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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

You’ll refine your sales and investor pitch. What is Stealth? What's also interesting in Niel's piece is that he defines Stealth Mode not as not having conversations, but rather he says it's not make public pronouncements. The reality is that Stealth is defined differently in each case. Long live stealth mode!

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

You’ll refine your sales and investor pitch. What is Stealth? What's also interesting in Niel's piece is that he defines Stealth Mode not as not having conversations, but rather he says it's not make public pronouncements. The reality is that Stealth is defined differently in each case. Long live stealth mode!

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Money Doesn’t Talk. Why Most Startups Aren’t Announcing Their Seed Financings

Hunter Walker

Not because they’re all operating in stealth or pre-product – in fact some already are earning $1m+ in revenue per annum. You Don’t Need to Show Off for the Fortune 500 CTO: Funding announcements used to be the credibility you’d need to get a meeting with the CTO or other management with purchasing power and a RFP.

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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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Marketing Your Startup: A Billion-Dollar Company’s First Marketer Reflects Back

View from Seed

Initially, we promoted it to a list that we’d already developed through Website Grader, the free app our CTO Dharmesh Shah had built before we even had a product. NVV: Lots of marketers are under pressure to come in and generate demand right away, whether because sales is asking for leads or founders are demanding PR or user growth.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #10: The most proven way to hire well

Austin Startup

This was Paul Rogers, our first VP of Engineering and now the CTO at WhaleShark Media (book note: later renamed to RetailMeNot and I wrote about Cotter Cunningham’s amazing journey from failure to success in this Lucky7 post about resilience). it is, after all, harder to find that right executive versus the right sales person.

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10 Startup Red Flags

adamac.blogspot.com

Ever met a CTO/VP Engineering or CEO/CTO? If youre highly technical and drive the technology vision of the company, people will get it without you tacking on the CTO title. Stealth-mode" is generally unecessary and more likely harmful to your startup (and calling it stealth-mode calls you out as a noob).