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Demo day arrives for Springboard’s Internet of Things accelerator

The Next Web

Today is the day that eight hopeful startups got to pitch their ideas to investors at startup accelerator Springboard’s Internet of Things (IoT) demo day in Cambridge, England. The eighth is currently operating in stealth mode (yes, even on demo day) but we’re digging to find out more about them.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Weeks 8 and 9

Steve Blank

But a decade earlier as undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, he was the father of the second offset strategy using software and semiconductors to build smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth aircraft that helped end the Cold War. Demo of final MVP. Pivot stories.

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Should Your Startup Stay Stealth?

ReadWriteStart

The Twitter exchange on Sunday went something like this: Robert Scoble tweeted that he'd seen a demo from Aweditorium , a " MIND BLOWING way to find new music. Being in "stealth mode" is, as Wilson argues, often seen as a bad idea for startups. So why stay stealth? How do you define "stealth"? fredwilson alert!"

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Announcing our investment in Inflection.io – marketing automation for product-led growth

Version One Ventures

We’re very excited to announce our investment in Inflection.io , as the company comes out of stealth with a $5M seed round. P.S.: You can request a demo here! Inflection is the only marketing automation solution purpose built for B2B product-led companies. If you wanted to buy new software, you talked with a salesperson.

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5 Tools to Improve Your Idea Before You Write a Line of Code

ReadWriteStart

In my last post on ReadWriteStart, I talked about how, in many cases, it wasn't an advantage to build your start-up in stealth mode. As a continuation of that theme, I thought it would be interesting to explore five tools you can use to iterate and improve your startup idea before writing one line of code.

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

View from Seed

Some startups are in stealth mode and maybe branding and beautiful design is important. Yes, customers are you number one goal, but marketing-wise, you need specific, attainable goals, whether it’s leads or more demos or free trials or press hits. So that’s one way to focus: goals.

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

Both Sides of the Table

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. AwesomeBox : AwesomeBox is currently in stealth mode so I’ll respect that. Thursday night was the unveiling of the newest batch of Launchpad LA companies.