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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

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If youre in a market like pharmaceuticals, where all user testing can be done in a lab, execution in a bubble makes sense, but if your startup is a web product it sounds like hubris. For three years I worked at Bug Labs (open source hardware company). Ideas are worthless when theyre another spin on a web 2.0 Shocking, I know.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

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Also think pointedly about how you are going to get the word out to your potential users, where they are online and how you’ll approach them. You dont /have/ to build vendor lists and out-source. Test that your idea makes sense. The lack of that mention makes me question the overall quality of the conclusions.