Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2017

I found this perspective validated in a new book, “ Plan Commit Win: 90 Days to Creating a Fundable Startup ,” by serial entrepreneur and strategic consultant Patrick Henry. The result is a win-win-win situation for investors, entrepreneurs, and customers alike. Instead, find a partner with domain experience.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

I thought I’d try to look at it from a different lens, that of the entrepreneur. As an entrepreneur you should assume that. It is such a small community that it is hard to raise money by stealth. So what is an entrepreneur to do? I sometimes ask entrepreneurs. It makes my post even more poignant. __.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). We generally have a policy to only fund entrepreneurs once the first version of a product has shipped or it near to shipping.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2020

End of Year Update After officially announcing Breyer Capital Austin earlier this year after two years of active planning and due diligence, I received a humbling number of gracious emails and messages from Austin-based leaders, entrepreneurs, executives, and investors. We especially look forward to partnering with impact-oriented businesses.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

We had another solid year filled with learning, growth, laughter, and new projects and partners. Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth. We are truly grateful for your support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Startups which insist on operating in stealth mode in fear of competitor response miss the more important customer response. It’s amazing to most entrepreneurs how fast their little startup can become a battleship, hard to turn in a storm. Partners and distribution channels will take you seriously.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2020

As a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I’m always surprised by the fact that some never seem to be able to that first startup going, while many others never seem to stop, starting their second or third initiative before the first one is fully hatched. I’m now convinced that serious entrepreneurs relish the startup process more than success.

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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 Competitive to one of our stealth studio companies. We do this by working with a smaller group of companies. Sleeperbot : Messaging for sports fans. 1/3 probably a great company.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

More importantly, with the proliferation of seed capital and seed-stage startups, entrepreneurs perceived a round to be a double-edged validation: one which cemented your standing, but one which could also attract other capital to competitors. Inbound partners. There are legitimate reasons for a startup to be in stealth mode.

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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. link] Stan James. link] Nivi.

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The Next Web

JUNE 7, 2013

The eighth is currently operating in stealth mode (yes, even on demo day) but we’re digging to find out more about them. Cains said he’s also in talks with partners to adapt the technology for a variety of televised sport. Entrepreneur Insider UK'

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

We think coaching is a key lever for doing this, with our own team or through outside partners. A nalysis – One of the luxuries of being a VC is that we have a larger data set than most entrepreneurs of performance. Based on our data set, we help our entrepreneurs measure, understand, and report their performance.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2018

This is of course assuming you are prepared to go out of ‘stealth mode’ – don’t laugh. Depending on the complexity of the idea, most entrepreneurs will do some sort of research that will include meeting with people who are either in the field, potential customers, partners etc. Develop Partnerships.

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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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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

2017 was another year of growing, learning, investing and partnering with amazing founders. We were first check leads in 8 founding teams including Wallaroo Labs , MState (fka hyperfab ), blockdaemon , and 5 in stealth. Our partners include IBM and one unannounced Fortune 50. 2017 Recap.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Sprung in stealth mode! Mega logos for Awesome Businesses I was the “early-stage” placeholder and feel privileged to have shared the spotlight with such able and proven entrepreneurs who are successfully creating products which are impacting hundreds of thousands of children worldwide.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Graphcore (in stealth, see this video at 28:58) calls them Intelligent Processor Units. has partnered with the National Health Service in the UK to deliver personalised health assistance via an app. accelerators like Entrepreneur First actively targeting machine learning talent), and the location of target customer hubs?—?financial,

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thenextweb.com

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Entrepreneur. 3 Don’t go too stealth. Unless you have tons of funding (see Kohort ), be careful about going too “stealth.” Facebook partners with Opower & NRDC to create a social energy application. Energy Goes Social On Facebook. Grammy CMO spells out social media savvy. All Stories. Top Stories.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

When I met Nick, I was just an entrepreneur helping out a fellow entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs often measure every person they meet in dollars and potential revenue. As an entrepreneur, you have to consistently think about where each decision will take your business in the long run while still addressing your short-term needs.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2017

In the past, companies avoided sharing knowledge or technology, preferring stealth mode and relying on internal expertise to stay safe. Enable customers to customize your offerings, and learn from the choices they make. Continually look outside for talent, data, and technology. Connect and strengthen your customer ecosystem.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding.

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

We are excited about software entrepreneurs who are diving into this emerging wealth of data to develop new applications and business models that this market may never have encountered before. We’ll likely tread a little more slowly here and partner extensively with our friends in the ecosystem.

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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. In joining Launchpad he’s agreed to move here, which is a natural fit given their emerging set of media partners.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2011

A little air of arrogance is needed in an entrepreneur. Forget about keeping things in stealth. What’s yours, entrepreneur? Penn-Olson is a Young Upstarts content partner. That’s how I get involved in the tech community and I’m still meeting and connecting. It is never a waste of time. 4 Be humble. Build and ship fast.

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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. Be sure you have an honest and direct discussion with your lawyers, who should be viewed as true partners who understand these things.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 16, 2015

On the number of founders and companies: Some people are likely in stealth mode, and haven’t self-identified themselves currently as founders, which is merely a known bias in the study. Quite the contrary. Rather, as Dimitri noted, we’re at the beginning of the cycle for these recent classes.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 13, 2012

Some entrepreneurs start out to create a company that they intend to spend their lives growing and maintaining. To find out what strategies helped real-life entrepreneurs negotiate their own acquisitions, we asked four successful young entrepreneurs from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) for their advice.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

PurePlus is disrupting candy with stealth nutrition. Through being a ReFED Global Innovator , I have the opportunity to partner with like-minded entrepreneurs and track the latest innovations as part of the ReFED network. Female entrepreneurs must have grit. In a new category called Earth Functional Food?—?food

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

My firm, GRP Partners, invested in the company that innovated this entire category – Overture (formerly known as GoTo.com). For starters – the team is exactly what I look for when I’m looking to fund entrepreneurs. It’s still in stealth but plans to make announcements soon.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Ensure staff, partners, customers, and board understand the business technological vision. Design and maintain a roadmap of projects to meet demanding business objectives, taking advantage of trends and new technology where appropriate.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

At the heart of this “offset strategy” was “precision strike,” – building stealth aircraft to deliver precision guided munitions unseen by enemy radar, and designing intelligence and reconnaissance systems that would target for them. could design and produce. Hacking the Supply Chain” is focused on: energy and power generation.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

With a focus on seed investing in the mobile, agile, and smart enterprise and business models that harness the power of network effects, our entrepreneurs have successfully been able to raise over $200 million of financing following our initial seed investment. That is pretty self explanatory.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

I can't wait until I can write a post about startups and make sure it gets to every entrepreneur within two degrees of me on LinkedIn. The Wall Street Journal is getting into the community and content game as well with their soon to be released stealth GetSocial effort.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 13, 2012

Some entrepreneurs start out to create a company that they intend to spend their lives growing and maintaining. To find out what strategies helped real-life entrepreneurs negotiate their own acquisitions, we asked four successful young entrepreneurs from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) for their advice.

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