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. Shocking, I know.

Stealth 41

Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

ReadWriteStart

MAY 29, 2012

SS: You have to be strategic because there’s no stealth mode. This could be video testimonials from noted industry personalities, or other brands, creators or influencers you can get a shout-out from on social media. Study campaigns that have succeeded and campaigns that have failed. Budget carefully and leave a 30% cushion.

Campaign 142

Campaign Stealth Social Media Audience 142

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

DeepMind beating the world’s best at Go and AI beating pro-poker players consistently, represent much more than a computer getting good at playing video games: The gaming world offers a perfect place to start machine intelligence work (e.g., Deep Instinct was named “Cool Vendor in 2016” by the Gartner Research Group.

Artificial Inteligence 122

Artificial Inteligence Israel Technical Review Startup 122

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. Check out the video below to see iMockups in action: Feedback on Concept from Target Market. Once you've got a concept put together, it's often valuable to get some early feedback from your target market.

Software Review 130

Software Review Stealth Video Channel 130

VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

More and more, people are experimenting with these new technologies that enable anyone to write better, brainstorm, invent, craft and get inspired with text, images, video, voice, music and more. We made two new investments in this space which are still in stealth. Generative AI is advancing at a breakneck speed.

Generative AI 78

Generative AI Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Israel 78

mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

In April, “stealth” social media startup Kohort announced its upcoming launch. It may not matter to you what Kohort is or isn’t, nor whether stealth is good or bad. They attracted curiosity and in-bound user potential with an infographic-type video describing the site. Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started!

Pakistan 94

Pakistan Social Media Startup Social Network 94

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 21, 2010

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Are there benefits for a startup to work in “stealth&# mode?

Social Media 93

Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Avoid Decision by Indecision – [link].

Social Media 95

Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Campaigns | NYT FiveThirtyEight – [link].

Social Media 100

Social Media Small Business Central African Republic Design 100

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Now were not exactly in stealth-mode - weve pitched at Techcrunch - but Id rather not go dancing in my competitors faces. One concern I might have with doing this is that you are competing for ad space with your competitors. By putting yourself directly in their space you are alerting them to your emergence as a threat. Expo SF (May. .

Demand 167

Demand San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 167

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Google also announced Gemini 2.0 , its most powerful model yet with advances in multimodality and the ability to analyze (and ‘see’) video in real time. and the ability to watermark AI generated videos. Kol hakavod Alan Bekker, PhD and team eSelf AI for coming out of stealth with a $4.5M Meta launched LLaMa 3.3

Israel 88

Israel ChatGPT Artificial Inteligence Australia 88

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2012

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Early Startup Time Wasters – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

Since getting started in October, the board has already invested work in three startups (all in stealth mode): whoisgreen.com , burringo.com and doitinperson.com. Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started! Have an account? In exchange for $150,000 to $300,000 of work, each startup has given Kayweb 14% to 40% equity. startupcto

Equity 74

Equity Engineer Technical Review Social Media 74

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2024

This week in tech, Elon Musk’ s SpaceX accomplished a historic feat, catching a 19-story tall rocket booster (aka Super Heavy booster), in mid-air with Mechazilla chopsticks (see video below). Adobe launched its Firefly AI video model , Google launched new features for its increasingly popular NotebookLM.

Israel 78

Israel Technical Review ChatGPT Open Source 78

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

Note: there is video from this event, but its not online yet. I had a flip cam with me, and the organizers captured their own video with a tripod and everything. bigs : @ericries says Stealth dev is a (undesirable, failure-presaging) customer-free zone. Definitely like to see video of the full talk. Without further ado.

Lean 60

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Cofounder 60

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. View More » Web Video 4 People Who Let the Crowd Control Th. Our Favorite BooTube Videos This Week.

Angel Investor 80

Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced Nova, a family of multimodal AI models designed to power text, image, and video generation with speed and efficiency as well as text generating models. Google ‘s much anticipated AI video generation model Veo is now available on Vertex AI in private preview.

Israel 78

Israel Technical Review Early Stage Venture Capital 78

thenextweb.com

OCTOBER 17, 2011

3 Don’t go too stealth. Unless you have tons of funding (see Kohort ), be careful about going too “stealth.” One Startup Weekend condensed into 7 minutes [Video]. Hilarious: Rain could corrupt your data in the Cloud, Indian official says [Video]. Design & Dev. Entrepreneur. Shareables. Social Media.

Social Media 67

Social Media Stealth India Startup 67

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 28, 2011

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?" Saying you are a "stealth" company with no details certainly doesn't leave much to go on.

Stealth 126

Stealth Deal Flow Reputation Lean 126

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

I feel like I would have to introduce this by stealth. ► April (11) Video update on the Startup Visa Act Lean Enterprise Institute webinar, April 28 Four myths about the Lean Startup Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more) Sneak preview, Grockit The Lean Startup Intensive at Web 2.0 Expo SF (May. Want to learn more about me?

