BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

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. Dev-first API for interactive emails?—?will

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

Entrepreneur Ryan Hoover transformed an email list experiment into a venture-funded startup community with tens of thousands of active members. With positive feedback from his peers, Hoover decided to transform his email list into a website.

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Eric Friedman

JUNE 26, 2017

Building off of our learnings from 2016, we expanded the program to better suit the needs of entrepreneurs. A stealth neural training company. (PS — if This year we received ~1,000 applications, spoke to countless teams in person, by phone, and email, and invited 36 teams to interview with us in person.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

A frequent question entrepreneurs have when they are just starting their company is: how secretive should I be about my idea? This includes investors, entrepreneurs, people who work in similar areas, friends, people on the street, the bartender, etc. (I Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret. Share: [link] Jerry Ji.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2023

Savvy entrepreneurs start testing their ideas on potential customers even before the concept is fully cooked. This early in the game, any coverage and peer review is better than just being another unknown entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs who wait to be found are destined to spend a lot of time alone. Capitalize on yourself early.

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genuinevc.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Seven Reasons To Become a Founding Entrepreneur. Seven Common Tactical Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make in their Initial VC Pitch which are Simple to Fix. An Entrepreneur’s Perspective on Information Asymmetry in Bootstrapping. . Stealth Mode. Email Article to Friend. The Problem with Talking to VCs.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 29, 2012

Serial tech entrepreneur, speaker and consultant Scott Steinberg , author of The Crowdfunding Bible , explains how to make crowdfunding work for your startup. SS: You have to be strategic because there’s no stealth mode. RWW: What are the most common misconceptions startup entrepreneurs have about crowdfunding?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

If you’re an entrepreneur, ESL is the most important company you’ve never heard of. It involved building stealth aircraft to deliver these precision weapons unseen by any enemy radar, and designing intelligence and reconnaissance systems that would target for them. Smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Sprung in stealth mode! So I did, and I got caught after subscribing to one of their newsletters by an astute company COO looking us up and emailing me to inquire how I’d found them from Australia. The Problem Slide The VC/Angel panel consisted of 3 well-known Austin figures, all experienced entrepreneurs themselves.

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thenextweb.com

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Entrepreneur. Ask for the minimum number of details (usually just an email) and keep it as painless as possible. Be persistent when emailing back and forth with bloggers, and don’t be afraid to follow up, because it’s easy for pitches to get lost in an over loaded inbox. 3 Don’t go too stealth.

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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." They often get blurred by entrepreneurs!

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www.humbledmba.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. As in stop being in stealth mode. Since I was a new entrepreneur, I knew needed a lot of advice. As I reached out to successful investors and entrepreneurs, I made each of them signed my nifty NDA. Let me a share a few reasons why you dont need to be in stealth mode: 1.)

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Too often, an entrepreneur asks me what I think of something, when what I really want to know is what they think. Second, I’m working on a new stealth project that enables founders to get feedback from investors in a fast and easy way. Email Address *. First Name. Thank you!

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2011

Start by stalking others on LinkedIn , send emails, and do some real meet ups. A little air of arrogance is needed in an entrepreneur. We also get non-tech-related emails that seek advice on jobs, the Asia market and contact recommendations. Forget about keeping things in stealth. What’s yours, entrepreneur?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

AwesomeBox : AwesomeBox is currently in stealth mode so I’ll respect that. I first met him there and knew he was a talented entrepreneur that I wanted to work with some day. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Finally the day came, we unleashed the landing page, emailed our existing customers, and started advertising online. Depending on the type of product, postings on forums, classifieds and emails could give enough information to help gauge potential response. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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Up and Running

MARCH 29, 2018

The benefit of using project management software is that you’re usually able to store all of your documents and deliverables in one place, and you can avoid losing important discussions and decisions to the email or Slack void. Avoid stealth changes—or editing deadlines without notifying your team and relevant stakeholders.

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View from Seed

JULY 9, 2015

As an operator, not an investor, I’m amazed at how many casual, throwaway comments that happen inside a VC’s office would be genuinely useful to entrepreneurs building their businesses. This particular company, as a B2B SaaS business, would definitely benefit from driving traffic to convert into subscribers or leads on their email list.

