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7 Reasons For Your Startup to Skip Stealth Mode

Startup Professionals Musings

Every time I hear about a new startup that is in stealth mode, I wonder what problem they are hiding from whom. But otherwise, startup companies should seek out publicity and the open sharing of information, from day one. Here are six ways this can actually help your startup efforts, rather than hurt them: Initiate media interest.

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Why It’s Not Healthy To Be A Stealthy Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Every time I hear about a new startup that is in stealth mode, I wonder what problem they are hiding from whom. But otherwise, startup companies should seek out publicity and the open sharing of information, from day one. A startup that has been incorporated for two years or more without shipping is already seen as a bad investment.

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Stealth Mode Entrepreneurs Only Increase the Risk

Startup Professionals Musings

Every time I hear about a new startup that is in stealth mode, I wonder what problem they are hiding from whom. But otherwise, startup companies should seek out publicity and the open sharing of information, from day one. Here are seven ways this can actually help your startup efforts, rather than hurt them: Initiate media interest.

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Inside the Realms of Ruin

TechCrunch LA

Rebecca Tushnet, the Frank Stanton Professor of First Amendment Law at Harvard Law School, summed the situation up aptly. As the catalyst for this collaborative fantasy epic, these authors would post twelve initial origin stories about their fictional universe, to which they owned the copyright.

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The Power of “In Person” – Why Distributed Teams are Less Effective

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In the era of Skype, web conferencing tools and collaboration software conventional wisdom says that distributed startup teams can be just as effective as those that are in person. Or more precisely the people espousing the benefits of distributed startups teams are often distributed and therefore self rationalizing it.