San Francisco 164

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Software Review 164

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Many entrepreneurs are reluctant to expose their idea to others early, often called stealth mode, for fear of it being stolen. Pervasive communication to your market is always required, including ads, trade shows, viral videos, and online influencer courting. Two heads are better than one.

Startup 406

Startup Stealth Metrics Viral 406

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

This post contains video, click to play]. While test subjects were shown video clips and still pictures from a consultative sales process, their brain activation was monitored to measure engagement. Some advance neuromarketing research probably would have saved Nationwide tons of money. Image source ).

Software Review 105

Software Review Advertising Campaign Stealth 105

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

You need to be visible in marketing efforts, viral videos, and interactions with key customer segments. Some entrepreneurs I know attempt to retain control, or save money, by eschewing advisors and using stealth mode. Online it may be time to take a formal position via blogs and interviews.

Stealth 362

Stealth Leadership Viral Social Media 362

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

AwesomeBox : AwesomeBox is currently in stealth mode so I’ll respect that. Gyroscope is in double-dog secret stealth mode right now so I’ll focus more on the entrepreneur. They also have my favorite company intro video ever. You must watch this short video.

Los Angeles 276

Los Angeles Stealth Securities and Exchange Commission Southern California 276

VC Cafe

MARCH 14, 2025

Luma AI has introduced Ray2 Flash , an upgraded text-to-video model for fast generation. Tencent released Hunyuan-TurboS the first ultra-large Hybrid-Transformer-Mamba MoE model and also launched a free image to video model. Alibaba Group also open-sourced its AI video generation model and made them freely available.

Stealth 88

Stealth Israel Generative AI Merger 88

Eric Friedman

JUNE 26, 2017

A stealth neural training company. (PS — if Competitive to one of our stealth studio companies. Each application provided a video pitch, written overview and detailed answers to questions. NextGig : Actionable information about companies in your professional network. Sleeperbot : Messaging for sports fans.

Stealth 68

Stealth Early Stage Software Review Green 68

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

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.

Stealth 48

Stealth Cofounder Los Angeles Technical Review 48

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

Prerna's vision is to share stories across multiple platforms, including apps, video, and virtual reality. The United States Digital Service, a federal government agency, is building a ‘stealth startup.’ It's Lean Startup storytelling for the Snapchat generation. Read about Prerna’s journey here.

Lean 60

Lean United States Fractional CTO Startup 60

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. And the obvious category, especially for a VC based out of LA, is video.

Advertising 284

Advertising Las Vegas Affiliate RSS 284

YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2013

Video games are as universal a concept as food. He has a love for stealth and RPGs but is willing to try almost anything. Feature Story crowdfunding Dusty Revenge game Kickstarter PD Design Studio Singapore video game' If that sounds a bit much, then the US$19 tier will replace the physical book with a PDF version.

Singapore 133

Singapore Video Stealth Australia 133

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Graphcore (in stealth, see this video at 28:58) calls them Intelligent Processor Units. Actually, that’s a blog post all of its own, but here are a few examples: Clarify makes audio and video searchable via its API. But these processors were designed for graphics. This involves learning context and content attributes.

Artificial Inteligence 60

Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Software Review Startup 60

The Next Web

JULY 24, 2013

You pretty much just need to sign up, record your 30 second video clip (Ticckle) and let it loose. One of the happy side-effects of using video to interact is that it puts a face to an opinion. If you tickle someone into responding, they’ll Ticckle you in response. It all sounds very light-hearted. There are no right or wrong answers.

Video 131

Video Cofounder Stealth Angel Investor 131

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Qwilt is on the hot on the heels of something big in high-data video delivery. Video currently represents about 40% of all online traffic, growing by 400% by the year 2015. Higher quality and faster loading videos. They have been in stealth mode for 2 years now working mainly with network infrastructures and content providers.

Video 92

Video Stealth Israel California 92

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Jason Freedman, who calls himself “humbled MBA,&# ( which is right-there brilliant, before I go on ) writes Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. Facebook wasn’t the first to social networking, Google wasn’t the first to search, YouTube wasn’t the first to video, yada yada. Tweet I love it!

Stealth 79

Stealth Startup Social Network Internet 79

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

if you can’t see the video above click here. Last September Andy Sack , Jerry Engel and I taught our first stealth class for incubator/accelerator managers who wanted to learn how to play Moneyball. We’re offering one again this January here. Lessons Learned.

Oakland 330

Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 330

Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

Their innovation lay not just in their product, but their viral video marketing campaign involving slamming raw eggs on their mattress to show that they wouldn’t break due to their mattresses’ high-tech cushioning. It uses computing to simulate richer virtual worlds, with applications in video games and virtual reality.

Artificial Inteligence 77

Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur Technical Review Andorra 77

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2011

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.

Stealth 159

Stealth API Entrepreneur Chad 159