Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2023

Encourage open discussions of options, rather than stealth mode. Position against competing offerings in the marketplace, highlighting your positives, rather than trying to put-down competitors. Test to see if others see the solution you see.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

This wallet utilizes private ring transactions, stealth addresses, and ring signatures to consolidate the amounts, sources, and the intended target of the transactions. Entire transactions are executed through a spread out consensus, and without alterations, they are registered on the blockchain.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

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 ). Deepchecks.com – focus on warning organisations before their deployed AI systems make bad calls using proprietary predictive analytics algorithms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

They try to confirm from industry analysts that your differentiators are indeed unique, and that there are no future competitors or big gorillas in stealth mode just around the corner. The kiss of death is for investors to find unanticipated competition you neglected to mention. Business and financial status.

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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. “No With stealth mode, you can’t learn early enough to pivot gracefully.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2010

They try to confirm from industry analysts that your differentiators are indeed unique, and that there are no future competitors or big gorillas in stealth mode just around the corner. The kiss of death is for investors to find unanticipated competition you neglected to mention. Business and financial status.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

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. But this new strategy was more than making the bombs smarter.

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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. “No These things can’t be done while in stealth mode. Marty Zwilling.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

SimpliVT , a new venture in stealth has raised $9.2 This is the startup’s second round, coming to a total of $19 million to date. eXelate eXchange was launched in 2008 and includes some of the world’s leading publishers. Founded by CEO Meir (Iri) Zohar, eXalate has offices in New York and Kfar Saba, Israel.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The monitoring app will run in stealth mode on the device, monitoring all Telegram chat conversations and messages in secret. The app runs in stealth mode and does not show any visible notifications or alerts on the monitored device. Here’s how: Install the TheOneSpy app on the target device.

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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.

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deal architect

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

I have known Charles Phillips, CEO of Infor for going on 2 decades now. He was a polymath way before I wrote a book celebrating them. He has computer science and law degrees in addition to an MBA.

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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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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. Most of the startups we’ve backed at Homebrew don’t rush to announce their funding. They just don’t feel the need to draw attention to themselves or alert possible competitors.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

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? I then worked as a product manager at NetZero/United Online in the VOIP group, and then most recently at Google as a product manager on the Picasa/Photos team based in Santa Monica.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 19, 2013

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. Despite Lenny’s relatively small following and infrequent blogging routine, he has built himself a strong, long-lasting resume. And it paid off. They saw my blog. Blog to build.

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The Next Web

MARCH 10, 2013

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

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Gust

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

They try to confirm from industry analysts that your differentiators are indeed unique, and that there are no future competitors or big gorillas in stealth mode just around the corner. The kiss of death is for investors to find unanticipated competition you neglected to mention. Business and financial status.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2017

Investors avoid startups that are in stealth mode, long development cycles, and an inflexible business model. The lean startup methodology, popularized by Eric Ries about ten years ago, expedites new business success through iterative solution cycles, focused business experiments, and validated learning.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2018

BRAVA Investment Launches Stealth Female Project. Fertility is a major issue and so Stealth Female Project is a startup that advertises innovative approaches to women’s fertility issues. If you are interested in startups to watch out for in 2018, here are three that should interest you.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

Disclaimer: we have three portfolio companies in the consumer mobile space, still in stealth). This may also trickle down to Google and Amazon. The Information and VentureBeat have more on this. credit App Annie. social media. In 2021, optimism on investing in social media has returned.

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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 million seed round, we’re looking back at our journey with founders Mike Murchison and David Hariri. The story underscores the importance of perseverance and having the right founding team.

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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. As a continuation of that theme, I thought it would be interesting to explore five tools you can use to iterate and improve your startup idea before writing one line of code.

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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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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2015

The following are some of the threats that startups have failed to protect their networks and critical infrastructure against: Advanced persistent threats : These are attacks in which hackers carefully spread the implant, and enter the corporate network in stealth mode, spreading their agents and extracting data.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 6, 2012

The company has been in stealth mode since the middle of 2010 and is making its debut at this year’s conference in Austin. The company’s current ad campaign has Square directly in its target as it showcases the use of the company's technology platform by some industry heavyweights.

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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.

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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. We and our contractors had the best technology domain experts. We could design and manufacture the best systems. That approach doesn’t work anymore.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Type IIA is popular due to its low weight and stealth. It is not visible to others and can protect against certain types of pistols. However, melee weapons can cause significant damage to the user. It is comfortable to wear under a jacket and does not restrict the wearer’s movements at all.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2016

Startups in stealth mode can’t get feedback from real customers and can’t be perceived as experts in their industry. Simplicity is preferred at this stage. Highlight existing presence on the Internet and social media. In today’s world, if your startup is not visible on the Internet, you haven’t started yet.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

We know a lot of founders in this space choose to remain in stealth and expect the actual number of Israeli startups working on generative AI to be much larger and grow quickly. We made two new investments in this space which are still in stealth. In just a couple of months the current version includes 68 startups.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 29, 2012

SS: You have to be strategic because there’s no stealth mode. RWW: How do you know whether crowdfunding is a better approach for your startup than seeking traditional forms of financing?

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Gust

OCTOBER 7, 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. “No With stealth mode, you can’t learn early enough to pivot gracefully.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Yes, there is certainly risk in this perspective and there is a logical set of reasoning for operating in stealth mode. First, this copycat threat leaves entrepreneurs hesitating to share their startup idea and early experiments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Startups that operate in stealth mode until their solution is perfect usually acquire customers and investors very slowly. Even before you build a product, you should be interacting with potential customers in person, and through social media. Accumulate customer advocates, testimonials and “letters of intent.”

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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. Startups in stealth mode often have a false sense of security that they can take extra time to do the job right the first time.

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