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The Startup Copycat Fallacy

View from Seed

As a seed stage VC, I have a unique privilege of confidentially spending time with a number of entrepreneurs throughout their company formation and initial product development process. competing entrepreneurs, VCs, and tech journalists others sometimes privately/publicly accuse and dismiss other groups of copycat tactics.

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10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups

Both Sides of the Table

Where Stealth is Good – There’s a lot of discussions on the web about whether startups should be stealthy before they launch or not. My general rule is that it’s good to be stealth in the early days while you’re building your product and testing your market. Most people totally advise against stealth.

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

A frequent question entrepreneurs have when they are just starting their company is: how secretive should I be about my idea? This includes investors, entrepreneurs, people who work in similar areas, friends, people on the street, the bartender, etc. (I Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret. Share: [link] Jerry Ji.

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Where are the opportunities for machine learning startups? [guest post]

VC Cafe

Graphcore (in stealth, see this video at 28:58) calls them Intelligent Processor Units. 282m in Lookout , $78m in Vectra Networks , $40m in Darktrace , and $89m in Cybereason ), but a steady stream of bad news stories (like the recent hack of TalkTalk’s customer data) shows that the market is far from being sewn up.

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Taking on Tech Titans

Reid Hoffman

But the key is to ensure your product has a strong differentiator, which is exactly how Ramaswamy and his Neeva co-founders positioned the search engine company when it launched last year. If they are taking on problems that the other company is really, really, really good at, then they better have a strong differentiating thing.

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Taking on Tech Titans

Reid Hoffman

But the key is to ensure your product has a strong differentiator, which is exactly how Ramaswamy and his Neeva co-founders positioned the search engine company when it launched last year. If they are taking on problems that the other company is really, really, really good at, then they better have a strong differentiating thing.

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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Ubuntu is free, after 6 hours of research and command line tricks trying to get your laptop to connect to your network. You will have an edge with business users since time is highly monetized for entrepreneurs and enterprises. Have you ever tried Gimp?