E7: I meet too many people wasting their time and personal capital building in "stealth mode" because their idea is "so good that everybody will steal it."
They won't.
Building in stealth is a costly mistake.
Building in stealth is only good if you have warm investors and you can easily raise off speculation. For most others, fundraising will be a grueling process.
Instead, you should build in public.
In this podcast, I give three building in stealth fails and one build in public success. Fails are far more common than successes because few people are courageous enough to put themselves out there by building in public. But you should. Here’s why and how.