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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

Both Sides of the Table

If you’re going to offer convenience as your biggest selling proposition you need to make it easy not only to book an appointment and pay for it but also to research which vendor to select based on reputation. It’s nice to finally not be in stealth mode! So there you have it.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

Status / reputation. 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. Why You Should Write. Your service: the game. People want status. It's human nature," he writes.

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Is "Stealth" the Best Way to Build Your Business?

ReadWriteStart

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. Conclusion. Not convinced yet?

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The Next Bubble – Don’t Get Fooled Again

Steve Blank

Dr Jean-Paul Rodrigue , in the Department of Global Studies & Geography at Hofstra University, observed that bubbles have four phases; stealth, awareness, mania and blow-off. In the stealth phase , prescient angel investors and Venture Capitalists (VCs) start investing in an industry or market segment that others have not yet found.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #13: To be stealthy or not?

Austin Startup

We recently invested in Osano , which is led by the very talented Arlo Gilbert and is currently in stealth mode. By contrast, MOON is going to launch soon and is not in stealth mode at all. We went with the stealth mode approach prior to our launch, as I’ll reflect on at the bottom of this lesson. I could waste no time.

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4 Things Entrepreneurs Should Ignore From the Steve Jobs Formula

ReadWriteStart

Go Anti-Stealth. A few months ago, returning from SxSW I wrote about my concerns about the increasing percentage of business I heard that were building "stealth." As I pointed out in the post, there are three big advantages to building your business in 'anti-stealth': Leveraging product feedback earlier in development.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode. Protecting one’s reputation is incredibly important for any investor, whether independent or corporate. Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform.