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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. Most of the startups we’ve backed at Homebrew don’t rush to announce their funding. They just don’t feel the need to draw attention to themselves or alert possible competitors.

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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. Shocking, I know.

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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. Aspiring entrepreneurs who are determined to operate in stealth mode, for fear of giving away their secrets, will find they lose more than they could gain by sharing.

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These 8 Disciplines Define A Fundable Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

If your strength is technology, find a co-founder who has a comparable strength in business, finance or marketing. Startups that operate in stealth mode until their solution is perfect usually acquire customers and investors very slowly. Find a partner and core team early to supplement your expertise.

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Announcing our investment in EnPowered, a payment platform to increase the rate of cleantech adoption

Version One Ventures

These projects require an upfront investment and it can be difficult to secure financing for energy projects, even when the risk is low and the ROI is strong. By turning capital investments into operating expenses, the platform will unlock all sorts of creative financing solutions and increase the adoption of energy projects.

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Nobody Announces Their Seed Round Anymore and That’s a Mistake

View from Seed

It seemed like every other TechCrunch post was announcing a startups’s new seed financing round. One aspect is demand-side: when the number of seed financings peaked in 2014–2015 timeframe , a new seed round stopped becoming “news,” and so it became less interesting for the press to actually report on these events. What’s going on?

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Four Stealth Israeli Startups with promise: Intential, SourceFox, INEZE, Crowdspot

VC Cafe

Self reported: Stealth-mode peronal finance security startup powered by the collective vigilance and wisdom of crowds. Also: &# Personal finance security startup powered by crowd-sourced consumer vigilance.&#. We heart big data, advanced machine learning, impossible match problems and the honest dollar.

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