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30 Entrepreneur Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

As an advertising executive, I had to come up with the names of a number of companies. My wife and I co-founded our Web development and digital marketing agency atCommunications, LLC in 1999. In 2012 I was approached to work as a publicist for a writing team; however, I hadn’t given much thought to a business name.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. I’m the founder, ex Hewlett-Packard Director of Advertising and former SVP at Millward Brown (global brand/ad research firm owned by WPP). This is my 2nd time trying this, first time was in 1999.

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How to Embrace a More Diverse Approach to Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing

In 1999 he helped found LatinWorks, an agency that has consistently bent the rules of the Hispanic market by creating thought-provoking campaigns for some of the major advertisers in the space. This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by WordStream, online advertising made easy.

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Twitter Link Roundup #144 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

The video above shows Billie Holiday (one of my favorite singers) singing “Strange Fruit”, a song that Time manazine named, in 1999, the “song of the century” The song is a protest against racism. Mobile Advertising: Twitter Sales Are Double That Of Facebook In A Google-Ruled, $2.6B I’ll take a gigabit to go.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000. Napster arrived in June, 1999. Using just two data points, the modem I had in 1986 and the modem I had in 1998, the spreadsheet predicts that I’d have a 25 megabit/second connection in 2012. What OS will they run? That’s the ideal case.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

This is my recap of what stood out to me this year and what I’m looking forward to in 2012 — we are only in the beginning of many revolutions. Mobile advertising became more targeted and user friendly by adapting to the small screen — but advertisers are slow to adopt , with much upside still to come.

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In Spite of Avatar, The Movie Business is Dead

Growthink Blog

billion dollar business this year to $5 billion by 2012, taking market share away from DVD retailers and intensifying the carriers' ambition to bid for the best (and first run) titles. Has the U.S. movie box office - traditionally the holy grail of movie industry metrics -- become increasingly irrelevant? How about Internet Video? Annual U.S.