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Stealth Mode Entrepreneurs Only Increase the Risk

Startup Professionals Musings

Openness is part of the business culture of entrepreneurs and technology centers around the world. A startup that has been incorporated for two years or more without shipping is already seen as a bad investment. Every time I hear about a new startup that is in stealth mode, I wonder what problem they are hiding from whom.

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7 Reasons For Your Startup to Skip Stealth Mode

Startup Professionals Musings

Openness is part of the business culture of entrepreneurs and technology centers around the world. A startup that has been incorporated for two years or more without shipping is already seen as a bad investment. Every time I hear about a new startup that is in stealth mode, I wonder what problem they are hiding from whom.

Startup 101
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Why It’s Not Healthy To Be A Stealthy Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Openness is part of the business culture of entrepreneurs and technology centers around the world. A startup that has been incorporated for two years or more without shipping is already seen as a bad investment. Every time I hear about a new startup that is in stealth mode, I wonder what problem they are hiding from whom.

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How to Handle a VC Presentation with No Deck

Both Sides of the Table

I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. And did I really just try to drop an SAT word into my blog post? In reading the comments on Bijan’s blog and having discussed this so many times, I know some entrepreneurs only want to talk with VCs that think that Powerpoint causes leprosy.