Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2020

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. The common reason given is that this prevents any competitor from stealing their idea and beating them to market. Optimize your web history and presence.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Several Israeli startups understood there is a potential market in monitoring AI performance and are tackling this market. The company was backed by Grove Ventures in an undisclosed round (still in stealth, so not much information available yet). Deepchecks, still in stealth ( source ).

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

In five years, ESL went from a plucky startup to the market leader in Sigint and telemetry intercepts. It involved building stealth aircraft to deliver these precision weapons unseen by any enemy radar, and designing intelligence and reconnaissance systems that would target for them. Smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The startup Tracx , which provides a SaaS solution for tracking and managing marketing campaign on social networks, has received an undisclosed investment from Israeli angel Zohar Gilon. SimpliVT , a new venture in stealth has raised $9.2 Below is a recap of some of September’s Israeli tech headlines: Investment rounds.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 21, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Are there benefits for a startup to work in “stealth&# mode? Small businesses may benefit from better social media marketing – [link]. Will Facebook Be Next To Enter The Q&A Market?

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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. Ghost Town?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! More interesting ads in the Social Media and Marketing section below. Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media – [link]. Who’s Next? – [link].

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. Below, she shares lessons learned from the earliest days of marketing the company and how this has translated to her second startup role as VP of Marketing at Toast. How did you address that?

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

While Telegram markets itself as a secure messaging app focused on privacy, there are discreet ways to view Telegram chats with the help of monitoring software like TheOneSpy. The monitoring app will run in stealth mode on the device, monitoring all Telegram chat conversations and messages in secret.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2014

It was Steve who first brought Will Harvey to visit Immersion, which led to a strategic investment in There.com, Will’s stealth-mode but sure-fire, can’t-miss startup. I was lucky to be one of the very early people at Immersion and met Steve when he came on as one of our first board members. Present at the Creation.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Of course, my professional experience and accomplishments were instrumental in creating these opportunities, blogging amplified peoples’ interest in me and helped market my expertise. Lenny recently sent me this direct message on Twitter: hey ryan, I got hired on as a short-term consultant for a stealth startup… so random.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I was in charge of all product management and marketing for the first year-and-a-half, that was a great learning experience with a very talented team of folks. I know you are still in stealth, but what can you tell us. And what do you think about the controversy about stealth vs. not for startups? What are you working on now?

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

An AI leverages deep natural language processing, text analysis, and computational linguistics to gain insight into customer opinion, understanding of consumer sentiment , and measuring the impact of marketing strategies. This technique is helpful for market segmentation, image compression, etc. Examples: Brand24 , MonkeyLearn.

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www.frozennorth.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Stealth Mode Startup. Let me add another reason to that list: it isnt always that hard to figure out what a stealth-mode startup is really doing. Im at a tradeshow in Dallas this week, and we were visited by some very bright people from a stealth-mode startup. buy it on Amazon. (in)Frequently in)Frequently Asked Questions.

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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. The common reason given is that this prevents any competitor from stealing their idea and beating them to market. Optimize your web history and presence.

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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. Simply put, there is no market for RSS. Except they won’t be called Product Managers. The writing is on the wall.”.

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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. Investors avoid startups that are in stealth mode, long development cycles, and an inflexible business model. Persistence and patience with timing mismatches. Balance of technical and business knowledge.

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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. Check out the video below to see iMockups in action: Feedback on Concept from Target Market. Once you've got a concept put together, it's often valuable to get some early feedback from your target market.

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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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Version One Ventures

JULY 20, 2017

As Ada Support launches its automated chat platform from stealth and announces an impressive $2.5 With great new traction and product market fit, the Ada team came out to SF to raise their Seed round in October 2016. million seed round, we’re looking back at our journey with founders Mike Murchison and David Hariri.

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The Next Web

JUNE 7, 2013

The eighth is currently operating in stealth mode (yes, even on demo day) but we’re digging to find out more about them. TapTo is a cloud-based marketing platform that uses QR codes and NFC capabilities on devices to create “more relevant and engaging” experiences.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Yes, information about markets and trends affecting them is near ubiquitous given our media landscape. If a large and venture-scale objective market opportunity truly does exists, it would be unusual for it to go entirely missed by everyone with experience in the space. independently come to launch very similar products/services.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Even more importantly, you can start to experiment with feature set, positioning, and marketing - all without building a product. Labels: customer development , search engine marketing 13comments: Jim Lindstrom said. If you cant find any , maybe that means you havent figured out who your customer is yet. A very interesting strategy.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

But for startups with limited resources and experience, I always recommend a soft launch or toe-in-the-water approach in a local market -- and scale up later. Startups which insist on operating in stealth mode in fear of competitor response miss the more important customer response.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Startup success depends on a many factors related to your vision, product, and market opportunity. 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. and they will, your answer has to be solid.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

If your strength is technology, find a co-founder who has a comparable strength in business, finance or marketing. Ship a minimum viable product quickly, test the market and iterate. Startups that operate in stealth mode until their solution is perfect usually acquire customers and investors very slowly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2016

A business needs technical, marketing, financial and many other skills. Startups in stealth mode can’t get feedback from real customers and can’t be perceived as experts in their industry. Assemble a team with the requisite expertise and experience. Create and highlight your intellectual property portfolio.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 7, 2010

We’ve been having a running joke within Foundry Group for several years about “stealth mode.” My partner Seth alludes to it in his blog post a few years back titled To stealth or not to stealth. Niel wrote a brilliant post on this titled The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth. You should also.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

We are purpose-built to not only invest pre-product but also to help accelerate your path to product-market fit with our decades of entrepreneurial and investing experience along with our active CXO advisory board. First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth. Smallstep , Clay , Dark , and Windmill emerged out of stealth.

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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. When an investor asks you “How is your product different than other solutions on the market?”, and they will, your answer has to be solid.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

We are purpose-built to not only invest pre-product but also to help accelerate your path to product-market fit with our decades of entrepreneurial and investing experience along with our active CXO advisory board. First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth. Smallstep , Clay , Dark , and Windmill emerged out of stealth.

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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. The common reason given is that this prevents any competitor from stealing their idea and beating them to market. Demonstrate a minimum viable product (MVP).

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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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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 2, 2025

Marketing campaigns, investor updates, and client proposals all benefit from well-organized text that resonates with the target audience. Others are designed to provide stealth assistance during writing sessions without the slowdowns of manual editing. Refined drafting processes eliminate misunderstandings and boost productivity.

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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. When an investor asks you “How is your product different than other solutions on the market?”, and they will, your answer has to be solid.

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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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