Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

She shares: “We now use metrics like cost-per-learning and validation velocity to show progress since traditional things like ROI weren’t applicable.” The United States Digital Service, a federal government agency, is building a ‘stealth startup.’

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Some startups are in stealth mode and maybe branding and beautiful design is important. If I had a business where there’s a six-month sales cycle instead, I’d need to wait longer and look for affects on some metrics that would provide an early indication of success or failure.

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SVPG

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Metrics = KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators). A head start is rarely large enough to matter, and time spent in stealth mode-away from customers-is unlikely to provide a head start. Small Batch = Incremental/Continuous Development and Deployment. Large Batch = Big Bang/Waterfall. Early Adopters = Earlyvangelists. ” Amen.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2023

One of the first companies (outside of Disney) to get access to the Snap Camera SDK, Zoog has some of the best conversion metrics I’ve seen for a B2C consumer app. (founded in 2019, raised $13.5M to date) Zoog – a mobile app to connect families, using AR. Disclosure: a Remagine Ventures portfolio company.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 16, 2015

On the number of founders and companies: Some people are likely in stealth mode, and haven’t self-identified themselves currently as founders, which is merely a known bias in the study. Quite the contrary. Rather, as Dimitri noted, we’re at the beginning of the cycle for these recent classes.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

So I have personal scars from what it means to over-index success using fundraising as the key metric. Success and fundraising are not one and the same. You can find Brent’s original post here. ). In terms of outlier success, the Class of 2011 was by far the standout entrepreneurial class, with 58 founders cumulatively raising $1.15

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

Skip to content Tina MVC for WordPress « Finding The Need for International Pay-Per-Click Campaigns Lijit: A Fun Tool in Your PPC Arsenal » The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth Debate: Stay Stealth? One of my favorite startup debates is about stealth mode.

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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. The solution is to understand that an innovation pipeline requires different people, processes, procedures, and metrics, then execution. Problem 6: How to get started?

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 6, 2011

Shawn Gupta of OhLife , a personal journaling tool over email, has similar sentiments in using metrics to drive product innovation: Make metrics a core part of our product development. Our engineers often come up with great ideas, and they are the most productive when they work on these ideas.

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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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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments. I mean, this is a big, big thing — big change for us, so we have a bunch of stealth investments — I mean, companies that haven’t talked about what they are doing yet. So that will be another enabler for a lot more of the Bring Your Own Device stuff.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

While there is a great deal of appreciation for the power of metrics/data, I've come to realize that Sr. Leaders don't quite appreciate the deep, and often corrosive, consequences of choosing metric x over metric y as a key performance indicator (KPI). It is a standard metric. Don't believe me?

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Austin Startup

MAY 9, 2018

As a venture-backed start-up, you may benefit from stealth mode to prevent copying for a season, but ultimately comes a time when your technology must be promoted and made known to the world in order for you to find commercial success. The reality is far from that.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2025

and team Orchid Security for coming out of stealth with a $36M seed round to to automatically identify the security requirements for each of their customers’ internal applications! George Mathew , Insight Partners NEW FUNDING ROUNDS Congrats Roy K.

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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. Departments were built and were even metrics-driven. But there was no feedback loop to help the company find the right metrics to focus on. Launch with a PR blitz, including mentions in major mainstream publications.

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