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30 Entrepreneur Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

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9- A merger of two companies. With that merger, half of each of our business’ names also merged, and that’s how we came up with ‘Enventys Partners’. My wife and I co-founded our Web development and digital marketing agency atCommunications, LLC in 1999. Thanks to Marilyn Gaskell, True People Search ! #9-

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Feb. 28, Stamford, CT: HBS Event on Angel Investing 101 – Best Practices

David Teten

Previously, he was the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Arrowhawk Capital Partners, an investment company and the Vice President of Strategic Business Development and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Golden Pond Healthcare, Inc. Robert Dahl is currently a private investor, focusing on the healthcare industry.

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Economic Moats: Who Has Them? And How Do You Get One?

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The concept of “economic moats” came from a 1999 Fortune article by Warren Buffett: The key to investing is [.] Moats built on efficient scale apply to a small number of businesses, like the aforementioned freight rail operators. When geography is the determining factor, efficient scale relies on mergers and acquisitions.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

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In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. Benchmark is an investor in Rover through a merger with DogVacay in 2017). The most noteworthy of these is likely Upwork (*), a company that formed from the merger of Elance and Odesk.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

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Sagefrog Marketing Group, LLC was founded in 2002 as a two-person enterprise through the merger of two existing entities. Back in 1999 I was trying to think of a clever way to use my name Ina(rhymes with Lena) on my AOL Instant Messenger screenname in college. Photo Credit: Mark Schmukler. Our tagline is, You can’t GO without HR.

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