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Austin Startup

MAY 9, 2018

Every so often, I get an email from an entrepreneur that starts something like this: “By reading further, you agree to the terms of our non-disclosure and non-compete agreement” My immediate reaction is to delete these emails with prejudice. I am not alone. VCs get inundated with pitch decks and proposals for new technology.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Email us or call +44 (0) 844 3579899 home about services blog labs Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate) « Upgraded your iPhone to OS 3 but files are missing? Apache with Django and mod_wsgi » Posted by Aidan, 6 th July 2009. Company registered in England and Wales #5189175.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2010

I personally had three separate data points from entrepreneurs who took money from the firm that said “never again.&# I really try to stay out of the middle of these things so I softly said to the team, “maybe you should contact these companies and see how their experience went? But what about once you have a term sheet?

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

An Internet entrepreneur needs a website. If a software geek really wants to try building something for no pay, theyre going to work for themself instead of following another cashless entrepreneur. Email This BlogThis! Reply Delete David Aug 16, 2010 12:00 AM It's simple, really: Most people aren't entrepreneurs.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. I’m bracing my inbox for emails from disgruntled Gimp users explaining how charging for software is bad, commercial software is evil, and my mother dresses me funny. Suddenly that ride across campus to save $.50 But I don’t buy it. 22 Rob on 08.11.09

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onstartups.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

This site is for entrepreneurs. Get Articles By Email. Your email: Blog Navigator. Stealth Mode, Schmealth Mode: The Real Reasons Why Startups Dont Talk. But, this is rarely because they are in so-called “stealth” mode, and have some big secret to global domination that they can’t tell you.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

Kayserian sees what he calls “angel developing&# as a way for entrepreneurs to accomplish the same end — a product — without giving up control of their companies in the process. . But a new angel fund is hoping that they’ll do the same in exchange for engineering talent. “It’s not been a difficult sell.&#

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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. It’s the first of two posts on the subject, and [.]

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Advisory Board. He's awesome.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Just to rank how difficult it was to protect a B-52 in a dense defensive radar environment, our current B-2 stealth bomber has a radar signature of about an aluminum marble, while the B-52 designed in 1950 has the radar signature of a 170-foot sphere. It was like trying to fly a whale through a fish tank and not get noticed.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

I feel like I would have to introduce this by stealth. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha. Lean Startup Circle - a mailing list of dedicated and helpful entrepreneurs. Want to learn more about me?

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Agile VC

JUNE 25, 2012

The company has been in stealth mode for the last couple months but I wanted to take this opportunity to talk about NextView’s investment in the company and our enthusiasm to be working with co-founders Dan Foody and Alex Cote. And of course email, CRM, and other tools for managing your network of contacts are far older.

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home About Contact Home About Contact The Metamorphosis Becoming an Entrepreneur, by Matt Mireles Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder I started SpeakerText in October 2008 during the financial apocalypse. “Stealth Mode&# = FAIL. The word for “visionary investor&# is “entrepreneur.&# No one funded us.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 21, 2010

Are there benefits for a startup to work in “stealth&# mode? An entrepreneur’s guide to crowdsourcing – [link]. Excellent post by Seth Godin on the challenges of dealing w/ email, social networks, etc. An entrepreneur’s guide to crowdsourcing – [link]. micah says not for all – [link].

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

This week we get an email from one of our listeners. Send us an email: Bcast@Bplans.com. Listen to Episode 8: Show notes: Charlie’s Email – (:31). Audio transcript: Jonathan: Hey guys before we get started with today’s episode, I just wanted to read an email that we got from one of our listeners.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Email us or call +44 (0) 844 3579899 home about services blog labs Which language should my startup use? Share this: net c# development django java language php software Were often asked by entrepreneurs which language their startups should adopt when developing their technology. Company registered in England and Wales #5189175.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And that’s been reflected in the entrepreneurial community, where entrepreneurs, especially between 2000 and 2008, entrepreneurs really only wanted to do — for the most part wanted to do consumer software, because that’s the only software that they could actually get anybody to adopt. That’s the entrepreneur we are looking for.

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thebarefootvc

APRIL 18, 2010

My twitter stream and email inbox has been full of links to the NY Times article published yesterday — Out of the Loop in Silicon Valley. Building out an ecosystem that gives ALL smart, talented entrepreneurs access to funding, and support for their fledgling businesses will benefit everyone in the long term.

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Steve Blank

JULY 23, 2009

to build sensors, stealth and smart weapons previously thought impossible or impractical, would give us a major military advantage. Unbeknownst to me, I was facing a choice between becoming an entrepreneur or working for a large company. The 1970’s and ‘80’s were the endgame of the cold war, and the U.S.

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