YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

by Lihi Pinto Fryman, Co-Founder and CMO of Syte. 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. Lihi Pinto Fryman is the CMO and one of the co-founders of Syte.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Even more importantly, you can start to experiment with feature set, positioning, and marketing - all without building a product. Labels: customer development , search engine marketing 13comments: Jim Lindstrom said. If you cant find any , maybe that means you havent figured out who your customer is yet. A very interesting strategy.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The company emerged from stealth in November 2016 and announced a $100 million investment round from Sir Ronald Cohen, Lloyd Dorfman, OCAPAC Holding Company, and Horizons Ventures. Orcam was created by the founders of Mobileye (NYSE: MBLY and one of Israel’s largest IPOs ), Prof. The company has no public URL yet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

A popular approach these days seems to be for founders to regale investors early with a pitch touting the newest “million-dollar idea.” If your strength is technology, find a co-founder who has a comparable strength in business, finance or marketing. Ship a minimum viable product quickly, test the market and iterate.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. To that point, we are most excited when our founders are able to go from slide deck to product-market fit and Series A and beyond. First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. or what is first check and our response is that the seed landscape is so confusing, and what founders need is an investor with courage and conviction to lead their rounds and support them from day 1.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

By Lihi Pinto Fryman, Co-Founder and CMO of Syte. Startup success depends on a many factors related to your vision, product, and market opportunity. When an investor asks you “How is your product different than other solutions on the market?”, But critical capital raising success depends on a separate set of factors.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Great tips, fully inline with “Four Steps to the Epiphany” Also reminds me of Dharmesh’s “Stealth Mode, Schmealth Mode” — [link]. Very, very few markets have room for only one player. But it’s probably wise to be more secretive in some vertical markets: [link]. Share: [link] Jerry Ji.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

by Lihi Pinto Fryman, Co-Founder and CMO of Syte. 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. Lihi Pinto Fryman is the CMO and one of the co-founders of Syte.

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Startup Investment Bankers Technical Review Cofounder 113

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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Stealth IP NDA Startup 40

JANUARY 9, 2014

No clear vision or purpose This should be the starting point for any startup founder, but it’s often overlooked. Whilst the tide is turning, there’s still a need to educate startup founders about the competitive advantage well-designed products and services can bring. Life’s too short to build something nobody wants.”

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

2017 Recap 2017 was another year of growing, learning, investing and partnering with amazing founders. Once again, we are grateful to have the opportunity to work with so many amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, and other collaborators to bring the boldstart family together.

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Cloud Cofounder Portfolio Advisory Board 78

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

The same has been true of an unfortunate number of startups, they manage to generate a lot of hype, raise a lot of money, and sometimes make some of their investors, employees, or founders rich. bigs : @ericries says Stealth dev is a (undesirable, failure-presaging) customer-free zone. Danger, Will Robinson. Iterating at whiteboard !=

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2024

Juan Delgado-Moreira, co-CEO of Hamilton Lane, a $900 billion asset management company, said in an interview last week : “Now is the best time to invest in Israel. This could accelerate a new rally in the domestic market, so we are also becoming more aggressive here. have quadrupled.”

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

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. Many entrepreneurs are reluctant to expose their idea to others early, often called stealth mode, for fear of it being stolen.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Microsoft launched co-pilot vision , a tool that read your screen and act as a personal helper (US-only). Last but not least Spotify became the first European company to hit a $100 billion market cap. Kol hakavod Dave Waiser and team Accumulator on raising $46M to help founders navigate illiquid wealth with an equity pooling platform

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Israel Technical Review Early Stage Venture Capital 78

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

These problems can be anything: development mistakes, site outages, marketing program failures, or even internal missed schedules. I feel like I would have to introduce this by stealth. Five Whys involves holding meetings immediately following the resolution of problems the company is facing. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

2017 was another year of growing, learning, investing and partnering with amazing founders. Once again, we are grateful to have the opportunity to work with so many amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, and other collaborators to bring the boldstart family together. 2017 Recap. 2 exits including yhat (sold to Alteryx?

