Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

bigs : @ericries says Stealth dev is a (undesirable, failure-presaging) customer-free zone. LeanStartup Of course, a big enabler of those kinds of mistakes is stealth-mode. Another recent meme that I hope more and more startups will take to heart: "stealth is a customer-free zone." Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Now were not exactly in stealth-mode - weve pitched at Techcrunch - but Id rather not go dancing in my competitors faces. One concern I might have with doing this is that you are competing for ad space with your competitors. By putting yourself directly in their space you are alerting them to your emergence as a threat.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

I feel like I would have to introduce this by stealth. I suppose we could ask "why does our relationship with this vendor allow these problems to continually arise?" " resistance/distrust to any sort of predetermined meeting structure--anything that seems canned or gimmicky. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Build the product in stealth mode to build buzz for the eventual launch. Stealth is a customer-free zone. Build a world-class technology platform, with patent-pending algorithms and the ability to scale to millions of simultaneous users. Launch with a PR blitz, including mentions in major mainstream publications.

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