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Do Stealth Startups Suck?

Posted by timothy on from the so-secret-we-ourselves-do-not-know dept.

glinden writes "In 'Stealth Startups Suck,' Bloglines CEO Mark Fletcher argues that 'stealth mode for a web start-up is the kiss of death.' He says that moving quickly and getting feedback from early users is much more important than protecting the core idea or trying to launch a perfect product. Is there any good reason for a web startup to not be open about what it is doing? What about other kinds of software startups? What about hardware startups?"

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  1. Parent is a known troll by ph0t0n · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    I'm currently on my 6th startup and can say that this article is not very accurate (yes, I've taken one from the beginning all the way through public offering).

    Sure buddy. And which startups would those be? You're just another worthless Slashdot troll. Previous examples of your work:

    "Just run so basic qa tests on the program. If it crashes, chances are that the authors have integrated an OpenSource library into it."
    "If Linus were not such an arrogent retard he would have told the truth..."
    "You're an uninformed retard.
    "Very Funny. Retard.

    Mr. IHateSlashDot is simply karma whoring to make up for all of his previous flamebait/troll downmods.