Customer Development, Product and Stealth

Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

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. If we are not in stealth mode, it will just draw unwanted attention. niyazpk 215 days ago | link.

Stealth

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Weeks 8 and 9

Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

Understanding the left-side of the mission model canvas ( activities, resources , partners , and costs) forces all teams to ask, “Are we building a product for a DOD/IC customer only or do we have a “dual-use” product that could be sold commercially and get funded by venture capital?”. This post is a continuation of the series.

Silicon Valley

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Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

Every year, our team conducts more than 500 customer development calls to understand what challenges the community is facing. Product Hunt, an 18-month old startup, has evolved from a basic idea into a thriving online community. Check out his post on how he launched Product Hunt, a story captured in tweets, emails, and photos.

Lean

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Thats the conclusion Ive come to after watching tons of online products fail for a complete lack of customers. Our goal is to find out whether customers are interested in your product by offering to give (or even sell) it to them, and then failing to deliver on that promise. Nothing made any difference.

Demand

Demand San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment

The Entrepreneur’s Guide To 4 Categories Of Business Meetings

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2018

by Dori Sella, author of “ Business Meetings that Work: 6 Steps to Increase Productivity “ Starting a business, whether it’s based on technology, a new marketing concept or a product is always exciting. This is of course assuming you are prepared to go out of ‘stealth mode’ – don’t laugh.

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Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up

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."

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode. It comes as no surprise as technology today enables companies to prove product-market fit much earlier in their lifecycles. Could they excel at customer development with enterprises?

Venture Capital

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Two ways to get a bonus 100k on your next funding round

The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 12, 2017

The money’s a blessing that allows you to buckle down and focus on product. Learning in advance that you don’t need to build a feature is one of the highest-impact (and most common) results of good customer development. But really, moving slowly by being out of touch your customers is vastly more expensive.

Stealth

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You.

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. Where were their production facilities?

Silicon Valley

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It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering.

Oakland

Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics

How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

Five Why’s rarely works for general abstract problems like “our product is buggy&# or “our team moves too slow.&# The net effect of all this was to make new engineers incredibly productive right away – in most cases, we’d have them deliver code to production on their very first day.

San Francisco

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The Road Not Taken

Steve Blank

JULY 23, 2009

scaled up the production of U-235 and plutonium from micrograms to tens of kilograms by 1945. to build sensors, stealth and smart weapons previously thought impossible or impractical, would give us a major military advantage. National Efforts In World War II the U.S. From a standing start in 1942 the U.S.

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Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Build a truly mainstream product. Build the product in stealth mode to build buzz for the eventual launch. The whole company and board play-tested the product to see its new features first hand. Everyone had fun; the product worked. But that was two full years before any customers were allowed to use it.

San Francisco

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Episode 8: Charlie’s Bcast Email, Startup Incubators, and 10 Reasons Why Startups Fail | The Bcast

Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

Peter: Or all the business but not the development knowledge let’s say. Or you have a product in a patent but no [inaudible 00:04:36] bring you to market. We were doing Social bookmarking around health and wellness products. ” And I say, “Oh, what do your customers think?” Taste the product.

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StartUpRoar

Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Weeks 8 and 9

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Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015

Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

The Entrepreneur’s Guide To 4 Categories Of Business Meetings

Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up

Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

Two ways to get a bonus 100k on your next funding round

The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You.

It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis

The Road Not Taken

Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

Episode 8: Charlie’s Bcast Email, Startup Incubators, and 10 Reasons Why Startups Fail | The Bcast

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