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30 Entrepreneur Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

We always strive to be a cut above the rest in our industry and want to consistently uphold and earn our name. All boxes checked the rest is history. My wife and I co-founded our Web development and digital marketing agency atCommunications, LLC in 1999. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. ParamountQuote.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

One of the successful investments was a company called Nigenisis, which ended becoming a public company in 1999. I was an early investor in a company called Harmonics which ended creating Guitar Hero … that got bought by Activision and then the rest of the company got bought by MTV and they created RockBand. “.

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Venture Capital Funding and the Sexism You Can’t Quite Prove

Up and Running

To this day, although New Frontier Data has been successful, Aguirre de Carcer still feels the effects of biases against women that are often held by the business and tech communities. A study based out of Babson College via The Diana Project looked at venture capital investments in women between the years 1999 and 2014.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. But I believe that it creates an authentic relationship with your community. My personal recommendation is that your startup blog ought to cover not just startup stories but should also have a voice that speaks to your customer community.

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An Open Letter to Startup Founders Everywhere in a Time of Crisis

David Cohen

In 1999, we sold that business and I started angel investing. For the rest of our lives, we’ll all remember this global pandemic that changed everything. I started my first business in 1993, right in the middle of the recession, because I didn’t know any better. I didn’t really see how it would affect me. Or even working for one?

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The rest, as they say, is history. We’re a how-to site and community for small business on marketing. . This is my 2nd time trying this, first time was in 1999. We’ve had a supportive board and encouraging metrics and a helpful climate for our community news notion (now 51 sites in 3 states). It was a $4.7M

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How 99Designs.com came to be

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Later, 99Designs was spun off and the rest is history. That’s the story of Matt Mickiewicz the founder of Sitepoint, a site which, back in 1999, was the first online forum for web designers and developers. It has matured to be a massive web community and tutorial/resource archive for web developers and designers now.

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