Hearpreneur

JANUARY 2, 2022

16- Hit $1 million revenue. I'm proud of our business finally hitting the $1 million revenue. We didn't have much in the way of a revenue target when we started the year. With the COVID-19 slump all but completely decimating our business, having a high revenue target wasn't even on our list of priorities.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth. congrats to Fortress IQ on its $12mm Series A led by Lightspeed and a stealth co on their $13.5mm Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Smallstep , Clay , Dark , and Windmill emerged out of stealth. First check to Series B?—?congrats First check to Series A?—?congrats

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth. First check to Series Acongrats to Fortress IQ on its $12mm Series A led by Lightspeed and a stealth co on their $13.5mm Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Smallstep , Clay , Dark , and Windmill emerged out of stealth. Rebel exit to Salesforce.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Angel investors typically provide early-stage rollout funding, while venture capital firms won’t be interested until you have real traction and revenue during scaling. But operating in stealth mode, or waiting for that perfect investor to find you, or feeling entitled, is even less effective.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

The Difference Between Stealth Mode and Quiet Mode – [link]. Red All Over: Newspaper Revenues Fall In Q3 – [link]. In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P. Campaigns | NYT FiveThirtyEight – [link]. Badges Beware: 80% Of Gamification Apps Will End Up Being Losers, Says Gartner – [link].

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

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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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Kol hakavod Alan Bekker, PhD and team eSelf AI for coming out of stealth with a $4.5M source ) Sacra estimates that Wiz hit $500M annual recurring revenue (ARR) in July 2024, up 103% YoY. Great stuff Dor Sasson and team Stigg on your $17.5M seed round to build live, interactive AI assistants!

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Thumbs up Benny Porat and team Twine Security on coming out of stealth with a $12M seed round to automate security tasks starting with identity management! Great milestone Dvir Hoffman and team CommBox on your $15M series B to build the future of customer experience powered by AI!

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Aspiring entrepreneurs who are determined to operate in stealth mode, for fear of giving away their secrets, will find they lose more than they could gain by sharing. It’s amazing how much you can learn from people who have been there, and love to talk about their successes as well as their failures.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2024

CYBER – Israeli startup Wiz reaches $350M in ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) just four years from inception, making it the fastest growing cybersecurity company in the world. Kooply , a game development engine in stealth, was of the 20 winners of the 2024 Game Changers list by Lightspeed Ventures.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Craig is currently the CEO and founder of stealth-ish startup BetterWorks. Serbinski has since gone on to invest in a handful of stealth startups in the gaming, mobile and location arenas. If you’re lucky enough to score a meeting with Gordon, make the most of it — and don’t forget to talk revenue potential.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 14, 2025

Well done Guy Flechter and team Sola Security on coming out of stealth with $30M in seed funding to offer cybersecurity protection to small and medium businesses! Kudos Alon Cohen and team QuamCore on coming out of stealth with a $9 million seed round to enable the implementation of a million-qubit computer in a 50 cm cube!

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

We just add up the revenue we've made in the past few months from Win98 users, and compare to the pain that Win98 has caused as identified in 5Ys. I feel like I would have to introduce this by stealth. It's so old and so buggy that it's a real pain to ship 3D software on it.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

It’s still in stealth but plans to make announcements soon. I just checked his LinkedIn profile and it’s not updated so I’m guessing he’s still in stealth mode so I can’t talk about what he’s doing. initially captured the Internet portal revenues by aggregating eyeballs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2017

The key to success as a startup is finding like-minded people, and it can work on the front-end with sponsors, before you have back-end customers for revenue. You learn more by talking to people early, versus stealth mode. Find corporate sponsors to reduce startup costs. Sometimes it helps to not know what’s not possible.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2023

Angel investors typically provide early-stage rollout funding, while venture capital firms won’t be interested until you have real traction and revenue during scaling. But operating in stealth mode, or waiting for that perfect investor to find you, or feeling entitled, is even less effective.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

These three tools allow startups to focus on the parts of an early stage venture that matter the most: the product, product/market fit, customer acquisition, revenue and cost model, channels and partners. Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. Lessons Learned.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2011

Forget about keeping things in stealth. It could be web visits, building a team, getting users or revenue. We also get non-tech-related emails that seek advice on jobs, the Asia market and contact recommendations. We usually help if we can. #8 8 Speed, timing, openness. Build and ship fast. Embrace the open concept. #9

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adamac.blogspot.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Stealth-mode" is generally unecessary and more likely harmful to your startup (and calling it stealth-mode calls you out as a noob). You start hiring a lot of people in sales and marketing to drive revenue, and while you may still be hiring people to do real work, the weight from the top starts to push down on everything else.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2010

How about when you missed your revenue targets, when your product didn’t ship on time, when your co-founder quit, when you ran out of cash and didn’t have strong options, when Facebook announces that they’re going to compete with you or when Steve Jobs says that your company pisses him off ? When the world was ending?

