Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Find a partner and core team early to supplement your expertise. Startups that operate in stealth mode until their solution is perfect usually acquire customers and investors very slowly. Efforts that take years, or have many starts and stops, will not generate investor confidence.

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Eric Friedman

JUNE 26, 2017

A stealth neural training company. (PS — if Competitive to one of our stealth studio companies. My time so far has been spent as an operator, an investor, and now a hybrid of the two. NextGig : Actionable information about companies in your professional network. Sleeperbot : Messaging for sports fans.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 8, 2010

Recently Dan Frommer over at the Silicon Alley Insider wrote about the reemergence of “stealth mode ”. With one of our portfolio companies, Trada , recently emerging from 18 months of quiet operations, we’re taking the subject up once again (very timely if Frommer’s post is any indication). Tags: stealth.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

We are truly to our founders, limited partners, co-investors, and friends for another year of growth and learning. Ab Gupta , Operating Partner and former VP Strategy & Ops at Kustomer. 1/ We started @boldstartvc in 2010 w/ $1m. We added 3 team members: Ellen Chisa , Founder-in-Residence and former co-founder of Dark.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Currently in R&D mode and working with select partners. ineze search dissects the content of each page caught by its web-crawler – Physical, Technical, Environmental, Operational and other characteristics. Self reported: Stealth-mode peronal finance security startup powered by the collective vigilance and wisdom of crowds.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Currently in R&D mode and working with select partners. ineze search dissects the content of each page caught by its web-crawler – Physical, Technical, Environmental, Operational and other characteristics. Self reported: Stealth-mode peronal finance security startup powered by the collective vigilance and wisdom of crowds.

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The Next Web

JUNE 7, 2013

The eighth is currently operating in stealth mode (yes, even on demo day) but we’re digging to find out more about them. Cains said he’s also in talks with partners to adapt the technology for a variety of televised sport. TaxiCast by London-based BrightMove Media wants to revolutionize advertising on taxis.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Last week, one of our most recent portfolio companies, Ten Little , came out of stealth and announced its public launch. . To round out the founding team, Julie brings an extremely complementary experience in operations from Jet.com and eos products. We were excited to be the first to say yes and lead the $2.6M

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

O perations – We work closely with a pool of preferred service providers who address the operational challenges of early-stage companies: accounting, financial modeling, sales acceleration, legal and regulatory needs, insurance, real estate, engineering, and community building. I’ve listed a few ideas below.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode.

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View from Seed

JULY 11, 2019

On Tuesday, one of our most recent portfolio companies, Otis, came out of stealth and announced its public launch. It will be hard to predict exactly what this will mean for the way these markets operate. We are grateful to Michael and his team for having the trust in us to be his partner in this business from the beginning.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Ensure staff, partners, customers, and board understand the business technological vision. Tactical Draw-up and control complete IT operational and capital expenditure budgets for IT. Past responsibility for operational and capital budgets in excess of $1M, confidence with budgeting and spend planning.

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View from Seed

JULY 9, 2015

As an operator, not an investor, I’m amazed at how many casual, throwaway comments that happen inside a VC’s office would be genuinely useful to entrepreneurs building their businesses. Be sure you have an honest and direct discussion with your lawyers, who should be viewed as true partners who understand these things.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. What are “Reg D” filings with the SEC and why does this make it harder to stay in stealth mode? and who had biz reasons for wanting to remain stealth.”. - We spoke briefly about why.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

At the heart of this “offset strategy” was “precision strike,” – building stealth aircraft to deliver precision guided munitions unseen by enemy radar, and designing intelligence and reconnaissance systems that would target for them. could design and produce. The REF also had its own budget, which it could use to acquire equipment.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

PurePlus is disrupting candy with stealth nutrition. We built a team of specialists from the food innovation and operations arm of the baby food company Plum Organics, and the marketing arm of companies like JUST Water, Red Bull, Stance, and GoPro, and the business development arm of companies like This Bar Saves Lives.

