[brandonb]

Don't worry about competition, especially un-launched competition. Most startups die due to suicide, not murder.

A major competitor of ours launched 3 weeks after we started our company, doing the exact same thing as us. They were a bunch of big-name executives from a huge successful internet company, raised 10x the funding we had, and were already live with the most prominent customers that we were going after. We were scared, until we talked with one of their customers -- turns out their technology wasn't accurate at all, and the customer hadn't even integrated it into production. We kept heads down for the next 6 months and built something that works, and now have no problem finding customers.

So ignore all the hype, and just focus on making your technology work and your users happy.

[kappaknight]

Why are you in stealth mode? Is there technology that is hard to duplicate, or too easy to duplicate? Building in a bubble is not a good sign whether you have competitors or not.

> Most startups die due to suicide, not murder.

This is true, and it could easily happen to you (the OP) too.