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Demo day arrives for Springboard’s Internet of Things accelerator

The Next Web

Today is the day that eight hopeful startups got to pitch their ideas to investors at startup accelerator Springboard’s Internet of Things (IoT) demo day in Cambridge, England. The eighth is currently operating in stealth mode (yes, even on demo day) but we’re digging to find out more about them.

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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. Weve got a little funding from VCs. If we are not in stealth mode, it will just draw unwanted attention.

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The Future of Health: How We Think About Investing in Healthier Living for Everyday People

View from Seed

We wanted to learn more about the nuanced industry market forces before applying the same hands-on investing model we do with tech startups in other verticals. Many of these companies, however, exhibit similar characteristics to the things we invest in outside of the health vertical. They can be surprisingly capital efficient.

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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]. I’ve had so many difficulties explaining to people why they actually benefit from sharing much more than by keeping ideas secret. Share: [link] Jerry Ji. link] Nivi.

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SXSW Startups: AirPop Makes Healthy Air

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: March 4, 2018 At the 2018 SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event on March 10 and 11, 50 startups from around the world will attempt to impress a panel of judges with their skills, creativity and innovation. Bruce Sterling’s closing keynote/rant where he talked about the internet in 2007 as “folk” technology.

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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

I’m bracing my inbox for emails from disgruntled Gimp users explaining how charging for software is bad, commercial software is evil, and my mother dresses me funny. I’ve come across plenty of commercial applications that suffered from them. Suddenly that ride across campus to save $.50 But I don’t buy it.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You.

Steve Blank

Fred Terman Terman’s first step was to recruit 11 former members of his staff from the Harvard Radio Research Lab — “Congratulations, you’re now Stanford faculty.&# Not only were they all great researchers, but they also had just spent three years building electronic warfare systems that were used in World War II.