YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2018

BRAVA Investment Launches Stealth Female Project. Fertility is a major issue and so Stealth Female Project is a startup that advertises innovative approaches to women’s fertility issues. Here, we have another fertility-related startup, with two innovative entrepreneurs, both women, operating out of Silicon Valley in California.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Type IIA is popular due to its low weight and stealth. They are effective only in danger zones where the following specialists operate: Law enforcement officers; Collectors; Security guards; Private VIP persons; Bodyguards. It is not visible to others and can protect against certain types of pistols.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Yes, there is certainly risk in this perspective and there is a logical set of reasoning for operating in stealth mode. First, this copycat threat leaves entrepreneurs hesitating to share their startup idea and early experiments.

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

This week, Passage emerged from stealth operations and launched its beta, and announced $4 million […]. A year ago, Anna Pobletts and Cole Hecht hatched the idea for Passage, a passwordless authentication service for a website that uses biometrics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2017

The best founders operate with a key set of internal principles that allow them to break through all but the toughest business obstacles. Investors avoid startups that are in stealth mode, long development cycles, and an inflexible business model. Balance of technical and business knowledge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2023

But operating in stealth mode, or waiting for that perfect investor to find you, or feeling entitled, is even less effective. Angel investors typically provide early-stage rollout funding, while venture capital firms won’t be interested until you have real traction and revenue during scaling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Aspiring entrepreneurs who are determined to operate in stealth mode, for fear of giving away their secrets, will find they lose more than they could gain by sharing. It’s amazing how much you can learn from people who have been there, and love to talk about their successes as well as their failures.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

But operating in stealth mode, or waiting for that perfect investor to find you, or feeling entitled, is even less effective. Angel investors typically provide early-stage rollout funding, while venture capital firms won’t be interested until you have real traction and revenue during scaling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2014

It’s popular these days for startup founders to operate in stealth mode, meaning no details about the idea or progress are shared with anyone until the big reveal and rollout. Startups in stealth mode often have a false sense of security that they can take extra time to do the job right the first time. Marty Zwilling.

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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. Party rounds blew up on a number of startups who found it difficult to get ongoing operational support from investors who didn’t have time or inclination to lean in.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Being in "stealth mode" is, as Wilson argues, often seen as a bad idea for startups. So why stay stealth? How do you define "stealth"? Is stealth really a matter of locking yourself and your team away in the proverbial garage, working in utter isolation into the day you launch your product?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Not so long ago, business leaders operated behind the scenes, and even long-time employees rarely heard from them or saw them in the news. Some entrepreneurs I know attempt to retain control, or save money, by eschewing advisors and using stealth mode.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Startups that operate in stealth mode until their solution is perfect usually acquire customers and investors very slowly. Even before you build a product, you should be interacting with potential customers in person, and through social media. Accumulate customer advocates, testimonials and “letters of intent.”

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

But a decade earlier as undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, he was the father of the second offset strategy using software and semiconductors to build smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth aircraft that helped end the Cold War. Slides 7 and 9 is the team’s first pass in understanding costs, operations and fundraising.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Their new payment platform allows companies to pay for these capital-intensive cleantech projects as operating expenses. By turning capital investments into operating expenses, the platform will unlock all sorts of creative financing solutions and increase the adoption of energy projects. That’s where EnPowered comes in.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Startups which insist on operating in stealth mode in fear of competitor response miss the more important customer response. Iterating this process, until you see some real traction, is far less risky and expensive than the big-bang rollout. Let me summarize the advantages of this to your startup: Immediate real customer feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2016

It’s still popular these days for startup founders to operate in stealth mode, meaning no details about the idea or progress are shared with anyone until the big reveal and rollout. Startups in stealth mode often have a false sense of security that they can take extra time to do the job right the first time.

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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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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

Papers give all entrepreneurial businesses the chance to build the exact business and operations they desire without being constrained by existing software. Thanks to Teo Vanyo, Stealth Agents ! #21- The company has three large operations across the world, with 20 smaller operations across the US. 19- Bitcoin.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I know you are still in stealth, but what can you tell us. This is a novel user interaction that embeds casual entertainment directly into the operating system experience, based on some fairly interesting underlying technology. And what do you think about the controversy about stealth vs. not for startups?

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 15, 2010

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

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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genuinevc.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Stealth Mode. I’ve recently been introduced to a number of startups that are operating in “stealth mode,” and have been thinking about what to make of this fact. In a post yesterday, Keith Robinson clearly articulated one of my conclusions, “I’ve heard quite a bit about start-ups and “stealth mode.”

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

Ab Gupta , Operating Partner and former VP Strategy & Ops at Kustomer. And our portfolio continued to grow: Day one lead/co-lead in 14 founding teams: (most still in stealth) representing , , , , , , Continued investments in developer first, SaaS, and crypto infrastructure companies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

Dun & Bradstreet, a 174 year old financial services company, has spent the last year building an experiment-driven marketing operation. The United States Digital Service, a federal government agency, is building a ‘stealth startup.’ Dun & Bradstreet is undergoing a big cultural shift.

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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. But with mentoring and show and tell behind them, today is the day they get to pitch their ideas to investors, so, here are details of seven of the startups.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

It involved building stealth aircraft to deliver these precision weapons unseen by any enemy radar, and designing intelligence and reconnaissance systems that would target for them. Smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth. But this new strategy was more than making the bombs smarter. steve Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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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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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Startups Operator and Magic are following a similar playbook. For this reason, you probably don’t have to years of stealth mode to build a solution catering to enterprise users. All this data is fed back to M so that it will learn to get better and better.

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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. Otis hopes to change all of these things.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode. Teten: How is the corporate VC model evolving: in how they interact with portfolio companies or the operating side of their organization? Mari has been a serial intrapreneur for a large part of her career.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2016

by Brent Freeman , co-founder and president of Stealth Venture Labs. To maintain stability, you have to update your operating procedures, processes, and people as your organization develops. To maintain stability, you have to update your operating procedures, processes, and people as your organization develops.

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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. This is roughly comparable to PRNewswire’s distribution service.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. That radars and stealth and antennas and radios and materials. We build it, hopefully get to it first.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Did you know that the physics involved in flippings cats also allow us to operate space telescopes? The Difference Between Stealth Mode and Quiet Mode – [link]. How does a cat manage to always land on their feet when falling from any height? Above is a fun video looking at cats, physics and weightlessness.

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Some startups are in stealth mode and maybe branding and beautiful design is important. When do you start to double-down or evolve the playbook into a way of operating? That’s great, but that’s not my specialty, so I knew I was looking for roles that allowed me to be scrappy and execute the set inbound tactics.

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