Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2020

Rally people behind a higher purpose, not just a product. The customer culture today responds best to a greater vision for improving society and the planet, which can easily sustain a constant stream of new products. Challenge your team, and your customers, with expanding their mindset, achieving personal goals, and changing the world.

Entrepreneur 329

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Stealth Angel Investor 329

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. 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.

Technology 191

Technology Product San Francisco CTO Hire 191

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. Before you finalize the product is the best time to talk about it and see if you can get some buzz started. Demonstrate a minimum viable product (MVP).

Stealth 436

Stealth Early Stage Social Media Web 436

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. Product or service readiness. Investors are evaluating your process as well as your product.

Technical Review 237

Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Private Equity 237

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2010

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. Product or service readiness. Investors are evaluating your process as well as your product.

Technical Review 225

Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Private Equity 225

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Superwise.ai – started in January 2019, Superwise hopes to become the AI Performance Management for the enterprise, connecting to any ML system in production. It offers a performance benchmarking score and allows to evaluate the quality of models in production. Deepchecks, still in stealth ( source ).

Algorithm 166

Algorithm Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Stealth 166

Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 2, 2025

Refined drafting processes eliminate misunderstandings and boost productivity. Others are designed to provide stealth assistance during writing sessions without the slowdowns of manual editing. Conclusion Attaining higher productivity involves systematic planning and a willingness to explore new methods.

Product 40

Product Technical Review Stealth Campaign 40

David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

I’ve attached below my original, much more detailed blog post about the details of how we’ve designed our office to help people stay healthy and be as productive as possible. We’re filling it with our own team , plus a couple of startups in our portfolio ( Parsely , Phone.com , some in stealth mode). (Thanks Tim!)

Product 166

Product Portfolio Venture Capital Vesting 166

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Every time I hear about a new startup that is in stealth mode, I wonder what problem they are hiding from whom. I believe stealth makes sense for large companies who can be sued for “pre-announcing” a new product to stall the market or kill a competitor. Deliver minimum product and iterate. Tune your website.

Stealth 252

Stealth Entrepreneur Incubator Engineer 252

Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2014

Not because they’re all operating in stealth or pre-product – in fact some already are earning $1m+ in revenue per annum. No One Blog Moves the Needle As Much Anymore: One used to announce and hope for the “TechCrunch effect” where a rush of new users kingmade your product.

Technical Review 133

Technical Review CTO Hire Finance Stealth 133

Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 13, 2014

Unbeknownst to the rest of the world because it was in deep stealth, GM was trying to create what we now know as the mobile Web with the world’s largest telecom service providers and consumer electronics companies based on GM’s technology. Tony –working on “iPhone” circa 1992 Me–product manager, having a ball.

Cofounder 167

Cofounder Michigan Stealth Internet 167

The Next Web

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Ryan Hoover is the co-creator of Product Hunt , creator of Startup Edition , and instructor at Tradecraft. Follow him at @rrhoover or visit his blog to read more about startups and product design. The way product managers, UX designers, and other “non-technical” roles think , communicates their ability and culture fit.

Stealth 167

Stealth Cofounder Social Media Viral 167

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2011

Every time I hear about a new startup that is in stealth mode, I wonder what problem they are hiding from whom. I believe stealth makes sense for large companies who can be sued for “pre-announcing” a new product to stall the market or kill a competitor. Deliver minimum product and iterate. Marty Zwilling.

Stealth 252

Stealth Startup Incubator Engineer 252

news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Hacker News new | comments | ask | jobs | submit login Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. I work for a stealth startup. The idea is just a very small part of the reason why we are in stealth. If we are not in stealth mode, it will just draw unwanted attention. niyazpk 215 days ago | link.

Stealth 41

Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

The Next Web

MARCH 10, 2013

Hasty is a seed-funded stealth startup whose mission is to improve the health of humanity. If you’re an entrepreneur, you’re probably measuring everything you possibly can about your business and your product. This is a guest post by Chris Hollindale, co-founder and CTO of Hasty. They’re all important, and they all need recording.

Entrepreneur 140

Entrepreneur Fractional CTO CTO Hire Stealth 140

Gust

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. Product or service readiness. Investors are evaluating your process as well as your product.

Technical Review 152

Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Private Equity 152

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Thats the conclusion Ive come to after watching tons of online products fail for a complete lack of customers. Our goal is to find out whether customers are interested in your product by offering to give (or even sell) it to them, and then failing to deliver on that promise. Nothing made any difference.

Demand 167

Demand San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 167

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. This phase also includes building initial minimal viable products (MVPs.) government federal research agencies to turn ideas into products.

Community 244

Community Silicon Valley Technical Review Incubator 244

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.

