Entrepreneurs enter stealth mode because they have an idea or technology that is, in their opinion, too young for public exposure. It’s a business strategy of s

Entrepreneurs enter stealth mode because they have an idea or technology that is, in their opinion, too young for public exposure. It’s a business strategy of secrecy and seclusion meant to avoid alerting competitors to pending products or ideas. I work for a startup in stealth mode, and we're actually not in stealth mode because we're afraid of a competitor stealing our idea. We're flying under the radar because we are doing a massive amount of scraping to amass a big data set to analyze. We respect robots.txt, but fear that if the big guys caught on they'd change their policies or block us or worse, sue us. They could stop us before we ever launch. But if we have a surprise launch and gain traction, we should be able to partner with them to get the data. The idea is that it is better to beg forgiveness than ask permission.