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. Cognata (2017) – still in stealth, Cognata is developing Artificial Intelligence simulation engines for automated vehicles.

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

And they’re getting a handle on what it costs to build a company to deliver it. 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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

We had endless arguments internally about what features it should include, how the avatars should look, and how much it should cost. Just load them all in and choose a low cost-per-click. Seems like a fairly low-cost method of gauging customer interest for a would-be product. We finally settled on a $1.99 I used to use $.05,

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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. If you are interested in startups to watch out for in 2018, here are three that should interest you. XpertDox Headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2011

In my last post on ReadWriteStart, I talked about how, in many cases, it wasn't an advantage to build your start-up in stealth mode. Another simple and relatively low cost way to get feedback from a critical mass of potential users is to use Ask Your Target Market.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

want to sidestep the argument about whether or not it's good to be " stealth " or not, and work with the assumption that if you've purchased the domain name, you're going to put up some sort of website. Oh, Noes!

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 29, 2012

SS: You have to be strategic because there’s no stealth mode. For the cost of a latte, people could buy into a historic movement. RWW: How do you know whether crowdfunding is a better approach for your startup than seeking traditional forms of financing? The pitch was, “Adventure games are not dead.

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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. They are so certain that customers are poised and waiting that they forget the costs of a hard launch -- and the risks of a highly visible failure. Proceed with caution.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

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. In my view, this paranoid approach costs them much more than the risk of being open. Being open is the new business culture around the world.

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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. In my view, this paranoid approach costs them much more than the risk of being open. Being open is the new business culture around the world.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 2, 2025

Cost-benefit analyses can help you decide which tools genuinely improve processes and which may complicate them further. Others are designed to provide stealth assistance during writing sessions without the slowdowns of manual editing. Some platforms automate administrative tasks, while others enhance communication among team members.

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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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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth. congrats to Fortress IQ on its $12mm Series A led by Lightspeed and a stealth co on their $13.5mm Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Smallstep , Clay , Dark , and Windmill emerged out of stealth. First check to Series B?—?congrats First check to Series A?—?congrats

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth. First check to Series Acongrats to Fortress IQ on its $12mm Series A led by Lightspeed and a stealth co on their $13.5mm Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Smallstep , Clay , Dark , and Windmill emerged out of stealth. Rebel exit to Salesforce.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 2, 2022

I'm proud of the fact that we've managed to bring down costs and managed to solve many of the problems we initially had. So, I've never conveyed mixed cost signals like that to our staff. Thanks to Teo Vanyo, Stealth Agents ! #20- I'm really proud of the growth of my company and what we've been able to do.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

The advantages are many, including avoiding all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding and managing external investors, allowing you to retain full control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. But operating in stealth mode, or waiting for that perfect investor to find you, or feeling entitled, is even less effective.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

Yet in every situation where I have asked, nobody has been tasked with making a realistic estimate, either of the impact of this lack of training or the real costs of the solution. Remember that the cost of the solutions is proportional to the problem caused. I feel like I would have to introduce this by stealth.

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

An additional incentive to remaking the workplace into a healthy, exercise-supportive environment is the cost benefit. Many of the design changes we have implemented cost little or nothing. We’re filling it with our own team , plus a couple of startups in our portfolio ( Parsely , Phone.com , some in stealth mode).

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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." Danger, Will Robinson.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Superfish’s first prototype, Window Shopper , launched in April, after several years of being in stealth. Superfish , an Israeli startup developing image-based search engine, has annouced a third round of $3.4 venturebeat ]. In effect, this means that the state is a partner in 45% of the individual investor’s risk.

Technical Review 79

Technical Review Matching Israel Venture Capital 79

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Superfish’s first prototype, Window Shopper , launched in April, after several years of being in stealth. Superfish , an Israeli startup developing image-based search engine, has annouced a third round of $3.4 venturebeat ]. In effect, this means that the state is a partner in 45% of the individual investor’s risk.

Technical Review 79

Technical Review Matching Israel Venture Capital 79

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Superfish’s first prototype, Window Shopper , launched in April, after several years of being in stealth. Superfish , an Israeli startup developing image-based search engine, has annouced a third round of $3.4 venturebeat ]. In effect, this means that the state is a partner in 45% of the individual investor’s risk.

Technical Review 79

Technical Review Matching Israel Venture Capital 79

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Superfish’s first prototype, Window Shopper , launched in April, after several years of being in stealth. Superfish , an Israeli startup developing image-based search engine, has annouced a third round of $3.4 venturebeat ]. In effect, this means that the state is a partner in 45% of the individual investor’s risk.

Technical Review 79

Technical Review Matching Venture Capital Israel 79

Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2022

The view from the National Security Agency (NSA) is that quantum-resistant (or post-quantum) cryptography is a more cost effective and easily maintained solution than quantum key distribution. Securing and validating Quantum Key Distribution is hard and it’s only one part of a cryptographic system. Quantum Timing.

Technology 436

Technology Algorithm Stealth Distribution 436

Cracking the Code

MARCH 29, 2022

With the elite initial team they’ve assembled, they’ve managed to build their first product in record time and secure large six-figure deals while still in stealth mode.

Cloud 62

Cloud Cofounder Architecture Technical Cofounder 62

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

She shares: “We now use metrics like cost-per-learning and validation velocity to show progress since traditional things like ROI weren’t applicable.” The United States Digital Service, a federal government agency, is building a ‘stealth startup.’

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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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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

We were first check leads in 8 founding teams including Wallaroo Labs , MState (fka hyperfab ), blockdaemon , and 5 in stealth. Corporate America is pressured to decrease costs and improve customer interactions and every Fortune 500 is a technology company.

Cloud 78

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

AwesomeBox : AwesomeBox is currently in stealth mode so I’ll respect that. On average the platform is generating 30+% increase in conversions and 15% decrease in cost per lead. Gyroscope is in double-dog secret stealth mode right now so I’ll focus more on the entrepreneur. We’re excited to work with them.

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Webinars have a whole other cost in terms of time, effort, headaches, etc. Some startups are in stealth mode and maybe branding and beautiful design is important. So we started doing both webinars and ebooks, then ultimately did more ebooks than webinars because they performed better.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. They are detail oriented, cost focused, quality obsessed and chasing a big market opportunity.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In every function, headcount costs dwarf software expenditures by orders of magnitude. Many companies in the Agentic AI space choose to remain in stealth, but just know that it’s never too early to speak with us. We’d be happy to be a sounding board, provide feedback and help where we can, regardless of investing.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Contribute to development of primary business plan, with input on focus, costing and approach (platform, build vs. buy, resourcing, hosting strategy, time & cost). Where necessary, produce cost-benefit and risk justifications for IT initiatives to win budgetary support from the board.

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Fractional CTO CTO Technical Review CTO Hire 40

Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 6, 2011

Measure of success: more than doubling our customer base without doubling our cost per acquisition. Measure of success: 360 degree reviews done smartly (meaning efficiently and not dreaded by all involved). Marketing who we are, not who we may want to be one day. Measure of success: sales growth and gross margin return on investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2017

Find corporate sponsors to reduce startup costs. You learn more by talking to people early, versus stealth mode. Stealth mode entrepreneurs won’t tell people about their idea early, or ask for feedback, for fear of the idea being stolen or copied. Others can be very stubborn and charge blindly ahead.

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Stealth Angel Investor Entrepreneur Revenue 202

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2023

The advantages are many, including avoiding all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding and managing external investors, allowing you to retain full control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. But operating in stealth mode, or waiting for that perfect investor to find you, or feeling entitled, is even less effective.

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Angel Investor Stealth Bootstrapping Early Stage 246