Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2016

Remember that angel investors are buying equity in your business, so they are not impressed with a customer presentation. Startups in stealth mode can’t get feedback from real customers and can’t be perceived as experts in their industry. Have a full business plan and financial model to close the deal.

Angel Investor 120

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Accredited Investor Angel Groups 120

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]. Entrepreneur Chris Dixon posts on why its really not that dangerous to share your super-stealth idea with other people: There are [.]. link] Stealth mode is back.

Stealth 68

Stealth Startup NDA Cofounder 68

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.

Stealth 434

Stealth Startup Angel Investor Bootstrapping 434

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

The Difference Between Stealth Mode and Quiet Mode – [link]. Convertible Debt: really Bridge Loans and Equity Replacement Debt – [link]. In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P. Campaigns | NYT FiveThirtyEight – [link]. A turkey is a turkey – [link].

Social Media 100

Social Media Small Business Central African Republic Design 100

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Kol hakavod Dave Waiser and team Accumulator on raising $46M to help founders navigate illiquid wealth with an equity pooling platform ! Mazel tov Or Israel and team bananaz on coming out of stealth with $5.3M Well done Zohar H. seed investment for your platform focused on design change management for R&D and engineering teams!

Israel 78

Israel Technical Review Early Stage Venture Capital 78

www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Here’s how the pitch sounds from the engineer’s perspective: ‘For ten whole percent of equity, you will slave away to build a prototype out of my shitty idea, not have any say in the decision-making process…and oh yeah, you could be fired at any point.’ Date for a bit, then split the equity.

Founder 51

Founder Startup Cofounder Vesting 51

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.

Angel Investor 246

Angel Investor Stealth Bootstrapping Early Stage 246

David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

Large private equity funds like KKR can afford to pursue a consulting model ( Capstone ), typically with associated fees, but that doesn’t normally make economic sense for a VC. 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.

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Technical Review Private Equity Database 60

www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Post a comment… We write about… net angel apache audit backup backup extraction bbc bcm.pabx best practice bootlaw bug business business angels business continuity c# call detail recording cdr chief technical officer chief technology officer christmas chrome cio code review colo consulting cto contract cto creative agencies credit card (..)

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO CTO Technical Review CTO Hire 40

K9 Ventures

MAY 27, 2011

In fact, most founders tend to take it to the other extreme that they don’t want to share their idea (subject of another future blog post on why Stealth is Overrated). And it is because ideas matter that founders’ equity splits should also reflect that. Splitting equity amongst founders is hard. The idea is the seed.

Equity 133

Equity Cofounder Silicon Valley Stealth 133

The Next Web

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Shut up about equity and build something. Passing equity around before you’ve done anything is like budgeting your lottery winnings before you’ve even bought the ticket – at this point it’s nothing more than unicorns and rainbows as my developer would say. of an idea is 100% of nothing.

Cofounder 146

Cofounder Equity Stealth Social Network 146

VC Cafe

APRIL 28, 2021

Patreon already provides cash advances, effectively ‘equity investments’ in the creator’s future revenue streams, and Tiktok announced a $1 billion creator fund last March to attract creators to the platform. We’ve made several investments in the space (some are still in stealth).

Audio 167

Audio Valuation Stealth B2C 167

SiliconHills

OCTOBER 9, 2024

million seed round was led by Streamlined Ventures with participation from Starting Line, Assurant Ventures, Vera Equity, Redwood Trust Horizons, and Clocktower Ventures, among others. Mesa, an Austin-based homeowner membership platform, has officially launched, raising $9.2 ” The $7.2 Mesa also secured […]

Stealth 69

Stealth Cost Equity Austin 69

VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

The company is still in stealth… May 24, 2010 - Taykey announced that it has raised an undisclosed amount in a round of funding from new investor Sequoia Capital. TASE:MAYN) Infinity Private Equity Fund; Suzhou Ventures Group Co., FIE Investment Management LLP;Forum International Equity Fund Ltd. -. million till date.

Israel 98

Israel Private Equity Venture Capital Equity 98

VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

The company is still in stealth… May 24, 2010 - Taykey announced that it has raised an undisclosed amount in a round of funding from new investor Sequoia Capital. TASE:MAYN) Infinity Private Equity Fund; Suzhou Ventures Group Co., FIE Investment Management LLP;Forum International Equity Fund Ltd. -. million till date.

