Do Stealth Startups Suck?

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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[Anonymous Coward]

firsst ppost

this guy is just tooting his horn

[djdavetrouble]

so anyway in real news,
wasn't the season finale to Dr. Who FREAKING AMAZING!!!!

Re:I was going to write "FIRST!"

[JudgeFurious]

See, THAT is the whole reason I posted this fucking drivel. Someone, somewhere has used a mod point on what may very well be the worst post I ever wrote.

It's every bit as "Redundant" as the moderator says it is but that's not the point is it? Of course it's not. The point of this little excercise was to seperate this moderator from one of his/her mod points and it was a complete success! They don't have the mod point anymore because they wasted it modding something down that was clearly lousy to begin with.

WHO'S REDUNDANT NOW MODERATOR? WHO? THAT'S RIGHT YOU ARE!

Mods should use their points to reward achievement in posting, not to punish AC's who post stupid shit. If you're going to police /. at least use the small amount of power you've been given to mod people with names. What does an AC care about losing a point? Anyone with a clue is already reading with AC's at -2 or so.

I've demonstrated how foolish you were to waste your mod point on me AND NOW YOU CAN READ THIS AND SEE THE WRATH OF JUDGEFURIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!