Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 27, 2011
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.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 4, 2012
They try to confirm from industry analysts that your differentiators are indeed unique, and that there are no future competitors or big gorillas in stealth mode just around the corner. The kiss of death is for investors to find unanticipated competition you neglected to mention. Business and financial status.
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Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 22, 2010
They try to confirm from industry analysts that your differentiators are indeed unique, and that there are no future competitors or big gorillas in stealth mode just around the corner. The kiss of death is for investors to find unanticipated competition you neglected to mention. Business and financial status.
Gust
NOVEMBER 14, 2011
They try to confirm from industry analysts that your differentiators are indeed unique, and that there are no future competitors or big gorillas in stealth mode just around the corner. The kiss of death is for investors to find unanticipated competition you neglected to mention. Business and financial status.
View from Seed
DECEMBER 6, 2018
Yes, there is certainly risk in this perspective and there is a logical set of reasoning for operating in stealth mode. And I would highlight a distinction between the essential startup idea and a trade secret or other proprietary information which provides unique competitive differentiation.
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. So, with that in mind, I’d like to share six key ways to increase your success with investors: Make Sure You Actually Have a Differentiator.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 17, 2017
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. Solution 2: Use the McKinsey Three Horizons Model to differentiate among the three types. We and our contractors had the best technology domain experts.
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