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Money Doesn’t Talk. Why Most Startups Aren’t Announcing Their Seed Financings

Hunter Walker

Not because they’re all operating in stealth or pre-product – in fact some already are earning $1m+ in revenue per annum. Party rounds blew up on a number of startups who found it difficult to get ongoing operational support from investors who didn’t have time or inclination to lean in.

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

Great tips, fully inline with “Four Steps to the Epiphany” Also reminds me of Dharmesh’s “Stealth Mode, Schmealth Mode” — [link]. link] Lean Startups Blog – rants and raves from the startup trenches. link] Finance Geek » Mistakes that startups make. [.] Share: [link] Jerry Ji.

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10 Secrets of Successful Crowdfunding - From Scott Steinberg

ReadWriteStart

RWW: How do you know whether crowdfunding is a better approach for your startup than seeking traditional forms of financing? SS: You have to be strategic because there’s no stealth mode. Ultimately, you’re trying to reach either as broad an audience as possible, or a very loyal and passionate [niche] audience of fans.

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16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make

mashable.com

Young founders tend to complicate things too much, from structuring partnership agreements, financing, leases, etc. Some entrepreneurs think it’s a luxury to have accounting, finance, or other support functions, but it’s important not to be afraid of spending resources early on for administrative efficiency.

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

We used these tools to keep pace with the Soviet threats and eventually used silicon, semiconductors and stealth to create an offset strategy to leapfrog their military. The Lean Innovation process is a self-regulating, evidence-based innovation pipeline. We and our contractors had the best technology domain experts.

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

Up and Running

They never worked with the startup who had needed to raise multiple rounds of financing. Number six is an interesting one and this mainly applies to technology companies or people who are building products is remaining stealth too long and with that is also being slow to launch. Jonathan: He’s got to earn it. Peter: Caroline.