YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The truth is, we operated in stealth mode for three years to make sure that our product could stand up against the solutions created by the likes of Pinterest and other monolithic companies. Hire the Best Talent… and Borrow Their Clout! So, we stayed quiet and we tested and retested before we opened our mouths.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2014

Not because they’re all operating in stealth or pre-product – in fact some already are earning $1m+ in revenue per annum. Hiring Has Changed: Before the press was a way of generating interest for hiring. Most of the startups we’ve backed at Homebrew don’t rush to announce their funding.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth. congrats to Fortress IQ on its $12mm Series A led by Lightspeed and a stealth co on their $13.5mm Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Smallstep , Clay , Dark , and Windmill emerged out of stealth. First check to Series B?—?congrats First check to Series A?—?congrats

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Successful people look for complementary co-founders, and hire a multi-faceted team. Many entrepreneurs are reluctant to expose their idea to others early, often called stealth mode, for fear of it being stolen. You may be a product expert, but have little experience with running a business, or marketing, or sales.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The truth is, we operated in stealth mode for three years to make sure that our product could stand up against the solutions created by the likes of Pinterest and other monolithic companies. Hire the Best Talent… and Borrow Their Clout! So, we stayed quiet and we tested and retested before we opened our mouths.

Startup 113

Startup Investment Bankers Technical Review Cofounder 113

The Next Web

DECEMBER 19, 2013

More often than not, hiring managers rely on trusted recommendations and evaluate applicants based on tangible things they have accomplished. GitHub shows hiring managers what they have accomplished. Does anyone even read your resume anyway? And this is where GitHub shines. GitHub can be a fantastic resume for software developers.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The company emerged from stealth in November 2016 and announced a $100 million investment round from Sir Ronald Cohen, Lloyd Dorfman, OCAPAC Holding Company, and Horizons Ventures. Nexar recently hired deep learning heavyweight Professor Trevor Darrell from UC Berkeley as Nexar’s Chief Scientist.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The truth is, we operated in stealth mode for three years to make sure that our product could stand up against the solutions created by the likes of Pinterest and other monolithic companies. Hire the Best Talent…and Borrow Their Clout! So, we stayed quiet and we tested and retested before we opened our mouths.

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Startup Technical Review Stealth Differentiation 99

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2014

It was Steve who first brought Will Harvey to visit Immersion, which led to a strategic investment in There.com, Will’s stealth-mode but sure-fire, can’t-miss startup. Present at the Creation.

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The Next Web

MARCH 10, 2013

Hasty is a seed-funded stealth startup whose mission is to improve the health of humanity. It could be anything: over the last few days I’ve had ideas for new product features, potential advertising campaigns, strategies for hiring the right type of people to fit into our team, and ways of creating the company culture we want to build.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Thanks to Teo Vanyo, Stealth Agents ! #18- But after a year of searching, I couldn't find anyone willing to hire her because of her lack of education and lack of professional experience. We had a billion-dollar project go haywire because of hiring processes. 18- Pursue what I wanted. Photo Credit: Jeneva Aaron.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 2, 2022

During hectic periods, the hiring department had difficulties locating specific files and maintaining paperwork, which took too much time. Thanks to Teo Vanyo, Stealth Agents ! #20- The potential client was so impressed that they turned around and hired him, even with a potentially workable offer on the table.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The party leader said they would stop hiring neuroscience consultants to register voters’ brain waves and read their facial expressions.). One example is so-called “ stealth neuromarketing ,” which tries to manipulate consumer behavior without their being aware of its influence, threatening consumer autonomy.

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. Some startups are in stealth mode and maybe branding and beautiful design is important. NVV: You’ve been Frontline Marketer #1 before, and now you’re on the hiring side as a VP.

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Marketing Sales Cycle Startup CTO Hire 120

David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

We have insight on the competencies of our companies’ personnel, and who is hiring or shrinking. with the announcement of a funding round, new senior hires, etc. Ideally each portfolio company would also report their own data to the data-trackers (except when they’re in stealth), but not all of them are diligent.

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Portfolio Technical Review Private Equity Database 60

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Hire the absolute best and the brightest, true experts in their fields, who in turn can hire the smartest people possible to staff their departments. Build the product in stealth mode to build buzz for the eventual launch. Stealth is a customer-free zone. Here are a few: We know what customers want.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Stealth marketing can cross the line in black hat strategies. This phrase represents a stretching of the ethical and moral standards in advertising – as it encourages hired actors to merge with a crowd of peers and to pass the message. Basic and inexpensive can sometimes gain a lot more traction than those with high production values.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2016

by Brent Freeman , co-founder and president of Stealth Venture Labs. The number of daily cases we had quickly rose from 10 to 100 to 1,000, and our lone customer service representative insisted that we hire another person to help out. So we continued to hire more full-time salaried employees to help ease the pain.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Hiring technology talent in Silicon Valley is getting difficult, and the time it takes to drive across Palo Alto has tripled—all signs of the impending apocalypse. Dr Jean-Paul Rodrigue , in the Department of Global Studies & Geography at Hofstra University, observed that bubbles have four phases; stealth, awareness, mania and blow-off.

