SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

What is Stealth? What's also interesting in Niel's piece is that he defines Stealth Mode not as not having conversations, but rather he says it's not make public pronouncements. The reality is that Stealth is defined differently in each case. Long live stealth mode! You’ll refine your sales and investor pitch.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Stay in stealth mode until the last minute. Here’s some of my super-secret winning strategies from fifteen years of building startups. The last thing any startup needs is people finding out about it. You can get attention later — that’s not difficult.

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Gust

OCTOBER 7, 2012

Every time I hear about a new startup that is in stealth mode, I wonder what problem they are hiding from whom. I believe stealth makes sense for large companies who can be sued for “pre-announcing” a new product to stall the market or kill a competitor. “No With stealth mode, you can’t learn early enough to pivot gracefully.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JULY 28, 2020

The post Dexterity exits stealth with 56.2M raised for its collaborative warehouse robots appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 7, 2010

We’ve been having a running joke within Foundry Group for several years about “stealth mode.” My partner Seth alludes to it in his blog post a few years back titled To stealth or not to stealth. Niel wrote a brilliant post on this titled The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth. You should also.

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

The post Hypergiant Emerges from Stealth Mode to Create AI Products appeared first on SiliconHills. Lamm co-founded Austin-based Hypergiant to fashion that future by working with Fortune 500 companies to create products for the artificial intelligence marketplace. And it’s not […].

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deal architect

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

I have known Charles Phillips, CEO of Infor for going on 2 decades now. He was a polymath way before I wrote a book celebrating them. He has computer science and law degrees in addition to an MBA.

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K9 Ventures

JANUARY 26, 2016

“ US Navy Sea Shadow stealth craft ” by US Navy employee – [link]. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Stealth is overrated. Today, I have seen it enough times from companies in my portfolio and others that are not in my portfolio that have utilized the “We’re in stealth mode” line.

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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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SiliconHills

JANUARY 19, 2018

After working in stealth mode for two years in China and Austin, Wanchain launched its digital currency platform this week at a Bitcoin conference in Miami. The post After Two Years in Stealth-Mode, Austin-based Wanchain Launches Digital Currency Platform appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2023

Encourage open discussions of options, rather than stealth mode. Position against competing offerings in the marketplace, highlighting your positives, rather than trying to put-down competitors. Test to see if others see the solution you see.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The post API startup Noname Security launches out of stealth in a hot area of security with $25 million in funding and its CEO explains why resisting layoffs despite the pandemic was crucial appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 28, 2011

They explained they were building it "stealth". Interestingly, very active angel and COO at Square , Keith Rabois weighted in on Quora in response to the question: "What are some concrete reasons for *actively* stealthing a startup?" Saying you are a "stealth" company with no details certainly doesn't leave much to go on.

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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 ”. Niel Robertson, the CEO of Trada, wrote one of the best articles that I think I’ve read on the subject of stealth on the Trada blog that further describes our thought process around operating the business stealthfully for a number of months.

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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

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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SiliconHills

AUGUST 17, 2016

Klug, who has […] The post Stealth Startup Magic Leap Officially Opens its Austin Office appeared first on SiliconHills. At Zebra, Klug worked for 17 years on its dynamic 3D holographic and light-field display products. He helped the company raise money and launch its products.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 10, 2014

StackEngine, the platform that gives organizations the power to simply and massively deploy, manage, and scale resilient Docker applications, today formally exited stealth mode and announced $1M in seed funding from Silverton Partners and LiveOak Venture Partners.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Self reported: Stealth-mode peronal finance security startup powered by the collective vigilance and wisdom of crowds. CrowdSpot -credit verification through your social graph, started by Yaron Samid, founder of TechAviv and former co-founder and CMO of Pando Networks, and Raphael Ouzan.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

AUGUST 11, 2010

I always go back and forth about whether stealth mode is good or bad. I guess that I should back up and explain what I mean by stealth. When someone has a business idea, she may choose not to disclose what the idea is about aka stealth mode. Back to the idea of stealth mode. It’s nothing personal.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Jason Freedman, who calls himself “humbled MBA,&# ( which is right-there brilliant, before I go on ) writes Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. And, to his credit, he also softens a bit at the end, suggests that annoyed stealth-mode-startup readers should just prove him wrong. Tweet I love it! Good stuff.

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www.humbledmba.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. As in stop being in stealth mode. Let me a share a few reasons why you dont need to be in stealth mode: 1.) One of the reasons youre foolishly in stealth mode is probably because you havent done enough market research to realize that people are already working on this.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Self reported: Stealth-mode peronal finance security startup powered by the collective vigilance and wisdom of crowds. Tags: CrowdSpot Geoffrey Mugliston Ineze Interntial Yaron Samid Auto computational linguistics Draft impossible match INEZE Israeli startups language processing technologies product Stealth wisdom of crowds.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 17, 2023

The Generative AI gaming landscape Nov 2022 ( source ) In my small data sample (of Israeli gaming startups) a lot of startups in the generative AI gaming space are either missing in this map, or are choosing to remain in stealth until they have a solid demo out. steampunk airships flying in the sky. Generated in [link].

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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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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2022

It can use fewer emissions to get the same detection result, for better detection accuracy at the same power levels – even detecting stealth aircraft. Quantum sensors could make the ocean transparent for Anti-submarine warfare, create unjammable A2/AD, detect stealth aircraft, find hidden tunnels and weapons of mass destruction, etc.

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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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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The company was backed by Grove Ventures in an undisclosed round (still in stealth, so not much information available yet). Deepchecks, still in stealth ( source ). Deepchecks.com – focus on warning organisations before their deployed AI systems make bad calls using proprietary predictive analytics algorithms.

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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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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

Skip to content Tina MVC for WordPress « Finding The Need for International Pay-Per-Click Campaigns Lijit: A Fun Tool in Your PPC Arsenal » The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth Debate: Stay Stealth? One of my favorite startup debates is about stealth mode.

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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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Some entrepreneurs I know attempt to retain control, or save money, by eschewing advisors and using stealth mode. In this age of total access via the Internet, you can’t hide relationships, or the lack of them. In the early days of the IBM PC, I had the opportunity to know and work with Bill Gates at Microsoft.

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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. In just a couple of months the current version includes 68 startups.

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www.frozennorth.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Stealth Mode Startup. Let me add another reason to that list: it isnt always that hard to figure out what a stealth-mode startup is really doing. Im at a tradeshow in Dallas this week, and we were visited by some very bright people from a stealth-mode startup. buy it on Amazon. (in)Frequently in)Frequently Asked Questions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

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. Successful people look for complementary co-founders, and hire a multi-faceted team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2010

Every time I hear about a new startup that is in stealth mode, I wonder what problem they are hiding from whom. I believe stealth makes sense for large companies who can be sued for “pre-announcing” a new product to stall the market or kill a competitor. “No These things can’t be done while in stealth mode. Marty Zwilling.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

EnPowered closed their initial seed round in February 2020 and have been developing their platform in stealth mode over the past year. But they quickly realized that increased savings on their own weren’t enough to spark adoption and thus, developed the payment platform. EnPowered joins our growing portfolio of energy and climate startups.

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