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

Thanks to Teo Vanyo, Stealth Agents ! #21- Businesses that operate online are the most likely to use the freemium revenue model. It has evolved from one of the. world's most disruptive tech titans to a stable, market-leading firm introducing modest advances to its current products. 21- AMP Robotics. Photo Credit: Devon Fata.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Entrepreneurs often measure every person they meet in dollars and potential revenue. Falon Fatemi is founder and CEO of Close , a stealth startup of ex-Googlers backed by NEA, Felicis Ventures, Mark Cuban, Dave McClure, and more. But let me be the first to tell you: It will serve you well to check that attitude at the door.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 28, 2021

And elsewhere creator monetisation tools and revenue streams continue to expand: Ads and bran deals – Youtube reported $6 billion in revenue for Q1 2021 , a 50% growth rate from the equivalent period last year. The sum is equivalent to the combined annual revenue of Snap and Twitter for 2020. (@hunterwalk) April 27, 2021.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2023

Whether it’s gaming, commerce/ DTC or creator economy, there are many Israeli startups selling at over $10M and even $100M in annual revenue. I wanted to highlight a few of the ‘old school’ B2C success stories, several of them are “Centaurs” , or startups that passed the $100M revenue mark.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 27, 2012

Today one of our portfolio companies, LinkSmart , has come out of stealth mode and unveiled its product, Total Link Management and $4.7M in financing led by Foundry Group. My partner Seth Levine sits on the board and wrote about his view of LinkSmart.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2016

Angel investors typically provide early-stage rollout funding, while venture capital firms won’t be interested until you have real traction and revenue during scaling. But operating in stealth mode, or waiting for that perfect investor to find you, or feeling entitled, is even less effective.

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VC Adventure

JUNE 27, 2012

This is a huge opportunity for publishers to take control of their key asset – the content which they produce – and use it most effectively to better the experience for their site visitors while at the same time generating more traffic and more revenue for their business. LinkSmart was built for publishers by a publisher.

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

The venture capital market in this category is fairly concentrated among series A and expansion-stage funds that prefer to invest in companies with substantial revenue. The seed ecosystem for health companies is much less robust than in traditional software.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The Wall Street Journal is getting into the community and content game as well with their soon to be released stealth GetSocial effort. The last time this nextNY event was done with the Daily News, one company, Olapic , got a distribution deal (and revenue) that changed the nature of their business. There are a ton of synergies here.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

We’ll be able to start partnering soon (we are currently under Alpha-stealth mode).” the team plans to focus on partnerships and a revenue share on redeemed offers. Leading companies are already showing lots of interest in our product and we get very positive feedback. ” So how will FootTraffic make money?

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

NEW FUNDING ROUNDS Congratulations Ofir Ehrlich and team EON (still in stealth) for raising $80M at a rumoured $800M valuation 9 months from inception! Revenue estimates of AI products A new wave of humanoid robot is coming to homes soon. Can’t wait to learn more. Way to go Nir Laznik and team Sedric.ai on your $18.5M

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Smart enterprises are analyzing all of this data to make better decisions, increase revenue, and improve operating performance. As you know, we believe big data is passé and the real trend is smart data or what you do with the big data that matters. Storing and scaling tons of data cheaply and efficiently is already done.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 30, 2011

Vast majority of revenue comes from payTV 70% in EU. To name a few, I’ve seen Outbrain, Similar Group, Donanza, HitPad (still in stealth), Superna, Speedup, JamRT(creators of Tubehero), Mythings,Fiddme and more. Groupon’s Andrew Mason: We want to be the Amazon for local. But says nothing concrete.

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VC Adventure

JUNE 27, 2012

This is a huge opportunity for publishers to take control of their key asset – the content which they produce – and use it most effectively to better the experience for their site visitors while at the same time generating more traffic and more revenue for their business. LinkSmart was built for publishers by a publisher.

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www.humbledmba.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. As in stop being in stealth mode. flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy. Ran if for two years before we shut it down with almost no revenue achieved. humbledMBA. « Back to posts.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Full disclosure: I'm an investor in a stealth daily fantasy sports company. You remember tax revenue, right states? Daily fantasy sports have exploded onto the scene in the last couple of years, and recent events have caused regulators to look at the area with increased scrutiny.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 3, 2019

They infiltrate the mind by stealth. I’d imagine you’re already doing this and it will only increase to the chagrin of social media forums which harvest attention for revenue. Real relationships are something I do in the back channels: Texts, Private Messages, Small groups, DM’s.

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