Israel 98

Israel Private Equity Venture Capital Equity 98

www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Post a comment… We write about… net angel apache audit backup backup extraction bbc bcm.pabx best practice bootlaw bug business business angels business continuity c# call detail recording cdr chief technical officer chief technology officer christmas chrome cio code review colo consulting cto contract cto creative agencies credit card (..)

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO CTO Technical Review CTO Hire 40

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2016

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.

Stealth 120

Stealth Startup Angel Investor Bootstrapping 120

The Startup Lawyer

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

If an incubator offers your startup $25,000 in exchange for 6% equity, the pre-money valuation is a whopping $391,667. Rather than assign a monetary value to the intangibles, a startup should instead assign an equity percentage value to intangibles like mentorship. 6) Search For the Incubator’s PR and Marketing Efforts.

Incubator 105

Incubator Pre-Money Valuation Option Pool Advisory Board 105

The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Now that he is out of stealth mode with a live site we are helping him find a co-founder and build his team out. He’s a commercial and operations guy by background and with our assistance in customer development, development, design and marketing he has been able to move extremely rapidly.

Stealth 141

Stealth Cofounder Aggregator Europe 141

Haystack

JANUARY 14, 2019

5/ Copycat Culture And Stealth Mode Back En Vogue: I’ve alluded to this above and below, but now when a category gets hot, founders and capital flood it. In these cases, they’re less excited about announcing their rounds, or just want to wait for the big reveal, when something important happens, or a big milestone is reached.

Cap Table 123

Cap Table Private Equity Stealth Portfolio 123

blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

It's not a question of me being unwilling to work for equity -- I am. Recruiting While In Stealth Mode. If there's a business co-founder with an idea looking to partner with me, they've flunked their first test if they weren't able to raise cash. If I'm shopping an idea around, that's a different story.

Cofounder 40

Cofounder Technical Cofounder Founder Software Engineering 40

VC Cafe

APRIL 9, 2010

The combination of companies looking for capital and investors looking for liquidity put a strain on early stage start ups but seemed to have played favourably for growth equity investments and later stage companies. An undisclosed round in stealth startup ToyToyToy, which offers an online service that links websites for actual toys.

Israel 68

Israel Venture Capital LLC LP 68

Austin Startup

AUGUST 17, 2017

Although the full content of our upcoming accelerator/incubator, Sputnik ATX, is still in stealth mode, I’d like to share a quick rule you should apply to any business idea that you want to pursue. A question that is obviously important to everyone except the tunnel-visioned entrepreneur who doesn’t value his equity.

Zimbabwe 60

Zimbabwe Stealth Incubator Cost 60

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Although the full content of our upcoming accelerator/incubator, Sputnik ATX, is still in stealth mode, I’d like to share a quick rule you should apply to any business idea that you want to pursue. A question that is obviously important to everyone except the tunnel-visioned entrepreneur who doesn’t value his equity.

Zimbabwe 48

Zimbabwe Stealth Incubator Cost 48

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Convertible or equity? It is such a small community that it is hard to raise money by stealth. Have you looked at competition? How well financed is the competition? What is their market traction? How much are they raising? How much is soft-circled (committed)? At what valuation? Cap or warrants? This also happens with VCs.

Entrepreneur 292

Entrepreneur Technical Review Valuation Stealth 292

Austin Startup

APRIL 29, 2019

Among competing boutique-STR startups, the biggest threat is likely Sonder : the San Francisco-based venture emerged from stealth last August after closing an $85 million Series C funding round , and announced it had secured cumulative funding of $135 million.

Austin 50

Austin San Francisco Texas Phoenix 50

The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 12, 2017

Then we spent 12 months building a product in stealth mode that was so wrong we scrapped it during the beta as soon as we got our first real user feedback on it. Money saved is far better than money raised, since the former costs no equity and has no strings. That cost us $60k worth of runway (we were spending $20k/month at the time).

Stealth 20

Stealth Bootstrapping Valuation Equity 20

Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

You can build a better connection (social equity? :)) and you can deliver value (by sharing valuable tips, answering questions, linking to good deeds by your competitors, creating special unique content, etc., I was advising a stealth mobile application company (hello future one billion Facebook dollars!) So do the right thing.

Metrics 154

Metrics Analytics Search Channel 154

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

The downside is that, unlike past DoD technology development – where the DoD leads it, can control it, and has the most advanced technology (like stealth and electronic warfare), in most cases the DoD will not have the most advanced algorithms or models. The analogy for AI is closer to microelectronics than it is EW.

Artificial Inteligence 425

Artificial Inteligence Software Review Algorithm Technical Review 425