article thumbnail

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. You Don’t Need to Show Off for the Fortune 500 CTO: Funding announcements used to be the credibility you’d need to get a meeting with the CTO or other management with purchasing power and a RFP.

article thumbnail

Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

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 41
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Meet the new Cloud Unicorn from Israel: Melio raises $110m to transform B2B payments

Cracking the Code

just months after it came out of stealth. It’s an industry that’s long been in need of digitisation and many businesses still find themselves wading through piles of paper invoices, manual processes and managing heterogeneous payment cycles. Managing the timing of payments is critical and can have dire consequences.

B2B 62
article thumbnail

7 Steps To Greater Satisfaction As A New Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

A breadth of understanding of common business principles , such as management, personnel and finance, is more important than a depth of knowledge in any specific area. The education will be invaluable in setting up your own business, managing a team, and learning how to deal with constant challenges.

article thumbnail

30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Investors will ask management what their “AI strategy” is before investing and will be wary of companies that don’t have one (Fred Wilson, USV). Voyager’s cognitive-computing, deep-insights platform assesses billions of publicly available, unstructured data points to provide insights for its clients in finance, retail and consulting.

article thumbnail

What Entrepreneurs Should do about Price Fixing

Both Sides of the Table

Asked to respond to the topic, “What collusion happens with AngelList, if any&# I wrote the following: “Um, let’s not be naive here and not think that a “form of collusion&# doesn’t happen on virtually any financing round. Typical questions: What do you think of management? Investors talk to each other.

article thumbnail

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]. Entrepreneur Chris Dixon posts on why its really not that dangerous to share your super-stealth idea with other people: There are [.]. link] Stealth mode is back.

Stealth 68