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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. Partner with Big Brands. So, we stayed quiet and we tested and retested before we opened our mouths.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Finally, we try to prewire the Series A investment by getting our portfolio companies to meet with the right partners at the right firms early on before they even need money. Smart enterprises are analyzing all of this data to make better decisions, increase revenue, and improve operating performance.

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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. Partner with Big Brands. So, we stayed quiet and we tested and retested before we opened our mouths.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2018

AirPop hopes to connect with other entrepreneurs and partners in digital health who are exploring the potential of lo-fidelity/hi-value sensing in next generation wearables and smart city applications. AirPop has been operating for three years but our core team has been working together for about six.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2022

In contrast classical computers have very low error rates and operate at room temperature. Quantum Cryptography/Quantum Key Distribution can distribute keys between authorized partners connected by a quantum channel and a classical authenticated channel. But qubits have high error rates and need to be ultracold. Quantum Timing.

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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. Partner with Big Brands. So, we stayed quiet and we tested and retested before we opened our mouths.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Security will shift from defensive to predictive AI-powered security (Norwest Venture Partners). Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Celeno Communications , an Israel-based provider of semiconductors for multimedia WiFi home networking applications, this morning announced that it has secured a $12 million funding round, which included a strategic investment by international cable operator Liberty Global. venturebeat ]. Take more risks — sooner…&#.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Additionally, as Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman points out, competition from the big companies isn’t necessarily a bad thing. “If They’re both fruit, but they’re very different in terms of how they operate. And to me, a much more common occurrence is looking at the structure of how a well-placed incumbent operates.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Additionally, as Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman points out, competition from the big companies isn’t necessarily a bad thing. “If They’re both fruit, but they’re very different in terms of how they operate. And to me, a much more common occurrence is looking at the structure of how a well-placed incumbent operates.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Celeno Communications , an Israel-based provider of semiconductors for multimedia WiFi home networking applications, this morning announced that it has secured a $12 million funding round, which included a strategic investment by international cable operator Liberty Global. venturebeat ]. Take more risks — sooner…&#.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Celeno Communications , an Israel-based provider of semiconductors for multimedia WiFi home networking applications, this morning announced that it has secured a $12 million funding round, which included a strategic investment by international cable operator Liberty Global. venturebeat ]. Take more risks — sooner…&#.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Celeno Communications , an Israel-based provider of semiconductors for multimedia WiFi home networking applications, this morning announced that it has secured a $12 million funding round, which included a strategic investment by international cable operator Liberty Global. venturebeat ]. Take more risks — sooner…&#.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

One of the things we like to do at Forward Partners is invest in companies just as they are starting up. He’s a commercial and operations guy by background and with our assistance in customer development, development, design and marketing he has been able to move extremely rapidly. Announcement Forward'

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

We’re filling it with our own team , plus a couple of startups in our portfolio ( Parsely , Phone.com , some in stealth mode). Here are our core operating principles: - Healthy alternatives should be truly viable alternatives, not luxury products. Motion is better than no motion; stasis kills.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

We know a lot of founders in this space choose to remain in stealth and expect the actual number of Israeli startups working on generative AI to be much larger and grow quickly. We made two new investments in this space which are still in stealth. While ChatGPT is most famously known, there are over 750 generative AI globally.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us. Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups.

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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. The reason I mention this is that our fundraising strategy involves first and foremost choosing partners who are human beings that we’d like to join us on our journey. Let’s talk about your financing strategy.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

Number six is an interesting one and this mainly applies to technology companies or people who are building products is remaining stealth too long and with that is also being slow to launch. Bigger than that was we had an operating agreement that had a non dilution clause for him and I don’t want to get into the weeds of that.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

These are all similar concepts faced by tech startups today, where innovation means, as Greylock partner Reid Hoffman says, “creating products that have or might fundamentally transform everyday life.”. s creations, there [is] a lot of overlap between how he and people in his world operate, and how those of us in the tech ecosystem do.

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