Customer Development Marketing Naming Stealth 
news.ycombinator.com
SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
Hacker News new | comments | ask | jobs | submit login Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. I work for a stealth startup. The idea is just a very small part of the reason why we are in stealth. Investors are looking for proven entrepreneurs to enter this emerging market and they will get well funded too.
Steve Blank
APRIL 6, 2009
If you are a practitioner of Customer Development, ESL was doing it before most us were born. And in the 1960s ESL’s customers asked the company to analyze and interpret telemetry data even though this was a traditional function of the “customer.&# Smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth.
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Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 7, 2008
So, if youre interested in helping avoid mistakes like that, here are the steps: Get a domain name. It doesnt have to be the worlds catchiest name, just pick something reasonably descriptive. If youre concerned about sullying your eventual brand name, dont use your "really good" name, pick a code name.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 3, 2009
Stanford’s research on the earth’s ionosphere would lead to meteor-burst communication systems and Over the Horizon Radar used by the NSA and CIA to detect Soviet and Chinese missile tests and ultimately to the research that made Stealth technologies possible. Reply Nelson A.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 2, 2009
These problems can be anything: development mistakes, site outages, marketing program failures, or even internal missed schedules. Pay attention to whether people are comfortable “naming names&# in the meeting. I feel like I would have to introduce this by stealth. There’s no easy fix to this problem.
Steve Blank
JULY 23, 2009
to build sensors, stealth and smart weapons previously thought impossible or impractical, would give us a major military advantage. How delightful it would be to have a presidential candidate named Frost. The 1970’s and ‘80’s were the endgame of the cold war, and the U.S. These technologies which allowed the U.S. Very few of us do.
Up and Running
JULY 14, 2015
His name is Charlie and he responded to our question last week about whether you should stick to the plan or change it. What if something dramatically changes in the market? Now, we’re miles ahead of where we thought we’d be and we’ve won huge projects just by calling on and marketing to the segment.
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