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30 Entrepreneur Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

My wife and I both worked as mechanical engineers, so we wanted a name that paid tribute to our profession. Momentum is a term that is highly related to engineering, as it relates to motion and dynamics. My wife and I co-founded our Web development and digital marketing agency atCommunications, LLC in 1999.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

He currently has a 1999 strategy. I asked Harshil to focus his entire product and go-to-market strategy on the college-bound age 18 market and develop his assessment module, vertical search engine for colleges and trust network to address the needs of that market and that market alone. Discuss.

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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

His name was Mark Benioff (another former Oracle Executive) and in 1999 he had the pleasure to introduce the business world the first CRM in Cloud. They are cost effective and really powerful when combined together but sometimes completely disconnected and hard to integrated without extra work done by engineering teams.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. based teachers.

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Guide to Website Navigation Design Patterns

sixrevisions.com

Vertical Bar/Sidebar Navigation. Vertical bar/sidebar navigation is when navigation items are arranged in a single column, one on top of another. The vertical bar/sidebar navigation design pattern is seen all over the place, on virtually every kind of website. Common Characteristics of Vertical Bar/Sidebar Navigation.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #14: Selling to the “Cool Kids”

Austin Startup

At Coremetrics, I built more of an engineering-driven culture. The engineer assumes that the product “will sell itself”, and this mindset couldn’t be more wrong. It is another aspect of the mindset I described in The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #3 on the five critical ingredients to build a big company.

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Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Since there was very little documentation my time was split between the design engineers who built the system and the test and deployment team getting the system ready to go overseas. After I was done teaching each the day, I continued to write the operations manuals and work with the test engineers. (I Are You Single? Sign me up.

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