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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. data.world is the sixth startup that I’ve co-founded and led. I think Visual Sciences stayed in stealth too long, though?—?and

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

billion invested in coding agents and co-pilots alone, with Google, Salesforce, Meta, and other incumbents heavily investing in Agentic AI. Can be niche markets where the large companies or foundational LLMs are not likely to compete with. I.e. Copilots for coding, marketing, customer support, etc.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

The first time I met Matan, the founder of Melio, he told me that his mission was simple: he wanted to “help small businesses stay in business” by making B2B payments fast, simple and flexible. And he and his co-founders Ziv and Ilan made it happen: Melio’s now processing multi-billion dollar payment volumes less than two years after launch.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

There were prominent founders of business like PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills and MyLife. We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. And of course we had, TheMan.

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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?" Building a reputation and community in your target market. Leveraging Product Feedback Earlier.

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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. Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. What are some of the unique benefits and constraints from the point of view of a founder? .

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

Effectively, we are a market maker between our portfolio companies and the late-stage VCs and large enterprises which are our co-investors. Ideally each portfolio company would also report their own data to the data-trackers (except when they’re in stealth), but not all of them are diligent. Ethics Policy, Expenses policy).

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Seeing Both Sides

JUNE 3, 2009

The founder and former CEO and chairwoman of iRobot, Helen has been the godmother of the robotics industry in Massachusetts. Helen is starting another robotics company (currently in stealth mode) and serves as chair of the national Robotic Technology Consortium. 4) Helen Greiner. 5) Yet Ming Chiang. 6) Eric Lander. 7) Paul Sagan.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Greylock investor Sridhar Ramaswamy , who co-founded search engine startup Neeva , says it’s more important for startups to think about creating a product that is useful and resonates with people before worrying about whether a large incumbent is doing it. TRANSCRIPT. Reid, why don’t you start?

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Cofounder Differentiation Search Advertising 69

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Greylock investor Sridhar Ramaswamy , who co-founded search engine startup Neeva , says it’s more important for startups to think about creating a product that is useful and resonates with people before worrying about whether a large incumbent is doing it. TRANSCRIPT. Reid, why don’t you start?

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Cofounder Differentiation Search Advertising 69

The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

He has startup experience having co-founded his previous company PureHolidayHomes. SnapTrip’s opportunity is to own the late availability/discounted end of the market where the competition is limited. We’re attracted to this market for two reasons. Secondly, Matt was a sole founder when he joined us.

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Stealth Cofounder Aggregator Europe 141

VC Cafe

MARCH 17, 2023

Use cases for Generative AI in gaming ( click to download ) The landscape of generative AI startups in gaming is rapidly evolving The first market map of generative AI in gaming was published by the A16Z gaming fund in November and the team published an updated version today. Let’s dive in. The landscape today includes 57 startups.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

I met a founder who’s sister was kidnapped (and later released). powered AI Co-Scientist multi-agent system to aid researchers. Way to go Ronit Belson and team Sawmills on coming out of stealth with a $10M seed round to transform telemetry data management with AI! There are still 73 Israelis held in G**a.

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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. …and I’ve said it to founders on more occasions than I can count: For startups steath is overrated. Founders tend to be most worried about competition and press.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 22, 2012

You are NOT more valuable than your cofounders. It was my idea, it was my money being spent, it was my contacts, it was my experience, it was my design and marketing, and it was my team. Despite all of that, I couldn’t have built the product without my cofounders.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

Market Hard. You have a marketing budget; odds are high your open source competitor does not. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. Market hard – In most cases this means exaggerate and lie. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. at 11:07 am [.]

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VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2010

Legolas Media – Currently in stealth mode, The Legolas Media team is focused on innovating digital display media. Co-founded by Yiftah Frechter, Yoav Arnstein and Ran Cohen, all former execs of recently IPO-ed Eyeblaster. Co-founded by Yiftah Frechter, Yoav Arnstein and Ran Cohen, all former execs of recently IPO-ed Eyeblaster.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Going to business school and becoming a startup founder are often positioned as conflicting choices by the media and startup bloggers. Some go as far as stating, flat out, that MBAs don’t make for good founders. In fact, there are over 250 founders from the HBS classes between 2008 and 2014. Combined, they’ve raised over $2.5

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