Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2017

Even the most diligent investors are often surprised by apparently solid business startups that fail, while others succeed, despite the odds. 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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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. However with so many companies being funded these days, just getting a mention in a tech blog doesn’t really impact job seekers. The individuals and team managers have more sway.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2020

End of Year Update After officially announcing Breyer Capital Austin earlier this year after two years of active planning and due diligence, I received a humbling number of gracious emails and messages from Austin-based leaders, entrepreneurs, executives, and investors. Breyer Capital Austin?—?End Breyer Capital Austin?—?End

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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. They have found a way to put technology to work in home diagnostics. Modern Fertility.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Type IIA is popular due to its low weight and stealth. Due to the increased level of protection, the user will have to wear a rather heavy body armor, which is difficult to hide under clothing. During the summer, it is quite difficult to wear type IIIA all day due to the increased temperature.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Hacker News new | comments | ask | jobs | submit login Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. I work for a stealth startup. The idea is just a very small part of the reason why we are in stealth. If we are not in stealth mode, it will just draw unwanted attention. niyazpk 215 days ago | link.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

competing entrepreneurs, VCs, and tech journalists others sometimes privately/publicly accuse and dismiss other groups of copycat tactics. Yes, there is certainly risk in this perspective and there is a logical set of reasoning for operating in stealth mode. Entrepreneurs credit where it’s certainly due?—?

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Email us or call +44 (0) 844 3579899 home about services blog labs Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate) « Upgraded your iPhone to OS 3 but files are missing? We think the most important principle is that the CTO is the go-to point for all technology in the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2016

A business needs technical, marketing, financial and many other skills. Angel investors expect to review a short executive summary before booking time to hear an investor presentation or taking the time to analyze a full business plan. Assemble a team with the requisite expertise and experience. Simplicity is preferred at this stage.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

We recently invested in Osano , which is led by the very talented Arlo Gilbert and is currently in stealth mode. By contrast, MOON is going to launch soon and is not in stealth mode at all. We went with the stealth mode approach prior to our launch, as I’ll reflect on at the bottom of this lesson. I could waste no time.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

As a CEO of a technological startup, I often need to find trustworthy information as quickly as possible. And he is not afraid to take bold bets on new technologies and business models. Steve Jobs stands out as the greatest tech disruptor of the twenty-first century. Thanks to Teo Vanyo, Stealth Agents ! #21-

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

If your strength is technology, find a co-founder who has a comparable strength in business, finance or marketing. Investors look for entrepreneurs who are customer-centric, rather than technology-centric. Startups that operate in stealth mode until their solution is perfect usually acquire customers and investors very slowly.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

They’re not in search of price fixing or collusion, they’re in search of diligence information about the company. It is such a small community that it is hard to raise money by stealth. That was an important part of our “social proof&# that we had built interesting technology. People call each other.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

For each of these, there is a human element (non-scaleable) and the possibility of a tech layer (which any one VC will only have implemented to varying extents). I’m very interested in additional ways to use technology to extend each of these! RJMetrics ); technology (e.g., Steve Newcomb offers a great example.

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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. Slide 5 does a good job of separating out their technical versus business activities.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Thanks to Teo Vanyo, Stealth Agents! #13- Well, being an entrepreneur is never easy, and you will come close to quitting up many times due to the difficulties you will face. Only the domain knowledge of technology and development won’t suffice. 13- Making informed decisions. Photo Credit: Jack Altmen. Photo Credit: Eduard Klein.

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adamac.blogspot.com

MARCH 9, 2010

If youre highly technical and drive the technology vision of the company, people will get it without you tacking on the CTO title. Lack of Technical Leadership In my definition, to call a company a tech startup, there must be some significant technology that gives you an advantage. Thats a REALLY bad sign.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 2, 2022

2021 may have been a bad year for some people especially due to COVID-19 pandemic while, to others, it was a great year. We embraced technology and the human need to stay connected. Thanks to Teo Vanyo, Stealth Agents ! #20- Too many tech companies downplay the value of their human resource ; ours remains our greatest asset.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

I have a personal diligence rule that when speaking to people at large companies, the facts that they tell you are very useful but their opinions about startup ideas no more valuable than any other smart person’s opinions). Darnell – If a back-end tech guy can copy it, you probably need to build the business idea more.

