Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2017

Solutions that imply a paradigm shift always take longer to sell, and more money for marketing and education than expected. Implement “lean startup” principles. Investors avoid startups that are in stealth mode, long development cycles, and an inflexible business model. Persistence and patience with timing mismatches.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How To Choose A Market For Your Startup Or Small Business – [link]. How To Choose A Market For Your Startup Or Small Business – [link]. Brilliant analysis.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

The following is a guest post by Kirsten Cluthe and Ritika Puri from The Lean Startup Conference team Wondering what’s new in the Lean Startup community? Telepathic, a new technology startup, is bringing A/B testing to the world of mass-market fiction and storytelling. She wants to disrupt Hollywood with the Lean Startup method.

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SVPG

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I held off a little on this because he has been working on a book which has just recently been published, called “ The Lean Startup ” and in this article I’d like to discuss the key concepts in the book and provide that mapping. The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.” ” Amen.

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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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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

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. Second: I also gave the commencement speech at the NYU engineering school here.

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JANUARY 9, 2014

I see design as a direct route to free marketing through the positive word of mouth it helps to generate. Also before you build your product, have a discovery phase where you explore the market, test your riskiest assumptions about your audience and discover any new and potentially more lucrative opportunities. growth hacking.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

A Lean Startup methodology offers entrepreneurs a framework to focus on what’s important: Business Model Discovery. Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. Or the founder, or the product, or the market – no metrics can measure those intangibles.

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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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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Google is also leaning in on AI Agents. 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. Their belief is that to build truly powerful agents, you need more than static PDFs and basic drag-and-drop tools.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Graphcore (in stealth, see this video at 28:58) calls them Intelligent Processor Units. Emotient , RealEyes and Affectiva all use facial expressions to infer emotion, largely (it appears) for marketing purposes right now. But these processors were designed for graphics. The first task is to train models to recognise emotion in humans.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

One of the most important lessons entrepreneurs can learn from Dropbox is to adopt the lean start-up methodology and start. In a market where Airbnb has practically stood alone, VRBO has been a welcome sight for many renters and property owners who make money off of their investments. Thanks to Teo Vanyo, Stealth Agents ! #21-

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2011

We also get non-tech-related emails that seek advice on jobs, the Asia market and contact recommendations. Forget about keeping things in stealth. 10 Stay lean and focused. This article was first published on Penn-Olson , a tech, business and marketing blog focusing on US and Asia. We usually help if we can. #8

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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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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode. Her work included heading Nokia’s location-based services business and app portfolio for emerging markets, which she built from a back-of-a-napkin idea to a 100-person organization with over 10 million users.

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The Next Web

JULY 20, 2012

Here’s a mind-numbingly easy guideline : as soon as words like disrupt, stealth, rock star and gamification are used, all is likely lost. Joking about a Microsoft Kin for Tech Incubators is always fun, but when you’re wrapped up in a vision, it’s surprisingly easy to lean on the crutch of familiarity.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Just to rank how difficult it was to protect a B-52 in a dense defensive radar environment, our current B-2 stealth bomber has a radar signature of about an aluminum marble, while the B-52 designed in 1950 has the radar signature of a 170-foot sphere. It was like trying to fly a whale through a fish tank and not get noticed.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 22, 2012

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. Two very well-funded competitors dropped out of stealth when we pushed our alpha and I started putting far too much emphasis on competitor-killing features and not enough time getting to market.

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onstartups.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

23 Tweetable Insights From "The Lean Startup" (5 days ago). Stealth Mode, Schmealth Mode: The Real Reasons Why Startups Dont Talk. But, this is rarely because they are in so-called “stealth” mode, and have some big secret to global domination that they can’t tell you. Follow @dharmesh. Subscribe to Updates.

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Steve Blank

JULY 23, 2009

to build sensors, stealth and smart weapons previously thought impossible or impractical, would give us a major military advantage. The 1970’s and ‘80’s were the endgame of the cold war, and the U.S. military realized that our advantage over the Soviet Union was in silicon, software and systems. These technologies which allowed the U.S.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

In my blockchain investment work (we have invested in six early-stage projects, including bloXroute , Enigma , FalconX , NEX and two stealth projects), I have been struck by the fact that decades of progress on applying the scientific method to entrepreneurship (e.g.,

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

Trada Blog: Paid Search Marketing, Online Advertising and Small Biz Trada's blog for small businesses making paid search, online advertising and social media easier to understand. One of my favorite startup debates is about stealth mode. We’ve been in stealth mode at Trada for almost 18 months now.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Stealth mode” and other f’ing brilliant strategies – [link]. lean Democrat – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 29, 2012

SS: You have to be strategic because there’s no stealth mode. If you fail with a crowdfunding campaign, your brand and reputation will take a hit and you’re going to have a hell of a time going back to investors after that to convince them there’s a market for your service or product.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

Maybe they never thought about product-market fit. Your first product will likely be just a little bit ugly, and thats okay — its part of getting to market quickly and testing your idea in front of live customers. Maybe theyre trying to tackle too many problems at once. Dont underestimate the importance of Minimum Viable Design.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

What if something dramatically changes in the market? I’d implemented a business plan including marketing, engagement, sales strategy and realized a few months in that it wasn’t servicing a key influence or in the sales process. Or you have a product in a patent but no [inaudible 00:04:36] bring you to market.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 12, 2016

The advent of the cloud, open source development tools and lean startup practices have led to a different evolutionary pattern for startups. They want a VC to be a company-building partner to coach them throughout all the stages of growth and an investment partner who has a deep understanding of the market opportunity they are targeting.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

billion gamers worldwide will help the global games market generate revenues of $189.3 Companies like iHeartMedia, SiriusXM, and Spotify are investing in and leading the evolution of audio, focused on music streaming (on-demand and lean-back modalities), podcasting and content production. Fortnite alone made $1.8 credit App Annie.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 6, 2011

Although the industry is in much better shape than the dark days of 2008 and 2009, many CEOs have fully embraced the continue to internalize the lean startup principles that came out of those years. Marketing who we are, not who we may want to be one day. Improve the product. Internalize culture and values. Stay hungry, stay foolish.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 2, 2022

6- Increased marketing spend. Taking a risk by increasing marketing spend (strategically), has paid off substantially, seeing our annual sales grow by over 30%. A market saved me from wasting a lot of time and money on it. We have been able to break through the noise with our marketing. Photo Credit: Tracey Munn.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 14, 2015

Instead of taking one big swing with the launch of a new product—devoting months to the design of one technical feature or spending years in stealth mode developing a product without evidence that customers want it—it is an iterative approach to learn who the customer actually is, and what’s honestly required to delight them.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

Stanford’s research on the earth’s ionosphere would lead to meteor-burst communication systems and Over the Horizon Radar used by the NSA and CIA to detect Soviet and Chinese missile tests and ultimately to the research that made Stealth technologies possible.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Build the product in stealth mode to build buzz for the eventual launch. Stealth is a customer-free zone. As we move into a new economic climate, its my hope that our industry will stop this expensive kind of learning and start building lean startups instead. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2024

“However, a supportive US administration can foster collaboration and open doors for Israeli entrepreneurs in the US market.” However, a supportive US administration can foster collaboration and open doors for Israeli entrepreneurs in the US market. ” You can read the entire interview below.

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