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Silicon Valley Stealth Valuation Mississippi 327

Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

Thanks to Fletcher Wimbush, The Hire Talent ! #2- Thanks to Teo Vanyo, Stealth Agents ! #21- You could argue that in each case, he created a better option, so I think he does disrupt, quite successfully. He may not have rendered the other options obsolete, but the world has most certainly benefited from Elon Musk the disruptor.

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Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review 77

mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

Hiring Poorly. Make sure that new hires understand your rate of innovation. If you dont manage this expectation upon hiring, you will be managing employee issues six months down the line. Someone told me recently, Any time Im talking to someone who doesnt work for me already, Im evaluating if I should try and hire them.

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Cofounder Technical Review Startup Software Review 111

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 21, 2010

Are there benefits for a startup to work in “stealth&# mode? Outstanding post by @imjustcreative on risks of hiring a logo designer based on Google results – [link]. Creating Urgency in Your Sales Copy – [link]. To Succeed, Don’t Obsess About Reasons You Might Fail – [link]. I hope you enjoy these links!

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Build up the parade of people who will get behind you—because it will be easier to find customers, investors and hires as an insider than as someone trying to break in. Second, I’m working on a new stealth project that enables founders to get feedback from investors in a fast and easy way. Write a newsletter. Host events.

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adamac.blogspot.com

MARCH 9, 2010

It follows that an "idea guy" who "just needs to hire a few engineers" probably isnt running a tech startup. An HR Department After a certain point, all companies need someone in charge of hiring just to deal with screening, scheduling, and general process, but most startups dont fall into this bag.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Also known as stealth marketing, this clever tactic advertises a product in such a sneaky manner that people aren’t even aware that they’re being subjected to advertising. The company famously hired actors to pose as tourists and ask random people to take pictures of them with this cool, new device, sparking their curiosity in the process.

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Flash Marketing Stealth Social Media 162

JANUARY 9, 2014

Launching too late (or too early) Too many startups spend months (or years in some cases) in ‘stealth mode’, hidden away from prying eyes, and end up never releasing at all as uncertainty and competition spoil the show. Hire the best you can Hope you enjoyed this post. Be bold, be clever. Often the best growth hacks are the cheapest.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

bigs : @ericries says Stealth dev is a (undesirable, failure-presaging) customer-free zone. LeanStartup Of course, a big enabler of those kinds of mistakes is stealth-mode. Another recent meme that I hope more and more startups will take to heart: "stealth is a customer-free zone."

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

They have been in stealth mode for 2 years now working mainly with network infrastructures and content providers. They are going to remain in semi-stealth mode and are testing their products in the US, Asia, and Europe. We’re hiring” graphic. Qwilt is an “infrastructure” company, B2B.

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Indeed Plans to Hire 1000 Employees in Austin Condé Nast Plans to Go Big in Austin OJO Labs Lands $5.8 Million in Venture Capital Stealth Startup Magic […] The post 25 of the Biggest Tech Stories in Austin in 2016 appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

Hire or train a specialist for each of the key elements. Keep innovations in stealth mode until ready to ship. For a startup, nothing is well-known, and staffing is non-existent. Entrepreneurs must assume that initial iterations will require several pivots, and money and people will always be a struggle.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Start-ups often hire at one extreme -- closer to a Lead Developer or VP of Engineering -- whereas corporates may focus on their CIO, which is potentially quite a different role. Dan drew up his thoughts around a job description for a web Chief Technology Officer (or Chief Technical Officer), and invited us to follow suit.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 14, 2015

Instead of taking one big swing with the launch of a new product—devoting months to the design of one technical feature or spending years in stealth mode developing a product without evidence that customers want it—it is an iterative approach to learn who the customer actually is, and what’s honestly required to delight them.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

You raised four rounds within 18 months, waiting until your third round before coming out of stealth mode. We could grow faster than we thought, hire more people, build more initiatives, and reach more users. We could now hire faster, spend more on growth, and maintain the costs we want to maintain. And what’s been easier?

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David Teten

APRIL 6, 2015

In fact, I recently had dinner with a well-known VC who said that he was surprised to see the CB Insights database includes investments his firm has made in stealth companies which haven’t even been announced yet. So I’m flattered to be cartoonified, but the right cartoon would show ffVC’s entire two-dozen person team (and we’re hiring now ).

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View from Seed

JULY 9, 2015

a product launch, hiring a key executive, a rebrand, an expansion of market focus, etc.). Depending on how stealthy you plan to be (and there are pros and cons for being in stealth mode ), it’s good to have a public record of the company by generating some press. Announce in connection with other news (e.g.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

A professional social networking site has hired a content focused executive away from a traditional media company's digital arm. Why would LinkedIn hire away Dan Roth from Fortune a few months ago. 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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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Eventually I was able to scrape up a few bucks and hired Sarah to build me a website prototype. Eventually Ill hire a software geek of my own, but right now Im doing just fine without one. Also hire offshore devs to assist you in building your product. Getting Hired. IDing What You Need In Your New Hire.

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