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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. Access to the corporate investor’s ecosystem can open up great opportunities from technology validation to customer and partner development. They have deep insights into how technologies and markets are moving.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Michael Wolf’s deck on the Future of Tech and Media shows that messaging will soon blow past social media as the dominant media activity and will add 1 billion new users by 2018. For this reason, you probably don’t have to years of stealth mode to build a solution catering to enterprise users.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

One example is so-called “ stealth neuromarketing ,” which tries to manipulate consumer behavior without their being aware of its influence, threatening consumer autonomy. And the privacy debates surrounding online advertising suggest that technology will keep outpacing regulation.

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thenextweb.com

OCTOBER 17, 2011

3 Don’t go too stealth. Unless you have tons of funding (see Kohort ), be careful about going too “stealth.” He loves everything related to tech startups, beautiful design and social media gossip. TNW Review: A complete guide to iOS 5. TNWs Daily Dose - 24 hours of tech news in 5 minutes [Audio].

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Graphcore (in stealth, see this video at 28:58) calls them Intelligent Processor Units. What might these technologies do? But these processors were designed for graphics. The next step-change for efficient learning and inference will come from processors designed specifically for machine learning.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2012

So what exactly is a tech company? Sequoia Confirms Existence of “Stealth” Scout Program. What I learned from raising venture capital – [link]. Better Agile Than Smart – [link]. Four Things to Get Right When Starting a Company – [link]. – [link]. It’s Time to Rethink Continuous Improvement – [link].

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Sprung in stealth mode! Coincidentally just like us at Wantu each of the 3 other pitching startups was very focused on what became an unofficial theme of the Summit, using cross-media technology to encourage social interaction and play. I could not have picked a better bunch of people to share my early Thursday mornings with.

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JANUARY 9, 2014

In the startup world there’s been a culture of solution or technology first, whereas I believe we should be taking a more people-centred approach to building products and services. Unless the thing you’re building has real value to someone, it’s just a vanity project, no matter the technology.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2024

All of this is in addition to the macro challenges that Israeli startups had to deal with in 2023 even before October 7th, including international investor unease due to the proposed judicial reform (that has since been taken off the table), Ukraine war, global venture slowdown ( US VC investments were down 60% in 2023 ), etc.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

is due to two factors, principally “Americans’ false sense of security: the self-delusion that since nothing terrible has happened to the country’s IT infrastructure, nothing will.” They also point to the fact that a significant tactical advantage enjoyed by adversaries planning cyberattacks on the U.S. government.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Our defense department and intelligence community owned proprietary advanced tools and technology. We and our contractors had the best technology domain experts. We used these tools to keep pace with the Soviet threats and eventually used silicon, semiconductors and stealth to create an offset strategy to leapfrog their military.

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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. We didn’t approach a single VC until we knew the technology could play in the big leagues. and they will, your answer has to be solid.

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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. We didn’t approach a single VC until we knew the technology could play in the big leagues. and they will, your answer has to be solid.

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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. We didn’t approach a single VC until we knew the technology could play in the big leagues. and they will, your answer has to be solid.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Artificial Intelligence is an important, foundational technology that gets more important every year and will be used to solve more and more problems going forward. These events mean that technology is advancing fast enough to make better decisions than humans in order to accomplish a given task. Chris Rust, Clear Ventures).

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Share this: net c# development django java language php software Were often asked by entrepreneurs which language their startups should adopt when developing their technology. Technology enthusiasts tend to get tangled up in enthusiasm for their chosen platforms, so wed like to provide an objective summary. PHP is insecure?

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

Since getting started in October, the board has already invested work in three startups (all in stealth mode): whoisgreen.com , burringo.com and doitinperson.com. The shortage of startup technical talent, especially in New York City, has been well-documented. Have an account? startupcto

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

That’s because Five Whys will often pierce the illusion of separate departments and discover the human problems that lurk beneath the surface of supposedly technical problems. But if we stay stuck at the technical parts of the problem, and never uncover the human problems behind them, we’re not going far enough.

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