and face potential rejection.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Think of the Amazon affiliate program where you’re paid if you help Amazon sell books (I think on average Amazon pays about 7% of sales). They know that a call will lead to a higher conversion rate and a better chance to cross-sell products leading to higher average order values. I’ll save it for a future post.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

PurePlus is disrupting candy with stealth nutrition. Hugh Forrest serves as Chief Programming Officer at SXSW , the world’s most unique gathering of creative professionals. PurePlus has created a healthy candy wafer called FAVES that is made from the most climate impactful, imperfect and nutrient dense fruits and vegetables.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Max Shapiro s People Connect Staffing has an innovative program called Employees Without Paychecks. This program helps pre-funded startups get work done by professionals willing to work without a formal paycheck. I went to every programming event I could find on Meetup.com. Labels: Programming , Recruiting Events , Rejection.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2018

The SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event (as well as the Demo Day) takes place within the Startup & Tech Sectors track of programming. Capture, conversion and storage economics are getting to the point where real multiplier effects can be realized. We’ll triple our user base in 2018, which is currently around 1.5

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The Startup Lawyer

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Thus your startup needs to determine the intangible value offered by the incubator (and yes, a $150,000 convertible note with no cap and no conversion discount qualifies as an intangible). This advice holds true for even if the incubator’s program provides tangible items free and such items have an assigned monetary value.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. Mapping programs, CAD, circuit design, EMF simulators, speech-to-text… the documentation was disorganized and ambiguous, and the interfaces looked like they were designed for Windows 3.1. at 9:05 am [.] 3 William Pietri on 08.11.09

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Shortly after we sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard, I had a conversation with the legendary venture capitalist Doug Leone of Sequoia Capital. They called that program Eatsy. Some of the traffic-tactics we use involve good old fashioned payola: paid search, banner ads, affiliate programs, etc. Kanye West. That crazy chicken.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

During the conversation, Ramaswamy, Hoffman and Yeh explored how startups can approach building a differentiated product, to identify different levels of competition, and how large incumbents view the challenger startups. You can listen to the podcast here, and read the full transcript of the conversation below. TRANSCRIPT.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

During the conversation, Ramaswamy, Hoffman and Yeh explored how startups can approach building a differentiated product, to identify different levels of competition, and how large incumbents view the challenger startups. You can listen to the podcast here, and read the full transcript of the conversation below. TRANSCRIPT.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2023

So much so, that Meta recently launched a program to educate Israeli VC funds on the opportunities in the consumer market. One of the first companies (outside of Disney) to get access to the Snap Camera SDK, Zoog has some of the best conversion metrics I’ve seen for a B2C consumer app. founded in 2019, raised $13.5M

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

In April, “stealth” social media startup Kohort announced its upcoming launch. It may not matter to you what Kohort is or isn’t, nor whether stealth is good or bad. It got 10% conversion,” Carrella says. Kohort said the site was “stealth&# to play up the sense of mystery around its brand and to generate interest.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 6, 2019

We just launched out of stealth on March 5, so it’s great to finally be able to share what we’ve been up to! Hugh Forrest serves as Chief Programming Officer at SXSW , the world’s most unique gathering of creative professionals. Has Osano been involved with other pitch events?

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Austin Startup

APRIL 29, 2019

but it’s not a place ordinarily discussed among with the likes of Venice and Berlin … unless Airbnb happens to be the topic of conversation. temperate climes, great barbecue, and hosting multiple internationally known music/film/tech festivals each year?—?but

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thebarefootvc

APRIL 18, 2010

It is great to see that a conversation is finally evolving on the importance of gender diversity in the technology and venture capital sectors. My twitter stream and email inbox has been full of links to the NY Times article published yesterday — Out of the Loop in Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

It uses new words to define programming steps, job descriptions, development tools, etc. or decision-making processes (like understanding text and images) without being explicitly programmed to do so. Machine learning algorithms – computer programs that adjust themselves to perform better as they are exposed to more data.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Craig is currently the CEO and founder of stealth-ish startup BetterWorks. Serbinski has since gone on to invest in a handful of stealth startups in the gaming, mobile and location arenas. Passion was certainly a recurring topic of conversation amongst the investors we interviewed.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

It is reflected in the obsession with Conversion Rate. Every web analytics tool in the market measures single-session conversion rate, so if visitor, your potential customer, does not convert in that single session (i.e, When your KPI is revenue, you are focused on trying to get as many single-session conversions as possible.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

To learn more about the history of Bad Robot, listen to Hoffman and Abrams’ conversation on the episode “Make Room for Magic” on the Masters of Scale podcast.). Bear in mind, just like any of us working in stealth mode, there’s a limit on how many insider details J.J. It’s becoming one conversation. With that, let’s get started.

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