Artificial Inteligence 122

Artificial Inteligence Israel Technical Review Startup 122

VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

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. Disclaimer: we have three portfolio companies in the consumer mobile space, still in stealth). credit App Annie. social media.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Audio Forecast Social Media 207

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2017

In my own experience as an investor, I have concluded that success is more about the people than the product. Investors avoid startups that are in stealth mode, long development cycles, and an inflexible business model. Balance of technical and business knowledge.

Technical Review 152

Technical Review Stealth Lean Social Media 152

Version One Ventures

JULY 20, 2017

As Ada Support launches its automated chat platform from stealth and announces an impressive $2.5 With Mike and David ferociously developing product and doing sales, they launched the Ada bot with early customers like Medium, Kik and Wattpad. The story underscores the importance of perseverance and having the right founding team.

Artificial Inteligence 150

Artificial Inteligence Silicon Valley Stealth Term Sheet 150

ReadWriteStart

MAY 29, 2012

Crowdfunding works for creative projects - apps, consumer products, software - that resonate with average, everyday people. The biggest successes have been galvanized around consumer-facing products like [the Pebble smartwatch] or the [Double Fine] Adventure game… something there’s tremendous demand for. It comes down to a sales pitch.

Campaign 142

Campaign Stealth Social Media Audience 142

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. As an entrepreneur, you have to figure out the right plan to test and build your product. However, locking yourself in a room and designing and then building your product is rarely optimal.

Software Review 130

Software Review Stealth Video Channel 130

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. Its first product will be aimed at mixed martial arts (currently the seventh largest sport in the world, Cains says) and talks are already underway for getting products onto shelves.

Internet 120

Internet Bulgaria Portugal Stealth 120

cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. You’ll gauge people’s excitement level for the product and for various features. Great tips, fully inline with “Four Steps to the Epiphany” Also reminds me of Dharmesh’s “Stealth Mode, Schmealth Mode” — [link].

Stealth 68

Stealth Startup NDA Cofounder 68

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. The truth is, there are so many startups making incredible products and guess what? and they will, your answer has to be solid.

Startup 138

Startup Investment Bankers Technical Review Cofounder 138

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Startups which insist on operating in stealth mode in fear of competitor response miss the more important customer response. Build your audience and the product at the same time. Especially with a minimum viable product (MVP), every feature included must be high-quality, documented well and properly marketed.

Hockey Stick 120

Hockey Stick Startup Stealth Agile 120

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Type IIA is popular due to its low weight and stealth. In the production of body armor, aramid fibers, ultra-high-modulus polyethylene, steel, titanium, aluminum, and ceramics are used. Products are characterized by a low protection class, so they cannot be used in combat areas. Steel – resists penetration at high speed.

Vesting 158

Vesting Stealth Technical Review Security 158

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2015

These companies spend millions of dollars every year on anti-virus software, security products, and firewall installations, yet they continue to be a growing target of cyber criminals. Why are startups so exposed? Don’t their IT department have security analysts to detect and prevent these threats?

API 100

API PHP Stealth Security 100

VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

* Originally published on Calcalist , April 20 2023 Since the day ChatGPT was introduced in November 2022, it has become the fastest growing consumer product, putting the words ‘generative AI’ in the mainstream. Every day, we hear about new products and services that are meant to enhance human creativity and productivity.

Generative AI 78

Generative AI Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Israel 78

View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

As a seed stage VC, I have a unique privilege of confidentially spending time with a number of entrepreneurs throughout their company formation and initial product development process. independently come to launch very similar products/services. without any knowledge of the other’s activities?—?independently

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage Startup Cofounder Stealth 120

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Even before you build a product, you should be interacting with potential customers in person, and through social media. 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.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Preferred Stock Stealth 120

Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

Understanding the left-side of the mission model canvas ( activities, resources , partners , and costs) forces all teams to ask, “Are we building a product for a DOD/IC customer only or do we have a “dual-use” product that could be sold commercially and get funded by venture capital?”. This post is a continuation of the series.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley San Diego Technical Review Incubator 120

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. Get Obsessed with Your Customers.

Startup 129

Startup Technical Review Stealth Differentiation 129

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice – [link]. 13 Tips on Designing Awesome Stickers That Sell More Products – [link]. One of the best essays on recruiting a high performing team for your startup – [link]. Difficult is good (about working with “difficult&# entrepreneurs) – [link].

Social Media 95

Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2016

Come with a product built and a proven business model. Startups in stealth mode can’t get feedback from real customers and can’t be perceived as experts in their industry. In the interest of getting you off on the right foot, here is my priority list of recommended preparation activities. Simplicity is preferred at this stage.

Angel Investor 120

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Accredited Investor Angel Groups 120