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Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015

Startup Lessons Learned

Prerna began her startup journey after leaving a job as a management consultant, and launched Yaari, a youth-oriented social network in India. The United States Digital Service, a federal government agency, is building a ‘stealth startup.’ She wants to disrupt Hollywood with the Lean Startup method.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Disruptors

Hearpreneur

They have completely changed the social network space, managing to innovate new ways to monetize creativity while competing against popular social media platforms. Thanks to Teo Vanyo, Stealth Agents ! #21- Thanks to Tiffany Payne, Replace Your Docs ! #9- 9- Discord. Photo Credit: Garrett Hayes. 21- AMP Robotics.

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HOW TO: Sign Up Users Even Before You Launch Your Startup

mashable.com

In April, “stealthsocial media startup Kohort announced its upcoming launch. It may not matter to you what Kohort is or isn’t, nor whether stealth is good or bad. Kohort said the site was “stealth&# to play up the sense of mystery around its brand and to generate interest.

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Twitter Link Roundup #36 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Are there benefits for a startup to work in “stealth&# mode? Excellent post by Seth Godin on the challenges of dealing w/ email, social networks, etc. Government releases open source code – [link]. Creating Urgency in Your Sales Copy – [link]. micah says not for all – [link]. – [link].

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Socialware Launches Social Middleware Platform

Austin Startup

Socialware is emerging from stealth mode, and being increasingly public about its products and services. Now, for the first time, enterprises are able to integrate and leverage the public social networks where employees, customers and partners congregate. managing partner at Maples Investments.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode. At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising. When it comes to governance, putting operating heads on portfolio company boards hasn’t worked.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

And then medium-size businesses start to use it, and then large businesses start to use it, and then eventually the government starts to use it. Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments. And then small businesses start to use it. But this is a complete change from the way it has always worked.