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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth. congrats to Fortress IQ on its $12mm Series A led by Lightspeed and a stealth co on their $13.5mm Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Smallstep , Clay , Dark , and Windmill emerged out of stealth. First check to Series B?—?congrats First check to Series A?—?congrats

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

We also have a better known brand than some of our early stage companies, so we can leverage that to help source talent. 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. See slides 33-35 of my presentation on recruiting.

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boldstart in 2017, enterprise tech in 2018

BeyondVC

We were first check leads in 8 founding teams including Wallaroo Labs , MState (fka hyperfab ), blockdaemon , and 5 in stealth. Corporate America is pressured to decrease costs and improve customer interactions and every Fortune 500 is a technology company. 2 exits including yhat (sold to Alteryx?

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The ever growing Israeli Generative AI landscape April 2023

VC Cafe

We know a lot of founders in this space choose to remain in stealth and expect the actual number of Israeli startups working on generative AI to be much larger and grow quickly. At Remagine Ventures we started investing in the generative AI space very early back in 2019. We’ll continue updating the landscape on a regular basis.

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Taking on Tech Titans

Reid Hoffman

All of these early-stage companies, you’re taking a risk on a bet; a bet of a future market, a bet on what demand will look like, a bet on how this will evolve. It’s a massive distribution advantage. But once we got out of stealth, it actually didn’t make sense to be quiet afterwards. Hindsight is always 20/20.

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Taking on Tech Titans

Reid Hoffman

All of these early-stage companies, you’re taking a risk on a bet; a bet of a future market, a bet on what demand will look like, a bet on how this will evolve. It’s a massive distribution advantage. But once we got out of stealth, it actually didn’t make sense to be quiet afterwards. Hindsight is always 20/20.

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

www.metamorphblog.com

Thus, the opportunity cost of joining your half-baked venture is dramatically lower than it is for legit professionals. “Stealth Mode&# = FAIL. Yammer is an awesome tool for fostering camaraderie on distributed teams. link] Geoffrey keymann Thanks for the useful tips,&# Stealth Mode&# = FAIL,this one is good,lol.

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